Babies and Impossibilities

So guess who has a new friend in the collective tennis creche? Why yes, that would be Myla and Charlene Federer, who now have another Swiss tot to hang with. Stanislas Wawrinka's wife Ilham Vuilloud gave birth to a baby girl a few days ago. Welcome to the world, Alexia Wawrinka!

Please let these three girls grow up to be tennis players. Switzerland could totally OWN the WTA in a few years. Now if Chiudinelli would just have a daughter, we could see some awesome all-Swiss doubles.

But I don't want to devote all of this post to future tennis players when there are some, you know, current ones doing stuff. I talked about the Soderling/Youzhny final yesterday, so let's talk the other two finals today. We have Roddick and Verdasco in San Jose. Normally I would be all over that and be talking up what a great match it is, but I'm so not feeling Nando right now. He is not the dude he was this time last year. I mean, I know he almost pulled off an awesome comeback against Davydenko in Australia, but that was more because of a Kolya fold than some Nando awesome. Didn't he hit something like 20 doubles in that match?

Beside the point. The point being that I'm not impressed with Nando right now, and he's got some work to do before I readmit him to the ranks of 'worth even really discussing the possiblity of his winning'. If Roddick isn't injured, he should own him. You heard it here.

The other final - Brazil - we have le veteran de Juan Carlos Ferrero (yes, I realise that is inappropriate Franglais, but whatevs) against Lukasz Kubot, who appears to be trying to prove that his run to the round of sixteen in Australia was not a fluke. Despite the fact that it pretty much was a fluke (beating two virtual nobodies and scoring a walkover does not an awesome run make). This one has JC written all over it.

Wow. Sense my optimism.

A Pair of Papas

News just in, hot off the press, extra extra read all about it, etc etc. I don't know how reliable my sources are, but this just in - apparently Stan Wawrinka and his ladyfriend Ilham Vuilloud are having a baby.

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Now, I must confess that this news freaked me out just a little bit - but that's only because Stan was born in the same year I am and the likelihood of me having kids anytime soon is less than zero and it made me feel old. But then I got passed that and was all delightfully happy for them. Stan will be a wonderfully cute dad! I don't know much about his Mirka Ilham, but I'm sure she's lovely as well.
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So, what's it to be? Are Myla and Charlene Federer in for a bit of competition from little Miss Wawrinka when Wimbledon rolls round in twenty years time? Or is Roger Federer going to have to sit Stan Jr. down and tell him to watch his step round his precious baby girls? Could we see another Federer/Wawrinka doubles gold medal?

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...actually, probably not on that last one, because one assumes Myla and Charlene would play with each other and mixed isn't an Olympic sport. But maybe it will be in twenty years' time! Maybe we could see a marvellous mixed combination!

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I don't know what's in the water over there in Switzerland, but they're producing some pretty marvellous parents over there... and some babies with some pretty remarkable tennis genes. The destinies of Clan Federer and Clan Wawrinka may well be intertwined forevermore, as cemented by that wonderful gold medal last year. I'm looking forward to seeing you, baby Wawrinka - and I bet Roger's glad his precious girls will have someone to play with! What a marvellous pair of papas they shall be!

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Today's Results

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Legg Mason Tennis Championships (Washington)

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Juan Carlos Ferrero def. Tommy Robredo, 6-3 6-2

Philipp Petzschner def. Mardy Fish, 1-6 6-4 6-1

Ivo Karlovic def. Rainer Schuettler, 6-4 7-5

Andy Roddick def. Benjamin Becker, 6-3 6-2

Sam Querrey def. Igor Kunitsyn, 6-3 6-4

Wayne Odesnik def. Igor Andreev, 2-6 7-5 6-4

Fernando Gonzalez def. Alejandro Falla, 7-5 7-5

Marc Gicquel def. Viktor Troicki, 3-0 retired

Lleyton Hewitt def. Dudi Sela, 6-3 2-6 6-2

John Isner def. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 4-6 7-6 (7-2) 7-6 (7-4)

Robin Soderling def. Mikhail Youzhny, 6-3 6-1

Sebastien de Chaunac def. Dmitry Tursunov, 3-6 7-6 (7-3) 7-5
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LA Women's Tennis Championships (Los Angeles)

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Jie Zheng def. Elena Vesnina, 6-4 4-6 6-0

Samantha Stosur def. Maria Kirilenko, 6-2 6-4
Anna Chakvetadze def. Alisa Kleybanova, 6-3 3-6 6-1

Agnieszka Radwanska def. Ai Sugiyama, 6-2 6-1

Urszula Radwanska def. Dominika Cibulkova, 6-4 6-7 (6-8) 6-4

Nadia Petrova def. Shahar Peer, 6-4 2-6 6-3

Flavia Pennetta def. Coco Vandeweghe, 6-2 6-4

Yanina Wickmayer def. Jill Craybas, 7-6 (7-2) 6-1

Dinara Safina def. Daniela Hantuchova, 6-2 6-4

Alona Bondarenko def. Lucie Safarova, 5-7 6-4 7-5

Na Li def. Aleksandra Wozniak, 4-6 6-4 6-2

Sabine Lisicki def. Ekaterina Makarova, 6-1 6-4

Maria Sharapova def. Victoria Azarenka, 6-7 (4-7) 6-4 6-2