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HALEP, RADWANSKA & SHARAPOVA & VENUS WILLIAMS INTO SECOND ROUND, FIRST DAY RESULTS FLIPKENS FLOPS

Click here to view the ladies' results from the US Open.
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WIMBLEDON 2014 BY CHERYL JONES

American women have claimed eleven titles at Wimbledon over the past fifteen years. Ten of those titles belong to women who have the last name Williams and the other belongs to Lindsay Davenport. Maybe it’s the name of the “trophy”.
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Tennis News From Around the Net

Former world No. 2 Vera Zvonareva will return to play at the 2014 Australian Open after 18 months off, but No. 19 Maria Kirilenko will miss the tournament due to ankle and knee injuries. . . Andy Murray will open his inn, called Cromlix, near his hometown of Dunblane, Scotland, next spring.
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Australian Open 2014 Quick Preview

With the tennis elite set to descend on Melbourne Park for the January 13 start of the first major event of the season, the men's and women's entries look all but perfect.
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Tennis Tour Tidbits

German jewelry and lifestyle company Thomas Sabo is a new sponsor of world No. 15 Sabine Lisicki.
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Women’s Latest Tennis Update

In our last statistical column, we looked at the players with the most wins at Premier events, find that Serena Williams had by far the most (71, compared to 46 for the next player on the list). But what about losses?
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Friendship Was Key To Italian Success

Italy’s fourth Fed Cup title was achieved a number of ways in a sometimes-trying year for the southern European nation, but the team hung together, which keyed their wins in all three ties they contested.
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Women’s Tennis Tour Results

When Elena Vesnina lost the second set of this, we couldn't help but think, "Well, that's that." But this is the new model Vesnina. She came back to win -- and leave her record at 2-1, the same as Ivanovic's.
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Latest Tennis Update / Ladies

Russia had has troubles over the past weeks scraping together a team with many of the country's top players preferring to skip the final - but that's not the case with Italy when the nations meet this weekend.
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Russia Now Has A Fed Cup Team

Russia has announced it will field a Fed Cup team.
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Tennis Tour Tidbits

Serbia’s Janko Tipsarevic, who is dealing with a left foot injury, says main goal is to "play healthy for Serbia in Davis Cup final." . . . Ryan Harrison caught viral pneumonia while playing in Asia and when he arrived in Vienna to play the ATP tournament there he couldn't get out of bed.
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Russia Creates A Fed Cup Team

Russia finally managed to cobble together a team to face Italy in next week’s Fed Cup but the four times champions whose players dominated the WTA top 20 just a few years ago, have been reduced to naming 138th-ranked Alexandra Panova as the leading singles player.
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Russia Having Difficulty Creating A Fed Cup Team

The Fed Cup is supposedly the foremost team competition in the female tennis world but while the currently fit top eight players are battling it out in this week’s TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships in Istanbul, next week’s Italy v Russia final in Cagliari, Sardinia is descending into farce.
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Tennis Tour Tidbits

The two-time Wimbledon champion doubles team of Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic will re-form for 2014 in hopes of recreating the past less-than-optimal results with other partners in 2013.
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Men’s / Women’s Tennis Results

Richard Gasquet, we have good news and bad news for you. The good news is, of course, that he won the title here. It's the tenth title of his career, and his third of 2013. That matches the best previous year of his career, in 2006.

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