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Justine Henin - Out for the Rest of 2010 Season

Justine suffered an elbow injury during her match againt fellow Belgian Kim Clijsters at Wimbledon. I guess you could say Kim gave her the TKO.

This, from Justine's website:

By this time, I'm doing everything required by my medical team to get a good recovery from the injury I had at the Wimbledon tournament.

I took several medical examinations the last days. It's going in the right direction. It's encouraging news.

It still a slow recovery so I need to patient again until the end of 2010.

For my preparation for the competition in 2011, I cannot take any risks, so I hope to go back to practice in October. I'll work hard to get ready for this new season.

I really thank you for your support and I'll keep you informed of the further evaluation of my injury.

Photo: AP

ATP's Charging of Streamed Matches is Funny to Me

I was just on the ATP website and saw this - I did a spit take.

Even for 90% off I still wouldn't buy it...

Doesn't the ATP know you can stream almost anything for free...

It's all on the interweb. And oh so easy to find.

The ATP wants to bring more fans to the sport - charging is not the way.

Hey dingbats, this should be free. All the time.

Anna Kournikova is a Super Fan!

While in Charleston last week to play an exhibition match Anna posed for this pic to help promote the new WTA Super Fans website. If you haven't yet checked it out you should - it's very sweet.

Anna hasn't played a tour level match since 2002 and still the girl is only 28! How is that possible? For some time seems to pause while for others it marches at a fast clip.

Give Anna credit though, for a player that never won a single tour title she still garners a lot of attention. And continues to make loads of endorsement money.

Anna did contest 3 Tier I finals in her day and teamed with Martina Hingis to win a pair of Slam doubles titles at the Australian Open - in '99 and '02.

You can still watch Anna play - once again she will compete in Billie Jean King's World Team Tennis this summer for the St. Louis Aces.