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...Pete Sampras' record of 14 championships, is refined (he wore a cream-colored blazer to his Wimbledon matches) and sublime. "The way Roger moves, he's a ballet dancer out there," says McEnroe. "He floats above the court. His style is the most beautiful I've seen." Federer's volleys, awe-inspiring angled shots, and fluid one-handed backhand recall a bygone serve-and-volley era before today's high-tech racquets encouraged players to grip and rip missiles from the baseline. Says veteran tennis broadcaster Bud Collins: "He looks as though he woke up from a time capsule...
...error occurred while processing this directive] model her latest range of tennis attire for Adidas. David Lauren, Ralph's son and marketing and communications director for the company, welcomes the challenge. "Just like any sport, competition is great," Lauren told Time. "It forces us to reinvent our game." The volley of tennis-fashion hookups is part of a broader trend in which couture is taking its cues from the sports world. Designed to play - not just saunter - in, the apparel appeals to style lovers who don't want to compromise their look on the sports field. Streetwise designer Alexander McQueen...
...there is no doubt that the event has had unmistakable and immediate consequences, most notably the subsequent announcement by Hamas that its military wing was abandoning a cease-fire it had largely held to since early 2005. Since then, it has re-entered the fray with a volley of rockets, raising the frightening prospect that sustained violence could start anew - the kind of violence that has already irrevocably marked the lives of the Ragolskys and the Ghabens, along with many others...
...No.1 team of Natasa Vukovic and Gira Schofield, Anderson and O’Riain showed why they have been ranked No. 4 by taking their game to new heights. On break point during that pivotal seventh game, O’Riain stabbed at a ball with a lunging volley that landed just over the net, leading to a put-away winner from partner Anderson. From that point on, the duo went on a tear to even the score at 6-6. After splitting the next four games, the team dominated in the tiebreak, pulling away from the Gamecocks tandem...
...score during 1:16 of 5-on-3 time early in the third period, reflecting the struggles of a man-advantage squad that came into the game with a meager .172 conversion percentage and that went 0-for-7 on the night. Fortunately for Harvard, its strategy of launching volley after volley at the resilient D’Alba eventually paid off when Murphy put away his own rebound to secure the season sweep for the Crimson. “After the first [period], we threw a lot of pucks on net,” Murphy said...