Roland Garros CC, Day 11

Bonjour, mes amis. Here's your Crisis Center for today, another bluebird day here in Paris. I jawboned a little this morning at breakfast with Leif Shiras, a friend from way back in the days when he was on the tour. I complimented him on his work at Tennis Channel, which has been growing and improving by leaps and bounds. I'm still awed that Shiras's grandfather (or was it grandpappy?) was the man who identified a subspecies of moose, now know taxanomically (that is, officially) as the Shiras Moose. Now that's a man whose hand I'd like to shake.

Anyway, enough babbling. Today, I'll be posting on the Azarenka/Li match, and I'll write a Racquet Reaction (at least) on the battle between Andy Murray and Juan Ignacio Chela. That means I'll be out on Lenglen, and likely to miss most or all of the Nadal/Soderling match. That ought to be a good one, so enjoy!

-- Pete**

PS:  Buying this new eBook could be hazardous to your pocketbook, but not too badly, all things considered. Price is one of the joys of the ebook industry, and all I can tell those of you who haven't made the leap yet is that at $139.00, the basic Kindle is a fantastic buy. If you enjoy reading, of course. . . 

My e-publisher, Diversion, along with a new, publishing division at Amazon (Amazon Encore) are dedicated to publishing good books that have gone out of print and for any of a number of reasons deserve to be available, even if they don't promise to make gazillions of dollars for the publisher or author. And Diversion will be publishing stuff mainstream publishers won't touch - collected essays, niche-market books, etc. Courts of Babylon is the "paperback" version of the hardcover originally published by Scribner's, and with all due modesty I must say I'm proud of how it was received at the time, and how it's taken a permanent place among the classic tennis books. End of naked self-promotion.******

Enjoy the tennis, everyone.