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...long does it take you to recover from a tough loss like this year's Wimbledon final? -Ellen Polo, Warwick, R.I. I give 100% on the court, so I do get upset when I lose. But it doesn't take me much time to recover. The first hours after the match are tough. After a while I forget, and I look forward to the next days back home in Mallorca. I love fishing and golfing there, for example-just being with my old friends. I'm a good loser...
...Saturdays and Sundays were almost always chock-a-block full with activities ranging from sampling farmers’ markets to summer concerts in parks and from five-mile walks down the Thames to excursions into Oxford and Wimbledon...
...Wimbledon is the world's most boring tournament. There's hardly anything to do apart from tennis. You constantly find yourself yawning.' NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO, Russian tennis star, criticizing the lack of off-court entertainment at Britain's storied tennis competition in an interview with Russia's Sovietsky Sport newspaper
...British authorities have now raised the national terror threat to "critical", its highest level, signaling that an attack is expected imminently. All leave has been canceled for the intelligence services and security beefed up around iconic public buildings, at transport hubs, and big public events such as the annual Wimbledon tennis championships and today?s memorial Concert for Princess Diana. Scotland Yard warned ticket holders to expect delays and "to see an increase in police use of stop and search under the Terrorism Act? as a visible deterrence and disruptive tactic." Prime Minister Brown said "The first duty...
...police efforts to prevent further terrorist attacks in London have deterred revellers from taking part in today's gay pride march or chased the capital's summer visitors indoors, and tomorrow's tribute concert for Princess Diana is set to proceed as planned. Only the tennis tournament at Wimbledon has been interrupted - but by the bad weather and not alarm over safety (though a still mysterious incident late Saturday afternoon in Glasgow, Scotland, where a car crashed into an airport terminal and apparently exploded into flames, has heightened security concerns). London is reacting with its usual sangfroid to its latest...