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Posted by Stephane Carter on February 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Andy Roddick’s wife, Brooklyn Decker, was unveiled today as the new Sports Illustrated (SI) covergirl. She’s been in SI five times before but never graced the cover.
When asked if husband Andy Roddick was even a little jealous Decker replied:
“No. He’s so proud. I think this gives him a one-up in the locker room for the [...]
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Posted by Manfred Wenas on February 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The following excerpt is taken from the book LIVING THROUGH THE RACKET: How I Survived Leukemia…and Rediscovered My Self by Corina Morariu. It is published by Hay House (February 2010) and is available at all bookstores or online at: www.hayhouse.com or click here to order it from Amazon.com.
I know my dad always had my best [...]
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Is Melanie Oudin, the darling of last year’s U.S. Open, finally back on track? The 18-year-old Georgian busted out of a six-match losing streak to be the heroine of the U.S. Fed Cup team’s 4-1 upset win over France over the weekend.
Oudin beat France’s Julie Coin 7-6 (3), 6-4 on indoor clay in Lievin, France [...]
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Posted by Manfred Wenas on February 6, 2010 · 6 Comments
I woke up this morning, enjoying my cup of tea, reading the sports news on Yahoo! when a headline caught my eye. Martina Hingis to play the World Team Tennis. I was baffled by this news. I have been a fan of Hingis since 1998. When she won, we won. When she lost, we lost. [...]
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By Maud Watson
End to the Grand Slam Drought? – With his win in Melbourne at the Australian Open, Roger Federer became the first father since Andre Agassi to win a Grand Slam title, bringing his total up to 16. While every title he earns makes his legacy that much more impressive, the real question on [...]
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Posted by Stephane Carter on February 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Like we mentioned yesterday in our post: Victoria Azarenka and Caroline Wozniacki are close friends and attended dinner together. I went out and tried to find some good photos of that. But photos of the event, unfortunately, are scarce. Lucky for me, I did find one and it’s a beauty.
@vika7 Seriously girl! You looked great! [...]
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Posted by Leigh Sanders on February 4, 2010 · 2 Comments
This year’s Australian Open highlighted once more the stagnant pool of young teenage starlets whose careers have significantly flattened out since hitting the dizzy heights of the women’s game at a young age.
Unfortunately, it was the usual suspects as always. Maria Sharapova, Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic; they all crashed out to supposedly lesser opposition once [...]
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Posted by Stephane Carter on February 3, 2010 · 1 Comment
So I was reading up on twitter on Victoria Azarenka. After a good run at the Australian Open she prepared herself for the Fed Cup in Portugal. She exchanged many messages on Twitter with her friend Caroline Wozniacki (dare I say close friend? The tweets certainly imply that the two of them are close friends) [...]
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By Melina Harris
Hello everybody, welcome to my new weekly column for Tennis Grandstand, where I will be giving my thoughts on the tennis world surrounded by the inevitable warmth and sunshine of both the weather and the British press in England (well, now and again maybe during Wimbledon when Andy wins!).
I write these words on [...]
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Posted by Voo De Mar on January 31, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Roger Federer and Andy Murray’s third-set tie-breaker in their 2010 Australian Open men’s final was second-longest tie-breaker ever played in major men’s final – only the epic Bjorn Borg-John McEnroe 32-point “Battle of 18-16” tie-breaker 30 years ago in the 1980 Wimbledon final lasting longer. Federer saved off five set points in the third-set tie-breaker [...]
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