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Daily Bagel: Andy Roddick wants to get rid of Hawk-Eye

The Daily Bagel is your dose of the interesting reporting, writing and quipping from around the Internet. • It's official: Andy Murray inks a deal with Under
Daily Bagel: Andy Roddick wants to get rid of Hawk-Eye
Daily Bagel: Andy Roddick wants to get rid of Hawk-Eye

The Daily Bagel is your dose of the interesting reporting, writing and quipping from around the Internet.

• It's official: Andy Murray inks a deal with Under Armour

• Andy Roddick wants to scrap Hawk-Eye because tennis is more entertaining when players get to yell at umpires. 

• Dear Serena Williams: We do not like writing injury stories. Please watch where you're going:

Post by Serena Williams.

• Tennis Has An Income Inequality Problem: Prize money on the ATP Challenger Tour is shrinking, writes Carl Bialik for FiveThirtyEight.com:

After adjusting for inflation, prize money on the ATP’s Challenger Tour — the equivalent of baseball’s AAA minor league — has fallen by 25 percent in the last six years.

Soon after the ATP’s announcement, the International Tennis Federation 

released results

 of 

its analysis

 of the pro game’s financials. Among the sobering findings: Only 336 men and 253 women made more than they spent playing tennis last year.

• If you are a top tennis player, you're probably on a plane to Australia or the Middle East right now. 

• The Changeover does their look-back on the 2014 ATP and WTA seasons.

• A look at the 2015 French Open poster:

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XTcVSmiCGk]

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Courtney Nguyen
COURTNEY NGUYEN

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.