Worst-case scenario comes to pass for US tennis
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Second-ranked Andy Roddick overplayed this summer and hasn&#39;t scored a big win since March and for the first time since she became a legitimate pro, four-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams has become vulnerable to anyone inside of the top 40.
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Ho-hum. It&#39;s more of the same this year at the US Open. Top seeds have fallen like flies, Serena Williams and her go-go boots have been poured a nice, tall glass of lousy officiating, and Andre Agassi is trying
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No Americans in the US Open semifinals today, with world No. 1 Roger Federer facing No. 5 Tim Henman, and former champ and No. 4 seed Lleyton Hewitt taking on Swedish upstart No.
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It's called the US Open, and though fewer than a fifth of the competitors this year are US-born, it's not because the US Tennis Association hasn't tried to get more Americans. All 16 of the wild cards in men's and women's singles were awarded to Americans, even at the expense of the men's NCAA champion, Benjamin Becker ...
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Top seed Roger Federer was at his dismissive best on Saturday, breezing to a 6-3 6-4 6-4 victory over Tim Henman to reach the final of the US Open for the first time.
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Tim Henman&#39;s hopes of reaching his first grand slam final were ended by Roger Federer at the US Open tonight. It was his sixth defeat in the semi-finals of one of tennis&#39; big four tournaments, and the second
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NEW YORK Justine Henin-Hardenne (EH&#39;-nen ahr-DEN&#39;) has failed to successfully defend her US Open title, and she&#39;s losing her number-one ranking to boot.
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NEW YORK -- Tim Henman&#39;s quarterfinal victory at the US Open was a microcosm of his career - long and brilliant in spurts, with an expected disappointment on the horizon.
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LUSHING MEADOWS, NY - By the time Roger Federer and Andre Agassi moved into a fifth set on a windy yesterday afternoon, it was as if they were playing an entirely different match than the one that was halted by Wednesday night&#39;s rains.
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Roger Federer and Andy Roddick may be the hot tips for the US Open, but it is the twice former winner Andre Agassi who remains the sentimental&#39;s favourite to triumph.
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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 US Open plays host to two Russia v America clashes when the women&#39;s semi-finals get underway on Friday. Fifth seed Lindsay Davenport, the highest-ranked player still in the tournament, takes on Russia&#39;s ninth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova.
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Tim Henman's US Open quarter-final match against Slovakian Dominik Hrbaty is delayed by bad weather.
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Top seed Roger Federer and No. 5 Tim Henman both reached the quarterfinals of the US Open yesterday on the back of opponents&#39; injuries.
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NEW YORK -- Jimmy Connors's arms, clad in white oxford, hung nonchalantly over the railing separating Andy Roddick's box seats from the blue-and-green hardcourt beneath. Little emotion, until that last short volley pushed Roddick into the US Open final, crossed the face of the man who had shown so much emotion in this tournament in the past.
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The United States was eliminated from the Davis Cup semifinals Sunday when Andy Roddick lost 17-15 to Russia's Dmitry Tursunov in a fifth-set marathon that concluded a match lasting nearly five hours. The Americans trailed 2-1 entering the last day of the best-of-five competition and needed singles victories from Roddick and Blake to advance.
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Twenty men will represent the United States in this yearâs main draw of the U.S. Open â the third fewest since at least 1972. Of those, only two American players â Andy Roddick and James Blake â are seeded, which ties a low for the Open era. For those looking for evidence that the American menâs [...].