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...yellow jersey and black pants that Zheng wore to practice during a recent national-team training session in southern China's Jiangmen city were hardly flashy, but the future of Chinese women's tennis may soon shine as brightly as a sequined Serena Williams ensemble. In 2002, there was not a single Chinese in the top 100 of the WTA tour. Last year, there were three in the top 50. The breakout moment for Chinese women's tennis came in 2004 when a hitherto unknown Chinese duo struck doubles gold at the Athens Olympics. Even the tennis cognoscenti, who easily...
...Serena Howard runs openyourhome.com which placed the Meehan-Hoos and 4,000 other Katrina families. She says 90% have done fine. When disputes arise, though, they are often about money. "We've had hosts who don't understand why the victims are still [living] there or why they are buying $4 coffees...
...other cases, though, the collision of strangers and good intentions proves once again that the bureaucracy lacks imagination. After King struck out with the relief organizations, he began looking online. He found openyourhome.com started by Serena Howard, a mother of five in Fayetteville, Ark. (So far, Howard says, she has registered almost 30,000 would-be hosts and placed 2,000 evacuees.) That's where King found the Meehan-Hoo family...
...Court 8, Xavier Malisse, once ranked in the top 20, was in the middle of a meltdown, which wasn?t difficult. The heat this week is going to be oppressive, and any player not in top condition-there was some whispering in the press area about Serena Williams? fitness-is going to have a tough time surviving, particularly if they have to play day matches or a couple of five-setters. Down 4-2 in the second set, Malisse looked like he had just stepped out of a swimming pool and swung like he was under water. He kept looking...
Sharapova leads one of the 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...