The winners of the 2010 Tennis-X Awards are announced.

Ivan Lendl talking to a local Florida newspaper on the new strings in the modern tennis game: “It’s not so much the rackets as the strings. It’s just amazing what you can do with them; how hard you can hit the ball with spin. The ball moves so much, it’s crazy. It takes away the serve-and-volley game. To me, they shouldn’t be allowed…”…

Someone has stolen a majority of Pete Sampras’s tennis trophies.

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“Greg beat me fair and square today,” Sampras said. “We both had to be a bit careful out there at the end because of the rain but Greg still managed a serve at 140 mph, so all credit to him. I’m still pleased with how I’ve played here in Chengdu and I hope to come back next year.”

Pete Sampras says Nadal could pass Federer.

Due to Lendl winning Down Under to start 1990, Pete Sampras became only the sixth man to win a hard court slam at the 1990 U.S. Open. It may just be me, but for Sampras to be only the sixth man to win a slam on hard courts despite 15 grand slam events having been contested on hard courts prior to the 1990 U.S. Open seems odd. Even more astounding to me is Patrick Rafter becoming only the tenth man to win a Grand Slam on a hard court when he won the 1997 U.S. Open title.

American tennis players seem to completely forget how to play tennis once the tour shifts to Europe and the surface gets softer.

Andre Agassi will play John McEnroe in an exo in July at the ATP LA Open to benefit Agassi’s school.

Andre Agassi issues an apology for his behavior Friday night at the Hit for Haiti.