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2005 PACIFIC LIFE OPEN NEWS - March
19, 2005
There
is nothing tennis fans love more than a
good comeback story and Kim Clijsters provided
just that by winning the Pacific Life Open
title one year after sustaining a career-threatening
wrist injury at the very same tournament.
The symmetry of Clijsters╲
victory in Indian Wells was apparent to
everyone in the stadium court, not least
the woman herself, who had to fight back
tears in her first few moments after beating
Lindsay Davenport 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.
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2005 PACIFIC LIFE OPEN NEWS - March
18 , 2005
Just
when Andre Agassi thought that life was
slowly getting back to normal - his easy
romp through the draw at the Pacific Life
Open had done much to assuage the disappointment
of the Davis Cup defeat to Croatia - everything
goes wrong.
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2005 PACIFIC LIFE OPEN NEWS - March
17 , 2005
Maria
Sharapova may not be No.1 in the world rankings
– yet – but she and Roger Federer
are unquestionably the most important players
in tennis.
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2005 PACIFIC LIFE OPEN NEWS - March
16 , 2005
Poor
old Taylor Dent. It seems he cannot do right
for doing wrong. Just when he thinks he
is on the up, something dire happens and
he is kicked back down to where he started.
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2005 PACIFIC LIFE OPEN NEWS - March
15 , 2005
Martina
Hingis called her a snake. Those with a
more tactful take on compliments might have
stopped at the term ‘fighter’.
Either way Maria Sharapova is one feisty
teen.
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2005 PACIFIC LIFE OPEN NEWS - March
14 , 2005
You
know you are in trouble in the desert when
the mountains disappear. It takes a lot
to hide a peak the size of those framing
the Coachella Valley. The panic sets in
when the snowy bits in the distance fade
from view and by the time the foothills
are looking hazy, it is time to run for
cover.
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2005 PACIFIC LIFE OPEN NEWS - March
13 , 2005
Watching
Amelie Mauresmo sometimes it’s hard
not to despair of a player so talented and
yet so seemingly incapable of turning that
ability into something more tangible.
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2005 PACIFIC LIFE OPEN NEWS - March
12 , 2005
The
plan was to get back to real life as soon
as possible. Andy Roddick has spent the
past week trying to shake off the disappointment
of the Davis Cup and has been champing at
the bit waiting to get back to the business
of knocking seven bells out of the opposition.
Give that man a straight forward opening
match and let him vent his frustrations
on the hapless sap on the other side of
the net.
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2005 PACIFIC LIFE OPEN NEWS - March
11 , 2005
He
came, he saw and he got so soundly thrashed
that he may not be back for some time. Donald
Young made his debut in a Masters Series
tournament on Friday and, amid much wailing
and gnashing of teeth at the United States
Tennis Association, was taken apart by experienced
Frenchman Arnaud Clement, 6-3, 6-2.
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2005 PACIFIC LIFE OPEN NEWS - March
10 , 2005
Life
is not getting any better for Andy Roddick.
It has been four days now since he lost
to Ivan Ljubicic in the fourth and deciding
rubber of the Davis Cup, dumping the US
out of the competition in the first round,
and still he feels the disappointment as
keenly as if he had just walked off court.
There is an invisible barrier around him
warning off the hapless and the tactless
who may try to question him on the events
of the past week. Andy isn't happy and he
doesn't care who knows it.
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2005 PACIFIC LIFE OPEN NEWS - March
9 , 2005
Between
breaking off her engagement to Lleyton Hewitt
and a wrist injury so bad it nearly ended
her career, 2004 was a rough twelve months
for Kim Clijsters but the 21-year-old is
living proof of the old cliché that
what doesn’t succeed in finishing
you off only serves to make you stronger.
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