Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover this year

Model Brooklyn Decker landed the coveted Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover this year.

SI swimsuit edition puts Roddick's wife

The 22-year-old wife of tennis star Andy Roddick said being chosen for the front is "the news of a lifetime."

 The cover photo of Decker smiling in a yellow bikini is a departure from the more sultry look that SI had gone for the past few years, she said. She compared it to covers from the 1980s or '90s, when Elle Macpherson won her covers with a friendly, sun-loving look.

 SI keeps the cover photo a secret — even from the models — until less than 24 hours before it's revealed. Decker said now the mad dash was on to find outfits for TV appearances that will come with the gig. (Her closet of swimsuits wasn't right for winter, she joked.)

 As for Roddick? He's relieved the five-time SI Swimsuit model can check the cover-girl box and won't be as nervous next February when the next edition comes out.

Decker says she is an avid sports fan, and, as a teenager in North Carolina, ran hurdles for the track team, played soccer and participated in competitive cheerleading. She has no great diet or exercise secret, she said, other than to be active and eat sensibly.

"I still don't know the formula for the cover," she added. "It's luck, the perfect suit and perfect storm to get it.

Australian Open, Roddick out drought continues

Australian Open, Roddick out drought continues

An injured Andy Roddick lost his quarterfinal match at the Australian Open on Tuesday, continuing his singles title drought in majors and that of a country that has been starved of a men’s Grand Slam title for more than six years.

The seventh-seeded Roddick was beaten 7-6 (4), 6-3, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3 by Croatia’s Marin Cilic at Rod Laver Arena. At end of the first set, he took a medical time out to have his right shoulder worked on and told the trainer that he was experiencing pain when he served and “tingling in my hand.”

Roddick’s only major has been the 2003 U.S. Open, the last time an American man has won a Grand Slam singles title, marking the country’s longest drought in majors.

Despite playing strongly in the third and fourth sets to level the match, Roddick fell apart in the final set, allowing No. 14 Cilic to break twice and send the last American man out of the singles draw at Melbourne Park.

Roddick said he didn’t practice on Monday after feeling a twinge in his shoulder during Sunday’s fourth-round win over Fernando Gonzalez.

“The trainer said it was stemming from the neck down,” Roddick said. “By the end of the first set, I was pretty numb in the bottom two fingers. I could still hit it pretty hard; I was just having trouble controlling it.”

Roddick took advantage of some mediocre serving by Cilic in the third and fourth sets. When the Croatian’s serve improved in the fifth, it was all but over