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...COURT, Sept. 2] quoted my comment that "a dream match" in this year's U.S. Open tennis tournament "would be four Americans in the singles finals," an outcome you predicted as unlikely. But the championship matches between the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, and Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras proved that sometimes dreams do come true. An all-American conclusion to a great international event! MERV HELLER PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN U.S. TENNIS ASSOCIATION White Plains...
...first major event of the season, the ECACs, has been disappointing for Harvard with losses to Yale and Princeton in the semis the past two years. But with the location moving from Cambridge to Flushing Meadows, NY, this year, perhaps some of Pete Sampras’s magic can rub off on the Crimson...
...first round of the U.S. open in New York City, Pete Sampras was steamrolling Spain's Albert Portas. A dozen or so rows behind the court, Rino Tommasi was pondering the merits of mixed doubles. "It's pointless," he said. "I wish they would abolish it." Seated next to him, Gianni Clerici disagreed: "Mixed doubles has helped to grow the sport." Tommasi laughed. "Yeah, but only when the man and the woman got together after the match and conceived a tennis-playing baby...
...against Roddick in last year's Open. Playing against an American in Arthur Ashe Stadium, Hewitt refused to crack. "I really don't carry that fear factor," he says. He wore out the 19-year-old Roddick with his pinpoint ground strokes and indefatigable desire. He then dismantled Pete Sampras in the final. He is neither especially big nor strong at 5 ft. 11 in. and 160 lbs. But he is especially relentless. "He doesn't have the big game to blow guys away," says his coach, Jason Stoltenberg. "He's got to use his mind strength and his legs...
...league's own television station. But if fans suffering from post-World Cup football overload are turned off by the wrangling, they might not even buy into that. TENNIS Open Contest, Closed Results What a difference a year makes. Last September Australia's young gun Lleyton Hewitt comprehensively beat Pete Sampras at the U.S. Open to take his first Grand Slam title, and the Williams sisters faced each other across the net for the first time in a Grand Slam. Now a Hewitt victory, the eclipse of Sampras and an all-Williams ladies final have become the norm...