Have you been watching the US Open? There has been some amazing tennis. Justine Henin was one of the most impressive women I’ve seen in years. Not impressive in the way that Serena’s overpowering athleticism is. Impressive in terms of her “tennis” cunning, determination, performance and perseverance. She’s a little munchkin, but wills herself to return serves and volley well against far more powerful players. She is as close as it gets to the female version of Roger Federer. But she’s still not in the same league as Fed. No one is.

On the jewelry front, Serena Williams has followed up her stunning Harry Winston bracelet in Australia with dangling earrings and necklace from Euphoria (hat tip JCK). When you look at her you can’t help but ask, will she really wear those during the match! She even beat out Jelena Jankovic & her Cartier watch in the “play tennis with expensive jewelry” battle.

Unfortunately, sports these days have a rule forcing even losers to attend a press conference after a game. Handling a press conference isn’t always easy even during best of times. When you just lost and feel like crying, handling a pack of wolves alternating from asking the most tear inducing questions to the dumbest questions on Earth isn’t easy.

Well, Serena has a history of handling these press conferences poorly and she outdid herself on this one, video attached to post… Unlike so many who have roasted her badly for her ungracious comments, I do give her the benefit of the doubt. Not because I agree with her that Henin hit lucky shots. Or that her joke about not being able to afford the fines was in good taste. But some athletes might like to curse for 2-3 hours straight after losing and it isn’t sportsmanlike to force them to show their face to the world. They earn enough money to handle it, sure. But let proud people save face and give her a break. Interview her a day or two later…

As for other matches, Ferrer was so impressive in his victory over equally impressive Nadal, playing hurt. Just fantastic tennis. But nothing I’ve seen compares to the match last night between Federer and Roddick. Andy has the most impressive serve in the history of the game. Had he been born in any other time than Roger’s, he would go down as one of the best players ever.

But Roger just toyed with him. Andy played the best tennis he can play. And he still got beaten. During a tie-break, Roger took a serve of his between 140 - 148 miles per hour (depending if you believe the announcer who said 148, or the screen that said 140)… returned the serve and won the point! I mean, here you have a guy who is serving a ball at just under the fastest tennis serve in the history of the game (somewhere around 150, record owned by Roddick), and not only doesn’t he get an ace, he can’t win the point!

Having watched that match, I must say Roger is the best ever. He may not dominate the record books yet the way Wayne Gretzky did in his early years, but looking at his playing level, I have never seen anything like it in Tennis ever.