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...late in the fifth set of Rafael Nadal's five-set victory over Roger Federer in the Wimbledon final on Sunday - a match that took over seven hours to complete, included two rain delays, featured multiple changes of momentum, and is already being discussed as potentially the greatest tennis match ever played - when the middle-aged couple sitting next to me turned to each other between points and suddenly held hands in that heightened way that you see in movies of plane crashes. "I love you," the man said with an intensity he seemed not to have expressed for some...
...Quakers won their opening three matches efficiently, the Crimson players had to work for their victories with all three going at least four sets. O’Donnell won the opening match in four sets, 9-4, 6-9, 9-7, 9-4, to give her team the early lead. Mashruwala added a four-set win of her own by a score of 9-2, 3-9, 9-3, 9-4. Williams gutted out a tough five-set victory, 8-10, 9-2, 10-8, 8-10, 9-4, in which three of the five games in the match went...
...losing the opening set, 9-1, Tiong quickly took control, winning the next three games, 9-1, 9-0, 9-0, to claim the victory. Neo returned to the squad at the No. 8 position after sitting out against Brown and opened her 2007 campaign with a hard-fought five-set victory, 9-7, 6-9, 3-9, 9-5, 9-2. HARVARD 7, BROWN 2 The Crimson, led by Tiong and Mashruwala at the top two positions, defeated Brown, 7-2, to open the season with a convincing victory. The Crimson’s six freshmen...
...With the championship already out of reach, the Crimson’s No. 7 Johanna Snyder lost a marathon five-set match 9-6, 4-9, 9-6, 7-9, 9-6 to Princeton’s Marilla Hiltz. Harvard’s No.1 Kyla Grigg and No. 4 Audrey Duboc then pulled out victories to make the final score...
PLAYING IN HIS 21ST consecutive U.S. Open, the last tournament of his pro career, Andre Agassi reminded fans why they had come to love the former denim-clad, punk pariah. Although he was dogged by a bad back, Agassi outlasted a younger, faster Marcos Baghdatis in a five-set, second-round thriller that took almost four hours. The raucous New York City crowd roared with every winning shot; after losing a few days later, a weepy Agassi thanked fans for inspiring...