Your Call, July 16th

By Peter BodoPublished July 16, 2008

Larry's Half-Baked Theory of Evolution by Larry and Joyce Oates, of Benton City, Wash., won the first-place award in the sixth annual Baked, Mashed, or Fried art show at the Adam East Museum and Art Center in Moses Lake, Wash., Friday, Feb. 12, 1999. The entry shows three amphibian-looking potatoes coming out of the water, evolving into a couch potato. (AP Photo/Jeff T. Green) — © ASSOCIATED PRESS

Good morning (or afternoon if you're in the European timezone). As usual, please use this space for discussing today's tennis, if there's time to consider it in between the Great Ongoing Hair Debate, the GOAT debate resurrected, the detailed analysis of TW readers' shoe-buying habits, and the latest views on who's Hott and who's Not. ATP tournaments are currently under way in Amersfoort, Umag, Kitzbuhel, and Indianapoilis. The WTA are in action in Bad Gastein and Stanford. At the time of writing, Fernando Verdasco has just taken the first set against Mathieu Montcourt in Umag, so perhaps I don't need to open up the TW Headcase Bar this early in the day....

-- Rosangel Valenti

Note: As always, "Your Call" is the daily thread specifically for the purpose of getting together on the cyber-sofa to discuss or call ongoing matches, or hot tennis topics of the day; It's the"Crisis Center" thread for those weeks when there are no Grand Slams, Masters, or Fed or Davis Cup in progress. You can go off-topic here if you like as well. This makes it easier for you to stay on-topic at "premium" posts. For going off-topic, you also have Monday Net Posts and Deuce Club on a regular basis.