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WORLD GROUP 1ST ROUND: 10-12 February -TIE NOTES
Former world no.1 Monica Seles is habitually cited as the player who started the trend and necessitated the need for a ‘grunt-ometer’.
For the last two years February has seen Andy Murray hide away from tennis, the Scot’s dismay at losing Australian Open finals propelling him on a spiral of disappointment and dejection.
Big names are buckling to the physical ravages of the WTA as Jelena Jankovic made a late withdrawal from the Open GDF Suez at Paris’s Stade de Coubertin and Li Na was unable to complete her initial match.
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During her playing days, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario’s parents Marisa and Emilio were omnipresent throughout her many successes including three French Open titles.
Like most Americans, I joined in routine celebration this past weekend over a football game with insane amounts of money involved.
A number of awards have been given to world no.1 Novak Djokovic in the last couple of months but probably the most prestigious came in London as the 24 year-old Serb succeeded his great rivals Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer as the 2012 Laureus World Sportsman of the Year.
Former No. 1 and 1998 French Open champion Carlos Moya has replaced Mats Wilander in the ATP Champions event at the Delray Beach ITC, which begins at the Delray Beach Stadium & Tennis Center February 24.
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There are some pretty solid unseeded players. Sharapova might open against Polona Hercog, although Hercog looked bad in Fed Cup.
Lukas Lacko had been playing brilliantly all week, but this time, it seemed as if the nerves caught up with him.
Any questions about how Maria Sharapova would bounce back from the Australian Open final were quickly answered. In the tie between Russia and Spain, Sharapova came out and plastered Silvia Soler Espinosa 6-2 6-1.
Roger Federer night not mark the occasion personally, but tennis stat-keepers have noted that it was exactly eight years ago this week that the Swiss began his phenomenal run of form which carried him into tennis history.
Sania Mirza has not really built upon the title she earned in her home city of Hyderabad in 2005, a win that made her a megastar in her native India but which remains her only WTA singles crown.
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