Archive for the 'Tennis' Category

It first happened in Midwich during Wimbleton in the early 1960s.

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

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Images: (Schiavone) Michael Spingler/Associated Press; (Rafael Nadal) Clive Brunskill/ Getty Images; both via nytimes.com; (Village of the Damned–1995–John Carpenter) via witneyman.files.wordpress.com

Chris Evert And Greg Norman Explain Why They Split–Huffington Post headline

Monday, October 12th, 2009

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The Rest of the World Explains Why We Don’t Care
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Chris Evert and Greg Norman  Photo by: Art Seitz-KPA / ZUMA
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Sharapova survives French Open scare–REUTERS

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

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Sharapova survives French Open scare
By Patrick Vignal
PARIS, June 3 (Reuters) - World number two Maria Sharapova survived two match points before overcoming Switzerland’s Patty Schnyder 3-6 6-4 9-7 in a gripping fourth-round match on Sunday.
Images: (Sharapova) AFP via ABC Sports; (medicine cabinet) sepwww.stanford.edu; (pumpkin) newsday.typepad.com; (Wilson) images.shopping.msn.com
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Let’s bring back “Win your weight in gold!!”

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Mauresmo wins $1.3M diamond-studded racket–Yahoo headline-00:28, Feb. 19, 2007
By RAF CASERT, AP Sports Writer
February 18, 2007
TENNIS
ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Amelie Mauresmo won enough diamonds to last a lifetime. Kim Clijsters will have to do with golden memories.
Mauresmo won a $1.3 million diamond-studded racket trophy Sunday, beating Kim Clijsters 6-4, 7-6 (4) in the final of […]