Bud's 2007 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 12 - April 1 , 2007
EVEN NON-STOP RUNNER WILLIE CAN'T CURB THE SERB ON THE KEY

Wandering Willie can stop running. He's earned a day off after two weeks of running everywhere across the island's tennis courts - and nearly running off with the title. If he'd been paid off in mileage, Guillermo (Willie) Canas might have earned more than his $ 266,667 check as the runner-up yesterday at the Sony Ericsson Open.

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Bud's 2007 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 11 - March 31 , 2007
IT'S NEVER OVER WHEN SERENA'S TRAPPED - DESPITE MPs A TITLE

Beware the rides of March.

That has been the history of that teensy tornado of tennis, Justine Henin. She has hated March, and its rough rides.

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Bud's 2007 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 10 - March 30 , 2007
RIDING A CLOUD, A DREAM, WILLIE CANAS IS TOURNEY STAR REGARDLESS

"Keep dreaming, amigo!" That's the way Argentines feel about their hombre, Willie Canas, who says the Sony Ericsson is "a dream" for him.

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Bud's 2007 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 9 - March 29 , 2007
CANAS AND SISTER SERENA CONTINUE ON THEIR MERRY, TRIUMPHANT WAY

Losing is no fun. One reason is leaving the food served up in the players' dining room, overseen by Nathan Kurland, Gary Chichester and Bronson Hurt. Ah, the pasta, the steak with chimichurri sauce and the green grapes!

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Bud's 2007 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 8 - March 28 , 2007
HAS RODDICK LOST HIS QUICK? DJOKOVIC IS GETTING RICH

A bad day at purple rock for the U.S. Davis Cup team. In merely the seventh game Andy Roddick felt an unwelcome twinge in his left hamstring as he tried to beat the Brit Kid, 19-year-old Andy Murray, in their quarter-final.

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Bud's 2007 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 7 - March 27 , 2007
SISTERLY REVENGE FOR SERENA, FEDERER FED TO A RENEWED CANAS

You beat up on my sister, and you're gonna have to answer to me.

That seems to be the sentiment in the Williams household, just up the road in Palm Beach Gardens. Sisterly solidarity. Sorority revenge. Sibling surge.

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Bud's 2007 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 6 - March 26 , 2007
FOR DELIC A NEW LIFE IN A MATCH, BETTER, A NEW LIFE AFTER BOSNIA

Regardless of how you feel about Hawk-Eye, the instant replay system that determines contested line calls, Amer Delic has become a grateful fan. In fact 24-year-old Delic, who fled his homeland, war-stricken Bosnia, with his family is grateful about many things in his new life as an American citizen.

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Bud's 2007 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 5 - March 25 , 2007
AGGIE KNOWS JAJA AND HER STUFF; MAGICIAN SANTORO REMAINS TOUGH

Did Aggie - that's Agnieszka Radwanska - know who Jadwiga Jedrzejowska was?

Certainly, said 18-year-old Aggie who comes from the beautiful Polish city, Krakow. Jolly Jadwiga Jedrzjowska, known as JaJa to her friends and fans, was Poland's greatest player, a finalist in 3 majors: U.S. and Wimbledon (1937), French (1939).

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Bud's 2007 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 4 - March 24 , 2007
COLOMBIAN FALL GUY FALLA LUCKILY GETS IN THE BACK DOOR

Did somebody set off the Falla alarm? Didn't matter. It was too late for Tommy Haas, who got burned and banished from the local sandbar's tournament by a guy who had been defeated four days before and was headed for the next port of call, Mexico City.

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Bud's 2007 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 3 - March 23 , 2007
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH BLAKE? THAT'S A U.S. DAVIS CUP PROBLEM

What's gone wrong with James Blake? That's the question troubling him and his many followers. Since losing the final at Delray Beach, Fla., Feb. 4 to Xavier Malisse, James has won only 3 of 9 matches. A quarter-final loser here a year ago to Roger Federer, James was gone this time at the starting gate, pushed out by No. 64, Frenchman Florent Serra, 7-6 (10-8), 2-6, 6-3.

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Bud's 2007 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 2 - March 22 , 2007
HEAD-HEART-BREAKING SHTARKERS FEDERER, WOODS SHARE SPOTLIGHT

The prime shtarkers are prowling this neighborhood, so does anybody else have a chance? One of them would be enough to ring alarm bells. But both of these head-and-heart-breaking shtarkers - Roger Federer and Eldred Woods - have come to town brandishing their threatening clubs while the other working stiffs in their businesses are looking for palm trees to climb. This is a town, greater Miami, big enough for both of them - but nobody else.

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Bud's 2007 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 1 - March 21 , 2007
OPENING DAY BELONGS TO TEEN-AGERS BRITO, PASZEK

Always nice when unknowns pop out of the landscape to enliven an otherwise drab day. Teen-agers Michelle Larcher de Brito (shall we call her MLB?) and Tamira Paszek fit that description.

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Bud's 2007 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Intro - March 20 , 2007
THE TENNIS WORLD ROLLS INTO TOWN - A LOVELY ISLE OFF MIAMI

Once a president hung out here. Now a king will drop by for a brief stay. The president of the U.S. was Richard Nixon. He used this Florida key as a frequent hideaway before excusing himself from office - by popular request -- in 1974. The king of the world of tennis, Roger Federer, has landed, intent on winning the tournament for a third straight year.

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