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...Volume of the loudest shriek emitted by tennis player Maria Sharapova during a Wimbledon quarterfinal against fellow Russian Elena Dementieva. Sharapova won the match...
...Volume of the loudest shriek emitted by tennis player Maria Sharapova during a Wimbledon quarterfinal against fellow Russian Elena Dementieva. Sharapova won the match...
...pair, Zheng and her fellow Sichuan native Yan Zi, who captured three doubles titles last season. In singles competition, a baby-faced 20-year-old named Peng Shuai last year reached China's highest-ever world ranking, 31, by trouncing top-10 players such as Kim Clijsters and Elena Dementieva. Peng even made the semi-finals in a warm-up tournament to last year's Australian Open, and Chinese fans hope she can match that effort when the year-opening grand slam kicks off in Melbourne next week...
...deepest U.S. Open fields in the history of women's tennis. The slam sisters, Serena and Venus Williams, will be formidable, as will new No. 2 Lindsay Davenport. Behind them lurks a horde of Sharapova's fellow Russians, including defending U.S. Open champ Svetlana Kuznetsova and Elena Dementieva; Belgians Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin-Hardenne; and France's Amélie Mauresmo. Any one of them could win the Open. The men's game, on the other hand, has been dominated by the silent Swiss Roger Federer. The only mystery concerns who will be Federer's stompee in the final...
...hours early in the morning and two more after school, she practices her aces and backhands, flat serves and chip shots, footwork and block volleys. "Trying harder makes up for my starting in tennis too late," she says. "All right, I won't jump as high as Elena Dementieva, but tennis is still my spring-board - the only one I have to take me out of here." This week, Zhbanova and thousands of other teenagers across Russia will be glued to their TV sets, watching Dementieva and the rest of a new generation of Russian tennis stars compete...
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