Match-Play Event Brings Risks for Top 4 in Ranking
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For the first time this year, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Steve Stricker and Ernie Els are playing at the same time â but all could be gone after one round.
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Werner Eschauer of Austria and the qualifier Steve Darcis of Belgium advanced to the final of the Dutch Open yesterday in Amersfoort, Netherlands. Neither one has played for an ATP title before. Darcis, ranked 297th, upset the second-seeded Mikhail Youzhny, 4-6, 6-0, 7-5, and Eschauer defeated Robin Haase, 6-4, 6-4, in the semifinals.At the clay-court Palermo Open in Italy, the 18-year-old Agnes Szavay reached her first career final by beating Sara Errani, 7-6 (0), 6-1, in the semifinals. Szavay, seeded eighth, will face the second-seeded Martina MÃ¼ller in the final today. MÃ¼ller defeated Karin Knapp, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1.At the Western & Southern Financial Group Womenâs Open in Mason, Ohio, Akiko Morigami earned her second berth in a final in three years by outlasting the qualifier Akgul Amanmuradova, 6-7 (8), 6-4, 6-3. She will play the top-seeded Anna Chakvetadze in the final today. Chakvetadze advanced with a 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 win over the third-seeded Sania Mirza.
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Andre Agassi knows it's possible to do well as an unseeded player at the U.S. Open. He won the 1994 title that way, after all &#151; the tournament's only unseeded champion in the Open era. Still, being thrown into the draw without any sort of protection from facing top players too early can make things tough, as Agassi found out Wednesday.
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Tim Henman begins his challenge at the Swiss Indoors as the highest-ranked player left in the draw following Roger Federer&#39;s withdrawal through injury.
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The difference between Lindsay Davenport and Vera Zvonareva Sunday looked to be far greater than five spots in the WTA rankings. The fourth-ranked Davenport dominated No.
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The Wimbledon draw, which resembles a game of bingo with its grids and numbers drawn from a basket, has prescribed some interesting matchups including a possible Justine Henin-Serena Williams quarterfinal.
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The 10 teams have all played each other once, and a glance at the table reveals an interesting fact. The top four places - the automatic qualifying slots - are filled by the same countries that took them in the 2002 campaign.
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It&#8217;s not easy to find 30-somethings in the Open singles draws. The men&#8217;s field is still dotted with six &#8212; Tim Henman, Andrei Pavel, Carlos Moya, Agustin Calleri, Thomas Johansson and Hyung-Taik Lee. Four of those six are in action today. Henman, now ranked 91st but a perennial top-10 player and the British No. 1 [...].
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On a day of wildly fluctuating fortunes four players, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Lee Westwood and Stuart Appleby, ended up on top of the leaderboard after the first day of the Nedbank Golf Challenge at Sun City on Thursday.
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The unpredictability of Marat Safinâs game is becoming a thing of the past. These days the tempestuous Russian is as strong and forceful opponent as it is possible to find on the opposing side of a tennis
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A high-profile promotion proves as risky as it is bungled.
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Upsets are likely to dominate the agenda at this week's WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Marana, Arizona where Henrik Stenson defends his title.
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Teams have a better chance of winning if they go for it when facing fourth-and-short.
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A winner of five straight tournaments, Tiger Woods is a big favorite in the World Match Play Championship. The Ryder Cup is another story.
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Lee Westwood looked at the draw at the start of the HSBC World Match Play Championship this week and knew it could hardly be tougher.
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It&#39;s one thing to win Wimbledon, the biggest trophy in tennis. Quite another to live with it. By Anja Niedringhaus, AP. That is the tricky road of risk
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Things are never simple where Tim Henman is concerned, especially when there are qualifying places for the Masters Cup at stake. A place in the final of the Davidoff Swiss Indoors would have secured his place