Can you picture some ATP board meeting somewhere where executives are pounding their fists on the table screaming, ‘We’ve got to make this merger happen — and fast! It’s not enough that we have Novak, Rafa and Roger, we need Agniez-however-you-spell-it Radwanska and Li Na or Na Li and Petra Kvitova to get more fans in the gate! Our product is not complete until we merge our championships!”

Gael Monfils is in the Stockholm final while the Serbs make history in Moscow.

Almost half the field is missing from the year-end WTA Championships due to injury — Justine Henin, Serena Williams and Venus Williams all sidelined with injury…

“It doesn’t bother me at all — we’re always in the same half of the draw, so I’m used to it,” said Serena, who leads the sisters’ career meetings 9-8.