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...brawl, with lots of competing interests steeped in tradition and little incentive to work together. Unlike many professional sports leagues, which are made up of a collection of more-or-less cooperative clubs, De Villiers represents a coterie of competing constituents. The ATP oversees the maze of tournaments around the globe and is co-owned by the tournament directors and the players, groups whose interests often clash...
...pros are free agents, choosing to play the events they like, while each tournament director scrambles to woo top names. De Villiers is the referee, trying to strengthen tennis while balancing the needs of tournament directors and players. To complicate matters, national or local tennis federations govern the Grand Slams--the Australian, French and U.S. Opens and Wimbledon, the sport's biggest events--and the International Tennis Federation oversees Davis Cup matches between countries. The result is a scheduling nightmare in which even the smallest changes become political...
...been here,” captain Tom Hegge said. “Every time we send five guys out there, it’s a nice feeling to know everyone can play well.” Sophomore Michael Shore and freshman Danny Mayer also had a strong tournament for Harvard. Shore tied for 22nd overall, scoring 76-77. Mayer finished in a tie for 34th place with a score of 77-79. Hegge played well on Monday—his score of 75 tied with Shuman for the Crimson’s lowest round of the tournament?...
...three matches, beating Ira Reibsen of Bucknell and Luka Djordjevic of Hofstra before bowing out to Penn’s Jason Pinsky. Fellow Harvard sophomore Michael Kalfayan beat Manhattan’s Filip Syzmik before falling in the round of 16 to Faisel Mohad of Binghamton. The fall tournament season for the Crimson men continues at the Dartmouth Invitational, which takes place over the weekend of Friday...
...UNDER INVESTIGATION. Mohammad Asif, 23, and Shoaib Akhtar, 31, star bowlers for Pakistan's scandal-plagued national cricket team; after testing positive for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone during India's Champions Trophy tournament; in Lahore. Both players, who await results from a second test and are set to face a doping tribunal next week, have denied knowingly taking any illegal substance. If the results are confirmed, it will mark the first time that international cricket players have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs...