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Tom Tebbutt offers insight, experience and enthusiasm in his coverage of the worldwide tennis scene
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<title><![CDATA[Record crowd sees Murray win]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Opening day of ATP World Tour Finals draws almost 17,500 to 02 Arena]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Not-so-proud parenting moments]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Samantha Stevenson makes her presence felt in an unfortunate manner while watching her daughter at Toronto event]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Abanda joins the big girls]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fifteen-year-old Canadian champion in field sprinkled with former WTA Tour regulars in Toronto this week]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Agassi speeds through signing]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[There was no time for conversation when the retired tennis star was in Toronto on the weekend]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:30 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ATP stars deliver maximum effort]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[At the end of a long season, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray have battled through fatigue, aches and pains in Tour events the last two weeks]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:12 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Agassi's book: Opening 'Open']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[American's admission of off-court turmoil in new book explains why former world No. 1 struggled at times during his playing days]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:29 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Agassi opens up on CBS]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[News magazine show 60 minutes painted a picture of a former world champion who is no different than many other professional athletes and their mistakes with recreational drugs]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:33 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dwarfed by Nadal and Federer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Djokovic is the forgotten man of the Big Three of men&rsquo;s tennis]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:12 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Finally, some respect for the scribes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rebuilding the rickety old press box at Montreal's tennis facility is part of a planned $12-millon reno]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:23 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tough week for the women]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The WTA's year-end championship was as much a survival-of-the-fittest exercises as a tennis tournament]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:29 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Some thoughts on Agassi's admissions]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's more than possible that the former tennis star's decision to make his drug use during the late '90s public is not just related to money]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:58 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Santoro reconsidering retirement]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A conversation between the veteran French player and our Match Tough correspondent earlier this year has led to The Magician contemplating a trip to Australia in January]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:39 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Women's year to close. . . sort of]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This week's Sony Ericsson Championships are supposed to signal the end of the WTA Tour season. It's not that simple]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:34 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Women take a back seat to men]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[History, both modern and distant, shows that the top-ranked players on the WTA Tour play second fiddle to the majority of ATP Tour players ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:58 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gulbis gets caught in Stockholm]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Talented but enigmatic Latvian player gets arrested for solicitation of a prostitute on eve of ATP tournament this week]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:48 -0400</pubDate>
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