Tennis-Davenport to retire after birth of first child

San Diego Union-Tribune - Her loss to Venus Williams in last year's Wimbledon final was the longest championship match in the tournament's history. I can't say there's any sadness, yet, about missing tennis. My life is with my husband and my future child, Davenport said
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India finish a poor fifth in men's hockey
Webindia 123 - At present, India, a nation of over a billion people, is placed seventh with nine gold, 18 silver and 24 bronze for a grand tally of 51 - no match to the world's most populous nation, China. India's position could have been worse had tennis Leander
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THE DAY IN PHOTOS
Miami Herald - Tennis star Serena Williams works on a laptop computer during a break in the breach-of-contract lawsuit trial she faces of a company called CCKR, allege that Richard Williams committed his daughters to play in a "Battle-of-the-Sexes" match
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Platform tennis, anyone? Play it in winter
Arlington Heights Daily Herald - Scott Sanders/ssanders@dailyherald.com) Kurt Kopp of Hoffman Estates, right, uses a specially designed perforated racket during a match with Glen Ellyn's Scott Foster on Glen Ellyn's new platform tennis courts. The courts have heaters under their
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Lee makes men's tennis final, Li knocked out
China Post - South Korean tennis star Lee Hyung-taik rallied from a poor first set Tuesday to advance to the Asian Games gold medal match, while top-seeded Li Na was dumped out of the women's semifinals by India's Sania Mirza. ATP Tour regular Lee made 13
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Facts and Figures
Lawn Tennis Association - There is a shortfall of 1.2 billion needed to build the 5,000 new indoor courts needed to match countries such as France s local government-funded tennis infrastructure. For more information, please view the LTA Annual report . back to top
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Hunt in a league all his own
Dallas Morning News - innovators and promoters in American sports history, coining the term "Super Bowl" and bringing professional tennis The facility hosted the MLS championship match in 2005 and 2006. "The most enjoyment I get is trying to build
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A brief, but memorable, tennis career
Charleston Post & Courier - It doesn't matter that he never played a college tennis match. His tennis ego is satisfied. "I just wanted to get on the computer," he said. "After college when all of the other guys (from Prince-ton) went off to Wall Street, I felt I had never made
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Thais lose a tennis heartbreaker, win more sepak gold; N Korea win
Bangkok Post - Actually it affected me very much because tennis usually is much more quiet and it felt like a football match," she said. North Korean goalkeeper Jon Myong Hui was the hero for her side as she saved the first two Japanese spot kicks from Homare Sawa
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China's Zheng fights off Mirza for tennis gold
espnstar.com - I played my best tennis of the tournament today," said Zheng. But the strong-Indian crowd, who yelled and cheered when she served faults, affected her game and she likened the one hour 49 minute final to being at a football match. "This was a tough
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