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Williams sisters out but Nadal, Federer and Murray carry on

Nicholas Bates — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:25:41 +0000

GenevaLunch.com WIMBLEDON, LONDON, ENGLAND Last year’s champion Serena Williams crashed out of Wimbledon, as did sister Venus in a dramatic day’s tennis. World number one Caroline Wozniacki also lost. The men’s event went more to form although Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer each dropped a set before going through to the quarter-finals. Serena Williams went down [...]

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International sports, tennis: Roddick and Clijsters win in Miami

Nicholas Bates — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:33:08 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Miami, Florida (GenevaLunch) - Andy Roddick beat giant-killer Tomas Berdych 7-5 6-4 in the final of the Sony Ericsson Miami Masters, Sunday 4 April. The big-serving American ended the Czech’s run of scalps that included Roger Federer, Fernando Verdasco and Robin Soderling. Roddick beat Rafa Nadal in the semi-final. In the women’s final on Saturday [...]

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International sports, tennis: Murray wins as Nadal retires, hurt

Nicholas Bates — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:26:37 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Melbourne, Australia (GenevaLunch) - Scotland’s Andy Murray moved into the semi-finals of the Australian Open when last year’s champion Rafael Nadal withdrew in the third set suffering from a recurrence of an injury to his right knee. Murray was already leading the match 6-3, 7-6, 3-0 and looked in awesome form. He will face the [...]

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International sports, tennis: Kim Clijsters beats Venus

Nicholas Bates — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:33:10 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Flushing Meadows, New York (GenevaLunch) - Kim Clijsters showed what tennis been missing as she continued her run with a 6-0 0-6 6-4 win over third seed Venus Williams. The chunky Belgian powered her way past the gangly American in the first set but then started to miss and quickly lost the second. The third set was more [...]

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International sports, tennis: Federer cruises, Venus struggles

Nicholas Bates — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:23:57 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Flushing Meadows, New York (GenevaLunch) -The first round of the US Open resulted in a few scares, but no real upsets. Number one seed Roger Federer, in search of his sixth successive title in New York eased past 18 year-old American Devin Britton 6-1 6-3 7-5, dropping serve twice but coming back immediately each time. Andy [...]

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International sports, tennis: Federer and Murray win, Roddick and Tsonga lose

Nicholas Bates — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:47:27 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Cincinnati, USA (GenevaLunch) – Spectators at the ATP tournament in Cincinnati were treated to a marathon feast of tennis as the top four men in the world played their second round matches. Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic all won. Number 5, Andy Roddick, lost to fellow American Sam Querry. The other [...]

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International sports, Wimbledon tennis: Federer takes 15th title in epic

Nicholas Bates — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:55:34 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Wimbledon, England (GenevaLunch) – Swiss Roger Federer won an epic match against American Andy Roddick that went to 16-14 in the fifth set. Roddick only lost his service in the final game of the match, which lasted four hours and 16 minutes. The victory broke Pete Sampras’s record of 14 Grand Slam wins. Sampras was [...]

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International sports, Wimbledon tennis: Williamses to the final

Nicholas Bates — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:16:31 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Wimbledon, England (GenevaLunch) - The two women’s semi-finals were totally different but ended with the same result: Williams beats Russia. Serena fought back from a set down, and match-point down, to battle past Elena Dementieva 6-7 7-5 8-6 in the best match of the women’s tournament. Dementieva took the first set in the tie-break with [...]

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International sports, Wimbledon tennis: Cold War revived for women’s semi-finals

Nicholas Bates — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:22:28 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Wimbledon, England (GenevaLunch) - The women’s Wimbledon tennis semi-finals will feature Americans Venus and Serena Williams against two Russians: Dinara Safina and Elena Dementiava. The quarter-final games saw three one-sided matches and a shaky win by Safina. Serena Williams beat Victoria Azarenka 6-2 6-3, Venus beat Agnieszka Radwanka 6-1 6-2, and Dementieva crushed Francesca Schiavone [...]

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International sports, tennis: Wimbledon gets ready for second week showdowns

Nicholas Bates — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:46:17 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Wimbledon, UK (GenevaLunch) - Wimbledon had a day off for the “middle Sunday” and has not yet had to test the new roof after an unusual absence of rain. In the mens’ draw the dream final of Roger Federer, in search of a record 15th Grand Slam title, against Andy Murray in search of his [...]

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