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• Nadal makes hard work of aching Almagro in Paris win

  
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  Paris, Nov 12 (DPA) Rafael Nadal spent three and a quarter hours in a laboured opening victory at the Paris Masters Wednesday, with injured fellow Spaniard Nicolas Almagro barely able to stand after losing 3-6, 7-6 (7-2), 7-5.Second seed Nadal made hard work out of his first time on court in three weeks, saving [...]
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• Safin ends career with loss to del Potro (AP)

  
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  Marat Safin ended his career Wednesday after losing to Juan Martin del Potro 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 in the second round of the Paris Masters.
  20 hours ago

• Wearing new Nike Holiday, Serena Williams tops the 2009 WTA charts.

  
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  Serena Williams recently claimed the prestigious 2009 end-of-year Sony Ericsson Championship title. She ends the year as the worlds number 1 female tennis player, both on-court and at the bank. In... Please visit our site for the rest of this post. Thank you!
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• Deans demanding Wallabies to start backing themselves

  
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  After at last showing some composure, the Wallabies are now under instructions to start playing more instinctively in a bid to correct their dismal tryscoring record in Sunday’s Landsdowne Cup Test against Ireland in Dublin. The Wallabies have scored just 11 tries in their past eight Tests, an alarmingly poor ...
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• Rusty Ireland, easybeat Wallabies: who’ll win?

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 500
  A tale of two opposites unfolds this coming Sunday in Croke Park, Dublin. Ireland: the actual Grand Slam 6 Nations champions meet the wannabe mini-Grand Slam aspirants, Australia, the Southern Hemisphere easybeats. Or if you prefer, it’s 4th plays 3rd. It’s North vs South. The Plodders vs the Aristocrats. New ...
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• Andy Murray will win multiple grand slams predicts Andre Agassi

  
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  Andre Agassi believes British No 1 Andy Murray has the personality and spirit to claim major honours for years to come.
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• Back to business for Wallabies in Dublin

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 500
  It’s back to work for the grand slam-chasing Wallabies on Tuesday after enjoying a day off to recover from their big win over England. Some seized the chance to tee up a round of golf, while others just cruised around and lapped up Dublin’s famous hospitality. But it’ll be all business from now on, with the ...
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• Andre Agassi: I could not hide the truth about drug taking any longer

  
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  Andre Agassi says he would never do anything so crass as to confess to taking crystal meth and then lying about it just to sell more copies of his book.
  3 days ago

• The Wallabies slam England in a terrific Test

  
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  In the end the Wallabies defeated England quite comfortably 18 – 9 to win the first Test of this Grand Slam tour. This was a Test the Wallabies had to win. And they won it playing inventive, attractive and skilful rugby with a confidence that grew as the Test developed. The Grand Slam dream remains alive, ...
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• Deans and Elsom happy to carry the load for Wallabies

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 500
  All for one and one for all. That was the unmistakable message from Wallabies coach Robbie Deans and captain Rocky Elsom as they dutifully unloaded the entire squad’s luggage upon arrival in Dublin on Sunday. As the rest of the 35-man touring squad – plus about a dozen support staff – toddled off to the ...
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• Serena Williams may play Oz Open

  
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  Melbourne, Nov.8 (ANI): US tennis star Serena Williams is expected to play in January’s Australian Open despite her disgraceful behaviour at the US Open..Grand Slam administrator Bill Babcock is due to hand his recommendation to the Grand Slam committee, which is likely to announce this week what the penalty is for ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
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  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• Maria Emilia Salerni, “La Pitu” retired from professional tennis,

  
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  Maria Emilia Salerni, “La Pitu”, retired from professional tennis Maria Emilia Salerni, born in Rafaela (Santa Fe, Argentina) 26 years ago, will be announcing her retirement from professioanl tennis on November 10th 2009. Salerni represented Argentina in various competitions organized by the AAT (Argentine ...
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• Desperate Wallabies keep grand slam dream alive

  
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  The Wallabies scored a desperately-tense 18-9 victory over gallant England at Twickenham on Saturday. In a gripping encounter, Australia trailed until the hour mark before fullback Adam Ashley-Cooper clinched the first leg of rugby’s grand slam with a powerhouse try eight minutes from time. Ashley-Cooper, who ...
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• Wales left fuming with Carter after All Blacks loss

  
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  Wales were left fuming with a head-high tackle by Dan Carter that went unpunished in their 19-12 loss to New Zealand. The All Blacks playmaker tracked back magnificently after Shane Williams had stepped his markers to produce a crunching, try-saving tackle on Martin Roberts, who had the line at his mercy in the 71st ...
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• Slack doubts Wallabies will emulate ‘84 Slam

  
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  Twenty-five years after Andrew Slack went down in history as the first man to lead the Wallabies to rugby’s grand slam, he gravely doubts Australia will do it again. And he’s scared to think what effect failure might have on local support for the embattled code. The highly-respected Slack is ever hopeful Robbie ...
  5 days ago

• Can a Kiwi coach help Wales beat All Blacks?

  
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  A rugby scribe at one of the major Welsh newspapers thinks Gatland will come out ahead on Saturday. This is what the journo said. (For the sake of brevity, this is an edited version.) “I’d say New Zealand have fallen from the previous height of jaw-droppingly awesome and have ended up as plain old formidable. ...
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• Agassi pleads his crystal meth case in US television interview

  
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  New York, Nov 6 (DPA) Eight-time Grand Slam winner Andre Agassi said that revelations in his upcoming autobiography that he used the drug crystal meth during a period of 1997 depression needed to be made public.The tarnished tennis icon told the television programme “60 Minutes” in an interview to be broadcast ...
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• Federer working with new physio to increase tennis shelf life

  
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  Basle (Switzerland), Nov 6 (DPA) Roger Federer looks to be ready to fulfill his pledge to play in the 2012 London Olympic event at Wimbledon after hiring a full-time physio from the ranks of the ATP.The 28-year-old world number one has taken on Stephane Vivier, one of seven ATP physios, to travel with him [...]
  6 days ago

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