Recent Stories of Interest from “Around the Pro Tennis Globe”

• This week in Doha, Qatar at the year-end WTA Sony Ericsson Championships, Spaniard Fernando Verdasco was seen sitting in former World No. 1 Ana Ivanovic’s players box during her opening round match. This could be the icing on the cake that they are an item after tons of dating rumors about the pair. Earlier in the fall, Verdasco watched Ivanovic's match from her player box at the China Open in Beijing. Later that week he attended her practice and spent the time speaking to her mother.
  
  
• On Tuesday, medical tests confirmed that World No. 1 Rafael Nadal has been diagnosed with tendinitis in his quadriceps tendon. Nadal, who has already withdrawn from the year-end Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai that begins on Sunday, will have more tests early next week to assess the injury. He is likely to miss the Davis Cup finals between Spain and Argentina, which will be held from November 21-23.
  
  
• World No. 48 Jose Acasuso has replaced Guillermo Canas on the Argentina Davis Cup team that is looking for it’s first career team title. Juan Martin Del Potro, David Nalbandian and Agustin Calleri will be the other members on Team Argentina.
  
  
• USTA CEO of Professional Tennis Arlen Kantarian has resigned. Kantarian, who has run the US Open since 2000, will leave his position at the end of the year. This year the US Open broke tournament records for revenue and attendance.
  
  
• Swedish media reports that Bjorn Borg’s former tennis coach Lennart Bergelin has died at the age of 83.
  
  
• James Blake and brother Thomas will be participating in the Serving Up The Holidays Fundraiser in Harlem at the renovated Harlem Armory on November 25th.