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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes?
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"Look for the new ATP calendar to include eight Masters Series events: Indian Wells, Key Biscayne, Rome, Canada, Cincy, Paris, Madrid and China. (Hamburg and Monte Carlo get downgraded to economy class.) Players will be expected to play "eight of eight", though, realist...
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Tim's competitors week 5
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Here's the table of the players ranked around Tim in week 5. It was produced before the ATP rankings for week 4 were released. Running Start of week Running So 18th Def1 19th Rank rank name points Points Far Result Result 37 39 Gaston Ga...
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RobC
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What top players would do if they weren't on the tour
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Found these on the GRMB: "Federer would have been president of Europe (by 25) Baggy would be a pastry chef (and fat !) Davydenko (obviously) an Undertaker Roddick a salesman in Currys Gonzalez would be a gigalo Nalbandian would still be the school bully Murray would have been a checkout operato...
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Donald Young
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I see the American young hope, Donald Young, has just been double bagelled in Miami by Carlos Berlocq of Argentina.
That'll be 9 WCs to ATP events and still to win a set.
He's 16 and only played 3 Challenger events in addition to the 9 ATP ( includes US Open and 4 Masters Series events ) so...
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How well will Serena do in the Aussie Open ?
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Just wondered how well everyone thought Serena will do in the coming fortnight
Impressive win today though she didn't have to do particularly much, her serving was of a high standard and she hit some great backhands.
Next up for Serena is Anne Kremer (who surprisingly beat Michaella Kraijc...
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Womens final
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Starts in approx 3 hours time Serena Williams v Maria Sharapova Does anyone think Serena can pull off a shock upset here ?
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Aussie Open mens semis
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So another incredible performance from Federer, dispatching Roddick 6-4, 6-0, 6-2. After their previous 3 matches in the USO final, Masters cup and Kooyong I thought it would be really close, maybe even a 5 set classic especially given how Roddick won in Kooyong on exactly the same surface. Howeve...
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Fed Slams
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Well its looking like The Fed has another chance to win 4 slams back to back, as at the moment u cant see past him for the AO title, but i was wondering if he won all 4 in a year, or 4 in a sequence, would he be happy if raffa missed the FO when he won it? i think a lot would be taken away from his achivment, same as wi...
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Aussie Open women's semis
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Two fascinating semi-final matches: Serena Williams v Nicole Vaidisova Maria Sharapova v Kim Cljisters Who do you think will make the final ?
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Rafa plans to miss Miami?
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He doesn't list the master series Miami in his calendar so will he deliberately miss it
does he realize he will be heavily fined
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Tim's Competitors Weeks 3 and 4: Australian Open
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Here are all the players who could overtake Tim by reaching at least the QF of the Aussie Open. Table (c)GC77. unning Start of week Running So 18th Def1 Def2 19th Rank rank name points Points Far Result Result 31 30...
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Australian Open: Day Six Chat
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Started a new thread, but I'm off to bed soon! Just to start, play not started, except on covered courts, due to rain. Grosjean leads Nalbadian one set to love and 4-4 on the Vodafone. Sharapova beat Garbin 6-3, 6-1. Air conditioning on Vodafone appears to have packed up. Grosjean and Nalbandian l...
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Aussie Open Day 5 Chat
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Azarenka Jankovic should be interesting. How many games will Djoko lose tonight? I'm going for 8.
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Australian Open: Day Four (inc. Chela v Nieminen)
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Thought I'd open a post for anyone staying up to watch tonight's action. I'll probably be watching Hingis in the first match, but will be keeping an eye on the Chela/Nieminen score. Anyway, just thought it might be a good idea to have a post where those of us staying up can chat until we get to Andy's match...
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Who will win the Aussie Open ?
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Who do we think will win the Aussie Open ?
Federer is odds-on favourite by miles but for me, Roddick is probably the next likely to take the title. OK he had a dodgy match against Tsonga but his form at Kooyong last week was sensational, finally beating Federer for the first time in nearly 4 years must...
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Baghdatis goes out
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The big news from day 3, Monfils winning 7-6, 6-2, 2-6, 6-0
That's a massive upset, Monfils played some great stuff at times tonight and his serve was on fire but Baggy was dreadful, made over 50 ues and his volleying was dire. It's been a poor start to the year for him - got hammered in Doha by Soderlin...
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ATP Rotterdam 2007.
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Rotterdam 1 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 3 2 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 4 3 Robredo, Tommy ESP 7 4 Ancic, Mario CRO 9 5 Berdych, Tomas CZE 13 6 Djokovic, Novak SRB 14 7 Ferrer, David ESP 16 8 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 17 9 Gasquet, Richard FRA 18 10 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 19 11 Stepanek, Radek CZE 20 12 Johansson, Joachim SWE 21 @ 1...
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Tsonga's skills
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Impressive stuff !!! 
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Aussie Open scores and chat: day 2
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Apart from the British matches, some intriguing clashes will take place over the next 12 hours.
The pick of them is probably James Blake v Carlos Moya (I wish the Beeb were showing that after Murray instead of the Hewitt match which will probably be an easy straights win for Hewitt). It'll be an int...
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Weekly Competition: How far will the Brits go?
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******* Doha pts *****
Johnnylad completely correct. 120pts
*********** Latest Table ********
Johnnylad 120pts
(everyone else will get added to the table when they win some points)
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I thought I'd start this up again for the new y...
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Aussie Open on Eurosport
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http://australian-open2007.eurosport.com/live-on-court
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Australian Open Day One Scores and Chat
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Thought it might be a good thing to have a thread for talking about tonights action!
Is there a stream on eurosports website???? Does anyone know the URL?
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Tim's competitors week 2: Auckland and Sydney
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Here's the players ranked around Tim's level in week 2. chart (C) GC77.
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Auckland - View from the Stands
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Got there just before the doors opened at 10am yesterday morning.
First I went and found my seat, which wasn't the best as it was right in the corner and quite far away from the court. Then it was off to have a look at the outside courts to see if any of the big names were out practicing. There was noone I rec...
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ATP Auckland - Heineken Open
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Great field for us confirmed today.
Niemenen will return to defend the title he won this year, along with Ancic who was runner up to him. Hrbaty will return for the 9th time while Ferrero makes his 2nd appearance here. Other big names include Robredo, Ferrer, Rochus, Gaudio and Chela.
No British p...
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