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VOL.26 :: NO.25 :: June 21 - June 27, 2003
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From the publishers of THE HINDU VOL.26 :: NO.25 :: June 21 - June 27, 2003 |
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IN southern Japan, his handsome face, with that charming boy-next-door smile, is featured on the front page of a small town newspaper.
Ferrero, Henin-Hardenne set sights highGiven the wonderful combination of confidence and skills displayed by Juan Carlos Ferrero and Justine Henin-Hardenne at the French Open, who can say they don't have it in them to go all the way to the top this season, asks NIRMAL SHEKAR.
A pensive Ferrero finally takes the crownJUAN CARLOS FERRERO, French Open champion. It has had the proper ring to it for several springs now, but that did not necessarily make it easier to achieve. WOMEN'S FINAL 
Henin-Hardenne fulfils a promiseON her first trip to Roland Garros in 1992, a 10-year-old Belgian girl was in the stands for the women's final and left for home disappointed after Monica Seles defeated her idol, Steffi Graf.
Unruly French crowd too much to takeAT the end of a long, tumultuous and ultimately demoralising afternoon, Oracene Price sat down in the players' lounge, composed enough to smile, to surmise that she was "not going to have a heart attack" over a semifinal defeat in a Grand Slam event. Serena's accusation A sobbing Serena Williams accused Justin Henin-Hardenne of "lying and fabricating" during their ill-tempered match. At 4-2 and 30-0 in the third set, Williams hit her first serve into the net after Henin-Hardenne held up her hand to signal she ... Serena's Grand Slam winning streak Serena Williams had won 33 consecutive Grand Slam matches before losing to Justin Henin-Hardenne.
Ground ControlThe reigning Wimbledon champions won from the baseline, challenging conventional wisdom about what makes a grass-court game. And there's little reason to think 2003 will be any different. BY STEPHEN TIGNOR. The Gentlemen We rate the contenders from one tennis ball (forget about it) to five (good bet). The Ladies We rate the contenders from one tennis ball (forget about it) to five (good bet). Bowing out The All England Club bucks tradition. Yes, it's true. 
The Venus TrapVenus Williams always wanted the best for her little sister. Now that Serena has become the best women's player in the world, does Venus have the nerve to fight back? By BRUCE SCHOENFELD.
Everything in Wimbledon has the word `ritual' affixed to it, as if there is some precise and proper way of doing things.
Success for Sons of PaceWE will assume for the purposes of this summary of the second Test between England and Zimbabwe that Zimbabwe are a normal Test team. It will keep us sane.
The DisappearedSome countries call them The Disappeared; friends and relatives who are alive and well one day and out of sight and two steps ahead of the nearest search party 24 hours later.
England's confused thinkingJUST what England are trying to do to build a better team continues to amaze me. Perhaps the hardest thing to do when you are trying to rebuild is to get the structure right.
A hunt for talented spinnersI must compliment the Board of Control for Cricket in India for its endeavour to develop a Spin Academy in India. What more, the legendary spin quartet will be involved in the project.
WE have all seen TV serials that carry on endlessly, stretching from one dreary episode to another.
A happening, happening weekHOW Dhanraj Pillay and his lads showed Sourav & Co the wizardly way to put it across an Australia looking near insuperable before the Perth-Sydney showdown!
TO `beep or not to beep' remains the classic dilemma of V.V.S. Laxman.
Australian Test cricket captain Steve Waugh was named an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for his charity work at an Indian orphanage.
`When you talk, all you do is pollute yourself'The more you talk, Mike, the more you pollute yourself. If you were a reservoir, nobody could drink the water. If you were the emission system on somebody's car, the driver would get a ticket. If you were a fertilizer, grass would die.
Ice Man of Formula One beginning to thawAt the end of the final race of 2002 — with the world championship sewn up in record time four months beforehand — the Ferrari mechanics were hanging around in the Suzuka paddock itching to party.
Wang Yu keeps China's reputation intactMORE online casual chess games are played today than over-the-board games. The Internet helps bridge boundaries and chess is perhaps the only game that can be played online without losing any of its charm which makes people argue whether it is a sport or an art.
A path-breaking effortANNIKA SORENSTAM did not make the cut at the Colonial Golf Tournament, leaving the greens in tears after round two with five bogeys in eight holes. However her path-breaking effort to tee-off with elite male golfers, even though due to a sponsor's exemption, struck a chord with Anjali Bhagwat, a world-class shooter with first-hand experience of rubbing shoulders with men in competition. The 32-year-old had finished ahead of four of top world male shooters when winning the 2002 Champion of Champions combined air rifle event at Munich, probably the only Indian champion to earn the distinction of being invited to take part in a `mixed' competition featuring the world's best.
Customs and Central Excise 1 claims titleCUSTOMS and Central Excise 1 represented by Sreesh and Sunilkumar and Andhra Pradesh 1, comprising G. Ramadevi and C. A. Evangelina Paul won the men's and women's titles respectively in the seventh National Beach Volleyball Championship conducted by Pearl City Beach Volleyball Club in Tuticorin recently.
MTNL, Delhi bags overall championship A SPORT which has had a stranglehold in most of the northern states so far, made its debut in the south — Tamil Nadu.
IOB retains trophyINDIAN Overseas Bank (IOB), Chennai retained the P. D. Chidambara Sourya Narayanan Memorial Trophy for the fourth successive year in the 44th annual all-India basketball tournament conducted by the Silver Jubilee Sports Club at Periyakulam ... NAGAON 
Chhattisgarh bags a doubleCHHATTISGARH excelled both in application and grit to reign supreme in the 30th sub-junior National basketball that saw seven days of absorbing action at the multi-purpose Nurul Amin Stadium in Assam's Nagaon town. The State emerged best in both ... BANGALORE Karnataka shows its prowess IN RECENT years, the most resounding kicks in taekwondo have been heard in Karnataka. And the State reiterated its prowess by emerging as overall champion in the 21st National sub-junior taekwondo championship held in Bangalore from May 23 to ...
Ono takes his bow as Asia's Player of the YearJapan and Feyenoord star Shinji Ono received his AFC (Asian Football Confederation) Player of the Year 2002 at the Urawa Reds Stadium where he made his name.
COMPARISONS are odious goes the old saying and you might say that in soccer, they tend to be irrelevant.
World No. 2 Clijsters, who turned 20 the day after the women's final, said that she and her world No. 1 boyfriend Hewitt have discussed getting married. |
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