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From the You’ve Got to Be Kidding Me File: Turk-Cypriots Want Baghdatis Banned

January 18, 2008

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When I first started following tennis all those many years ago, part of its appeal was that it was an international game that taught me a lot about geopolitical issues. Boris Becker, for example, burst onto the scene in 1984 at an interesting time in German (then West German) history. It seems like ancient history […]

Magaret Court Slams Tennis Australia

January 18, 2008

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Legendary Australian Margaret Court has publicly admonished Tennis Australia for their dismal failure to produce anything resembling a championship-level women’s tennis player for twenty-five years. She offered to work with Alicia Molik. The 26 year-old went crashing out of the tournament to the Czech upstart Nicole Vaisadova – 18. Longtime readers of mine might remember […]