Exclusive!

Howdy. I had a nice email from Aaress Lawless (now there's a totally cool name!), one of the pioneer tennis bloggers/website operators (her site is On the Baseline). We've corresponded, going way back, and I'm glad to see her site doing well; she's got a good thing going. I met Aaress last year, at the Miami tournament. Well, it turns out that her readers voted me Tennis Writer of the Year; so I just want to thank the OtB readers, and Aaress, for that honor.

I've been working on an exclusive for most of the day here - go to the home page at Tennis.com to check it out, and use this space to discuss James Blake and Andy Roddick's decision to take a respite from Davis Cup, or the other events of the day.

-- Pete