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Jankovic, Safina out of Wimbledon warmup (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! Sports - Tennis News on 8 Jun 2008 9:23 am. Filed under Uncategorized.
Defending champion Jelena Jankovic and French Open runner-up Dinara Safina will not compete at the DFS Classic that starts Monday. Jankovic withdrew from the Wimbledon warmup with the same arm injury that caused the Serb to fly home to Belgrade after losing to Ana Ivanovic in the semifinals of the French Open.
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Sharapova to skip Wimbledon warmup (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! Sports - Tennis News on 7 Jun 2008 3:46 pm. Filed under Uncategorized.
Maria Sharapova will not compete on grass before Wimbledon for the first time in her career, opting out of playing her usual warm-up tournament in England. Sharapova is hoping to avoid injury, and will prepare in Florida rather than compete in the DFS Classic that starts Monday. Sharapova has been a mainstay at the tournament for the last five years, winning it twice -- including in 2004 when she...
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Roddick to open Queen’s versus American (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! Sports - Tennis News on 7 Jun 2008 2:57 pm. Filed under Uncategorized.
Andy Roddick will begin the defense of his Queen's Club title against fellow Americans Robby Ginepri or Vince Spadea in the Wimbledon warmup tournament. The top eight seeds, including No. 3 Roddick, No. 1 Rafael Nadal and No. 2 Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic, have first-round byes. Roddick, who missed the French Open due to a shoulder injury, could face another American, Mardy Fish, in the...
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Bryan, Azarenka win mixed doubles title (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! Sports - Tennis News on 6 Jun 2008 12:55 pm. Filed under Uncategorized.
Bob Bryan decided at the very last moment to play mixed doubles at the French Open. Good thing he did: He teamed with Victoria Azarenka to win the final Friday. Bryan, of the United States, and Azarenka, of Belarus, beat top-seeded Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia 6-2, 7-6 (4) in the final at Roland Garros.
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Bryan reaches French mixed doubles final (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! Sports - Tennis News on 5 Jun 2008 4:58 pm. Filed under Uncategorized.
American Bob Bryan tries not to take mixed doubles too seriously. Still, he'd rather win, and that's what he and Belarusian Victoria Azarenka are doing at the French Open. They advanced to Friday's final, splitting sets and then winning a super tiebreaker to beat second-seeded Kveta Peschke and Pavel Vizner 4-6, 6-3, 10-8.
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Ivanovic assured of being ranked No. 1 (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! Sports - Tennis News on 5 Jun 2008 4:23 pm. Filed under Uncategorized.
Ana Ivanovic is assured of becoming the 17th woman -- and first from Serbia -- to be ranked No. 1, regardless of how she fares in the French Open final. She will move up from No. 2 when the WTA Tour's new rankings are issued Monday, replacing Maria Sharapova in the top spot. Ivanovic and two other women, No.
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US’s Ginepri moves to 4th round in Paris (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! Sports - Tennis News on 31 May 2008 9:43 am. Filed under Uncategorized.
Robby Ginepri is the first U.S. man to reach the fourth round of the French Open since Andre Agassi in 2003. Ginepri, the last American man or woman playing singles in this year's tournament, beat Florent Serra of France 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 Saturday. The 88th-ranked Ginepri never had won a match at Roland Garros until this week, losing in the first round in each of his previous five appearances at the...
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Swedish Hall of Famer Davidson dies (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! Sports - Tennis News on 29 May 2008 6:29 pm. Filed under Uncategorized.
Sven Davidson, Sweden's first Grand Slam winner and member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, has died. He was 79. The hall said he died Wednesday of pneumonia in Arcadia, Calif. Davidson had been diagnosed with an initial stage of Alzheimer's disease one year ago. Davidson, who was inducted to the hall last summer, was the Swedish singles champion from 1950-60 and became the first Swede to...
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Venus breezes into 3rd round (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! Sports - Tennis News on 29 May 2008 8:40 am. Filed under Uncategorized.
At 6-foot-1 and with those long arms, Venus Williams can make for an imposing presence up at the net when she decides to play there. Although she doesn't usually venture forward that much, things were different Thursday at the French Open. The No. 8-seeded Williams played much better in the second round than in the first, using plenty of success with volleys to beat 241st-ranked qualifier Selima...
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Safin needs 2 days to move on in Paris (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! Sports - Tennis News on 29 May 2008 3:48 am. Filed under Uncategorized.
Marat Safin is chasing his past glory. The two-time Grand Slam champion, a former No. 1 player now ranked 73rd, advanced to the second round of the French Open on Wednesday by beating Jean-Rene Lisnard of Monaco 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-3, 6-2 in a match that took two days to complete. "Now I'm pretty solid, confident, and looking forward.
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5 US men reach 2nd round in Paris (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! Sports - Tennis News on 28 May 2008 5:52 pm. Filed under Uncategorized.
There was plenty of joking among the U.S. men playing in the French Open that they couldn't help but improve upon the country's 0-9 showing from 2007 because two Americans were facing each other in the first round. No one could have assumed there would be this much improvement. Five of 10 American men in this year's field won their opening matches -- and one of them already moved into the third...
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Roscoe Tanner charged with grand theft (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! Sports - Tennis News on 28 May 2008 4:34 pm. Filed under Uncategorized.
Former tennis star Roscoe Tanner has been arraigned on felony theft charges in Knox County. According to information from the Knox County General Sessions Court, Tanner is accused of writing a $72,263.43 check to a Knoxville Toyota dealership for two Toyota Highlanders and refusing to return the vehicles when the check bounced.
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Nadal improves to 22-0 at French Open (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! Sports - Tennis News on 28 May 2008 10:34 am. Filed under Uncategorized.
Rafael Nadal improved his record to 23-0 at the French Open by beating Nicolas Devilder of France 6-4, 6-0, 6-1 Thursday in the second round of the French Open. The second-seeded Nadal was leading 5-0 in the second set when the rain returned to Roland Garros for the fourth time in five days. When they returned, Nadal broke Devilder to take a two-set lead and then jumped out to another 5-0 lead in...
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Noah doesn’t see fuss over son’s arrest (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! Sports - Tennis News on 27 May 2008 9:03 am. Filed under Uncategorized.
Yannick Noah is perplexed by "all that fuss" surrounding the arrest of his basketball player son, who was charged with marijuana possession and having an open container of alcohol. Chicago Bulls forward Joakim Noah was arrested Sunday in Gainesville, Fla., after an officer spotted him on a sidewalk holding a plastic cup.
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Gasquet withdraws from French Open (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! Sports - Tennis News on 26 May 2008 9:08 am. Filed under Uncategorized.
Richard Gasquet withdrew from the French Open on Monday because of a left knee injury. The eighth-seeded Frenchman pulled out shortly before he was scheduled to play Florent Serra in the first round. "After practice on Saturday, everything was going fine," Gasquet said. "In the evening, I started feeling some pain.
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