Monsieur Safin is training hard in Valencia, after not being called in for the Davis Cup squad this year (BIG mistake, tarpi), and Russia shamefully losing out to that pompous Yank Roddick and his undercut crew, Monsieur Safin looks fit and ready to play the traditional season en route exhibition-before-Oz-open.

Rafael Nadal is somewhere amongst the Mummies of Eygpt on a well-deserved break.

Roger must be, i dunno, minting money out of recording his snores for a nasal pill - who knows!

But we're still hoping Murray and Djokovic fall into some ditch. Hard. Preferable together, so they can finish each other off.

We plan to be up and running next season! We're hanging up our tennis shorts until then!