Venus, Roddick ousted from Olympics
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Athens, Greece, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Americans Andy Roddick and Venus Williams were shockingly eliminated in the third round of the Olympic tennis tournament Wednesday.
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Andy Roddick lost to Igor Andreev and James Blake was beaten by Ivo Karlovic, meaning both seeded Americans disappeared in the same day.
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Roger Federer, Andy Roddick and Lleyton Hewitt -- the world&#39;s top three ranked players -- pulled out of next week&#39;s Madrid Masters in another wave of withdrawals from the hard-court tournament.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - American tennis sensation Andy Roddick&#39;s Olympic dreams are over after a straight set loss to No. 16 Fernando Gonzalez of Chile in third-round action Wednesday.
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Hungarian weightlifter Ferenc Gyurkovics was stripped of his silver medal and kicked out of the Olympics on Saturday for using steroids. Puerto Rican wrestler Mabel Fonseca was also expelled for a positive drug test.
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Second seed Andy Roddick withdrew from the Thailand Open due to injury on Wednesday, the latest big name no-show on the courts of the ill-fated tournament.
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World number two Andy Roddick has  withdrawn from next week's Stockholm Open because of a knee  injury, the tournament said on its Web Site on Thursday.
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Andy Roddick and Roger Federer both found themselves mired in three-set struggles Tuesday night at the Olympics.
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FORMER world No.1 Andy Roddick today leapt to the defence of Paris Masters no-shows Roger Federer and Andre Agassi. Officials are furious with Agassi&#39;s last minute withdrawal, arguing that the lucrative nine
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Venus Williams's bid for a second  successive Olympic doubles tennis gold ended on Monday when she  and stand-in partner Chanda Rubin lost 7-5, 1-6, 6-3 to Chinese  eighth seeds Li Ting and Sun Tian Tian in the first round.
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Russia's Irina Korzhanenko was stripped of her shot put gold medal Monday, the first athlete of the Athens Games to lose an Olympic title because of doping.
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ATHENS -- Andy Roddick hit one final errant shot into the net and hung his head, his medal hopes over. A short while later, Venus Williams was gone, too.
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Top seed American Andy Roddick and defending champion Tim Henman both crashed out of the Paris Masters in the third round on Thursday.
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Andy Roddick has sacked Brad Gilbert, the coach who guided him to world number one and the US Open crown in 2003. No reason has been given for the split.
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Andy Roddick withdrew with a foot injury and Tomas Berdych defeated local Kittipong Wachiramanowong 6-3, 6-0 Wednesday at the Thailand Open.
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Venus Williams, fighting to qualify for the season-ending WTA Championships, ousted Lisa Raymond in the first round of the Advanta Championships.
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Venus Williams of the US returns a shot during a match against Elena Bovina of Russia at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow&#39;s Olympic Indoor stadium on Friday, Oct. 15, 2004.