Required Reading

• There are a lot questions surrounding the WTA's suspension of someone in Aravane's family from future WTA events due to concerns over the "health and well-being" over a player.  But here's hoping that everyone, and in particular *she*, is alright.  You know it's a problem when the best case scenario in my head is that her dad beat the shit out of her boyfriend.  Let's hope for that and not...other stuff.
• I wish there was a camera on me in the stands when Nole hit this shot.  Chris Chase says "backbreaking", I call it "the nuclear holocaust of my soul".
• The ladies at Strawberries and Scream drop some fashion grades.
• Can we please put a ban on tattoos of chinese characters?
• Yup, the kids are doing crazy things these days, Goran.
• First Robbie, now Rafa.  Those adductors are a bitch.
• Uncle Jamie: Champion of Women.
• Mono's leg is not looking great.
• This is why Pete Bodo should only write about the ATP:  Very fair piece on Andy.  I won't bother linking to a piece from today that compared Dinara to Superfund.  STAY AWAY FROM WOMEN, PETE.
• Non-Required Viewing: Now if you'll excuse me...