On television Monday night, I heard a commentator say that Stanislas Wawrinka put forth no effort during his straight-sets loss to Roger Federer. Nonsense, I say. He put a whole lot of energy into smashing his racquet on the court in frustration:

Maybe Stan should try to channel his emotions better.

This is how you pull off "out there," Venus.

In her doubles match Tuesday at the Australian Open, noted tennis fashion plate Bethanie Mattek-Sands sported a jail stripe outfit and eye black, which was presumably applied as much for style as it was for sunblocking purposes. It was an outfit that managed to challenge the conventions of tennis fashion without looking like a pie crust. I think it looks pretty great.

Out of view are Mattek-Sands' trademark knee socks (I couldn't get a good picture of the whole ensemble on the web feed). But believe me when I say that they're black and they're spectacular.

Mattek-Sands is best known for her wild ensembles and tattooed arms, but she's more than a crazy shirt and jacked-up socks. The 25-year-old American is ranked No. 48 in the world in singles and No. 17 in doubles. Last year, she was the hero in the U.S. Fed Cup victory over Russia, winning a do-or-die match that advanced the team to the finals.

In August, we asked Mattek-Sands about her

As was the case at Wimbledon, the buzz at this Grand Slam is about a marathon match. Last summer it was John Isner-Nicolas Mahut. In Melbourne it's the epic battle between Francesca Schiavone and Svetlana Kuznetsova. Beyond the broken records, that match was everything we love about tennis and sports in general. We had two champions, already crowned in a Grand Slam, giving us sporting emotion, bravery, beauty and lessons that we can apply to life. What else could be better?

It didn't start out that beautiful though. The first two sets were played poorly. Both players looked unable to play good tennis, perhaps because of two reasons. First, they were tentative with each other, maybe because of the mental and physical fatigue accumulated from their previous matches. That causes tension. Legs don't move correctly, adjustments are sloppy, the timing is wrong and there's not enough energy there to make up for all of this. Let's not forget that Schiavone won 6-4 in the third against Parra

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A fourth-round match at the Australian Open was delayed on Monday night when the chair umpire determined that a logo on the front of Ekaterina Makarova's shirt was too large and had to be removed. The 22-year-old Russian was warming up before her match against Kim Clijsters when umpire Mariana Alves noticed one of the logos and made Makarova leave the court to change.

When she returned, Makarova had changed into an identical dress that didn't have any attached logos. She began the match without them and then had some attached during changeovers in the first set. The offending logo was eventually moved to her right shoulder.

Grand Slam rules dictate that logos on the front of the shirt cannot exceed four square inches. Larger logos are allowed on the sleeves, which is where Makarova's banned logo eventually was placed.

At her

Continuing a recent run of tour de force press conferences at the Australian Open, world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki told reporters a made-up story about getting into a scrap with a kangaroo at a Melbourne park earlier in the week. Some members of the media fell for the gag and reported it as fact before Wozniacki later clarified she was kidding.

The 20-year-old Dane has been fighting back against allegations that she's a boring interview. Two days earlier, she held her own press conference in which she asked the usual, mundane post-match questions to herself and then held court answering "interesting" queries including ones about her love-life, favorite football team and childhood.

[Photos: Wozniacki among worst-dressed at Australian Open]

Wozniacki continued to keep the press on her toes after her fourth-round win on Sunday when she opened by telling a story about a kangaroo cutting her in the park. Despite a half-dozen follow-up questions, nobody in the press corps decided to ask

Seven months after John Isner and Nicolas Mahut set a record for the longest men's match in history, the women had a marathon of their own Sunday night at the Australian Open.

The fourth-round match between defending French Open champion Francesca Schiavone and Svetlana Kuznestova went on for a record-breaking four hours and 44 minutes, the longest in history for women at a Grand Slam.

[Photos: Incredible images from the longest match ever]

Though more than six hours short of Isner-Mahut, the Schiavaone-Kuznetsova duel was equally, if not more, impressive. It featured numerous breaks of serves, exhausting rallies and countless match points saved. The players took chances in going for crosscourt winners and coming to net on both serve-and-volleys and chip-and-charges. That Wimbledon marathon was impressive solely because of its length. This marathon was impressive for its quality too.

Among the stats:

• The match lasted four hours, 44 minutes, beating the previous long Grand Slam

Stan Wawrinka was nice enough to give me some tickets on Friday night so I could watch his match against Gaël Monfils at Rod Laver Arena. I wasn't disappointed at all by the show.

The intensity of the first set was a rarity. Both players went for rallies, with diagonals on backhands, forehands played by turning around the backhand and some down-the-line acceleration when needed. But it was their defending and counter-punching abilities that often allowed them to push the points to very long and high-level rallies. Each player had his moment in the set where you thought they'd take it. Both went through periods of high confidence where the play was effortless, and also moments of calm and clear-headedness, which isn't as easy as it sounds for them. It was an efficient mixture that allowed both to win points.

But both players also went through tough moments, where hurry came instead of calm. They also made some bad choices and hit fewer first serves in as the set progressed. It left the

After delivering a monologue chiding the tennis press for asking boring questions at press conferences, world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki told the media to ask her anything. And ask they did. Here are the seven best questions and answers from Wozniacki's epic Australian Open press conference:

7. The American media strikes again.

Q. So where did you hear that your press conferences were dull?

CAROLINE WOZNIACKI: Well, I heard that the American media said to the Danish media that they would like to get to know me better, but I always answer the same questions. So, you know, I just think when I get the questions, I answer what I can answer.

If they ask me about the match, I cannot really say that, you know, I like eating bananas. I try really to do my best here.

6. So you'd ask generic questions and expect generic responses? How ironic.

Q. If you could sit here and ask any player any question, what would you ask?

CAROLINE WOZNIACKI: Depends on the player. I know them so well. I could put