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Sportbusiness Sports Event Management Awards Shortlist Announced - Sportbusiness.com
the shortlist for the second sportbusiness sports event management awards has been announced ahead of the gala awards dinner at the novotel, st pancras, london on november 12. some 150 entries and nominations were received. they include some of the ...
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Sharapova Out For 2008, Hopeful For 2009
bradenton, fl, usa - although she hadn't officially qualified yet, things were looking good for maria sharapova to be a part of the sony ericsson championships - doha 2008, as she was the leading player in the hunt for the remaining berths for the elite eight-woman event.
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Bosses Confident Tennis Can Ride Out World Economic Crisis - Feature
tokyo - as he cracked a ceremonial cask of sake to officially open the japan open this week, local aig company boss robert clyde admitted he was relieved to get his mind temporarily off the current world financial crisis. believe me, it's a lot more...
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Bosses Confident Tennis Can Ride Out World Economic Crisis - Enews 2.0
as he cracked a ceremonial cask of sake to officially open the japan open this week, local aig company boss robert clyde admitted he was relieved to get his mind temporarily off the current world financial crisis. "believe me, it's a lot more ...
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Tennis Star Murray Turns Out For Wimbledon Readathon - Staines Guardian
ace author tony hawks served up a literary treat for merton school children today as he led them on a mass readathon on wimbledon’s number one court. mr hawks - famous for his own hilarious sporting tale playing the moldovan’s at tennis - helped ...
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Officials Go Under Cover To Catch Up Rain-hit Japan Open - Summary
tokyo - officials took cover indoors as rain from an approaching typhoon dampened the japan open for a second day on tuesday, with teenaged tennis hero kei nishikori securing an opening win under the roof. the 18-year-old, who claimed his nation's fi...
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Ping-pong Is Rock'n'roll With Tiny Guitars
boarding a bus you suspect is bound for the peking university gymnasium, you ask one of the maniacally helpful olympic volunteers, the type who appears in your bathroom mirror if you take more than five seconds to remove the lid from the toothpaste, if it was indeed going to the table tennis.
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Andy Murray On Standby For Doubles Rubber In Davis Cup Tie With ... - Daily Telegraph
andy murray on standby for doubles rubber in davis cup tie with austria at wimbledon the murray brothers may be getting on again, but john lloyd, great britain's davis cup captain, has decided against nominating andy and jamie to play together ...
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First Tennis Grand-slam - Time
fortnight ago when the top-ranking tennis players of the world assembled at wimbledon for the 58th all-england championships, most international of all tournaments, the spotlight played on the distaff side. so completely has california's red-haired ...
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Tennis: Jankovic Set On Ending 2008 As World No. 1
beijing: serbia’s jelena jankovic, fresh off her win at the china open, says she is determined to finish the year as the wta’s top player and is eyeing grand slam glory next season.
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Credit Crunch Threatens The Olympic Plans
it was sold to the ioc and the taxpayer as the “legacy olympics”. but there is deep and growing concern that the next casualty of the financial meltdown will be the core promises of homes and jobs that london made to win the games.
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Photos: Ibm Serves Up Wimbledon In Second Life - Silicon.com
ibm is recreating the action of the wimbledon tennis championships in second life. the company has been experimenting with tennis in the virtual world for some time - it started last year with a site on a private island, followed with experiments ...
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Davis Cup: Andy Murray Fired Up By Jurgen Melzer Jibes - Daily Telegraph
davis cup: andy murray fired up by jurgen melzer jibes a fire machine has been installed behind the baseline at wimbledon’s no 1 court to provide some pyrotechnics for this weekend’s davis cup tie, which led to andy murray making the sort of ...
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Jankovic Targets Glory
jelena jankovic says she is determined to finish the year as the wta's top player.
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Sharapova To 'shut It Down' For Season
maria sharapova announced on her web site friday that she will not play again this season, ending speculation that she might come back for the sony ericsson wta tour championships nov. 4-9 in doha, qatar.
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Even When Prices Are Falling, Your House Can Be Hard At Work Making ... - The Independent
game, set and cash: during the tennis championships, wimbledon residents rent out space for parking and for traders to set up stall over the past decade, many homeowners have become accustomed to watching their property earn more than they do. house ...
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Federer Beats Nadal For Fourth Wimbledon Title - Sify
no. 1 got even against no. 2 as federer ended a five-match losing streak to rafael nadal on sunday, winning 6-0, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (2), 6-3 to earn his fourth straight wimbledon title and eighth grand slam championship. nadal had beaten federer in four ...
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Nicole Cooke Suggests Plucky Brit Can Be Slain
how much of being the best is the result of thinking you're the best? how much of winning is the result of believing you're going to win?
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The Net Post: All Hail Andy Roddick, The Nice Guy Of The Atp Tour Who Just Keeps Giving
it is about time that andy roddick's contribution to men's tennis in the past nine years on the atp tour received full and unequivocal respect and the net post does not mean it should happen now just because of the gesture, when he lifted the china open yesterday - the 26th title of his career - to donate $25,000 of his prize money to those still suffering after may's catastrophic earthquake in ...
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Davis Cup Doubles Disaster For Britain - Times Online
the use of irony has never been a strong suit of british tennis but the announcer employed by the lawn tennis association to send dismayed fans home from a depressing davis cup doubles defeat gave it a good go with “what an amazing day.” it was ...
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