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We're Off and Running at Wimbledon but Caroline, Please Stick to the Tennis!

Wimbledon on Saturday and yesterday was a throbbing mass of activity and if you were lucky enough to be roaming around the All England Club you could not help but bump into top tennis stars.   Out on court Rafa Nadal, new best friend of Rory McIlroy incidentally, was honing his grass court skills ...
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Caroline Doesn't Need a Kangaroo to Jazz Herself Up

Why on earth Caroline Wozniacki feels she needs to jazz up her image is beyond me, judging by the filmed interview she gave Sportsvibe TV during the summer.   The current world number one made out the leg-strapping she wore during her fourth round Australian Open win was due to a kangaroo bite. Yest...
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The Curse of Gillette is Complete!

A couple of months ago I issued a public warning to Roger Federer that he should be afraid, very afraid of what might befall him after seeing his two other partners in crime in the Gillette TV commercials take dramatic falls. First we had Tiger Woods imploding at home and on the golf course, then Th...
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Andy Murray's Good, But He Couldn't Win The First Point Against Me!

Andy Murray may have not dropped a single set yet at Wimbledon as he cruises into tomorrow's quarter-final but he knew he met his match when he faced me at the Queen's Club three years ago. I came into the game with a strange history of always winning the first point against any tennis star who had ...
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It's Too Close a Shave for Woods and Henry, but not for Federer!

Take a look at the American Gillette commercial which you can watch in the features section of Sportsvibe TV. In it you will see Tiger Woods and Derek Jeter shaking their heads as Roger Federer plays the fool. It's the same story with the European version, as well, with Woods and Thierry Henry treat...
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Want to Win a Grand Slam Final? Then Don't Play Me!

Guesting with Greg Rusedski today on Radio 5 Live reminded me of the time when I faced the famed Rusedski serve shortly after the Canadian-turned British tennis star first arrived on the scene armed with the fastest serve in tennis. Absurdly, I stuck my racquet out and watched as Greg's serve reboun...
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Slammed and Dunked by Luol Deng

I don't why it is but, like most men, if I see a football, or a rugby, cricket or indeed basketball, I want to play with it, no matter where I might be, and no matter with whom I might be with. And so, hours before Luol Deng scored 18 points in helping his Chicago Bulls team defeat the Utah Jazz 102...
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The Fed's the Best, But Please Take Off the Self-Congratulatory Clothes

I was rooting for Roger Federer yesterday during the men's singles final at Wimbledon despite the fact that Andy Roddick has been pure class over the past fortnight, both on and off the court. Any man who can present "Saturday Night Live" as Roddick has done is OK with me. Still, I wanted to see Pet...
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Borg Shows Why He Was The Champ

Tennis legend Bjorn Borg was in an unforgiving mood when I caught up with him yesterday, six years after we played each other in a one set tennis match at the Queens Club in London. I had taken practice with American Pete Fleming who advised me to go for winners. "Just getting it over the net will n...
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Martina Knows She's Number One

Whilst Bjorn Borg was enjoying reminding me how he had won our head to head 6-0 a few years ago Martina Navratilova, the nine times former Wimbledon champion, was in her usual, punchy mood revealed so often on the tennis court. The Czech-turned American superstar of women's tennis was present at the...
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