I dreamed last night I was some sort of amoeba, capable of splitting myself into independently functioning pieces. Some difficulties arose -- it took me two hours to decide between trail mix and Froot Loops -- but there was one enormous benefit. For the first time, I was able to stay in touch with the men's tennis tour.

It has been a year of unique moments for Lindsey Vonn. She met Roger Federer at Wimbledon. She spent a day on the set of her beloved Law & Order (although she has not yet fulfilled her goal of playing a corpse on the show). She walked the red carpet at the Emmys. (All of this in addition to becoming the best U.S. women's ski racer in history, which is her day job).

America's best Olympic medal hope at the Vancouver Games has ditched a lot more than just her helmet for SI's annual swimsuit issue, in which she appears in a bikini on a Canadian mountaintop. Lindsey Vonn is one of several Winter Olympic athletes depicte.

Last week, when American skier Lindsey Vonn was on the cover of Sports Illustrated posing in a ski racer's aerodynamic tuck position, she wore no helmet, which allowed her long blond hair to spill across the page.

PATTAYA : Tamarine Tanasugarn and top seed Vera Zvonareva got past the first round at the PTT Pattaya Open yesterday.

Through Feb. 7 Singles 1. Serena Williams , United States, 9195 2. Dinara Safina , Russia, 6480 3. Caroline Wozniacki , Denmark, 5995 4. Svetlana Kuznetsova , Russia, 5861 5. Venus Williams , United States, 5526 6. Victoria Azarenka , Belarus, 4960 7. Elena Dementieva , Russia, 4705 8. Jelena Jankovic , Serbia, 3845 9. Agnieszka Radwanska , Poland, 3605 10. Li Na, China, 3500 11. Sam Stosur ...

All year long the sports landscape is dominated by men. But for a brief while every two years, female athletes are also champions.

The one good thing about the absence of the some of the game's top stars in Fed Cup ties is that others get a chance to shine.

Women's tennis world rankings on Monday (last week's rankings in brackets):

Like many players at the Dow Corning Tennis Classic, Heather Watson is a long way from home.