Some Miscellaneous reports from the first couple of Aussie Open days:

--Mardy Fish, who destroyed No. 11 seed Tommy Robredo of Spain 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 to reach the third round Wednesday, is tying the knot with girlfriend Stacy Gardner, the "Deal or No Deal" actress. Fish met Gardner in 2006 through a mutual friend and they will wed in September after what Fish promises will be a blow-out bachelor party in Las Vegas with his Davis Cup pals. Fish, 26, was probably the last of the Roddick-Ginepri-Blake-Dent generation to have a serious girlfriend and now he's the first to take the marriage plunge.

Maybe settling down is helping his game. After underachieving for many years and splitting with coach Todd Martin after Wimbledon, Fish could be finding his form again. Fish reached his first quarterfinal in a major here last year and got schooled by high-school buddy Roddick. If he gets by No. 24 seed Jarkko Nieminen of Finland, he could face Roddick again in the round of 16.
 

--Nicole Vaidisova's agent insists the 12th ranked player is not engaged to fellow Czech Radek Stepanek, despite media reports in the Bradenton Herald that she and Stepanek applied for a marriage license.

--New tour-playing mom Lindsay Davenport says she has been emailing Kim Clijsters regularly trying to convince her to return to the circuit and swell the ranks of racket wielding mothers. The former No. 1 Belgian quit last year at age 23 shortly after her marriage to former Villanova basketball standout Brian Lynch. Clijsters is pregnant and due in February.

"The first person I’m working on is Kim," said Davenport after her opening round win Monday. We exchange emails frequently. I’m breaking her down slowly. I think I maybe got an “I’m thinking about it.'"

She adds: "I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw her out here again."

--Chicago native Laura Granville told me she took the fall off from tennis and instead enrolled in Russian Literature and psychology classes at Northwestern University. Granville, a two-time NCAA champ from Stanford, turned pro after her sophomore season in 2001 and reached as high as No. 28 in June of 2003. Last year she reached the fourth round at Wimbledon. But the flat-stroking baseliner, now ranked No. 72, has been mostly a middling player and it sounds like she is less certain about her long-term prospects in tennis. She's committed to playing all of 2008 but said, "I'm taking it a year at a time."