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Kim Clijsters Defeats Li Na to Win Australian Open

(Jan. 29) -- Kim Clijsters rallied to win the Australian Open women's singles title 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 against Li Na of China on Saturday. Clijsters, the 2004 Australian Open runner-up and three-time U.S. Open champion, defeated Li for her fourth career Grand Slam title. It is the 27-year-old Belgian's second major in a row and...

Venus Williams' Short Dress Causes a Stir: Her Top 5 Fashion Moments

Tennis star Venus Williams has made it to the second round of the 2011 Australian Open, but it's her outfit -- not her game -- that has people talking. That's often been the case for Williams, who studied fashion design and has her own line, EleVen by Venus Williams. In the first round of this year's Australian Open,...

Historic Tennis Win for Player Using Double-Handled Racket

(Oct. 22) -- Brian Battistone became the first tennis player with a double-handed racket to record an ATP win. "He and Andreas Siljestrom defeated Arnaud Clement and Julian Knowle 6-4, 6-2 in the first round" of the Stockholm Open this week, Tennis.com reports. There has been a tremendous technological advance in tennis...

Another Amazing Roger Federer Trick Shot: The 'Tweener [VIDEO]

(Oct. 14) -- It hasn't been the best of years tennis-wise for Roger Federer. While he started the long season well by winning the Australian Open, he crashed out of Wimbledon and the French Open before the semifinal stages, and lost in the semis of the U.S. Open despite having two match points against Novak...

Unlikely Doubles Team Sends Unifying Message

NEW YORK (Sept. 9) -- The Pakistani and Indian ambassadors to the U.N. sat next to each other to watch a tennis match Wednesday at the U.S. Open. These two men from countries that are always warring or threatening, nuclear neighbors, sat together and cheered for the same players to hit a ball over a net. Imagine...

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05/31/12 BHS Senior Raises $1,500 to Fight Cancer Source: Bedford Patch - Bedford NH Bedford High School senior Ben Greiner recently held a tennis tournament for his senior project at the County Road tennis courts to raise money for cancer research.
05/31/12 IBM Serves a Private Cloud for the 2012 French Open Source: TMCnet IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it is delivering a global private cloud computing system and services for the 2012 Roland-Garros (French Open) tennis tournament as part of its technology partnership with the international event.The IBM cloud technology is enabling the French Open to satisfy increasing tennis fan demand for real-time data, scores, statistics and videos accessible through the Web, smartphones and tablets such as the iPad.
05/31/12 French Open diary: Azarenka comfortable on clay Source: USA Today Victoria Azaranka of Belarus, the Australian Open champ, chases her second Grand Slam title.
05/31/12 Are You A Tennis Fan? Source: CBS - WBNG 12 Action News - Johnson City NY Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Professional tennis is swinging its way back into Binghamton this summer.
05/31/12 Tomic bombs in a flurry of errors Source: The Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney NSW - Australia ANDY MURRAY will have to wait after Bernard Tomic crashed out of the French Open last night with a flurry of unforced errors.