Required Reading

• P-Mac and MJ break down the USTA AO Wildcard Playoffs.  Lauren Davis is 5'2''???
• Tignor continues his Match of the Year countdown, this time with Nole vs. Fed. 
• Todd Spiker on Caro.
• A hilarious read from The Deuce Club over at TennisWorld.  Any excuse to read some Gauloises is good enough for me.
• The ladies of the WTA talk Christmas with Tennis Served Fresh.
• Tom Perrotta on the whole length of season debate.
• I listened to this past week's Tennis.com podcast on the best matches of the year and it was nice to hear the guys give some love to the oft-overlooked quality of the USO final.  Two observations about the podcast though: (1) I listen to a lot of podcasts.  This is the only one that has no women on it.  Weak.  (2)  Can we please refrain from referring to women, especially when we're talking about Franny or Kimiko, as "girls"?  I get that the ladies like to refer to each other as "girls" but the reference takes on a whole new subtext when it's a bunch of older men sitting around a table discussing the WTA.
• Non-Required Reading: Two critiques of espnW that I'd like to co-sign.
• Non-Required Reading: A SPLINTER???
• Non-Required Reading: I am a God fearing celebrater of Christ's birth.  But that doesn't mean I wouldn't cosign this.
• Non-Required Viewing: Dear children of the world: Unless you're making stupid lipdub videos to make us laugh, or high on drugs, please do not make YouTube vidoes especially when you are telling me what I should or should not do with my va-JJ.