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by | Sep 24, 2013

In expressing U.S. support for Kenyan security forces in their four-day battle at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi against a terror organization originally based in Somalia, was President Barack Obama admitting that international Islamic terrorism is still a force…

by | Sep 13, 2013

What happened in that third set was this. Novak hit a 121 mph ace to give himself a 40-15 lead in the first game, followed up with a backhand return of return-of-serve into the net, then he tried to close…

by | Sep 10, 2013

It is September, Tishrei (and the new year) in the Jewish world, it is the new school year in New York and every where else in America, it is the time of the U.S. Open, it is the end of…

by | Sep 9, 2013

Halfway through the first set tiebreak, Adrian Franklin, a young Fox News sports producer who comes from Melbourne and speaks with authority on his country’s tennis history, observed that the fabulous team of Ashley Barty, who is 17 years old,…

by | Sep 5, 2013

At the first deuce of the fourth game, Gasquet unleashes one of his famous gorgeous backhands and hits a perfect crosscourt winner for the advantage. He loses it in the net on the next point. At deuce again, he follows…

by | Sep 4, 2013

You recall in Hoosiers, when the Hickory coach (played by Gene Hackman) takes his players to the court on which they will be playing in the all-state tournament, and he makes them measure its dimensions, including the height of the…

by | Sep 3, 2013

Tim Smyczek, the mighty Milwaukee mite, is up 4-1 in the fifth set in a four-hour demonstration with Marcel Granollers, the cool Catalan, of superb and brilliant and inspiring tennis and the crowd at the Grandstand Stadium, three quarters empty…

by | Aug 30, 2013

Shuai Peng held on through who knows how many deuces while trying to serve out the second set in its tenth game. She finally wore down the grunting, huffing and puffing Svetlana Kuznetsova. Miss Kuznetsova is a past champion here…

by | Aug 29, 2013

Agnieszka Radwanska seems almost languid as she approaches a low-bouncing ball that her opponent sliced over the net from the back court, hoping to catch her far enough back to end the baseline rally. The ranking Polish player, seeded third…

by | Aug 28, 2013

There was, in fact, a sense in the stands on Court 13 at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center, site of the U.S. Open Championships, that Jerzy Janowicz, the young Polish star from Lodz, was getting bad calls from the…

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