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Spain
F-Lo, Hot Sauce and some solid captaining bring down favorites Argentina on their home turf in a massive upset.
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Jelena Jankovic, Rafael Nadal year-end No. 1s
Be truthful, your bet at the beginning of the year was Justine Henin and Roger Federer.
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WTA Tour
Ushering in harsh penalties in 2009 for player bailing on tournament commitments -- time for the patients to stop running the asylum.
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Andy Roddick
American is a charity-raising money machine in the off-season.
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Venus Williams
Best shot of the oft-injured Williams sisters to again claim No. 1 in 2009.
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ATP schedule
Thought the calendar was supposed to get shorter with a longer off-season, not the other way around?
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Svetlana Kuznetsova
Seems like everyone got a taste of No. 1 this year except the former US Open winner.
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Rafael Nadal
How bad are the world No. 1's knees going into 2009?
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Two Senior Tours
Blackrock and Outback senior tours, failing to merge, offer a confusing senior landscape for fans.
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Argentina
The surly David Nalbandian fights with teammates and sinks the ship right before docking their first Davis Cup title, not to be.
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LATEST TENNIS NEWS
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January 4, 2009 |
Tennis-X Previews: Safin Beat Up, Doha Brings Big Guns
Marat Safin showing up in Australia with black eyes after getting his ass kicked (or winning a barfight?); Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams still injured; Pete Sampras saying the U.S. could be in for a long talent drought at the top. Welcome to the 2009 tennis season:
Qatar ExxonMobile Open 2009
DOHA, Qatar
Surface: Hard
Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Andy Roddick go from collecting bank at the Abu Dhabi exhibition to making real green this week as the top three under-the-table appearance-money gatherers in Doha, where Murray is the defending champ. The Brit is also coming off the Abu Dhabi exo title where he defeated Federer and Nadal.
Nadal opens against Fabrice "The Magician" [...]
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Tennis-X Previews: Safin Beat Up, Doha Brings Big Guns
SAFIN THE BRAWLER -- Officials at the Hopman Cup exhibition were shocked when Marat Safin showed up for the event with a black and bloodied eye and cuts on his face after getting in a brawl in Moscow. Safin arrived in Perth on Saturday night and immediately asked tournament director Paul McNamee for a doctor and a practice court. "I wasn't sure why he was arriving so late, why he was requesting to play a day later, and now I know why," McNamee told the local media. "To see him like that, it's amazing that he's come. I know around Marat the unexpected happens, but you couldn't really pick this one. When he arrived last night I saw him in the lobby and he didn't look good. He said, 'I need two things -- I need to see a doctor and I need to practice.' I dragged the doctor out of the hall and then he gave him some treatment and then he went and practiced. He said he had not been able to play in the last week (due to injury to his hands)." Safin won his opening-round match, and reports he won the fight. [...]
January 4, 2009
Nadal, Federer Lead 7 of Top 8 as ATP Season Begins
Big start to the New Year with just about all the top guys playing ATP events, including Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and the two Andys, Murray and Roddick, all in Doha. [...]
January 3, 2009
Davenport Done? Federer, Nadal Begin 2009 in Abu Dhabi
After digging around, this really has been a rather quiet, holiday off-season in the tennis world. [...]
December 31, 2008
A Happy Holidays Post
Nothing spells the Holidays quite like two-plus weeks of good, hardcore vacationing. [...]
December 30, 2008
Tennis-X Notes: Argentine Fight Club; Mauresmo Not Done
If China is so "crazy for tennis" as one ESPN writer put it, how come there were so many empty seats at the Masters Cup matches, even the final? Fans are so crazy they forgot to go to the event?... [...]
November 25, 2008
Verdasco Seals Spanish Davis Cup Victory After Nervy 5-Set Win
No Rafael Nadal. No problem for Spain who still captured the Davis Cup title over home favorite Argentina. [...]
November 23, 2008
Spain Surprises Argentina in Davis Cup Final Day One
Spain was the slight favorite entering the encounter behind world No. 1 Rafael Nadal, but after Rafa pulled with a knee injury, the betting swung heavily toward the Argentine side. Spain's David Ferrer has had a disastrous second half of the season and enters the tie with little confidence, while Feliciano "F-Lo" Lopez does not have a history as a big-match winner. [...]
November 21, 2008
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