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BBc 606 - Tennis Updates
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A39309645 this is good
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Olympics offering points (apparently it was in doubt before now)
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http://www.atptennis.com/1/en/2008news/olympics_points.asp:Rankings Points to be Awarded at Olympics © Jim Rydell The International Tennis Federation and ATP have announced that ranking points for men will be awarded at the 2008 Olympic Tennis Event in Beijing, as they were at Sydney 2000...
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How to become a pro etc
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My idea to boost tennis into a forward direction
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Well ill start with this - how many Professional football competitions/leagues u see on the tv? Cricket? Rugby? Now we come to Tennis - what do we have - 4 grand slams and Masters series that gets on the tv - due to time difference normally in the middle of the night. Why dont we start a petition to get Chall...
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ATP wins Hamburg Masters anti-trust case
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/feedarticle/7705352
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UK - Tennis Magazines, Tennis Websites, Coaches Websites
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Hi Everyone Doing some research on tennis in the UK. Any chance of a quick list of (for UK only): Tennis Magazines Tennis Websites Coaches Websites Comments about each would be appeciated.
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Serbian Tennis taking the systematic approach
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Everyone likes to quote the Serbs when talking about British tennis but it seems they are much more organised than given credit for. Perhaps LTA should have recruited Serbian coaches instead of the 'mega buck' ones that they did. :- Serbian tennis taking the systematic approach By JEFFREY DUNHAM A...
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Prakash Amritraj In A Tour Final.
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Beating Dancevic by 76 46 63 in Newport. In case anyone has ten odd minutes in her/his hands, they should see this video someone uploaded as it's great tennis from two natural grass players - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoNR-kjKBak I like it far more than the Wimbly final, anyday....
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Philippoussis - bit of a wild card
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http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23964860-5006301,00.html?from=public_rss
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For anyone with money to burn ...
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From my inbox today: An evening with.... John McEnroe & Tim Henman The Park Lane, London 25th June, 2008 This unique black tie occasion in the delightful ballroom of this prestigious London five star Park Lane on the Wednesday of the first week of Wimbledon will include a champagne reception, d...
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Tennis fans petition to support ATP players
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This years schedule is overcrowded. The reason is not Olympic Games as ATP goes on saying. US tournament dates have been moved because of US college basketball !The effect on ATP players was ever so obvious: withdrawals, retirements, injuries. Rome was especially worse.I do not want to see players...
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ATP South Africa!
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Can I just say wowhttp://www.bangkokpost.com/sportsplus/sportsplus.php?id=128378
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Silva def. Silva; Silva def. Silva
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I came across this on the ITF website. The finals of the last two Brazil Futures have both been between Rogerio Silva, 24, and his younger brother, Daniel Silva, 20. Two weeks ago, Rogerio won the final 6-0 6-1 and last week Rogerio won again but only by 6-1 6-7(2) 6-0. Rogerio has in fact won his last 22 ma...
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Queens Club
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Went to Queens yesterday and came back prettydisilusioned with the whole "charade". Here we are in the UK trying to produce a group of World Class Players and get away from the perception that tennis is an elitist sport and then you go along to one of our showcase events and are totally surr...
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New LTA site
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as steven mentioned the lta have relacunded their website. one feature that caught the eye is the map of where the players are!! i wonder if they had microchipped them, but alas now it's just a google map link to the where events are beign held. http://www.lta.org.uk/News/This-Week-Map/ would be ni...
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Who Is This Player?
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https://s301.photobucket.com/albums/nn64/pfboa/2008%20Queens%20Qualies%20day%20one-%20Sat%207th%20June/?action=view¤t=IMG_1260.jpg
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Maartens promoted to Draper's No 2
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7439124.stm
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Roland Garros Discussion Thread
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The Schedule for Day one is:
CHATRIER 11:00
Sofia Arvidsson (SWE) v. Ana Ivanovic (SRB)[2]
Denis Gremelmayr (GER) v. Novak Djokovic (SRB)[3]
Gustavo Kuerten (BRA) v. Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA)[18]
Julia Vakulenko (UKR) v. Alize Cornet (FRA)[19]
LENGLEN 11:00
David Nalbandian (ARG)[6...
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Davydenko blog from Portschach
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Only one entry so far, but it's notable for a pic of him trying on his father's glasses and looking about 80 (!) and for the revelation that the Philipp Davydenko who lost in QR1 at Portschach is his 15-year-old nephew and sometime hitting partner. http://www.atptennis.com/1/en/blog/davydenko.a...
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Justine Henin 'set to retire from tennis'
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World number one Justine Henin is set to announce her retirement from tennis, according to Belgian media reports. Newspapers claim the 25-year-old, who has withdrawn from this week's Italian Open, citing fatigue, will make the announcement at 1400 BST on Wednesday. This little 'dynamo' will be m...
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Sharapova and the WTA photoshoot!
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7381548.stm Hey guys/girls... just saw this article on the beeb and thought its an interesting topic and would like to se how you all felt about it. Personally i think that the timing of having a 4 hour photoshoot jus a day before a Tier1 begins is a little in...
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Ryan Harrison!!
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Becomes only the tenth 15 year old to win a Tour main draw match in the history of tennis. The last person to do this was Nadal when he beat Ramon Delgado in Mallorca in 2002.
And a hell of a win this is, too. He has beaten Pablo Cuevas in straight sets, who's a fine player on slow surfaces.
He happen...
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Henman commentating for Wimbledon
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7340393.stm Possibly the least surprising piece of tennis news for a while, but good to see nonetheless.
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Don't look now but...
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Kevin Anderson is only about to serve for the match about Novak Djokovic!!!!!!!!!
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Fish guts the Fed..........
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Marty beats Fed 6-3 6-2........eh !!!!! He will meet Nole.....
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