First there’s the delightful news that Estonian supermodel Carmen Kass is a chess player, and now there’s this splendid revelation:

The tennis star Maria Sharapova is under orders from her agent not to talk about her stamp collection. Why? Because “everyone’s calling me a dork now,” the 2004 Wimbledon champion says. For one of the most marketable players in modern tennis, poring over a stamp album does indeed jar with the willowy Russian teenager’s image – and she wishes she had never let on. “We’re getting e-mails from, like, stamp collecting magazines asking if I can do an interview,” Sharapova, 19, said this week in London after her second-round victory at Wimbledon. “I mean, it’s just a hobby. I’m actually good telling stories, but that is one I should have never talked about. Let’s get off the subject because I’m going to be an absolute geek tomorrow.