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L.A. Film Festival: 'Venus Vs.' filmmaker on tennis star-activist
This post has been updated. See bottom for details. Most people know Venus Williams for her ferocious backhand and overall power on the tennis court, but the 33-year-old athlete has also been an effective activist, specifically when it comes to the...
Tags: Wimbledon Championships, Los Angeles Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Festive Events, Entertainment
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PASSINGS: Gene Mako, Thomas Penfield Jackson
Gene Mako Champion tennis player in 1930s Gene Mako, 97, a champion tennis player who paired with the legendary Don Budge to win four doubles titles at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the 1930s, died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los...Tags: Wimbledon Championships, French Open, Economy, Business and Finance, Antitrust Issues, Australia
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Gene Mako, doubles champion in tennis with Don Budge, dies at 97
Gene Mako, a champion tennis player who paired with the legendary Don Budge to win four doubles titles at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the 1930s, died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said his wife, Laura. He was 97 and had...
Tags: Wimbledon Championships, French Open, Steffi Graf, Tennis, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Mira Loma's Shawn Langdon rockets to NHRA top-fuel points lead
Turns out Shawn Langdon's win at the season-opening NHRA Winternationals in Pomona was just the start of a breakout year for the drag racer from Mira Loma. Langdon, 30, drives in the premier top-fuel class of the National Hot Rod Assn.'s Mello Yello...
Tags: National Hot Rod Association, Serena Williams
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Angels place Robert Coello on DL; Dane De La Rosa recalled
BALTIMORE — The Angels on Tuesday placed reliever Robert Coello on the 15-day disabled list because of shoulder inflammation and recalled right-hander Dane De La Rosa from triple-A Salt Lake. Coello, featuring a 94-mph fastball and a forkball that...
Tags: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Sports, Chicago Cubs, Salt, Spring Training
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Serena Williams rallies to advance to the French Open semifinals
PARIS — Serena Williams laughed at herself, screamed at herself, violently shook her uncooperative racket and cocked it over her head, threatening to fling it before she changed her mind. Williams finally found a way out of her funk — and...
Tags: Wimbledon Championships, French Open, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Serena Williams, Jim Kelly
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Serena Williams beats Maria Sharapova in French Open final
PARIS -- Two hours before her French Open final, Serena Williams practiced on center court, the stands deserted as she whacked one winner after another to the distant sounds of a brass band playing on the plaza. When the music stopped, the seats...
Tags: Wimbledon Championships, French Open, Rafael Nadal, Virginie Razzano, Entertainment
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Bethanie Mattek-Sands leads U.S. surge in Paris
PARIS — There were moments, as recently as last year, when a body that would not stay healthy and on-court results prompted Bethanie Mattek-Sands to wonder whether it was simply time to call it a career after more than a decade as a pro tennis...
Tags: Samantha Stosur, Wimbledon Championships, French Open, Petra Kvitova, Li Na
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Rafael Nadal beats Novak Djokovic in epic French Open semifinal
PARIS — His dramatic and delightful French Open semifinal was 41/2 hours old — and 14 games into the fifth set — when Rafael Nadal raced from the net to the baseline to retrieve Novak Djokovic's seemingly unreachable lob. Many...
Tags: Roger Federer, Wimbledon Championships, French Open, Australian Open, France
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Roger Federer stumbles but doesn't fall at French Open
PARIS — Chasing a shot, Roger Federer caught his right shoe in Roland Garros' red clay, twisting that foot awkwardly and tumbling to the ground. Soon enough, he was in a real rut, in danger of his earliest exit from a Grand Slam tournament in...
Tags: Gilles Simon, Australian Open, Rafael Nadal, Nicolas Almagro, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
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Novak Djokovic embarks on French Open mission with first-round win
PARIS — Novak Djokovic does not try to hide his ambitions. He makes perfectly clear that he wants to win a French Open title more than anything. Embarking on a bid to complete a career Grand Slam and fill the only glaring hole on his resume, the...
Tags: Wimbledon Championships, Roger Federer, French Open, Rafael Nadal, Victoria Azarenka
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Roger Federer rolls at French Open, but he might face trouble ahead
PARIS — Now things could get a little more interesting for Roger Federer. After a pair of straightforward and straight-set victories at the French Open against qualifiers ranked outside the top 150, the 17-time major champion will face a seeded...
Tags: Gilles Simon, Australian Open, Sara Errani, Ana Ivanovic, Nicolas Almagro
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