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June 22, 2007 USA Today

All that racket: Players have appreciation of wooden past
Novak Djokovic held it lightly, feeling the contours as if he were examining a T. rex bone at a natural history museum.
March 9,2007 USA Today

Jaeger now in service to next calling ... helping kids
Andrea Jaeger darts around the fourth floor of Childrens Hospital like she once sprinted along the baseline when she tore up the women's tennis tour in the early 1980s.
January 9, 2007 USA Today

New spin on the old tennis game
For a sport distinguished by its glacial pace of change, tennis has hit a global-warming trend
November 2006 Tennis Magazine

Early Warning
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In 2006, the U.S. failed for just the second time since 1988 to produce a Grand Slam champion. Was it a blip, or a sign of things to come?
May 24, 2006 USA Today

Borg still making the shots
As the front man for the explosion of tennis in the 1970s and early 1980s, Bjorn Borg was iconic and enigmatic, cameras flashing wherever the blond-locked, bowlegged superstar went.
April 18, 2005 The Washington Post

Professional Tennis at Age 15: Too Much to Young?
Many Wondering If Joining the ATP Hurts, Not Helps Teen's Progress
June 2006 Tennis Magazine

The Game in Spain
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The Sanchez-Casal Academy in Barcelona, training ground of Andy Murray and Svetlana Kuznetsova, is Europe's answer to Bollettieri's. What's the secret to its success?
May 24, 2005 Tennis Week

Les artistes
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Let the stat freaks worry about the match points the french win; we're more impressed by their style points
November 18, 2003 USA Today

Tennis legend ages in style
Thirty years after her pro debut and nine years since retiring, Prague-born Martina Navratilova again is representing her adopted country on the tennis court.
2004 Deuce

Finnish flag bearer
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Unlike his nordic neighbors from Sweden, Jarko Niemen hold his nation's tennis fortunes on his own racquet. But the rising APT star is the right man for he job.
June 28, 2006 USA Today

Jackson finding stroke in streak
Don't refer to her as the instant replay girl. Jamea Jackson has bigger ambitions
August 25, 2003 USA Today

Open door for Clijsters
With champion athletes for parents, a boyfriend who is a two-time Grand Slam winner and tomboy charm, Belgian tennis star Kim Clijsters embraces being a jock.
June 25, 2006 USA Today

Grass welcome sight for Roddick
With his supercharged serve, edgy personality and eagerness to promote tennis, Andy Roddick has willingly and effectively played lead guitarist for the current generation of American male stars
November 2003 San Francisco Magazine

Grand Master Slam
Best known for remaking an underachieving Andre Agassi, Bay Area native and tennis Svengali Brad Gilbert has taken 21-year-old Andy Roddick under his wing
June 26,2006 USA Today

Venus Williams lifts her game in attempt to rise back to top at Wimbledon
For Venus Williams, grass is greener. A dozen years into her future Hall of Fame career, Williams doesn't snap up titles like she used to — she's won five in 34 months.
September 28, 2004 Tennis Week

Brace yourself
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Five of the world's Top 10 players are russian, but it was one of the least known, Svetlana Kutznetsova, who was the last woman standing as she captured her first major
August 27,2006 USA Today

Nadal's passion should play well
For a kid used to the carefree cadence of soft Mediterranean breezes, Rafael Nadal seems ill-equipped for the chaos of New York.
 
 
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