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...Volume of the loudest shriek emitted by tennis player Maria Sharapova during a Wimbledon quarterfinal against fellow Russian Elena Dementieva. Sharapova won the match...
...Volume of the loudest shriek emitted by tennis player Maria Sharapova during a Wimbledon quarterfinal against fellow Russian Elena Dementieva. Sharapova won the match...
Ever since Suzanne Lenglen breezed to victory in a headband and short-sleeved dress in 1919, Wimbledon has been a showcase for style. This year, it's the on-court officials' turn to wow the crowds. For the first time in Wimbledon's 129-year history, the All England Club has broken with tradition and invited a big-name designer to dress up the umpires, line judges and "ball kids." That imported Americanism - the traditional English terms remain ball boys and ball girls - is apt, since the sponsorship deal, worth an estimated $10 million over five years, was awarded...
RETIRING. Andre Agassi, 36, onetime wild child of tennis who shed his crazy mane but kept his zinging ground strokes and became one of only five men to have won all four Grand Slams (Wimbledon and the Australian, French and U.S. Opens); after the 2006 U.S. Open...
...supremacy with their Concorde supersonic transport. The plane has been plagued by stormy arguments between its builders, British Aircraft Corp. and France's Sud-Aviation. The partners have been forced to plan major structural changes and to push back delivery. London Aug. 26, 1957 When, Althea [Gibson] left for Wimbledon in May, only three close friends were at the airport to wish her luck. When she returned [as the first black player to win Wimbledon], Idlewild was awash with people. Countless acquaintances suddenly remembered how they had helped her, and crowded close to share her success. The city, which...