If the life of a tennis player isn't physically hard enough, the start of 2012 sure kicked off fantastic for most of them.  Not to start about the emotional rollercoaster travelling without the feeling of a home can be, the French 2nd Open GDF Suez 42 tournament greeted them with a most lovely "home" experience.

After falling behind by two sets to Stanislas Wawrinka in the second round of the Australian Open last night, Marcos Baghdatis went to his chair and calmly smashed four consecutive Tecnifibre rackets.

We should only be so cynical about young love, but young love should only give itself so many insufferable personalized nicknames and offer so many reminders that the young people in question—the Wozz in "Wozzilroy" is 21 years old and the Ilroy is 22—

Andrea Petkovic, a.k.a. Petko or Petkorazzi, explains in a video interview that she would have rather liked to be a drummer than a professional tennis player. Petko has always been known to be the special item in the German basket, her dance acts after a match, male hobbies and special puns on her twitter are non mistakable parts of the Petko-trademark.

Andy Roddick is known for three things, basically: he is an American who can serve tennis balls at high speeds, he is married to Brooklyn Decker, and he is a rather petulant subject with the press, or simply with authority.

Serena Williams revived an old tradition in tennis in Flushing last night. She said some petty things to the chair umpire because she was angry and because she wanted to win—and because when you are not winning in a sport as lonely as tennis, there is only one person you can blame that is not yourself. That person is the chair umpire.