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WIMBLEDON, England -- It wasn't the weight of a nation that kept Andy Murray from ending 76 years of British futility at Wimbledon, it was the unstoppable brilliance of Roger Federer.
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Andy Murray, Roger Federer, Wimbledon By Art Spander
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WIMBLEDON, England -- So maybe John McEnroe, as all announcers who want us to pay attention to the moment, was exaggerating a trifle.
But when someone has won all the Grand Slams except the French and is smart enough to have spent a year at Stanford, he is allowed an opinion.
Which McEnroe would give, certainly, even if not allowed.
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By Art Spander
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WIMBLEDON, England -- Think of the Mets making the World Series. Consider the Islanders getting to the Stanley Cup Final. Nothing compared to Andy Murray playing in Sunday's Wimbledon men's final. A nation turns its lonely eyes to him.
"Great Scot, a Briton in the Final,'' was the headline in the Independent. An editorial in the Times of London, the paper first published in 1785, with the headline "Magnificent Murray,'' began "Andy Murray's achievement yesterday was immense.''
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WIMBLEDON, England -- She leaned back and fell, tearfully, joyfully, Serena Williams on the sacred grass of Centre Court and at the same instant at the top of the tennis world.
"It's been an unbelievable journey for me,'' she would say. An unbelievable journey for anyone.
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WIMBLEDON, England -- In Saturday's Wimbledon women's final of contrasts, Serena Williams takes her big serve and grand history against the finesse and unfulfilled dreams of Agnieszka Radwanska.
Williams has set tournament records for aces as she tries for a fifth All England championship and 14th Grand Slam title. Radwanska, the first Pole in a Wimbledon final in 73 years (well before the Open Era), has kept opponents off balance as she kept moving toward a first major title.
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