Newsday (N.Y.): Maria Sharapova loses to Sabine Lisicki at Wimbledon

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

WIMBLEDON, England -- They call it Manic Monday here. Think of it as a tennis version of March Madness. Everyone remaining is scheduled in a fourth-rounder. The next thing you know, a favorite is defeated, and the survivors are tiptoeing to the quarterfinals.

As Serena Williams will be. As Maria Sharapova will not be.

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Los Angeles Times: Maria Sharapova falls at Wimbledon, but she'll always have Paris

By Art Spander
Special to The Los Angeles Times

WIMBLEDON, England — The way Maria Sharapova was talking, discussing her French Open victory last month as opposed to her Wimbledon loss Monday ("I'll have that for the rest of my career"), it was easy to think of the film "Casablanca."

"We'll always have Paris," Humphrey Bogart says in that familiar line. So will Sharapova.

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Newsday (N.Y.): Serena Williams survives tough match against Zheng

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

WIMBLEDON, England -- It happened three days ago to Rafael Nadal. It almost happened two days ago to Roger Federer. It seemed to be happening Saturday to Serena Williams, a star losing to a lower-ranked opponent on the All England Tennis Club's Centre Court.

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Newsday (N.Y.): Roger Federer rallies from two sets down to win at Wimbledon

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

WIMBLEDON, England -- The great ones manage to find a way, which in part is the reason they are great. Roger Federer seemed destined to follow Rafael Nadal out of Wimbledon in this unpredictable first week but instead remains a factor and one of the favorites.

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Los Angeles Times: Rafael Nadal is stunned at Wimbledon

By Art Spander
Special to the Los Angeles Times

WIMBLEDON, England -- The match began under the blue sky of a humid English late afternoon. It ended in the Twilight Zone.

A kid from the Czech Republic who never even had qualified for Wimbledon before now, a kid who is ranked 100th, stunned the tennis world by defeating one of the game's all-time greats, Rafael Nadal.

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