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Maria Sharapova Beats the Heat, Svetlana Kuznetsova in Cincinnati
CINCINNATI--She makes an awful lot of money for being pretty. But in the last few years, Maria Sharapova has earned a living by winning ugly. In a performance that wasn't without blemishes...
Kuznetsova, Azarenka Sent Home With Bagels in Fourth Round
I'm willing to bet that both the top seed and defending champion of a major tournament like Miami have gone home on the same day before, but I'm also willing to bet that never before have both exited ...
Doha Round Robin Review
White Group #1 Dinara Safina (0-1, withdrew) Instead of the long, ugly defeats she had subjected innocent crowds to over and over again this fall, Dinara Safina decided to keep her run at the Sony E...
Doha Day 1 Preview
Three matches on the card for Day 1 in the desert of Doha, one from the White Group and two from the absurdly stronger Maroon Group. The way that the draw for these round robin tournaments works is pr...
Kuznetsova Keeps Up Big Year in Beijing
Never having fallen short of the finals in her three previous trips to Beijing, Svetlana Kuznetsova again made the finals in this bigger-than-ever edition of the China Open, this time winning her seco...
Looking Back to the 2004 Beijing Final
To set the mood here for the China Open in Beijing this week, let's have a look back at the most memorable match in the event's short history. That distinction, in my mind, goes to the cha...
US Open Day 8: Men Follow Script, Women Still Unpredictable
The men's draw remained true to form and without any major surprises Monday, while the shambles that is the top half of the women's draw remained as stable as a a toothpick sculpture in a wind tunnel....
From Russia, Without Quarterfinalists
One of the stories that hasn't been getting any coverage in mainstream media is how poor a tournament the 2009 US Open was for Russian tennis. With Svetlana Kuznetsova and Nadia Petrova falling ...
Seeds Buried in Toronto
I'm on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls for a few more hours, and I can smell the stink of the Toronto seeds' play from here. Of the sixteen seeds in the fifty-six-player Toronto draw, only five hav...
Serena, Venus Both Knocked Out of Cincinnati in Third Round
Both Williams sisters went down in straight sets Thursday in third round action in Cincinnati, as the players battling for the WTA #1 continue to say "no, you take it" at tournament after tournament. ...
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