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		<title>Nadal Wins 8th French Title by Beating Ferrer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(PARIS) — Rafael Nadal has become the first man to win eight titles at the same Grand Slam tournament after beating fellow Spaniard David Ferrer in the French Open final, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. Nadal broke the men&#8217;s record for match wins at Roland Garros, where he improved to 59-1, with his lone defeat against Robin Soderling in the fourth round in 2009. For fans enthralled by Nadal&#8217;s semifinal victory over top-ranked Novak Djokovic, Sunday&#8217;s final may have seemed anticlimactic. But not for the champion, who hit a fallaway forehand winner on championship point, then tumbled to the clay he loves and covered his face to hide his emotions. Nadal&#8217;s path to the Roland Garros title was more arduous than usual, and he fell behind in each of his first three matches.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2346667&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Serena Williams Beats Sharapova in French Final</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Steven Wine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(PARIS) — Serena Williams won her 16th Grand Slam title and her first French Open championship since 2002 when she beat familiar foil Maria Sharapova 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday. The victory completed the No. 1-ranked Williams&#8217; rebound from a shocking loss to 111th-ranked Virginie Razzano in the first round at Roland Garros a year ago. Since that defeat she&#8217;s 74-3, including titles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the London Olympics and the season-ending WTA Championships. Williams whacked 10 aces, including three in the final game, to extend her career-best winning streak to 31 matches. She improved to 14-2 against Sharapova, with victories in their past 13 meetings and four of the wins this year. At 31, Williams became the oldest woman to win a major title since Martina Navratilova at Wimbledon in 1990 at age 33. Her 11-year gap between Roland Garros titles is the longest for any woman. Sharapova completed a career Grand Slam by winning Roland Garros last year. In an all-Spanish final Sunday, Rafael Nadal will try to become the first man to win eight titles at the same Grand Slam event when he plays first-time major finalist David Ferrer. The women&#8217;s final, the first between No. 1 and No. 2 at a Grand Slam tournament since 2004, wasn&#8217;t as close as their rankings. It has been 12 years since the most recent three-set women&#8217;s title match at Roland Garros. Both players swung with their typical aggressiveness from the baseline, and Williams&#8217; superior serve and defense proved the difference. She silently ran side to side whipping groundstrokes with little apparent strain, while Sharapova often found herself lunging after the ball to stay in the point, with each shot accompanied by her familiar shriek. When Williams once summoned a grunt herself to match Sharapova&#8217;s volume and pound a winner, the crowd responded with a laugh. Playing in hazy, warm weather, the finalists took ferocious swings from the start. With fans perhaps fearful that Williams would win quickly, they began shouting encouragement toward Sharapova after she lost the first<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2346662&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Djokovic&#8217;s French Open Loss Is A Win for Men&#8217;s Tennis</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/06/07/why-djokovics-french-open-loss-is-a-win-for-mens-tennis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Dodds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So in fairness, that headline is a little misleading. It&#8217;s really more the way in which Novak Djokovic fell to Rafael Nadal in Friday&#8217;s French Open semifinal that&#8217;s great for the tour. It was a five-set, knock-down, drag-out epic of a tennis match—possibly the greatest that Roland Garros has ever seen. Nadal ultimately prevailed 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-7 (3), 9-7 in 4 hours, 37 minutes. But make no question about it: the outcome of this match was about both men, not just the victor. It was tennis played at the highest level. (Nadal faces fellow Spaniard David Ferrer in Sunday&#8217;s final; Ferrer broke the host country&#8217;s hearts, downing Frenchman Jo-Wilfred Tsonga in the semifinals). Though the scores for the first three sets may indicate otherwise, the two could not have been more evenly matched. At this point, there&#8217;s little question that Nadal is the greatest of all time on clay, and John McEnroe repeatedly reminded viewers that Djokovic is the best returner he&#8217;s ever seen, Jimmy Connors and Andre Agassi included. For well over four hours, both players bludgeoned the ball back and forth—Djokovic with his ferocious forehand and Nadal with shots that would spin so high that it was nearly a miracle Djokovic never jumped out of his shoes while leaping to return them. Nole—who had the crowd squarely behind him throughout the match—made fans believe that Nadal could finally be defeated on Paris&#8217; fabled red clay. (MORE: Why Rafael Nadal Will Win the French Open (In Case It Wasn’t Otherwise Obvious)) This meeting marked the 35th time the pair had squared off—tying the Open Era record set by Jimmy Connors, twice (with both McEnroe and Ivan Lendl). Most analysts agree it should have been the final, as it would make pretty good sense to have the world&#8217;s top player and the seven-time champ as the top two seeds (Roger Federer, who hasn&#8217;t won a tournament in 2013 and was bounced by Jo-Wilfred Tsonga in the quarters). But unlike officials at Wimbledon, those at the French are reluctant to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2346643&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">2013 French Open - Day Thirteen</media:title>
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		<title>American Upstart: Sloane Stephens on Serena Williams, French Open</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/05/23/american-upstart-sloane-stephens-on-serena-williams-french-open/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 12:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s issue of TIME magazine, out on newsstands Friday and free online for subscribers, features a profile of Sloane Stephens, the 20-year-old American who burst onto the U.S. sports scene after beating Serena Williams at the Australian Open. Though some media reports said Williams and Stephens had a mentor-mentee type of relationship, that&#8217;s far from the truth. &#8220;We’re not besties,” Stephens says with a laugh during a talk with TIME in late February. “I would never message her, ‘Oh, let’s go to dinner,’ anything like that.” A few weeks before the Australian, Williams and Stephens played a match in Brisbane, which Williams won in straight sets. Williams’ grunting and fist-pumping bothered Stephens. “That’s insane,” Stephens says. “Just intimidation. That’s just what happened. That’s what she does. She scares people.” At the press conference after Stephens dumped Williams out of the Oz, Williams referred to Stephens as “my opponent” and called her a “good player” but took no pains to praise her. Stephens calls such tactics mind games. “I would never do that to anyone,” she says. “So I don’t understand how some people do the things they do. That’s life. What can you do? You can’t change that. She is who she is, so you just move on.” Stephens has struggled since the Australian Open; she knows she must improve her ability to concentrate.  “Always staying focused is something that’s been very tough for me,” she says later. “I’m still working on it.” She&#8217;s confident she&#8217;ll get her game back at the French Open, which starts on Sunday. &#8220;I’ve had a rough patch,” Stephens says. “But I’m over it. I think once I start to have a little more fun, things will come a lot easier. I’m excited to take the next step and do my thing. Again.” To read this story and all other TIME content, an all-access subscription can be purchased here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2346405&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Rafael Nadal Will Win the French Open (In Case It Wasn&#8217;t Otherwise Obvious)</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/05/23/why-rafael-nadal-will-win-the-french-open-in-case-it-wasnt-otherwise-obvious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 10:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Dodds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent parts of two summers working at the French Open during the height of Rafael Nadal&#8217;s first Roland Garros reign in 2007 and 2008. Both years, before even the first match was played, anyone who&#8217;d been at the previous French Open knew who was going to walk away with the men&#8217;s title. The running joke was how long it would take for people to start talking themselves into Roger Federer as a potential threat to Nadal&#8217;s crown. At the time, Federer was the best tennis player in the world and at the peak of his run to set a new all-time record for Grand Slam titles. But for anyone who watched the two play their early-round matches on Paris&#8216; fabled red clay, the discussion was a nonstarter. Rafa beat Roger in four sets in the 2007 final and dominated him at the same stage in straight sets the following year (they also contested the 2006 final, which Nadal took in four). Nadal was the king of clay, the Rajah of Roland Garros. Those monikers still remain appropriate today. Simply put, there is no justifiable reason for anyone to pick a men&#8217;s tennis player other than the 26-year-old Nadal (he&#8217;ll turn 27 during the Grand Slam) to win the 2013 French Open, which begins this Sunday in Paris. Any alternative narrative evaporated when Nadal dispatched longtime foe Federer 6-1, 6-3 in a tidy 69 minutes to win the Rome Masters 1000 title last Sunday. It&#8217;s possible that Rafa has slipped to the backs of sports fans&#8217; minds since he hasn&#8217;t participated in — let alone won — a Grand Slam event since falling in the second round at Wimbledon a year ago, but there&#8217;s little question that he&#8217;ll once again be the primary concern of every player on tour come Sunday. (MORE: The Return of Rafa: What Nadal’s Recovery Means for Men’s Tennis) Since returning from injury in February, Nadal holds the best record in men&#8217;s tennis at an imposing 36-2. One of those losses came in the finals of his<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2346381&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Return of Rafa: What Nadal&#8217;s Recovery Means for Men&#8217;s Tennis</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/03/19/the-return-of-rafa-what-nadals-recovery-means-for-mens-tennis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Dodds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are few certainties in the sports world: gold medals for Usain Bolt, a few good upsets in the NCAA tournament, endless discussion of all things Tim Tebow. And Rafael Nadal winning the French Open as long as he&#8217;s healthy. Nadal has seven French Open titles and is 52-1 lifetime at Roland Garros, his lone loss coming in the fourth round of the 2009 tournament against Robin Soderling while struggling with knee ailments that have followed him for much of his career. His dominance on clay—especially on the outskirts of Paris—is undisputed and historic. In the 12 years since he turned pro in 2001, the Spaniard has lost only 20 matches on clay, while winning 266 (a .930 winning percentage). As recently as late January, however, there were doubts about whether Nadal would successfully defend—or even attempt to defend—his 2012 title at Roland Garros. The 26-year-old pro had not played a professional match since losing in the second round at Wimbledon nearly six months earlier. First it was the ever-troublesome knees, then a stomach bug knocked him out of the Australian Open in mid-January. Nadal fell out of the top four in the ATP rankings for the first time since 2005 (the same year he won his first French Open title). Pundits began to wonder aloud whether this was the beginning of the end for the &#8220;King of Clay.&#8221; (MORE: Andy Murray Takes U.S. Open, Notches Another Win for Great Britain) But then he got back on the court. After losing in the finals of his first tournament of the 2013 season, Nadal has won 14 consecutive matches and three titles. The first two titles came on clay (the latter of which was capped by a commanding 6-0, 6-2 win over fellow Spaniard David Ferrer, who had taken Nadal&#8217;s place in the top four), but the third—last weekend&#8217;s ATP World Tour Masters 1000 at Indian Wells, Calif.— marked his first hard court tournament win in nearly two years. On his way to the million dollar purse, Nadal defeated Tomas Berdych,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2345062&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen Levy</dc:creator>
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		<title>In Tennis, Are Injury Timeouts Just Cheating?</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/01/25/in-tennis-are-injury-timeouts-just-cheating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Dodds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s horrendous for our sport and for our game.&#8221; Those were the harsh words that former U.S. Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe had for tennis&#8216; injury timeout rules in the wake of Victoria Azarenka&#8217;s semifinal victory over American upstart Sloane Stephens at the Australian Open. After winning the opening set of the match 6-1, Azarenka held a 5-3 lead and was serving for the match. Then, quite simply, she choked. Repeatedly. Five squandered match points later, Stephens had narrowed Azarenka&#8217;s lead to 5-4 and was back on serve. That&#8217;s when things got shady. Azarenka—currently the top-ranked player in women&#8217;s tennis—requested a medical timeout. But how and why did she get hurt? No one knew. Ten minutes later, she was back on the court and Stephens&#8217; momentum was gone. The world No. 1 broke back to win the next game and the match 6-1, 6-4. (MORE: Say Hello To Sloane Stephens, The U.S. Teen Who Beat Serena Williams) In the on-court interview after the match ended, Azarenka said: &#8220;Well I almost did the choke of the year right now. At 5-3 having so many chance, couldn&#8217;t close it out. I&#8217;m glad I could just turn it around. I just felt a little bit overwhelmed realizing that I&#8217;m one step from the final and nerves got into me for sure.&#8221; In subsequent interviews, Azarenka added physical symptoms—first chest pain, then back pain—to the mental ones she had mentioned earlier, but did little to downplay the notion that she had used a bit of gamesmanship to help close out the victory. The outcry in the tennis world was swift. Though Stephens was reticent to levy accusations at the 2012 Australian Open champ, her coach didn&#8217;t pull any punches: &#8220;I thought it was very unfair — cheating within the rules,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was unsportsmanlike. I don&#8217;t think you should be able to leave the court before the opponent serves for 10 minutes for whatever reason. You&#8217;d better have something pretty good. I think there&#8217;s a gray area in the rule book that shouldn&#8217;t be<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2344036&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Say Hello To Sloane Stephens, The U.S. Teen Who Beat Serena Williams</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/01/23/say-hello-to-sloane-stevens-the-u-s-teen-who-beat-serena-williams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Serena Williams entered the 2013 tennis season on a tear. In 2012 she won Wimbledon, cruised at the Olympics, and took the U.S. Open. So forgive us if we thought that this could finally be a year where a tennis player pulls off a Grand Slam, winning the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open in the same year. Steffi Graf was the last player to do it, back in 1988. She still is. Sloane Stephens, the 19-year-old-next-great-American-tennis-hope, part 26, took down Serena at the Australian Open on Tuesday, 3-6, 7-5, 6-4.  She&#8217;ll play the world no. 1, Victoria Azarenka, in the semi-finals on Thursday. Williams got so ticked playing Stephens, she even gave her racquet a good ol&#8217; smashing. Check it out. (MORE: Williams Loses In Quarters, Azarenka Into Semis) So who is Sloane Stephens? Here a few quick basics: 1. Stephens grew up in Plantation, Florida &#8211; with pictures of Serena Williams in her bedroom. 2. In 1988 her mother, Boston University swimmer Sibyl Smith, became the first African-American female to be named a Division 1 All-American in that sport. Sibyl Smith is a psychologist. 3. Her father, John Stephens, was a former running back with the New England Patriots and other teams. He died in a 2009 auto accident. Stephens was the NFL&#8216;s offensive rookie of the year in 1988. Sybil Smith and John Stevens were divorced, and Sloane Stevens met her father in person &#8220;twice, maybe three times,&#8221; according to the New York Times. But they developed a relationship over the phone late in his life. 4. She said her Twitter following more than doubled during the match, from 17,000 before to 35,000 after. (As of Wednesday at 1:40 P.M. eastern time, she was at over 46,000 followers). 5. After the match with Williams, Stephens was giddy about her new Twitter celebrity. &#8220;John Legend tweeted me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Dirk [Nowitzki] tweeted me. I mean, I&#8217;m just excited. I want John Legend to sing at my wedding.&#8221; Nowitzki&#8217;s tweet. Wow. What a win for sloane. Some amazing defense.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2344009&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Andy Murray Takes U.S. Open, Notches Another Win For Britain</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/09/11/andy-murray-takes-u-s-open-notches-another-win-for-great-britain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On match point, that bloody drought crept into Andy Murray&#8217;s head. How couldn&#8217;t it? For years, the British press has reminded Murray of his country&#8217;s tennis futility. Since 1936, when Fred Perry took the U.S. Open, no British man had won a Grand Slam singles title. And now, 76 years to the day since Perry won that championship, Murray was serving for the U.S. Open, against Novak Djokovic, on a chilly New York City evening. Murray knew this was his chance to stop the losing streak. &#8220;It does build pressure a little bit,&#8221; says Murray of the constant harping on Great Britain&#8217;s struggles in the slams. &#8220;I realized how important that moment was, for British tennis, for British sport.&#8221; Murray, a Scot, won the match. &#8220;I&#8217;m obviously proud that I managed to achieve it, and yeah, don&#8217;t have to get asked that stupid question again.&#8221; (PHOTOS: Game, Set, Match: U.S. Open Tennis) Great Britain&#8217;s greatest sporting summer ended with another shot of glory. On the heels of a wildly successful home team performance at the London Olympics, and a Paralympic Games that set all kinds of attendance records, to say nothing of fulfilling the London slogan of &#8220;Inspire a generation,&#8221; Murray beat Djokovic in an epic five-set U.S. Open final, 7-6 (12-10), 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2. &#8220;I hope it inspires some kids to play tennis,&#8221; Murray, 25, said of the potential impact of his win, &#8220;and also takes away the notion that British tennis players choke.&#8221; The match took 4 hours, 54 minutes, tied for the longest in U.S. Open history. In 1988 Mats Wilander defeated Ivan Lendl, the eight-time Grand Slam winner who started coaching Murray this year, in the same amount of time (and Murray, like Lendl, won his first Grand Slam at the fifth time of asking).  The win also wrapped up a satisfying summer for Murray, who also won an Olympic gold medal on home soil back in August, by gaining a measure of revenge over Roger Federer, who bested him in July&#8217;s Wimbledon final. (MORE:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2341586&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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