Pressure on tennis for replay
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NEW YORK - Tennis is being encouraged to adopt instant replay in the aftermath of a chair umpire wrongly making an overrule Tuesday in a US Open match involving Serena Williams.
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New York: It is never easy at a Grand Slam tournament, and No 1 Roger Federer and defending champion Andy Roddick could find it particularly tough at this year&#39;s US Open.
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Instant replay made its U.S. Open Series debut. American Paul Goldstein tried out the technology at the RCA Championships on Monday, hitting a practice serve that hugged the line. Within seconds, two video boards showed that his shot was just out of bounds.
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After a pennant race and postseason dotted with reversed rulings, baseball will get another chance to see who else wants to give replay a look. The topic is on the agenda for Thursday at the GM meetings. And there seems to be growing support among teams to join the NFL, NBA and NHL in using instant replay on calls such as fair or foul and homer or not, but definitely not balls and strikes.
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SEVILLE - Andy Roddick is known for his power. He&#39;ll need patience, too, in the Davis Cup final against Spain. Playing on red clay in front of an expected record crowd, Roddick might need to tone down his
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Maybe there&#39;s some technical justification for why Paul Hamm was forced to defend his gymnastics gold medal Monday before a sports court in Switzerland.
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Andy Roddick is my pick to successfully defend his US Open title. But before his mission is finished he could face some difficult opponents along the way, including former world No.
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NOT only has heavy rain delayed the start of yesterday&#39;s final between Swiss world No 1 Roger Federer (right) and Australia&#39;s Lleyton Hewitt in Texas, it has prompted organisers to trim the title match from a best-of-five sets to a best-of-three format.
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NEW YORK -- The pressure came not from the burden of history that has, of late, begun to weigh on Roger Federer's shoulders. It came not from the men among whose names his will reside in the tennis annals. It came instead from the man sitting in Federer's player's box, the one wearing jeans and a baseball cap, his relaxation ...
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Amelie Mauresmo and Rafael Nadal are in action at Wimbledon on Saturday, but rain delays the start of play.
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Rain played havoc with the schedule makers at the US Open yesterday. After eight days of ideal weather, rain forced significant revisions in the schedule, scuttling the day
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The unpredictability of Marat Safinâs game is becoming a thing of the past. These days the tempestuous Russian is as strong and forceful opponent as it is possible to find on the opposing side of a tennis
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Five of the Top 6-ranked players on the WTA Tour compete this week at the Tier I stop in Moscow, though that could change with the possible withdrawal of top seed Amelie Mauresmo, who sustained a muscle pull in her leg Sunday, forcing her to pull from the
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"Go, V!" "V! Take your time!" "Hang in there. Keep fighting." "Stay low!" As Venus Williams struggled with her strokes Tuesday against a feisty opponent hoping to spring a significant surprise in her very first Wimbledon match, a voice kept calling out from the third row &#151; coaching, cajoling, cheerleading.
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French Open officials face the prospect of a second day decimated by rain as Monday's play is held up.
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The Maria Sharapova express almost came off the rails on Tuesday when she was pushed to the limit in the US Open first round by American Laura Granville.
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In sports, as in investing, the pressure is on. We suggest a coping strategy.