Australian Open Tennis Championships
Ana Ivanovic of Serbia (L) chats to Australian golfer and boyfriend Adam Scott (R) as she takes a break during in a training session ahead of the 2012 Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 15, 2012. The tennis season's first Grand Slam of the year will take place from January 16 to 29. IMAGE STRICTLY.
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There is occasionally tennis when you have Australian Open, but generally, Friday is dead, the complete opposite of North America and most of the other parts of the world.
That’s tennis, you have some up and down weeks ... And you have just got to make the most of your best weeks — and I think she did. I mean, semifinals in the Australian Open is an awesome achievement and I think she is a great player and she has a great future.
I have not played a match for five weeks (since losing the Australian Open final to Djokovic on Jan. 27) so you can't expect to play your best tennis straightawayMore quotes »
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Sloane Stephens loses in 1st round in Dubai
more careful at the key points if I would turn it around," Cirstea said.After beating an injured Williams at the Australian Open, Stephens was being billed as the future of American tennis, even though she hasn't won a professional tournament."The first week Read more »
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Azarenka beats Williams to win Qatar Open
at her best. Struggling at times with a cold and still nursing a right ankle injury that bothered her at the Australian Open, Williams appeared sluggish in early-round matches and needed three sets to beat Petra Kvitova in the quarterfinals.She made 48 errors Read more »
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Josh's tough call between two loves and two rep offers
for the singles and with my doubles partner Mitchell James I won the doubles there. "I went to the 2013 Australian Open for Intellectually Disabled athletes and I made the quarter finals there, which were pretty big because I hadn't before and then we managed 5/22/13 from Rockhampton Morning Bulletin Read more »
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The Fab Five (WTA): Previewing the Roland Garros Women’s Contenders
as crisply on clay as she ever has when she won the latter tournament, and the chronic injury woes behind her Australian Open exit have subsided for now. But the main reason to dub Serena the Roland Garros favorite emerged from her dominant efforts against from Tennis Grandstand Read more »
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Tomic will play French Open despite troubles - Woodbridge
of Australia leaves the court after being defeated by Roger Federer of Switzerland in their men's singles match at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne January 19, 2013. MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Bernard Tomic will play at next week's French Open from Reuters.co.uk Read more »
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Andy Murray Withdraws From French Open
break and is again the favorite to win another French Open title, Murray announced his withdrawal from the French Open late on Tuesday night after the latest round of medical tests on his ailing lower back. “It’s a really tough decision and I love playing from The New York Times Read more »
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Flashback: 2010 French Open
the match into a deciding set. The Austrian would then produce a magnificent set of tennis to sentence the 2008 Australian Open champion to a heartbreaking defeat (this would be the last time that Djokovic would be defeated in a major quarter-final), denying from The Roar Read more »
