Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert broke off their engagement in 1974. (Brian Smith/AP)

Jimmy Connors’ autobiography, The Outsider, comes out in two weeks. Some details are beginning to leak, including an excerpt about his relationship with Chris Evert.

In the chapter on Connors’ high-profile romance, engagement and breakup with Evert, The New York Daily News reports that Connors “strongly hints” Evert was pregnant and had an abortion shortly before they were to wed, in 1974. Judge for yourself.

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Martina Navratilova tweeted that Jason Collins will sleep a lot better now after coming out. (Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

Tennis players took to Twitter in support of NBA center Jason Collins’ open letter in Sports Illustrated announcing that he’s gay. With that, Collins became the first male professional athlete from a major team sport to come out of the closet during his career.

Not surprisingly, Martina Navratilova, who came out in 1981, led the charge of support and encouragement.

Update: Here’s a story about Collins and gays in sports that Navratilova wrote Monday for Sports Illustrated.

Well done Jason Collins- you are a brave man. And a big man at that:) 1981 was the year for me- 2013 is the year for you:)—
Martina Navratilova (@Martina) April 29, 2013

It’s not easy to come out when one is still active- shouldn’t be an issue, but it is. That’s why so many don’t do it till after.—
Martina Navratilova (@Martina) April 29, 2013

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Tomas Berdych has yet to break into the Big Four, but he’s elite on Instagram. (Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images)

If you think Facebook and Twitter are full of boring selfies, filtered pictures of food and sunset after sunset, Instagram is even worse. It takes a lot to master the photo-based social networking medium. There aren’t a whole lot of tennis players who do it well. Even fewer use it consistently. Serena Williams used to be the account to follow, but she hasn’t posted a picture in almost a year.

With that in mind, here are 10 accounts that will keep you entertained and informed.

NGUYEN: Review of Williams’ sisters new documentary

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Icons. That’s the word that leads the poster for the upcoming Magnolia Films documentary “Venus and Serena,” which was released for rent on iTunes and other  Video On Demand platforms today and hits theaters May 10. It is the word that best defines these two sisters who grew up on the cracked concrete courts of Compton, Calif., and redefined the culture and game of tennis by transcending the sport with their talent, boldness and refusal to apologize for who they were, where they came from and their insistence on where they were going, institutions and traditions be damned.

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The day has finally arrived.

LMFAO frontman Redfoo has released Heart of a Champion, a four-minute noise extravaganza that includes short samples of his girlfriend Victoria Azarenka’s trademark whooping grunt. You can hear her at the 1:25 mark and later at the 3:20 mark.

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Roger Federer has never been shy about discussing doping in tennis. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. – Roger Federer revealed that he doesn’t recall getting drug tested once during the 16-match win streak he built up at this time of the year last season.

“I didn’t get tested I don’t think through the whole Rotterdam, Dubai, Indian Wells swing where I won all three tournaments,” Federer told reporters at the BNP Paribas Open on Thursday. “I didn’t get tested once. That shouldn’t be OK.”

The revelation came on the heels of the ITF’s announcement that it will introduce the biological passport testing system to tennis, an anti-doping measure used in other sports such as cycling and track and field that monitors an athlete’s biology via blood testing to identify abnormal changes that may indicate doping.

[Federer, Nadal on quarterfinal collision course]

“I think we’ve seen a lot of things happen all across the board in sports,” Federer said. “Obviously the cycling issue has been issue has been around for some time but what surfaced this year is super extreme. I think that really gets you thinking.

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Caroline Wozniacki and boyfriend Rory McIlroy are always in the spotlight. (Getty Images)

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Intense media scrutiny is part and parcel of dating a high-profile athlete, but for Caroline Wozniacki and Rory McIlroy, each match, round, press conference and tweet are put under the microscope for clues to explain their weekly results. That level of attention might be enough to crush some relationships, but Wozniacki says it’s all just white noise for the couple.

“We’ve been in the media spotlight for so long separate as well, you know, so it’s not like it’s something new,” she told a small group of reporters at the BNP Paribas Open on Wednesday. “I think we’ve gotten used to that part of it. We don’t really pay attention to it anymore. Unless it’s a rumor like the there was the other day that we’ve broken up and I was like ‘Oh really? I didn’t realize that. Thanks for letting me know.’”

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Caroline Wozniacki and Rory McIlroy started dating in the summer of 2011. (Christopher Trotman/Getty Images)

Rory McIlroy says things are just fine with girlfriend Caroline Wozniacki.

“Everything on that front is great,” the world’s No. 1 golfer said at a news conference Wednesday in Doral, Fla., where he’s playing this week in the WGC-Cadillac Championship. “And I look forward to seeing her next week when she gets to Miami” for the Sony Ericsson Open, which begins March 20.

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A young girl stole the show at the BNP Paribas Showdown in New York on Monday night.

Rafael Nadal and Juan Martin del Potro were in the middle of the second set of their exhibition match at Madison Square Garden when Nadal pulled actor and tennis superfan Ben Stiller out of the crowd to join his side. Del Potro one-upped Nadal by bringing out a left-handed “ringer,” 9-year-old Rebecca Suarez, who was clearly unfazed by Stiller’s playful warning that she would be “going down.”

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It’s about that time to catch up with Bob Bryan’s 1-year-old daughter, Micaela, who happens to be one of the best tweeters in the game. No one hobnobs with tennis’ elite like young Micaela. You can follow her picture-perfect tweets @MicaelaBryan.

So what’s Micaela been up to in 2013 after an eventful 2012?

Greeting some old friends …

Father Deliciano just baptized me at the airport. Amen! @feliciano_lopez http://t.co/lpvOZRhOec—
Micaela Bryan (@MicaelaBryan) February 25, 2013

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