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Canada’s Nestor, Mirnyi drop second game at ATP finals, still in title hunt
LONDON — Toronto’s Daniel Nestor and Belarusian partner Max Mirnyi stayed in contention for a semifinal place at the ATP finals on Wednesday despite losing in group play to Wimbledon winners Jonathan...
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Rising star Eugenie Bouchard leads Canada into Fed Cup tie with Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine — Eugenie Bouchard is set to face Elina Svitolina once again. Bouchard, who recently cracked the top 100 in world rankings, will play Svitolina in the opening singles match of Canada’s...
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Top-seeded Sharapova to meet second-seeded Na in Porsche GP final
STUTTGART, Germany — Defending champion Maria Sharapova will face Li Na in the final of the Porsche Grand Prix in a matchup of the last two French Open winners. Sharapova came from behind in the third...
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2nd-ranked Federer loses to Nishikori in 3rd round of Madrid Open
MADRID, Spain — The slippery blue clay may be gone, but the Madrid Open continues to produce surprises. Second-ranked Roger Federer was ousted by Kei Nishikori of Japan 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 in Thursday’s...
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Serena Williams win 50th career title in Madrid
MADRID, Spain — Serena Williams kept the No. 1, and added No. 50. Williams beat Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-4 in the final of the Madrid Open Sunday to retain her No. 1 ranking and collect her 50th career...
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Federer to face Nadal in Italian Open final
ROME — Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will renew their rivalry in the Italian Open final Sunday — exactly a week before the French Open starts. In Saturday’s semifinals at the Foro Italico, Federer...
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Stosur beats Date-Krumm at French Open after rain delay of 2 1/2 hours
PARIS — Sam Stosur waited 2 1/2 hours to play because of rain, then quickly won her opening match at the French Open. The 2010 runner-up swept the first nine games Tuesday and drubbed 42-year-old...
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Canada’s Raonic beats Llodra to advance to third round at French Open
PARIS — Canadian Milos Raonic defeated Frenchman Michael Llodra in four sets Wednesday to advance to the third round of the French Open. Raonic, the No. 15 seed from Thornhill, Ont., had 24 aces in the...
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2011 champ Li Na loses to Bethanie Mattek-Sands at rainy French Open
PARIS — There were moments, as recently as last year, when a body that would not stay healthy and on-court results prompted Bethanie Mattek-Sands to wonder whether it was simply time to call it a...
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’A special one’: Nadal edges Djokovic in 5-set semifinal thriller
PARIS — His dramatic and delightful French Open semifinal was 4 1/2 hours old — and 14 games into the fifth set — when Rafael Nadal raced from the net to the baseline to retrieve Novak Djokovic‘s...
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Federer stunned in 2nd round at Wimbledon
LONDON — Seven-time champion Roger Federer was stunned by 116th-ranked Sergiy Stakhovsky in the second round of Wimbledon on Wednesday, his earliest loss in a Grand Slam tournament in 10 years. The...
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Djokovic and Williams sail into 3rd round at Wimbledon
LONDON — Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams restored a semblance of order to this wild Wimbledon. A day after Roger Federer led a mass exodus of high-seeded players and favourites, the top-ranked man...
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Lost and bored Venus Williams bounced from Rogers Cup
TORONTO — It is sort of sad to watch Venus Williams on the court these days. Here is a player who won Wimbledon five times and the U.S. Open twice, and at one time was matching sister Serena for Grand...
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Agnieszka Radwanska butts nude photo critics
TORONTO — Agnieszka Radwanska does not mind that you are looking at her butt. If that is why you bought ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue, that’s OK. But that’s not why she posed naked. That was not the...
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Diminutive Errani making big move up WTA ladder
TORONTO — Sara Errani is an anomaly at the top of the WTA rankings. The women’s game has been taken over by the Maria Sharapovas of the world — tall, powerful players. Errani stands five-foot-four....
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Unseeded Sorana Cirstea knocks off Li Na for spot in Rogers Cup final
TORONTO — Sorana Cirstea continued her Cinderella run at the Rogers Cup with a 6-1, 7-6 (5) upset victory over Chinese fourth-seed Li Na in Saturday’s semifinals. The unseeded Romanian came into the...
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Pressure gets to Errani, who tears up after US Open loss
NEW YORK — Only a few spots separate them in the seedings. Still, the considerable gulf between No. 1 Serena Williams and No. 4 Sara Errani was hard to ignore in their back-to-back matches Thursday at...
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Djokovic, Murray survive shaky moments to advance
NEW YORK — Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have met in three of the last four Grand Slam finals, though if they play in the U.S. Open this year, it will be in the semis. Each took a step forward Friday,...
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No. 1 Williams sets up US Open final rematch with No. 2 Azarenka
NEW YORK — At the end, and only at the very end, did Serena Williams face anything resembling a challenge in her U.S. Open semifinal. Six times, Williams was a single point from winning. Six times, she...
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Federer beats Mathieu in Swiss Indoors semis; Nestor advances to doubles final
BASEL, Switzerland — Roger Federer and Juan Martin del Potro advanced to the Swiss Indoors final on Saturday, setting up a rematch of their epic semifinal at the London Olympics. Top-ranked Federer...
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