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WHERE WILL STEPANEK AND VAIDISOVA WED? “MAYBE CUBA” SAYS THE WORM

By Charles Bricker Showing no signs of jet lag after a long flight from Indian Wells, Calif., Radek Stepanek strode into the Crowne Plaza hotel here in Sunrise, Fla., and confirmed that he and longtime girl friend Nicole Vaidisova will be married later this year, putting an exclamation point on a wedding report...

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FOREIGN PLAYERS IN COLLEGE TENNIS: SHOULD THEY BENEFIT FROM U.S. TAX DOLLARS?

By Charles Bricker Watching a few moments of a thoroughly unremarkable qualifying match between Bobby Reynolds, that former Vanderbilt Commodore, and young German Christian Blocker, the current No. 2 at the University of Miami, really put me in a college tennis mood for the first time in a few years. I was...

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MONDAYS WITH BOB GREENE: THE FIRST WEEK OF INDIAN WELLS

STARS Indian Wells (First Week) Carla Suarez Navarro beat top-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4 4-6 6-1 Elena Baltacha beat seventh-seeded Li Na 7-6 (6) 2-6 7-6 (7) Guillermo Garcia-Lopez beat ninth-seeded Marin Cilic 7-6 (1) 6-0 Zheng Jie beat 10th-seeded Maria Sharapova 6-3 2-6 6-3 Gisela Dulko beat Justine Henin 6-2...

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MELIGENI IS SURPRISE CHAMPIONS SERIES WINNER IN RIO DE JANEIRO

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, March 14 –- Fernando Meligeni, spurred by a boisterous and supportive home Brazilian crowd, was the surprise winner at the $150,000 Banco Cruzerio do Sul Rio Champions Cup Sunday, defeating Mark Philippoussis of Australia 6-2, 4-6, 10-8 (Champions Tie-Breaker) in the singles final. Champions...

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WHAT IF THE THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN FINAL WAS TODAY??!!

By Randy Walker How would you feel – and how would the tennis world be better or worse – if the finals of the Australian Open were played today? Well that was the case 39 years ago when the men’s and women’s singles finals at the 1971 Australian Open were played in Sydney. The following...

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