Happy Belated New Year!

Though the season is already a couple of weeks in, I decided to take some extra time this year, as I overdosed on tennis last year. With some rest, I am back to overindulging on tennis this year. Last year started out great but then when to the dogs. It was hard to see Rafael Nadal go from winning the Australian Open to not being able to defend his title at Wimbledon in just four-short months later due to an extreme case of tendinitis.

Other low points last year include:

• Travis Parrott and Filip Polasek broke up
• Richard Gasquet’s suspension
• Andre Agassi’s biography. Some of the revelations revealed the subsequent ridiculousness of Gasquet’s predicament
• The tricolor charge did not live up to expectation. Let’s hope this year will be better
  

The year did improve with some things:

• Juan Martin del Potro won the US Open
• Spain repeated its Davis Cup championship
• Novak Djokovic finally got his act together and is back to living up to his potential
• Nikolay Davydenko’s rise again as force to be reckoned with
• Gasquet cleared up his troubles and can now focus on tennis
• Juan Carlos Ferrero and David Ferrer turned out the Valencia Open. It went from to some tiny tournament to a definite must-go-to stop on the tour. See for yourselves: