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Tennis

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/ 26 January 2009

Nadal, Serena into quarters as Murray crashes

Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams stayed on track at the Australian Open on Monday but Andy Murray’s campaign came shuddering to a halt.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 22 January 2009

Nadal breezes through, Serena struggles

Rafael Nadal hammered out his intentions with a thunderous display on Thursday while Serena Williams made her way to the third round.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 21 January 2009

Jankovic and Djokovic hit form at Open

World number one Jelena Jankovic and men’s defending champion Novak Djokovic showed glimpses of their best form at the Australian Open on Wednesday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 19 January 2009

Federer leads charge into second round

Roger Federer made heavy weather of little-known Andreas Seppi at the Australian Open Monday before joining Jelena Jankovic in the second round.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 15 January 2009

Federer to regain title as king of courts?

This year Roger Federer comes to the Australian Open with a few questions to answer — the one is can he regain number-one ranking?

By Staff Reporter
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/ 13 January 2009

Federer fit and raring to go

A year after withdrawing from the Kooyong Classic with a mystery virus, Roger Federer returned on Tuesday and declared himself fit and ready.

By Greg Stutchbury
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/ 7 January 2009

Court ‘magician’ stripped of his spark

Fabrice Santoro was shorn of all magic while going down 6-0 6-1 to world number-one Rafael Nadal in the first round of the Qatar Open on Tuesday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 6 January 2009

Federer: I can dominate tennis again

Former world number one Roger Federer believes he can dominate men’s tennis again.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 16 December 2008

Nadal takes crown from Federer after successful year

In Wimbledon’s murky gloom on a Sunday in July, men’s tennis hailed Spanish king Rafael Nadal.

By Dave James
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/ 4 December 2008

Sampras beats McEnroe on return to UK

A fast court, plenty of fast serves and a straight-sets win. It was all vintage Pete Sampras.

By Chris Lehourites
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/ 2 November 2008

Coetzee, Moodie in year-end Masters Finals

Jeff Coetzee and Wesley Moodie became the first SA pair to qualify for the year-end Masters Finals in eight years on Saturday.

By Sy Lerman
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/ 20 October 2008

Moodie is back and in form

South African Davis Cup player Wesley Moodie has recovered from injury and is playing as though he had never been out of the game.

By Sy Lerman
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/ 14 October 2008

Gauteng gets ready for new SA tennis Open

The pressure is on to complete a new tennis complex in Johannesburg for the revived South African Open in February.

By Sy Lerman
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/ 13 September 2008

Davydenko cleared in betting probe

Tennis player Nikolay Davydenko was cleared by the ATP on Friday after a year-long investigation into suspicious betting patterns on a match he lost.

By Stephen Wilson
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/ 7 September 2008

The Open that Djokovic would rather forget

Forgive Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic if this US Open is one grand-slam event he would like to forget.

By Jim Slater
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/ 6 September 2008

Jankovic to face Serena Williams in final

World number two Jelena Jankovic advanced to her first grand-slam final in the US Open on Saturday, setting up a showdown with Serena Williams.

By Greg Heakes
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/ 18 August 2008

Nadal takes Federer’s number-one ranking

Spain’s Rafael Nadal has replaced Roger Federer as the new world number one in tennis rankings released on Monday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 17 August 2008

Nadal takes Olympic gold

Spain’s Rafael Nadal adds Olympic gold to his glittering season collection as he destroys Chilean Fernando Gonzalez in the men’s singles final.

By Talek Harris
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/ 16 August 2008

Djokovic wins Serbia’s first tennis medal

Novak Djokovic claimed Serbia’s first-ever Olympic tennis medal on Saturday while the giant-killing run of China’s Li Na came shuddering to a halt.

By Talek Harris
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/ 14 August 2008

Federer in shock exit from Olympic Games

Roger Federer’s troubled season took another turn for the worse when he was sent crashing out of the Olympic Games in a shock quarterfinal defeat.

By Talek Harris
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/ 13 August 2008

Federer avenges Athens humiliation

Top seed Roger Federer avenged his Athens 2004 humiliation with a convincing win over Tomas Berdych as he remained on course for an Olympic final.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 13 August 2008

SA tennis fails on world stage — ‘by a whisker’

High hopes for South African tennis this week at the Olympic Games and in Washington, DC, have ended in failure.

By Sy Lerman
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/ 12 August 2008

Williams sisters turn on the power

US sisters Serena and Venus Williams powered on towards a likely gold-medal showdown with easy second-round wins on Tuesday.

By Martyn Herman
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/ 11 August 2008

Olympic tennis produces raft of upsets

China’s Li Na produced a shock defeat of Svetlana Kuznetsova as the Olympic tennis tournament produced a catalogue of upsets on Monday.

By Talek Harris
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/ 4 August 2008

Nadal aims for Olympic win

Rafael Nadal is aiming to add Olympic glitter to his trophy room, which already brims with the laurels of 30 titles.

By Harold Heckle
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/ 2 August 2008

Nadal assures rise to top spot

Rafael Nadal marked a changing of the guard in tennis on Friday with a quarterfinal victory at the Cincinnati Masters.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 1 August 2008

‘The greatest tennis rivalry ever’

Last year, Roger Federer gave Rafael Nadal a ride from the Canadian Masters in his private jet. There will be no such cosiness this time.

By Richard Jago
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/ 24 July 2008

Tennis stars join gold rush at ‘fifth Slam’

The Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open. And this year, a fifth Grand Slam: the Beijing Olympics.

By Talek Harris
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/ 20 July 2008

SA crush Denmark in Davis Cup

South Africa completed a 5-0 Davis Cup clean sweep in the Euro-Africa Group Two tie at Emperors Palace on Sunday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 20 July 2008

SA clinch doubles clash to take Davis Cup tie

South Africa clinched their Euro-Africa Davis Cup tie 3-0 against Denmark at Emperors Palace on Saturday by winning the doubles clash.

By Sy Lerman
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/ 19 July 2008

SA sitting pretty in Davis Cup tie against Denmark

The South African Davis Cup team took a 2-0 lead against Denmark in a Euro-Africa Group Two tie at Emperors Palace on Friday.

By Sy Lerman
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/ 11 July 2008

What’s riding on Nadal’s knees

With Wimbledon’s dust settled, Steve Bierley asks: Who’s number one now?

By Steve Bierley
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