Daily Bagel: To strike, or not to strike?

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• Someone get Jo-Wilfried Tsonga a Kinder Bueno. His chances for London took a hit Wednesday when he lost to Kei Nishikori in Shanghai.
• The players are backing off the "strike" rhetoric.
• Serena confirms for Brisbane. With Sam Stosur, Kim Clijsters and Maria Sharapova also set for the January tournament, that tournament is going to be a shootout.
• Peter Bodo looks at the parallel careers of Andy Roddick and Juan Carlos Ferrero.
• Rafael Nadal is skipping Queens, will play Halle instead.
• Rafa to play soccer during his down time?
• Roddick still has an outside shot at the World Tour Finals.
• A musical is being made of Justine Henin's life.
• Non-tennis: Inception corgi.

Contributor, SI.com Nguyen is a freelance writer for SI.com, providing full coverage of professional tennis both on and off the court. Her content has become a must-read for fans and insiders to stay up-to-date with a sport that rarely rests. She has appeared on radio and TV talk shows all over the world and is one of the co-hosts of No Challenges Remaining, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Nguyen graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received a law degree from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She lives in the Bay Area.