An Organic Kind of Guy: Sony Ericsson Open Notebook

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SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGES: According to a London Times report, Brit Davis Cupper Dan Evans is “fully co-operating” with a police investigation into an alleged sexual assault which is alleged to have taken place in the early hours of March 19.

BORDER BROUHAHA: The cross-border wedding plans of Indian Sania Mirza and Pakistani cricket star Shoaib Malik just got a whole lot more complicated.  Indian police have reportedly seized Malik’s passport and are questioning him over bigamy allegations amidst claims by another Indian woman that Malik married her in ’02.

REUNITED: Andy Murray says he’s back with ex-girlfriend Kim Sears.

THE NUMBERS

$125,000: Total raised by Fernando Gonzalez, Andy Roddick, Jim Courier and Gustavo Kuerten for disaster relief in Chile.

17: Straight points won by Kim Clijsters in the second set of her 6-2, 6-1, 58-minute wipeout of Venus Williams in the Miami final.

5: Master Series titles for Roddick, who on Sunday defeated Czech Tomas Berdych 7-5, 6-4 to win the Sony Ericsson Open —his first Masters crown since Cincinnati in ’06.

QUOTEBOOK

“Andy was a TGI Friday’s and Chili’s boy, and with that type of diet — nachos, meat and potatoes — you work five hours a day and you’re re-polluting your body.  Now Andy is a Whole Foods, organic kind of guy.” — Larry Stefanki on Roddick

“His waistline keeps shrinking while his skill set keeps growing.” — The South Florida Sun-Sentinel’s Ethan J. Skolnick on Roddick

“Andy Roddick still has the scariest serve in tennis…Roddick still has his shirt-yanking tic. He still zings like a stand-up comedian. And, even at age 27, Roddick still wears a baseball cap backward…But Roddick is a changed man, too…Maybe the new Andy Roddick can do something the old Andy Roddick hasn’t done in seven years: win a Grand Slam.” — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald

“I was my own worst enemy.” — Venus on her 6-2, 6-1 loss to Clijsters at the Sony Ericsson Open