For Tennis Players, Twists, Turns, Topspin and Oh, the Pain
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In the past three years, injuries have been as much a part of tennis as grunts and ground strokes.
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Serena Williams' new tennis season will start like several of her past Â with an injury affecting her preparation for the first Grand Slam event.
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When Andre Agassi withdrew from Wimbledon with a hip injury earlier this year, it seemed as if the career of one of the most charismatic players in the history of the game was nearing its end.
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Earlier in her career, she might have melted down. She might have bounced her racket, flailed her arms and wildly scolded herself after double-faulting to lose the first set of a championship match.
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It is hard not to think of how close Serena Williams came to a radically different scenario and how much would have been required for anything to rewrite Roger Federerâs script at the Australian Open.
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after Roger Federer recorded three Grand Slam victories and 11 titles overall in 2003, the world's other top-ranked players are changing their approaches.
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Novak Djokovic gives a different kind of impression on the court. Most players have been asked for their impression of the new, blue Plexicushion courts at Melbourne Park.
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Roger Federer is the most talented tennis player I have ever seen. He has the capacity to become the greatest in history. This conclusion isn&#39;t simply a result of his sublime victory over Lleyton Hewitt in Sunday&#39;s US Open final.
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a mark on the court. The point was replayed, and Llodra wound up holding serve. play dropped. Llodra broke him at love in the fourth game and then held for.
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From shaggy rebel to bald dad, a tennis icon caps an unlikely - and very public - career.
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The return of Justine Henin has added an intriguing twist to an Australian Open women's tournament overflowing with talent and mystery.
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Statistics do not show, conclusively, why the United States no longer dominates menâs professional tennis, but there is some tantalizing evidence to consider.
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he United States Open&#39;s second-seeded player is showing that she might finally be ready for a turn at the top. With all the gears of her game clicking today, AmÃ©lie Mauresmo of France turned in her most dominating performance so far.
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New York -- There was a brazen quality to Maria Sharapova&#39;s Wimbledon championship, a sense that she could achieve anything on the strength of her will.
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full of hope in the latter stages of a Grand Slam tournament. And she is achingly aware of how all the others ended. Mauresmo, 25, is a showcase for heartbreak in tennis.
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The case of a woman in a vegetative   state who appeared to play tennis in her head highlights one of   the key frustrations of doctors who treat such patients --   trying to figure out what is going on in someone else's brain.
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It&#39;s one thing to win Wimbledon, the biggest trophy in tennis. Quite another to live with it. By Anja Niedringhaus, AP. That is the tricky road of risk