Hail, Amelie. Full of grace. Two-time slam champion and former world #1 Amelie Mauresmo announced her retirement today. In a decade dominated by power-hitting and sometimes absent-minded tennis, the Frenchwoman was one of the rare exceptions. Her...

The regularly-scheduled WTA season is over, but the comebacks keep chugging along. ITF PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Kimiko Date-Krumm/JPN ...tennis' favorite almost-fortysomething was at it again over the weekend, winning a $75K challenger in Tokyo with...

The time has come. (As always, thoughts and words brought to you free of charge.) 2009: THE RISE AND FALL AND RISE of Miss Serena Williams "You should never be surprised by anything that I do." - Serena Williams, in January The Student Council...

ITF Backspin. A day late. Not a dollar short (not very long, either). But the first production since I finally got that "Decade's Best" taste out of my mouth. ITF PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Evgeniya Rodina/RUS ...the 20-year old Russian won the $50K...

Well, it took ten years worth of tennis action, condensed and spread out over nearly a year's worth of "Decade's Best" special editions of Backspin, to get to this. The best two players of the decade. Funny thing is, I probably could have just...