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Not exactly Kournikova

By Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

Monday, March 3, 2008

Let's relax our taboo on mentioning tennis and any form of gambling in the same sentence to note that the ATP men's results this weekend were a little bit like a Daily Double that ended up paying $50,000 on a $2 bet. What were the odds that Sergiy Stakhovsky (ranked No. 209) and Steve Darcis (No. 81) would emerge as the winners at two of the three main tour events? It's funny -- people still get all haughty and snotty about Anna Kournikova, who, like Paris Hilton, became a huge celebrity withou ...

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