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This text discusses the performance and achievements of several athletes, including Carlos Alcaraz, Naomi Osaka, and Patrick Mahomes. It highlights Alcaraz's recent success at Wimbledon, defeating Novak Djokovic and winning the tournament. Alcaraz's talent and personality have made him influential in the sport, attracting endorsements from major brands. The text also mentions Osaka's success in tennis and Mahomes' involvement in various sports ventures. [Extracted from the article]

Federer, 41, leaves with an airtight case as the GOAT of men's tennis - 20 Grand Slam titles, 310 weeks ranked world No. 1 and perhaps the purest, most varied shotmaking the game has ever seen. B Perhaps unsurprisingly, Roger Federer's retirement announcement was a somewhat subdued affair: an elegant four-page letter dropped on Instagram in mid-September. Wimbledon still quaintly refers to its men's bracket as the "gentlemen's" draw, but when Federer played there the term rang true. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents information on football wide receiver Steve Smith of the Baltimore Ravens football team. Topics include details on Smith's career including details on his performance for the Carolina Panthers, speculation on the effect of age on Smith's career, and details on the nutrition and exercise habits of Smith.

The article presents information on professional tennis player Serena Williams. Topics include statistics on the number of her tennis tournament wins and consecutive wins, details on Serena's departure from the 2014 Wimbledon tournament due to a viral illness, details on the media coverage of Serena, and details on Serena's success with tennis player and sister Venus Williams.

The article presents a profile of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, focusing on ways in which renovation to its venues at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, including Arthur Ashe Stadium and Louis Armstrong Stadium, and marketing campaigns focused on attracting celebrities to the tennis matches has changed the character of the tournament. Comments from former players Chris Everet and Jimmy Connors are highlighted and issues regarding player safety and ticket prices are discussed.

The article discusses the career of tennis player Rafael Nadal, particularly his performance at the French Open where he played against Robin Söderling. Nadal discusses the emotions that he felt during the game about his personal life, his health, and his career. Söderling's abilities as a tennis player are described. A game between players Francesca Schiavone and Elena Dementieva, also at the French Open, is described.

The article discusses retired professional tennis player Monica Seles. At fifteen years old, Seles was dominating her opponents, the author suggests, playing with an intensity that had never before been seen in women's tennis. In 1993, she was stabbed by a spectator with a serrated knife, which caused her to miss the next two years of tournaments.

This article profiles American tennis star James Blake. Blake won five tournaments in 2006 and, after reaching the finals of the year-end Masters Cup, finished the season ranked a career-high No. 4. Currently vice president of the ATP Player Council, many feel Blake is an obvious candidate to assume a leadership role in tennis one day, cutting through the relentless in-fighting and competing fiefdoms that stunt the sport's growth. INSET: Roger--and the Rest.

This article profiles tennis player Andre Agassi. Agassi's early career is contrasted with the success of his late career, with tennis analysts describing how Agassi "grew up" midway through his career. Agassi's marriage to fellow tennis player Steffi Graf is also discussed, as is his impending retirement.

This article reports on the 2006 Wimbledon tennis tournament. Tennis player Roger Federer defeated Rafael Nadal in the men's singles finals of the 2006 Wimbledon tennis tournament. Federer's championship was his fourth consecutive Wimbledon championship. Tennis player Amelie Mauresmo defeated Justine Henin-Hardenne in the finals of the 2006 women's singles finals to win her first Wimbledon championship, and the first for a Frenchwoman since 1925.

Reports on the victory of tennis player Venus Williams at Wimbledon in 2005. Description of her excitement after winning; How close she was to defeat throughout the match against Lindsay Davenport; Details of her career and setbacks due to injuries; Analysis of the tournament and others who participated.

Profiles tennis star, Roger Federer, the most popular player in tennis in 2004 after winning three Grand Slam titles. How he overcame his emotional issues on an off the court following the death of his mentor, Peter Carter; Significance of his laid back nature and classy play, rare in many first ranked players; Comments by fellow players, such as Pete Sampras, on Federer's superior game play.

This article profiles former tennis player, Roscoe Tanner. Rock bottom? That's tough to pinpoint, he says, sighing. So many lows to choose from. Rock bottom might have come when he walked into that Stygian cell in a German prison and realized that for the length of his stay he would be defecating in front of his cellmate. "Man," he says, "that was humiliating." The time he was arrested in front of all those fans at a senior tennis event, that was pretty embarrassing, too. And when his father, once his most ardent supporter, turned uncommunicative, that one really stung. No, wait, I've got it, he says. Here's the lowest moment of his odyssey: Immediately after he finished serving four months in a maximum security county jail in Florida on a grand theft charge, he was transferred to a New Jersey jail where he would serve five months for willfully withholding child support. For two weeks he sat on a bus that zigzagged along the Eastern Seaboard picking up other criminals who were being reassigned from one jail to another. At night the convicts either slept in their seats or, if they were lucky, bunked down at a county jail. They were allotted three meals a day, but there was a catch: Their hands never came out of restraints. Ever try eating McDonald's with your wrists locked at your waist? It's not real pleasant. This is what it came to recently for Tanner. The tennis star who once shared drinks with Prince Rainier on the French Riviera and dined with the Reagans in the White House was sitting on a bus near an exit ramp, positioning his chin at just the right angle so he could eat a Big Mac. It's hard to imagine a less likely candidate to make an absolute mess of things. Tennis players just don't fall into the abyss--especially not a player born to the manor, with a Stanford diploma, a thick Rolodex of connections and, if that weren't endowment enough, movie-star looks and boundless reserves of charm.

The article profiles tennis great Jimmy Connors. In 1974 Jimmy Connors ignited a tennis boom with his wicked metal racket, his storybook romance, his vulgar antics and his renegade behavior. Thirty years later he still thumbs his nose at the game's establishment. In the fall of 1968, as Connors turned 16, his mother moved with him to Southern California and entrusted his game to Segura, the pro at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, and there Connors sat in on a sort of graduate seminar in tennis theatrics. He marveled at the arrogant carriage of Pancho Gonzalez. Then Bobby Riggs would shuffle in, a comic foil looking to kibitz and find some mark he could play for 20 bucks. Harold Solomon, who first encountered Connors when both were eight-year-old juniors, noticed a change soon after the move to the BHTC. "He got the entertainment aspect, got the crowd involved," says Solomon. "Those of us who came up the other way wondered, What is he doing? But it didn't take us long to see his appeal in the marketplace. You couldn't help but respect that it was going to bring big sponsors and lots of people." And there was his consistency. Connors may have been unchanging, but all around him tennis was going through convulsions. Fabric went from cotton to polyester; colors from white to anything goes; equipment from wood to metal. Connors had picked up the Wilson T-2000 racket for the same reason any teenager would, because its extruded-aluminum frame looked cool. Yet the T-2000 proved to be a perfect technical match for his game and far too temperamental for anyone else's. And just when his tennis began to seem bloodless, there'd be the pumped fist or obscene gesture. "He introduced vulgarity to tennis," says Gianni Clerici, the veteran tennis writer for Italy's Corriere della Sera. Yet Connors didn't care what people thought of him.

This article examines Maria Sharapova in the aftermath of her win at Wimbledon. It's not often that the international paparazzi converge on sleepy coastal Connecticut. But on the stiflingly hot morning of July 6 a black SUV streaking up the Merritt Parkway toward New Haven was trailed by a convoy of stealth photographers. Sharapova's charm offensive at Wimbledon had included her revelation that she spent the rain delays taking tests and writing sociology essays for her online high school. Eisenbud was working his phone: managing the fusillade of interview requests, arranging Sharapova's flight home to Florida and conferring with his colleagues at IMG headquarters, who were busy trying to land global endorsement deals for her--striking while the Iron Maiden was hot, so to speak. By the time she arrived at City Hall in New Haven, an assortment of sponsors and local politicians had assembled to greet her, all wearing T-shirts and pins saying MARIA MANIA, which had been hastily printed after the Wimbledon final.

This article discusses the outcome of the 2004 Wimbledon tennis tournament. Serena Williams had been tennis's great exception for so long, first defying the experts by not playing junior tournaments, then breaking the rules of family pecking order, finally dominating despite injury and distraction, always smiling and unbowed. No. Last Saturday afternoon the 22-year-old Williams, winner of the past two Wimbledons and one of the best closers in history, walked onto Centre Court for another Grand Slam final and felt the wheel turn. Maria Sharapova, seeded 13th, beat Williams 6-1, 6-4 to win the 2004 All England championship, but neither that score nor the other numbers that certified the most stunning title run in Wimbledon history told the full tale. It would have been worth all the trouble just to see Roger Federer and Andy Roddick locked in their wonderfully tense brawl in Sunday's men's final, during which Roddick's take-no-prisoners attack tested the world's No. 1 as never before, and Federer's 4-6, 7-5, 7-6, 6-4 win confirmed his greatness. Blitzing Federer with 145-mph serves, returning Federer's deliveries deep and heavy, Roddick cornered the champion, never letting the artist pick up his brush, and ran out the first set in total command.

This article presents photographs from sporting events in the week leading up to May 31, 2004. Yankees catcher John Flaherty needs an assist from a railing to make this catch next to the Rangers' dugout during New York's 4-3 loss at Texas last Saturday. Cael Sanderson (red singlet) of Ames, Iowa, ties up Muhammed Lawal of Stillwater, Okla., during their 185-pound freestyle match at the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team Trials last Saturday in Indianapolis. Luis Horna dives for a return winner against Mark Philippoussis in first-round action of the French Open on Monday.

This article focuses on tennis player Andy Roddick of the United States. This is the rare premier athlete who lives not in a parallel universe but in our universe. So forgive the guy if he still thinks he might be hallucinating. Did Roddick really win the U.S. Open in September and upgrade his billing from the future of American tennis to its present? Is that really his name that keeps crawling across the bottom of the screen as he watches ESPN? Was he really hanging out in Las Vegas last month with Robin Williams? The singer-actress Mandy Moore, is she really his girlfriend of 15 months? "I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke," says Roddick."I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?" The Nebraska-born Roddick and his Everyman sensibilities may ultimately do just as much as the Williams sisters (Serena and Venus) have done to splinter the stereotypes that bedevil their sport. Put it this way: Although he turned it down, Roddick is the first tennis player ever to have fielded an endorsement offer from Red Bull. As for the notion that you can't make it as a tennis pro unless you learn the Western grip in the crib and sacrifice your adolescence at the altar of Bollettieri or at some other Florida hothouse: It wasn't all that long ago that Roddick was a scrawny kid in Austin taking group lessons with Chris Mihm and Drew Brees -- today a forward for the Cleveland Cavaliers and the quarterback of the San Diego Chargers, respectively.

Andy Roddick won the men's division of the U.S. Open tennis championships. It was a few minutes before six o'clock, and the U.S. Open was on the verge of being officially transformed from Grand Slam to Grand Guignol. Earlier in the week persistent rain had all but washed out three sessions, constipating the scheduling and igniting calls for a retractable roof over Arthur Ashe Stadium. The young American, Andy Roddick, was down match point in a third-set tiebreaker to Argentina's David Nalbandian. Roddick spanked a 138-miles-per-hour service winner to remain alive. He ended up winning the tiebreaker. Roddick, Juan Carlos Ferrero and Nalbandian join Switzerland's Roger Federer, Argentina's Guillermo Coria and the contrarian Australian, Lleyton Hewitt, as players who should be firmly embedded in the top 10 for years. When Croatia's Ivan Ljubicic lost to Roddick in the second round and then made the shabby (and absurd) allegation that Roddick is universally disliked on tour, the American didn't fire back publicly but instead called Ljubicic in his hotel room so they could iron out their differences.

In every match between Venus and Serena Williams, there is a grassy-knoll moment when the conspiracy seems shockingly clear. Before that, every errant shot, every hesitation, every facial expression from the tennis world's dominant sisters is grist for speculation. Is Serena trying to win, to lose, to carry her sister to the finish? Is Venus? Why the smile, the grunt, the grimace? What did that forehand mean, anyway? Then comes the moment that seems to confirm all suspicions, like the one that occurred last Saturday in the women's final of the 2003 Wimbledon championships. With defending champion Serena down 4-5, double break point in the opening set, the sisters engaged in a 17-stroke rally devoid of intensity and marked by a bizarre patty-cake overhead by Serena and, finally, Serena's wounded-duck drop shot from the baseline, which flew three feet wide. So the fix was in again, some wanted to believe, except that inthe end, Serena won her second Grand Slam final this year over her sister and her fifth in two years. Their wrenching three-set showdown in London lacked everything a great match requires--except conclusiveness. If anything, Serena's dominance should forever put to rest any notion that the Williams family is cooking the results like so many English breakfasts. Against Andy Roddick's clanky baseline attack, Roger Federer flowed effortlessly from defense to offense, absorbing Roddick's massive serve, punishing him from the backcourt and cruising forward to conjure up volley after breathtaking volley. Federer had never advanced past the quarterfinals in a Grand Slam event before, but the man who showed up at Centre Court on Sunday wasn't the same one who lost in the first round of Wimbledon a year ago.

When in Rome, Serena Williams did as a visitor would. When she wasn't on the court at last week's Italian Open, she played the role of turista. She carried a turquoise cellphone that doubledas a digital camera and clicked away paparazzi-style at every monument in her path. When the French Open kicks off in Paris next week, Williams will be the odds-on favorite to win her fifth straight Grand Slam tournament, further consolidating a dominance unseen in tennis since Steffi Graf ran roughshod over a vastly inferior women's field 15 years ago. What's more, unlike so many recent tennis champions who have shrunk from the spotlight (Graf, Pete Sampras, Lleyton Hewitt, even the latest incarnation of Andre Agassi), Williams is comfortable in her celebrity. When Lindsay Davenport recently rated Williams's serve as the best in the history of women's tennis, the remark stirred little debate. But the more she talks--about her disdain for losing, her appreciation for the charmed life she leads, her fondness for the perks of the job--the more convinced you are that the Serena Showwill play on for a good long while. Relinquish her spot in tennis's aerie? That would mean thatsomeone else would get to have all the fun.

Reports on the 2002 U.S. Open tennis tournament. Win of Pete Sampras over Andre Agassi to win the men's title; Mention of Sampras' wins over Leighton Hewitt and Andy Roddick in earlier round matches; Background on the rivarly between Sampras and Agassi; Win of Serena Williams over her sister, Venus, to win the women's title.

Focuses on former tennis player Pancho Gonzalez, and how his tendency for fits of rage impacted his life. Biographical information; Relationship of Gonzalez with Andre Agassi's older sister, Rita, of which the Agassi family did not approve; Public perception of Gonzalez; Efforts he made to reestablish a relationship with his youngest son, Skylar, before he died.

Discusses the personal struggles endured by professional tennis player Boris Becker. Biographical information; Impact of a sex scandal and a messy divorce on Becker's public image; Relationship he has with his ex-wife, Barbara, and family.

Presents tennis-related news briefs as of July 10, 2000. Profile of tennis player Vladimir Voltchkov; Duties of John McEnroe as United States Davis Cup captain; Activities of Steffi Graf at the 2000 Wimbledon Tournament; Performance of Byron Black at the tournament. INSET: Trouble at Home.

Focuses on the 1999 Wimbledon tennis tournament in Wimbledon, England. Victory of Pete Sampras over Andre Agassi; Success of Lindsay Davenport over Steffi Graf; Emergence of tennis players Jelena Dokic, Mirjana Lucic and Alexandra Stevenson; Match details of the tournament; Difficulties for Martina Hingis; Controversy surrounding the paternity of Stevenson; Possible retirement of Graf.