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...sure we are not at Wimbledon?" ANASTASIA MYSKINA, Russian tennis player, on the extensive rain delays at this year's U.S. Open
...only they can see, called "hole cards," and then five more community cards are placed in the middle of the table. According to Lon McEachern, the play-by-play guy on World Series, watching Hold 'Em without seeing the hole cards "was like having McEnroe and Boris Becker playing Wimbledon in the dark, then turning on the lights after the point was over to see who won. You never knew what skills they possessed...
...glamorous female players - first there was sports-model Anna Kournikova, of course, and then came the ones who can really play, such as Dementieva, 21, and Anastasia Myskina, 22, who have both won tour titles this year; 16-year-old Anna Tchakvetadze, who made the girls' singles final at Wimbledon; Lina Krasnoroutskaya, 19, who beat Kim Clijsters in August at the Rogers AT&T Cup in Toronto; and Maria Sharapova, 16, who hasn't won yet but may become the best of the bunch. Impoverished Russian kids copy these heroes the way teenagers elsewhere emulate David Beckham or Shaquille...
...spring 2004 menswear shows in Milan last week, Gucci designer Tom Ford introduced a chic take on the tennis bag in crocodile and a Stan Smith-style sneaker with croc trim. At the menswear shows in Paris, meanwhile, Louis Vuitton featured tennis whites as a major theme. Over at Wimbledon, where tennis was actually being played, Venus Williams was serving up her new look on Centre Court: a Diane Von Furstenberg-designed Reebok tennis dress with corsetlike lacing up the back. Anna Sui's current line includes "a tennis dress, pleated miniskirts, sweater sets and tube socks," says Sui, adding...
...Roland Garros stadium to see Monica Seles defeat Steffi Graf for the title. She told her mother, "One day I'll be on that court, and maybe I'll win." The dream became reality, but without her mother, who died of cancer in 1995. This week at Wimbledon she begins a campaign to better her performance of 2001, when she reached the final, losing to Venus Williams. Then, the American sister act had seemed invincible. But both the Belgian aces have beaten world No. 1 Serena in recent months, so don't bet against another big welcoming party in Brussels...