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Serena Should Be No. 1 and Much More

Posted: Apr 21st 2009 8:44PM by Greg Couch (author feed)
Filed under: WTA, WTA Rankings

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Blame the system if you want. It is all wrong. But Dinara Safina is now the No. 1 ranked women's tennis player, and no, she's not the best women's player.

Psycho. That's how Serena Williams, the best player, described it.

"I just ...'' she said. "I can't compute it.''

No, a computer does that. Tennis has its own little BCS-type controversy now, with computers trying to measure greatness. The difference is that the college football can't pick a champ without computers. Tennis does it with tournaments.
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Welcome Back, Andre Agassi

Posted: Mar 10th 2009 9:00AM by FanHouse Newswire (author feed)

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Andre Agassi has at least one more tourney in him.

He will make his return to competitive tournament tennis by participating in the 30-and-over Outback Champions Series event at Surprise, Ariz., in October.
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Andy Murray Latest Top Seed to Fall at Australian Open

Posted: Jan 26th 2009 11:53AM by Mark Hasty (author feed)
Filed under: Grand Slam, Australian Open

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Andy Murray will have time to contemplate the pie floater this week. The No. 4-seeded Brit lost a five-set match to Spain's Fernando Verdasco (right) on Monday at the Australian Open, becoming the latest seeded player to get beat at a tournament that hasn't been kind to the "over-dogs."
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Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf Are Declaring War

Posted: Aug 4th 2008 3:00PM by Elie Seckbach (author feed)
Filed under: Beijing, USA

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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

In this exclusive video we talk to tennis legends Andre Agassi and his wife Steffi Graf, who tell us why they are raging war on obesity. Andre also says he does not miss playing and around 2:45 into the tape find out what advice this tennis great has for the USA Olympic team in Beijing.
Youtube link.

Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf Are Declaring War

Posted: Aug 4th 2008 2:30PM by Elie Seckbach (author feed)
Filed under: Tennis, Women's Sports, FanHouse TV, The Word

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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

In this exclusive video we talk to tennis legends Andre Agassi and his wife Steffi Graf, who tell us why they are raging war on obesity. Andre also says he does not miss playing and around 2:45 into the tape find out what advice this tennis great has for the USA Olympic team in Beijing.
Youtube link.

Roger Federer Rolls with Flight of the Conchords in His New Nike Ad

Posted: Jul 3rd 2008 1:00AM by Will Brinson (author feed)
Filed under: Tennis

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Tennis is not particularly exciting to me. Tennis advertising has been even less so since the grunge-mullet days of Andre Agassi and Canon (sorry, Roddick, image is everything). But even I will admit that Roger Federer's most recent ad, which features Murray from HBO's Flight of the Conchords, is pretty awesome. It doesn't relate to the show much, but the Marvelian spoofness of a tennis ball war is still solid.



It takes a lot for a commercial to make me want to play tennis, and honestly, that ad actually pulled it off. Also, a continued series of these things, whereby Federer and Murray battled in comic book fashion with tennis balls over the world would be awesome.

H/T: Observation Bubble

Prostitution Ring Run by Agassi School Cheer Coach

Posted: Jun 9th 2007 1:47AM by D-Wil (author feed)
Filed under: Tennis, High School

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A cheerleading coach ay Andre Aggassi's prep school for at-risk children was a participant in a porostitution ring in Las Vegas. Esperanza Brooks, age 36, was arrested Wednesday night in Las Vegas after agreeing to deliver three prostitutes and drugs to undercover detectives at a hotel-casino.

School spokesman, Rob Powers said that while Brooks is a cheer coach, she is not a faculty member of the school founded by Agassi.

"Obviously, we're very concerned and the well-being of the students is our chief concern," Powers said, adding that Brooks passed a background check requested by the school.

Initial police reports show that ir appears none of the school's 500 students were involved in the ring.

According to the above-linked USA Today article:

Brooks was booked into Clark County jail and charged with 14 counts of prostitution-related charges. Kemp, 30, faces three counts of conspiracy to commit pandering and conspiracy to live off the earnings of a prostitute.


Tiffany Alvord, Rachael Alexander and Rachel Wall, each believed to be prostitutes working for Brooks, were booked on one count of soliciting for the purpose of prostitution. Wall was charged with possession of cocaine, police said. None of the women were minors, police said.


That Brooks passed a background check probably means she had no previous record. Hopefully this does nothing to tarnish Agassi or his school

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