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TENNIS MASTER'S SERIES
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Nov. 7, 2004
The
Parisians have a nasty habit of getting
rid of their kings but the thousands who
watched Marat Safin win his third BNP Paribas
Masters title on Sunday didn’t seem
remotely inclined to put the Russian to
the guillotine.
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TENNIS MASTER'S SERIES
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Nov. 6, 2004
Czech
qualifier Radek Stepanek has an unenviable
task in Sunday’s BNP Paribas Masters
final when he becomes the latest man to
have to stop Marat Safin’s Masters
Series run.
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TENNIS MASTER'S SERIES
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Nov. 5, 2004
If
ranking points were awarded for the element
of surprise, then Marat Safin would be perennially
world No.1 without breaking a sweat. The
mercurial Russian is many things, but predictable
is seldom one of them. A week ago he was
moaning of tiredness and tantrum-throwing
his way out of St Petersburg in the quarterfinals,
now, seven days later, he is a new man.
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TENNIS MASTER'S SERIES
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Nov. 4, 2004
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turned out to be quite an afternoon at the
BNP Paribas Masters on Thursday, for it
saw both the defending champion Tim Henman
and the top seed Andy Roddick slinking out
of the tournament without so much as an
apologetic wave.
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TENNIS MASTER'S SERIES
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Nov. 3, 2004
It
might have been the new, buzz-sawed haircut,
or the baggy clothes, but Andy Roddick looked
twice the man he used to be when he took
the court against Sargis Sargsian in his
opening match at the BNP Paribas Masters.
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TENNIS MASTER'S SERIES
- Nov. 2, 2004
Those
enjoying a romantic cruise down the Seine
on Tuesday evening must have wondered where
all the noise was coming from as they chugged
past the Palais Omnisports. The 14,000-seater
stadium is one of the most remarkably noisy
(and yet strangely intimate) venues on the
circuit and when those inside wish to show
their appreciation they do it loud enough
to wake the dead.
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SCRAMBLE FOR MASTERS CUP
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Nov.
1, 2004
After
all that counting, jostling for position
and last-minute scrambling for points, the
final line up for the Masters Cup in Houston
was decided in the space of a single hour
first thing European time on Monday morning.
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FEDERER HOBBLED
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Oct.
27, 2004
Roger
Federer's hopes of finishing 2004 with a
flourish were severely dented on Tuesday
when he was forced to withdraw from the
Davidoff Swiss Indoors event in Basel, Switzerland.
Suffering from a small tear to the muscle
in his left upper thigh, he was advised
that playing through the pain would only
cause further damage and that rest was the
only cure.
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