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ATP will not reopen Agassi doping case (AP)
The ATP Tour will not reopen a doping case against Andre Agassi even though he admitted to lying about using crystal meth in 1997. Agassi revealed in his recent autobiography that he failed a 1997 drug test, a result he says was thrown out after he ...
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Nadal: In 'perfect shape' before ATPs (AP)
All the involuntary rest because of injuries gives Rafael Nadal a good feeling heading into the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals. When most players are nursing weary bodies after a long season, Nadal says things couldn't be better. "I'm ...
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Del Potro to play Queen's Club tourney (AP)
U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro will play at next year's Queen's Club tournament in an effort to improve his grasscourt game ahead of Wimbledon. The fifth-ranked Argentine beat Roger Federer in the U.S. Open final but has never advanced past ...
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Wickmayer, Malisse appeal doping bans (AP)
Belgian tennis players Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse have asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport to overturn their one-year bans for missing drug tests. The CAS said Wednesday the players want to annul their suspensions for failing three times ...
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Federer draws del Potro in ATP finals (AP)
Top-ranked Roger Federer will play U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro and Andy Murray in the round-robin phase of the ATP World Tour Finals. After Wednesday's draw, Federer also faces Fernando Verdasco in Group A. The Swiss star lost to Del ...
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Querrey practicing again after accident (AP)
American Sam Querrey is back practicing for his return to the ATP Tour after he cut two muscles in his right forearm when he sat on a glass table that broke in Thailand. The world's 25th-ranked player said Tuesday he narrowly avoided damaging ...
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USTA: More US minorities playing tennis (AP)
More Americans are playing tennis, with Hispanics and blacks showing a marked increase. The U.S. Tennis Association said in a survey released Tuesday that 30.1 million people hit the courts this year. That's a 12 percent increase from 2008 and up 25 ...
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Injured Roddick to miss season finale (AP)
Andy Roddick withdrew from the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals because of a left knee injury and was replaced by Robin Soderling. The No. 6-ranked Roddick qualified for the elite tournament for the seventh consecutive year but injured his left ...
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USTA: More US minorities playing tennis (AP)
More Americans are playing tennis, with Hispanics and blacks showing a marked increase. The U.S. Tennis Association says in a survey released Tuesday that more than 30 million people hit the courts this year. That's a 12 percent increase from 2008 and ...
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Federer to be sponsored by Credit Suisse (AP)
The Swiss bank Credit Suisse has signed a 10-year sponsorship with Roger Federer. The bank says it will make a "significant annual contribution" to the Roger Federer Foundation. The charity was founded by the tennis star to help ...
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Nadal to play for Spain in Davis Cup (AP)
Rafael Nadal will lead defending champion Spain in the Davis Cup final against the Czech Republic next month. The second-ranked Nadal returns to captain Albert Costa's team for the first time since a first-round win over Serbia. Nadal missed last ...
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Wickmayer, Malisse challenging WADA (AP)
Suspended Belgian tennis players Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse are launching appeals with European authorities challenging the legality of the whereabouts rules of the World Anti-Doping Agency. Victory at the European Commission in Brussels and ...
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Key Biscayne tourney founder to retire (AP)
Butch Buchholz, founder of the annual tennis tournament on Key Biscayne, is stepping down as chairman following the 2010 event. The event Buchholz started in 1985 is the world's fifth-largest tennis tournament and known as the Sony Ericsson Open. ...
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Wickmayer mum on appealing 1-year ban (AP)
Belgian tennis player Yanina Wickmayer isn't saying whether she will appeal her one-year suspension for violating anti-doping rules. At a tearful news conference Thursday, the U.S. Open semifinalist said she has never tested positive for drugs. The ...
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Federer loses to Benneteau in Paris (AP)
Top-ranked Roger Federer has lost to Julien Benneteau of France in the second round of the Paris Masters. Federer lost 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4. The 15-time Grand Slam champion has never been further than the quarterfinals at the Paris Masters. Benneteau ...
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Safin ends career with loss to del Potro (AP)
Marat Safin ended his career Wednesday after losing to Juan Martin del Potro 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 in the second round of the Paris Masters. The 29-year-old Safin, a two-time Grand Slam title winner, put on a solid performance on center court but couldn't ...
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No. 9 Zvonareva to have ankle surgery (AP)
Ninth-ranked Vera Zvonareva's agent says she will have arthroscopic surgery on her right ankle. The operation is to remove scar tissue and is scheduled for Wednesday. Zvonareva plans to stay in the Netherlands for two weeks of rehabilitation and is ...
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Pilot Pen Tennis seeking new sponsor (AP)
Pilot Pen Tennis at Yale is seeking a new title sponsor for the 2011 tournament and beyond. Pilot Pen Corporation, entering its 15th year as the title sponsor, will end its partnership with the tournament after the 2010 event. Company officials called ...
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Nadal happy to be back in Paris (AP)
Rafael Nadal returns to Paris for the first time since his fourth-round exit at the French Open. Nadal says he is happy to return to a city where he won the Grand Slam four times. He says he doesn't hold a grudge toward the French crowd, who mostly ...
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Safin: Agassi should return all titles (AP)
Former No. 1-ranked Marat Safin believes that Andre Agassi should give his tennis titles back after confessing he tested positive for a banned substance during his career and lied about it to the ATP. Agassi admitted in his autobiography ...
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Agassi: No regrets about revelations (AP)
It turns out Andre Agassi was lying all along. To fans. To opponents. To tennis authorities. To first wife Brooke Shields. To friends, including Barbra Streisand. To the media. And, he says, to himself. "I can't live with that anymore," ...
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ITF president expects fine for Serena (AP)
Top-ranked Serena Williams will most likely receive a "significant" fine but no suspension for her U.S. Open tirade, the president of the International Tennis Federation said. Grand Slam administrator Bill Babcock is expected to give his ...
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ITF confirms 1-year ban for Wickmayer (AP)
The International Tennis Federation has confirmed a one-year suspension for Belgian tennis players Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse. The duo was suspended by a Belgian tribunal this week for failing to report their whereabouts to anti-doping ...
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Djokovic calls for meetings on schedule (AP)
Novak Djokovic has called for "crucial" meetings to address the heavy playing schedule faced by top tennis players. The third-ranked Serb said Friday that more players were getting injured because of the demands of a long season. Djokovic ...
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USTA to rule on Serena tirade soon (AP)
A ruling on Serena Williams' U.S. Open tirade is expected in the next two weeks. "It's in the hands of the Grand Slam administrator, who I believe has now completed his investigation and will be making a ruling within the next two weeks," ...
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Wickmayer withdraws in Bali after ban (AP)
US Open semifinalist Yanina Wickmayer voluntarily withdrew from the ongoing Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions on Friday after receiving a one-year suspension by a Belgian anti-doping tribunal. The 20-year-old Wickmayer was suspended Thursday ...
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Wickmayer suspended 1 year, will appeal (AP)
A Belgian anti-doping tribunal has suspended U.S. Open semifinalist Yanina Wickmayer for one year for allegedly failing to report her whereabouts to anti-doping officials three times. The Flemish regional tribunal said in a statement issued Thursday ...
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Bartoli wins opener in Indonesia (AP)
Marion Bartoli of France defeated Magdalena Rybarikova 6-4, 6-4 Wednesday in the round-robin stage of the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions. Aravane Rezai rallied to stop fourth-seeded Sabine Lisicki 1-6, 6-3, 6-4. Second-seeded Samantha ...
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French Open stadium project on hold (AP)
The project to build a new stadium for the French Open has been blocked because of political issues, but the French Tennis Federation said Wednesday that it was confident it will go ahead as planned. Gilbert Ysern, the general director of the French ...
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Safin, Grosjean get wild cards for Paris (AP)
Former champions Marat Safin and Sebastien Grosjean have been given wild-card entries for the upcoming Paris Masters. Safin won the indoor tournament for the third time in 2004, and Grosjean won it in 2001. The French tennis federation said Tuesday ...
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Haas tests positive for swine flu (AP)
Tommy Haas, the 17th-ranked player from Germany, is dealing with a case of swine flu. "I did a test because I suspected that I had swine flu. The test was positive," Haas said in Tuesday's Bild newspaper. "Of course, it was a ...
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Serena sets WTA season prize money mark (AP)
Serena Williams has set the record for single-season prize money in women's tennis by topping $6.5 million in 2009. Williams broke the WTA mark of slightly under $5.5 million, earned by Justine Henin in 2007. The American won the season-ending tour ...
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WTA Tour chief: Player withdrawals drop (AP)
The WTA Tour's new scheduling system with fewer mandatory tournaments has caused withdrawals to drop by more than one third this season. The tour has also withstood the global financial crisis, with attendance and prize money up significantly for top ...
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Agassi believed he was taking speed (AP)
Andre Agassi says in an excerpt from his soon-to-be-released autobiography that he swallowed a pill given to him by his father -- apparently when he was a junior player -- that he believes could have been the illegal drug speed. In the latest passage ...
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Henin has lofty goals in return (AP)
The moment Justine Henin realized her tennis career wasn't finished came this past June, when the Belgian watched Roger Federer finally hoist the French Open trophy, the one Grand Slam title he was missing. His triumph reignited a passion that ...
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Serena pulls out of Fed Cup final (AP)
The U.S. Tennis Association says Serena Williams has pulled out of the team that will face Italy in the Fed Cup final. USTA spokesman Chris Widmaier tells The Associated Press on Saturday that Williams informed U.S. Fed Cup captain Mary Joe Fernandez ...
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Agassi: I did meth 'for a year or so' (AP)
Andre Agassi used crystal meth periodically for "a year or so," the eight-time Grand Slam champion revealed in an interview with People magazine. In his upcoming autobiography, Agassi admits he used crystal meth in 1997 and failed a drug ...
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Safina hopes to play before Aussie Open (AP)
Two days after tearfully pulling out of the WTA Championships with a serious back injury she thought could keep her out of the Australian Open, Dinara Safina has entered the earlier Brisbane International. "After playing on the Gold Coast from ...
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Navratilova compares Agassi to Clemens (AP)
Martina Navratilova drew a parallel Thursday between Andre Agassi and Roger Clemens, saying she's shocked the eight-time Grand Slam champion lied about drug use. Agassi's upcoming autobiography contains an admission he used crystal meth in 1997 and ...
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WADA chief to ATP: Explain Agassi case (AP)
The president of the World Anti-Doping Agency wants tennis authorities to shed light on Andre Agassi's admission that he used a banned drug and escaped a suspension by blaming his positive test on a spiked drink. WADA leader John Fahey said Wednesday ...
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Agassi admits using crystal meth in book (AP)
Andre Agassi's upcoming autobiography contains an admission that he used crystal meth in 1997 and lied to tennis authorities when he failed a drug test -- a result that was thrown out after he said he "unwittingly" took the substance. ...
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Serena, Oudin named to US Fed Cup team (AP)
Serena Williams is back on the U.S. Fed Cup team for the first time since 2007. Surprise U.S. Open quarterfinalist Melanie Oudin is also on the roster announced Tuesday by the U.S. Tennis Association for the Nov. 7-8 final against host Italy. Williams ...
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Wozniacki denies wrongdoing in retiring (AP)
Caroline Wozniacki denied on Monday that there was any wrongdoing involved last week when she quit a match one game shy of victory. The WTA Tour is investigating a surge in online bets backing her opponent that occurred after her father, Piotr, was ...
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Mercedes-Benz new sponsor of US Open (AP)
Mercedes-Benz USA has agreed to a four-year marketing partnership with the U.S. Open, replacing Lexus as a sponsor of the Grand Slam tennis tournament. The deal runs from 2010-13 and includes transportation for more than 250 tennis players during the ...
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Bacsinszky reaches Luxembourg Open final (AP)
Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky defeated fifth-seeded Belgian Yanina Wickmayer, 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 on Saturday to make the finals of the Luxembourg Open. Bacsinszky struggled in the third set to keep her lead, as Wickmayer fought back to tie the set 5-5 ...
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US opens 2010 Fed Cup in France on clay (AP)
The United States will play the first round of the Fed Cup in France on clay. The French tennis federation said Friday in a statement that the best-of-five series scheduled Feb. 6-7 will be played on indoor clay in the Northern city of Lievin. The ...
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Wickmayer unlikely to face doping ban (AP)
U.S. Open semifinalist Yanina Wickmayer is unlikely to face a suspension for allegedly failing to report her whereabouts to anti-doping officials three times. The prosecutor at a Belgian anti-doping tribunal on Thursday called only for a warning in ...
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Enqvist to captain Sweden Davis Cup team (AP)
Thomas Enqvist is the new captain for Sweden's Davis Cup team. The Swedish Tennis Federation announced Thursday that he'll replace Mats Wilander, who retired this week. Enqvist played for Sweden between 1995 and 2004, winning 15 of 26 matches. He was ...
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Agassi, Sampras to play in Macau (AP)
Even though the stakes may not be as high as in their epic clashes of the past, Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras aren't planning to put on a friendly exhibition. The two American icons, who staged one of tennis' greatest rivalries, will play each other ...
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Nalbandian expected to return in January (AP)
David Nalbandian is expected to return to the ATP tennis circuit in January at the Heineken Open, ending a nine-month layoff following hip surgery, tournament director Richard Palmer said Thursday. "Nalbandian is a quality player who has ...
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