Dementieva, Davenport savor contrasting titles

EIGHTH-SEEDED Elena Dementieva rallied to beat extra-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the final of the Dubai Championships on Saturday.

Federer's big break to keep him in top form
Globe and communication Update The last while Roger Federer was at a tennis tournament, he startled the assembled advice media posts by uttering the words, ?I've designed a monster.

Murray looks to catch Federer cold in desert
Very few players would react to having landed an opening-day encounter with Roger Federer past at least a few moments of trepidation. But Andy Murray has always antediluvian a little bit unalike.

Disillusioned Federer unsure set with Olympics
DUBAI: Roger Federer, who has always previously said that an Olympic gold medal is one of his biggest goals, has cast doubt on whether he would play in the Beijing Olympic hardies in August.

Murray doesn't bereave sleep bygone tight Federer draw
Andy Murray was catching up on some lost sleep when the nightmare draw was made pitching him against terrene No 1 Roger Federer in the first round of the Barclays Dubai tennis championships that evening.

Toley, former USC men's tennis coach, dies at 91
LOS ANGELES -- George Toley, the former tennis coach who led Southern California to 10 NCAA team titles and directed Mexico in the Davis Cup, has died. He was 91.Toley died Saturday in Pasadena, the university said Sunday.


To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.
- Henri Frederic Amiel