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| Tennis: Unsports Man Like Grunt Screams Out for Action |
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January 09, 2011
Firstly there was Moan-ica Seles and Arantxa Sanchez Vic-roar-io. Now there is Serena Shrill-iams and Maria Shriek-apova - the women who have quite literally put the grunt into women's tennis.
Grunting, screeching, screaming, call it what you will but it has blighted tennis since Monica Seles' emergence in the early 1990s. |
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| Tennis: Arn Beats the Odds to Send Maria Sharapova Packing |
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January 07, 2011
On one side of the net was the 23-year-old former world No 1, the highest-paid female athlete on the planet, the holder of three Grand Slam titles, multiple seven-figure endorsement deals and career prizemoney approaching US$14 million ($18.48 million).
On the other, a 31-year old with one career title, slightly more than half a million in prizemoney since 1995 and, as far as it's known, has appeared on no Nike posters or magazine covers. |
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| Tennis: Maria Sharapova Crashes Out of ASB Classic |
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January 06, 2011
Tennis superstar Maria Sharapova crashed out of the ASB Classic in Auckland today, losing in straight sets to unheralded Hungarian Greta Arn.
The tournament's big drawcard, and the main reason all the day sessions this week have been sold out, lost the quarterfinal clash 6-2 7-5.
Sharapova, the top seed and world No 18, struggled to find her rhythm from the start. |
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| Tennis: Top Seeds on Track for Dream Final |
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January 06, 2011
Just for a while it was looking like a desperate sort of day for the Russians and a desperate sort of day for the organisers and sponsors.
The evening before they'd seen one drawcard, former world No 1 Dinara Safina, exit at the hands of the defending champion Yanina Wickmayer. Then, first up on centre court, the great wall of China, Shuai Peng, accounted for two-time Grand Slam winner Svetlana Kuznetsova. |
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| Tennis: Maria Sharapova Advances to Quarters |
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January 05, 2011
Top seed Maria Sharapova has advanced to the quarterfinals at the ASB Classic today, beating Renata Voracova in straight sets.
It wasn't an easy ride for the two-time Grand Slam champion who was made to work for her second round victory before eventually coming away with a 6-4 7-5 win.
Sharapova will play either Germany's Greta Arn or Sweden's Sofia Arvidsson in the next round. |
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