Bud's 2006 Key Biscayne Diary - Day 12 - April 2 , 2006

As the yellow ball rolled along the white strip at the top of the net, a husky bald man named Ivan Ljubicic had the look of a guy risking his fortune at a roulette table. He waited anxiously, hopefully - but he knew the ball would drop in the wrong place. On his side of the net. Untouchably.

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Bud's 2006 Key Biscayne Diary - Day 11 - April 1 , 2006

Most kids want a bicycle. A little Russian girl in St. Petersburg named Svetlana Kuznetsova had so many of them that she could have opened a bicycle shop.

Bikes ran - or, shall we say, rolled - in the family. Both her mother and father were world champion cyclists, and continue as prominent coaches.

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Bud's 2006 Key Biscayne Diary - Day 9 - March 30 , 2006

When tunesmith Johnny Green composed the ballad "Out of Nowhere," and it appeared in the Broadway show, "The Rose Tattoo," he couldn't have seen Roger Federer tattooing foes on a tennis court. That was 1955, and Roger wasn't to arrive on this earth until 1981. But he would become the out-of-nowhere man.

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Bud's 2006 Key Biscayne Diary - Day 5 - March 26 , 2006

Close - but not close enough. That was the theme yesterday at the Nasdaq-100 Open where such crowd favorites as Martina Hingis, Marcos Baghdatis, Fernando Gonzalez and Nicolas Massu vanished from the scene, though nearly victors.

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Bud's 2006 Key Biscayne Diary - Day 3 - March 24 , 2006

Father Timeless is looking at the clock now. Reluctantly. Defensively. But realistically.

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Bud's 2006 Key Biscayne Diary - Day 1 - March 22 , 2006

Seldom has the cry "Kill the umpire!" been heard at a tennis match. But one of these days soon you may hear players and customers screaming "Kill the cameras!"

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