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Spadea controversy
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Vince Spadea's new book "Break point" has caused quite a stir among his fellow pros, it's an account of the 2005 season and focuses largely on Spadea's performances but controversially it contains a large number of anecdotes from "behind-the-scenes."
“I feel like in writing that book, he may h...
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Safin on tennis and life
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From Ace magazine:
On money:
"When I look at a dollar note I only see a picture of George Washington on a piece of paper. Money is only money. It makes life easier but I don't feel sexy or might because of that."
On stardom:
"I am not a singer or a rock star. Tennis is tennis. If you want to see a cl...
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Tim's Competitors Week 38
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Here's the table (c)GC77 for this week. As ever please let me know if you spot any anomalies
STRONG>week----------|Running So 18th 
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RobC
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970
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Its up to us!!
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http://www.winningtennisforbritain.co.uk/home.php
Anyone think they can help??
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johnnylad
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1
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860
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Tim's competitors week 37
(Preview)
Table coming up sometime today
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imoen
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9
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1189
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greg and Boggo's competitors week 37
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the table will be posted sometime today, by me or someone else!
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imoen
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21
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2315
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Greg and Boggo's rankings weeks 35 and 36: US Open etc..
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Here's this week's Division 2 table.
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Tim's competitors Weeks 35 and 36: US Open
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Here's Tim's table for US Open fortnight.
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Nadal going out ?
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Youzny is 2 sets to 1 up and leads 5-0 in the 4th set 
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US Open day 9
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Safin v Haas is probably the pick of today's men's 4th round matches. This is the US Open website preview: "In case you missed the Opening Night fireworks display here, there’s another one on tap today, as No. 14 seed Tommy Haas takes on Marat Safin. When two huge hitters like this collide, the resultin...
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US Open day 7
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Some mouthwatering match-ups are featured today. Not only is there Murray-Gonzalez but there's Nalbandian-Safin, Becker-Agassi, Verdasco-Roddick, Moodie-Nadal, Blake-Moya, S Williams-Ivanovic and Hewitt-Djokovic.
Safin's form has been very hit and miss on the US hard courts this su...
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15
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2369
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US Open day 8
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The match of the day in the women's draw looks to be Amelie Mauresmo versus Serena Williams. Despite being out of action from January until August Serena reached the latter stages of Cincinatti and Los Angeles in August and has been building up some impressive form here dispatching Hantuchova and Iv...
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US Open live stream ?
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Has anyone found any free live streams for the US Open ?
I've heard that there's some streaming on Eurosport, can someone give me a link to this ?
Thanks 
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Henman vs Federer
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Wow looks like everyone has resigned themselves to a federer win considering that a thread wasnt even made! (unless i missed it)
ive got the live stream to AA court up an running and the match should start within 15-20 mins.
Unfortunately i cant see past a fed win - probably in straight sets....
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Henman v Rusedski
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The battle of the veteran Brits is one of the picks of the rd1 clashes at the US Open.
They've played 9 times, Henman leads 7-2 on head-to-heads and has won their last 6 matches.
1996 Ostrava 16 Carpet (I) T.HENMAN 7-6 7-5
1997 Vienna SF Carpet (I) G.RUSEDSKI 6-4, 6-4
1998 ATP Fin...
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Men's tennis faces major shake-up
(Preview)
Men's tennis faces major shake-up The BBC report the changes put forward for next year and beyond.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/5291558.stm
What do you think folks ?
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Drew
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Greg and Boggo's rankings week 34
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Here's the division 2 rankings for this week.
STRONG>name   &nb...
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RobC
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18
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2303
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Who will win the US Open ?
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Who do you think will win ? -- Edited by UltimateFlemingFan at 01:41, 2006-08-26
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The Haters Thread
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i just wanted to create a thread where everyone can talk about who they dislike the most. Please keep this relativly clean and make life easy for the Mods..... Roddick....after the murray match i can no longer stand him. He trys to hit people when he is givin the chance. He gets very ****y when he hits a go...
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Tim's ranking week 34.
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Please would someone post the table as I'm away for most of the week so can't update it. If no one has done it or said they will by tomorrow mid-morning I'll post the table but someone else will have to update. Thanks.
Looking at the new haven draw, Tim is in serious danger.
15 people can overtake him th...
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ATP New Haven - Rusedski v Nieminen
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Match is scheduled for court 1, starting at around 8.30pm GMT tonight.
They've played once before, Greg won 6-4, 6-4 in rd1 of ATP Nottingham on grass in 2003, on his way to the title.
However, now Nieminen has to be the favourite, given that he's 15 in the world and has enjoyed a good hard court s...
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Possible comeback for Kournikova
(Preview)
Anna Kournikova has hinted about making a return to the tennis circuit and linking up again with Martina Hingis to renew their grand slam winning doubles partnership.
However, Hingis had a warning for the Russian, "She'd really have to commit herself to this and grind it out" said the Swiss.
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ATP New Haven rd1: Rusedski v Karlovic
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Bizarrely the main draw has been released but there's no sign of the qualifying draw which should have started yesterday !!
Karlovic is quite a nasty draw for Greg considering that he couldn't have faced a seed in rd1 [all seeds got byes through to rd2]. The winner of this match will play Jarkko Nie...
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Penn Pick'em contest league
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If you haven't heard, Penn are running a competition for this week's TMS event in Cincinatti in conjunction with the ATP.
It's a predictions competition, if you haven't done so already go to the ATP site and click on the massive logo and register for free.
Then click on "my picks," what you hav...
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Should grunting be banned ?
(Preview)
This is currently one of the big debating points in the tennis world.
What do you think ?
Views:
Navratilova: "They should outlaw it. It's really unfair to the opponent and it's terrible for the public. At the net you need to hear the ball hit the racket so you know how fast it's travellin...
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