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Posted by WTM on February 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Charlie Bricker
It’s not the sort of statistical minutia that one aspires to, but, in Paris on Sunday afternoon, Elena Dementieva won her 16th career WTA title and not only edge to within five of Pam Shriver’s 21 but further solidify her dubious credentials as the best woman player never to win a Grand Slam [...]
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Posted by WTM on February 1, 2010 · 2 Comments
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Australian Open
Men’s singles: Roger Federer beat Andy Murray 6-3 6-4 7-6
Women’s singles: Serena Williams beat Justine Henin 6-4 3-6 6-2
Men’s doubles: Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan beat Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic 6-3 6-7 (5) 6-3
Women’s doubles: Venus Williams and Serena Williams beat Cara Black and Liezel Huber 6-4 6-3
Mixed doubles: Cara Black and Leander [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 30, 2010 · 1 Comment
In one of the most fascinating women’s final of a Grand Slam tournament in years, Serena Williams won her fifth Australian Open title Saturday, defeating Justine Henin 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 in a renewal of one of the great rivalries in women’s tennis over the last decade.
Williams, the world No. 1 and the defending Australian champion, [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
It will be 50 years ago on Monday, February 1 that Rod Laver won his first major championship – the Australian Open.
The man whose name now graces the Center Court at the national championship of his homeland finally broke through and won the 1960 Australian Championships, that year played at the Milton Courts in Brisbane. [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 27, 2010 · 1 Comment
Bob Stockton is subbing for Justin Cohen this week for THIS WEEK IN TENNIS BUSINESS
* U.S. Davis Cup Captain, USTA General Manager of Player Development and ESPN Commentator Patrick McEnroe will have his book called “Hardcourt Confidential: Tales from Twenty Years in the Pro Tennis Trenches” come out on June 8, 2010.
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Posted by WTM on January 25, 2010 · 2 Comments
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Australian Open – First Week
Maria Kirilenko beat second-seeded Dinara Safina 5-4, retired
Nadia Petrova beat third-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3 3-6 6-1
Marin Cilic beat fourth-seeded Juan Martin del Potro 5-7 6-4 7-5 5-7 6-3
Li Na beat fourth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki 6-4 6-3
Justine Henin beat fifth-seeded Elena Dementieva 7-5 7-6 (6)
Alona Bondarenko beat eighth-seeded Jelena Jankovic 6-2 6-3
Marcel Granollers [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 23, 2010 · 1 Comment
By Chris Kane
When we think of the unbreakable streaks in sports we immediately think of Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak in 1941. Or, if we look a little closer to the present, perhaps UCLA’s 88-game winning streak in the early 1970s under the auspices of John Wooden, Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton comes to mind. [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 18, 2010 · 2 Comments
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Elena Dementieva beat Serena Williams 6-3 6-2 to win the Medibank International women’s singles at Sydney, Australia
Marcos Baghdatis beat Richard Gasquet 6-4 7-6 (2) in Sydney, Australia, to win the Medibank International men’s singles
John Isner beat Arnaud Clement 6-3 5-7 7-6 (2) to win the Heineken Open in Auckland, New Zealand
Alona Bondarenko beat Shahar Peer [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 17, 2010 · 1 Comment
Monday, January 18, 2010 not only marks the opening day of the 2010 Australian Open, but it also marks 10 years to the day that Roger Federer played – and won – his first match at Australia’s Grand Slam tournament. As documented in the book ON THIS DAY IN TENNIS HISTORY ($19.95, New Chapter Press, [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 16, 2010 · 2 Comments
Roger Federer is often called the greatest tennis player of all-time, but one other appropriate label is humanitarian. Federer is doing what he can to raise funds to help victims of the earthquake that devastated Haiti on Tuesday.
On Saturday, Federer posted on his Facebook fan page; “Tomorrow at 2pm, with other top players, we are [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By McCarton Ackerman
It’s 2003 all over again on the WTA Tour. The Belgians vs. the Williams sisters. For the last decade, these four players – Venus and Serena Williams and Belgians Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin – have made the biggest impact by far on the WTA Tour. Other players had the opportunity to step [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Randy Walker
It was 22 years ago today, January 11, that the Australian Open entered a new era. It was on this day in 1988 when the Australian Open moved to its new location – then called Flinders Park and now called Melbourne Park with the centre court centerpiece – complete with the retractable roof [...]
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