The Bryan Brothers move on at Monte-Carlo with wins over fellow brothers duo Andy and Jamie Murray, as well as Paes-Stepanek. The Bryans advance to the semi-finals and improve their 2012 record to 18-3.

Since Jelena Jankovic doesn't get herself into the news anymore by doing stuff like, you know, winning tennis tournaments, she’s had to go another route -- playing exhibitions against Z-level celebrities.

For one crazy 24 hour period, fans of the No. 2 player in the world thought she had changed her name to Maria Shear-apova.

Amazingly, not one but two future members of the Tennis Hall of Fame both boarded and survived the Titanic’s early demise. Their stories are now being told in a novel by Lindsay Gibbs called “Titanic: The Tennis Story.”

Brooklyn Decker has played tennis with Andy Roddick only once.

Adidas plans to slash the number of products it offers by a quarter to improve its profitability, Chief Executive Herbert Hainer told a German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Hainer said the company currently sells 46,897 different lines, many of which do not currently deliver the desired results.

Athletic Propulsion Labs, the upstart basketball shoe manufacturer, announced the debut of an Athletic Propulsion Labs Pop-Up shop exclusively at The Men’s Store at Saks Fifth Avenue Beverly Hills for the upcoming 2012 Angeleno Men of Style and Sports Spectacular event.