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Justin Gimelstob wants to get L.A. back on pro tennis calendar
Justin Gimelstob certainly is no Martin Luther King. But he has a dream. He is unhappy that professional tennis left Los Angeles and he wants it back. To that end, the first L.A. Tennis Challenge will be played Monday night at Pauley Pavilion. It is...
Tags: Wimbledon Championships, Andre Agassi, Tommy Haas, Nicolas Almagro, Tennis
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Wrestling gets no respect from Olympic committee
Boy did the IOC executive board make a huge blunder and underestimate exactly what it was doing when it made a purely political decision by recommending the removal of wrestling for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Tennis, anyone? How about golf?...
Tags: Pentathlon Swimming, Wrestling, International Olympic Committee, 2012 Summer Olympics, Track and Field
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Q&A: Tennis great Andre Agassi on retirement, return to play
Andre Agassi is playing tennis again. The winner of eight Grand Slam events has been retired since 2006, but he will compete against John McEnroe, Michael Chang and Jim Courier in Friday night’s Acura Champions Cup at Honda Center. Agassi, 42,...
Tags: Wimbledon Championships, Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf, World Anti-Doping Agency, Baseball
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U.S. Open tennis umpire allegedly killed husband with coffee mug
L.A. NOWA high-ranking umpire on the U.S. professional tennis circuit arrested Tuesday in New York allegedly bludgeoned her 82-year-old husband to death with a coffee mug in Woodland Hills and then tried to make it look like he fell down the stairs, authorities... -
Los Angeles gives up its once-prominent stop on men's tennis tour
Bob Kramer spoke of the loss he is about to suffer, admitting he has a hole in his heart. He wasn't grieving a child or a parent, just a best friend. Kramer is director of a tennis tournament that will be no more. The Los Angeles men's tennis event that...
Tags: Andre Agassi, Rod Laver, Philip Anschutz, Roy Emerson, Novak Djokovic
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Cancer, heart surgery can't keep her from her true love
This is for all those people who are seriously ill and thinking they may never do what they love again. I was like that in 2010, recovering from back-to-back breast cancer and heart surgeries and the aftermath. I thought tennis, which is my athletic...
Tags: Arthritis, Breast Cancer, French Open, Cancer, Wimbledon Championships
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Saturday Might Cap Off The Summer Of Serena
The Hartford CourantNEW YORK — Obviously, it was some of the loudest tennis ever played. There was more sustained shrieking than at a Justin Bieber concert. Yet in enduring the late summer heat, humidity and a swirling wind, Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova also...Tags: French Open, Wimbledon Championships, Sara Errani, Steffi Graf, Arthur Ashe Stadium
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No Longer "Old" At 30, Roger And Serena Favorites At U.S. Open
Staff ReporterSeveral Januarys ago, Roger Federer --one of the greatest tennis players of all time -- cried after losing the Australian Open to his rival, Rafael Nadal, of Spain. The two men had battled five sets, for more than four hours, but the five-years-younger...Tags: Australian Open, U.S. Open (tennis), Wimbledon Championships, Samantha Stosur, Tennis
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Wozniacki Retires From Semifinal Match Without Showing Much Pain
The Hartford CourantNEW HAVEN — The only discernible wince of pain on this Friday would be on the face of tournament director Anne Worcester. She was disappointed. Understanding, but disappointed. And who in Worcester's position wouldn't be? Caroline Wozniacki, the...Tags: Women's Tennis Association, Steffi Graf, Chris Evert, ESPN (tv network), Svetlana Kuznetsova
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Federer eyes 7th Wimbledon title, Murray his 1st
WIMBLEDON, England — A large part of the tennis world will be rooting for the grand champion, 30-year-old Roger Federer, to win one more title, to reclaim greatness even if it's just for a day, for the player who already is considered the greatest...
Tags: Fred Perry, Wimbledon Championships, Tennis, Human Interest, Super Bowl
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TENNIS: Federer beats Murray for 7th Wimbledon, 17th major
WIMBLEDON, England - A Grand Slam title drought did indeed end in Sunday's historic and riveting Wimbledon final, only it was Roger Federer's lengthy-for-him gap between trophies that came to a close, rather than Britain's 76-year wait for a homegrown...Tags: David Beckham, Novak Djokovic, Association of Tennis Professionals, Virginia Wade, U.S. Open (tennis)
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Federer Wins Seventh Wimbledon Title
CNNLONDON -- Roger Federer secured a record-equaling seventh Wimbledon title to dash the hopes of Andy Murray and a partisan Centre Court crowd. Federer made it 17 grand slam titles to his name after a two-and-a-half-year drought and matched the haul of...Tags: Australian Open, U.S. Open (tennis), Fred Perry, Andre Agassi, Wimbledon Championships
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