Carlos Moya Tennis Player

Let's start by giving the "Player of the Week" award to the good folks at Sony Ericsson who made a landmark investment in tennis last week. The company ponied up $88 million over six years -- real money, not marketing commitments, much less lucy.com stock options -- to be the new title sponsor of the WTA Tour. This was a huge coup for WTA CEO Larry Scott, a huge validation for tennis and a huge testament to the sport's global reach. ...

• A tip of the cap to the folks in Chennai, India, for putting on an event despite the tsunami that caused devastation a couple of miles from the tennis venue. In the final of the Chennai Open, Carlos Moya beat Paradorn Srichaphan in a third-set tiebreaker. Moya then donated his $52,000 winner's check to disaster relief, following in the footsteps of the pre-tournament pledge of Jonas Bjorkman and Mahesh Bhupathi to donate their winnings to the tsunami victims. (Remember that the next time some meathead sportscaster talks about selfish tennis players.) In the doubles final, Yen-Hsun Lu and Rainer Schuettler upset top seeds Bhupathi and Bjorkman.

Carlos Moya
Carlos Moya
Carlos Moya
Carlos Moya
Carlos Moya
Carlos Moya
Carlos Moya