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  • Serena Williams to continue to have fun in fight for second French Open title

    US tennis sensation Serena Williams has said that she will enjoy herself and have fun in the fight for her second French Open title so that she can close down a 11-year gap. According to the Guardian, the younger Williams sister had won the French Open crown 11 years ago, adding that after a dominant year that included winning the titles in Madrid and Rome on clay in the past month, anything ...

  • French Open comes too soon for the young lions of New Tennis

    A little while ago in Paris, John McEnroe shook his head and spluttered when the name Ernests Gulbis was mentioned as a young player who might one day break the grip ...

  • Yanks Granderson placed on DL with broken pinky

    Curtis Granderson on the 15-day disabled list Saturday, after he fractured the pinky on his left hand Friday. Granderson had played in just eight games after missing the first six weeks of the season due to a broken forearm. Brennan Boesch was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to take his place on the roster. Granderson was batting .250 with one home run prior to the injury. He is ...

  • Grizzlies coach Flops shouldnt be a part of game

    Memphis coach Lionel Hollins admitted that flopping should not be allowed and the NBA penalties are justified. But at Saturday's shootaround before Game 3 of the Western Conference finals, Hollins also made it clear the flop by the ...

  • Seppi Hewitt exit Nice

    Seppi, Hewitt exit Nice Nice, France (Sports Network) - Fifth seed Andreas Seppi and former world No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt came up first-round losers Monday at the $530,000 Nice Open, a final clay-court French Open tune-up. Taiwan's Yen-Hsun Lu upended the Italian Seppi 7-5, 1-6, 6-4, while Spaniard Pablo Andujar outlasted the two-time Grand Slam champion and wild card Hewitt 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 at ...

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John Carter [Blu-Ray]

John Carter [Blu-Ray]

John Carter, an ambitious science-fantasy spectacle based on Edgar Rice Burroughss 1912 serialized novel A Princess of Mars, is an awesome folly, a misguided project of genuinely enormous proportions that feels like exactly what it is: an impersonal product of franchise-hung ... ...

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  • Opening day at Strasbourg International washed out

    STRASBOURG, France -- Heavy rain prevented any play at the Strasbourg International, forcing all seven first-round matches to be postponed to ...

  • Lleyton Hewitt Andreas Seppi beaten at Nice Open

    Pablo Andujar of Spain 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. Seppi fell to Lu Yen-Hsun of Taiwan 7-5, 1-6, 6-4. Lu will next play Andujar, a semifinalist at this month's Madrid ...

  • Serena Federer highlight first day at French Open

    Serena, Federer highlight first day at French Open Paris, France (Sports Network) - Former champions Serena Williams and Roger Federer will highlight Sunday's first day of play at the 2013 French Open. The only Grand Slam event that begins on a Sunday will feature 16 first-round matches in both the men's and women's draw. Williams, the top seed and 2002 women's champion, will ...

  • Grand Slam-Last Home Champions

    Last native or naturalized citizens to win their nation's Grand Slam singles title:Australian Open -- Mark Edmondson, 1976; Chris O'Neil, 1978French Open -- Yannick Noah, 1983; Mary Pierce, 2000Wimbledon -- Fred Perry, 1936; Virginia Wade, 1977U.S. Open ...

  • The question as usual in Paris Who can stop Nadal

    PARIS -- Several weeks after his February comeback, Rafael Nadal practically begged reporters to stop asking about his aching knees. But as the wins piled up, the questions kept coming. How were the ...

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