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Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008
NEW YORK — Roger Federer flicked a final winner, trotted to the net and started to shake hands. Then, there was one last challenge.
Playfully, Thiago Alves called for a replay review.
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Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
NEW YORK — Ana Ivanovic raised her racket, ready for an easy overhead slam in what was shaping up as an easy match. Then she somehow spiked the ball right into the net from just a few feet away.
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Friday, Aug. 8, 2008
BEIJING — Roger Federer is thinking more about the number eight than the No. 1 ranking he will lose after the Olympics. The 12-time Grand Slam champion's birthday coincides with today's opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics, which are being staged on one of the luckiest days in the Chinese calendar.
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Monday, July 7, 2008
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WIMBLEDON, England — Rafael Nadal, grass stains on his white shirt and a Spanish flag tucked under his arm, scampered through the Centre Court stands to celebrate his first Wimbledon title with hugs and handshakes.
Roger Federer sat in his changeover chair, protected from the night's chill by his custom-made cream cardigan with the gold "RF" on the chest. Alone with his thoughts, alone with the knowledge that he had come so close to becoming the first man since the 1880s to win a sixth consecutive championship at the All England Club.
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Friday, July 4, 2008
Add up all of Roger Federer's greatness on grass courts, and the numbers are striking: 40 wins in a row at Wimbledon, 65 overall on the surface.
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Friday, July 4, 2008
WIMBLEDON, England — A spot in her seventh Wimbledon final already secured, Venus Williams headed back to Centre Court to catch the end of the next match. Scouting? Not really. More like rooting. And when Thursday's second semifinal ended, Williams stood, smiling and applauding for t...
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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WIMBLEDON, England — While Roger Federer glided to another victory on Centre Court, and Rafael Nadal won despite a scary stumble on Court 1, the Williams sisters found themselves playing back to back Monday on cozy, clattery Court 2, known as the "Graveyard of Champions." What in the...
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
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WIMBLEDON, England — One swing from completing her week's work, Venus Williams toed the baseline, dribbled the ball, gave it a toss and delivered yet another thunderclap serve at sun-kissed Wimbledon.
The ace bounced off the Court 1 backstop as Williams trotted to the net to bid another foe farewell.
The scoreboard said 127 mph, the fastest women's serve ever recorded at Wimbledon. The scoreboard also had Williams winning 6-1, 7-5 Saturday over qualifier Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez.
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
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WIMBLEDON, England — They're still counting casualties back home, and so when Zheng Jie completed the biggest victory of her career Friday at Wimbledon, she resisted any temptation to leap or squeal or pump her fist or collapse to the grass in glee.
Instead she merely cracked a slight smile, hoping her family, friends and fans in China could do the same.
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Friday, June 27, 2008
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WIMBLEDON, England — Moments after Maria Sharapova walked off the court in defeat, her father stomped away from the stadium down a Wimbledon walkway, spitting out words in Russian as he gestured to a companion. Upon climbing a stairway to the players' patio, Yuri Sharapov encountered the father of two other former Wimbledon champions, Richard Williams.
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
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WIMBLEDON, England — A match involving Marat Safin is always worth watching. He's liable to moon the crowd, smash several rackets or dominate the world's best tennis player, as he did against Pete Sampras in the 2000 U.S. Open final. For a change, Wimbledon inspired Safin's best behavior and tennis Wednesday, much to the chagrin of Novak Djokovic.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
WIMBLEDON, England — With Wimbledon devolving into a fashion contest, former champion Lindsay Davenport's retro getup may have trumped all other outfits. Her sleeveless white top and pleated skirt were very 1980s, and the wrap on her right leg — with bandages extending from mid-thigh to mid-calf — looked like something out of the British Museum.
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
The injuries and intrigue, passion for fashion, disdain for the tennis grind and insistence on go-for-broke strokes — all in the context of a friendly sibling rivalry — make even Mom reluctant to predict what the Williams sisters might do next.
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
EASTBOURNE, England — Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland won her third title of the year Saturday, beating Nadia Petrova of Russia 6-4, 6-7 (11), 6-4 in the final of the Eastbourne International Women's Open.
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
WIMBLEDON, England — Five-time champion Roger Federer and top-ranked Ana Ivanovic were seeded No. 1 for Wimbledon on Wednesday. There were no big surprises when the All England Club announced the seedings for the grass-court Grand Slam, which begins Monday.
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