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Estonian tennis player Kaia Kanepi has pulled out of the Olympics because she has not recovered from a heel injury.

Kanepi says she is "very sad" about the withdrawal from the London Games. She's not sure whether she'll "ever get another chance to attend the Olympics."

The 27-year-old player posted the comments on her website Wednesday.

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ATLANTA — John Isner said one of his goals when he became a pro tennis player was to play for the United States in the Olympics.

Devastated that he didn’t make the 2008 squad for the Beijing Games, he said Tuesday he is very excited to be on the team that will play in London. Isner is one of four U.S. Olympians playing at the BB&T Atlanta Open at Atlantic Station this week. The top seed and the top-ranked (No. 11) American in the world will play his first match Thursday.


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Andre Agassi, John McEnroe, Pete Sampras, Jimmy Connors and other Grand Slam champions will play a series of matches around the country in October and November.

Patrick Rafter, Jim Courier, Michael Chang, Mats Wilander and Todd Martin are also scheduled to compete in the four-player mini-tournaments. Each event will feature one-set semifinals and a one-set title match.


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Andy Roddick has scored a 7-6 6-3 win over France's Nicolas Mahut to reach the quarter-finals of the Atlanta Open tennis tournament.

Andy Roddick won a first-set tiebreaker then completed a straight-sets win over Nicolas Mahut at the Atlanta Open on Wednesday.

Roddick beat the Frenchman 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 in the second round after rain delayed the tournament by more than four hours.

Roddick, who will play Michael Russell in the quarter-finals, broke Mahut in the ninth point of the tiebreaker and held serve to take a tough first set.

"The first tiebreaker is so big," Roddick said. "There's not much between you and, whoever loses it, has a long road (back). I was fortunate to get up on that one."

Russell, at 34, is the oldest player in the main draw, but he outlasted No.5 seed Kevin Anderson of South Africa 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 6-4 to reach his first ATP World Tour hardcourt quarter-final since February 2011.

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Local tennis fans will be able to watch four former players with a combined 27 Grand Slam titles compete in a one-night event in November.

Jim Courier, John McEnroe, Patrick Rafter, and Pete Sampras have all signed up to play at the Champions Shootout in the Wells Fargo Center on Nov. 2. The event is part of the PowerShares Series, a seven-week circuit featuring former players who have either been ranked No. 1 in the world or who have reached at least one Grand Slam final.

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Russian tennis player Nadia Petrova is aiming for an Olympic medal in London but insists she will not be devastated if she failed to win one.

Russia has a successful Olympic history, Elena Dementieva, Dinara Safina and Vera Zvonareva won the gold, silver and bronze medal in singles respectively at the 2008 Beijing Games.

"The Russian mentality is if you are going to the Olympics you have got to be winning medals and failure is not acceptable," Petrova said.

"In Fed Cup (the international tennis team competition for women) we have the same mentality. Russians are a bit hard on themselves and we have high expectations. We want to achieve a lot of or goals in our careers."

In 2008, former world number three Petrova missed the cut because her ranking was too low.

This year she is ranked number 21 and was named in the team along with Maria Sharapova, Zvonareva and Maria Kirilenko, whom she will also play doubles with.


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Upper Providence Township's newest (and possibly only) tennis star has set her sights on Olympic gold as she heads to the 2012 London Summer Games.

Lisa Raymond, who recently purchased a home in Upper Providence, will compete in the doubles competition with her partner Liezel Huber, of Houston.

Raymond, who grew up in Wayne and attended Notre Dame Academy, has been playing tennis since she was 7 years old but has only been playing with Huber for a little more than a year, she said.

"Players just kind of come together and it was the right time for both of us," Raymond, 38, says.

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Olympic champion Rafa Nadal’s withdrawal from the London Games because of injury deprived the tournament of one of its biggest attractions and left Spain reeling.

The gold-medal winner in Beijing four years ago has failed to recover from a knee problem, and so will also miss out on the honour of carrying his nation’s flag at the opening ceremony.

The Spanish tennis federation (RFET) said Feliciano Lopez would be his replacement in the singles, while Marc Lopez would step in to partner Marcel Granollers in the doubles.

The country’s Olympic committee (COE) said a meeting on Friday would decide on a replacement flag bearer for the July 27 parade.

“I’m not in a condition to be able to compete,” Nadal, 26, said in a statement. “It’s one of the saddest moments of my career.”

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Wimbledon ranks as one of the most iconic sporting venues in the world. Just a mention of 'The Championships' has every tennis fan buzzing with excitement.

Later this year, there will be a new man in charge of the hallowed turf, as Neil Stubley takes over the reins, but not before the outgoing Eddie Seaward notches his twenty-second year in charge.

As well as Wimbledon fortnight, the duo are also tasked with preparing the venue for the 2012 Olympics tennis tournament - which begins just three weeks after The Championships have finished.


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Andy Roddick reached the final of the ATP Atlanta Open after he withstood 26 aces from John Isner to topple the top seed 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 6-4 on Saturday.

Roddick, seeking a second title of the season after victory at Eastbourne, will play Luxembourg’s Gilles Muller, who ousted eighth-seeded Go Soeda of Japan 6-4, 6-3.

“I’m excited,” Roddick said. “I have a chance to win my second tournament in three tournaments.”

Roddick said he was looking forward to teaming up with Isner for the United States in the doubles at the Olympics.

“I’m going to be real happy to be on the same side with that serve in the Olympics,” Roddick said, adding that he didn’t get discouraged when he dropped the second-set tiebreaker.

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Fourth-seeded American Andy Roddick shrugged off a slow start to surge to a three-set victory over Gilles Muller on Sunday (Monday, PHL time) in the final of the ATP Atlanta Open.

Roddick defeated the left-hander from Luxembourg 1-6, 7-6 (7/2), 6-2, claiming his second title of 2012 after his victory last month in the Wimbledon warm-up event at Eastbourne in England.

Muller, seeking a first career ATP crown, broke Roddick twice in the opening set, after which the 29-year-old American called for a trainer and had treatment on his right shoulder.

It seemed to help, and Roddick didn't face a break point in the second set. He finished with 18 aces, just shy of Muller's 20.

"I know by now the score of a set is irrelevant," Roddick said of his ability to stay positive even after the lopsided first frame. "Whether it's 7-6 or 6-1, it still counts the same.

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Novak Djokovic of Serbia and Roger Federer of Switzerland are the top favorites to win the gold medal in men's tennis at the London Olympics, and they won't have to compete against Spain's Rafael Nadal to hit the top of the podium at the event.

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Nadal, who won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Beijing in 2008, withdrew from the Olympics with a knee injury and had to be replaced as Spain's flag-bearer for the event – basketball star Pau Gasol will instead get that honor for the country.

So with Nadal not back to defend his Olympic title, Djokovic has been pegged as the 3/2 favorite on the tennis odds at Bovada to win the gold medal, with Federer set at 2/1 odds.

It's Federer, though, who enters the tournament atop the men's world rankings thanks to his win at Wimbledon earlier in the month; he knocked out Djokovic in the semifinals of that tournament by scores of 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Great Britain's Andy Murray is next at 9/2 odds after he lost 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 to Federer in the Wimbledon finals despite strong fan support. He'll have the crowd behind him once again in London at the Olympic tournament over the next two weeks.

Jo-Wilfred Tsonga of France, who fell 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 to Murray in the Wimbledon semifinals, is fourth at 20/1 odds to win Olympic gold in London, followed by David Ferrer of Spain and Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina at 25/1.

Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic (28/1), Milos Raonic of Canada (33/1), John Isner of the United States (50/1), Bernard Tomic of Australia (66/1) and Andy Roddick of the United States (66/1) round out the second tier of contenders on the odds at Bovada.

If she wins the women's singles at the Games she will be the first to win all Grand Slam events at least once and Olympic singles and doubles gold. 'I don't think I knew that,' she says.......


So, you've never been clear how much our pro tennis players embrace the Olympics, how much they love squeezing in another long plane flight every four years for more three-hour matches.

Let us take you there.

Tuesday at the main Olympic media center here, they paraded in the U.S. team, fresh from the flight that took them across the pond. Like the tennis balls they hit for a living, they were a bit fuzzy.

Liezel Huber, once a South African, now a U.S. citizen, and one of the top women's doubles players in the world, summed it up nicely.

"We all need showers," she said.


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Serena Williams won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in London last month, and she'll be looking for more success in England as the favorite on the tennis odds to pick up an Olympic gold medal at the Summer Games.

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American Williams topped Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 in the final match to win Wimbledon, and she's listed as the 3/2 favorite on the tennis odds at Bovada to repeat that performance at the London Olympics.

That puts her just ahead of Russian Maria Sharapova, who is at 10/3 odds and looking to make up for an upset loss in the fourth round at Wimbledon to Germany's Sabine Lisicki. Sharapova won the French Open earlier this season, and lost in the final at the Australian Open to Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.

2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic is then at 9/2 odds, with Azarenka at 5/1, Radwanska at 16/1, Kim Clijsters at 20/1 and Lisicki at 25/1. Clijsters of Belgium lost to Germany's Angelique Kerber in the fourth round at Wimbledon.

China's Li Na (28/1) and the United States' Venus Williams (33/1) follow on the tennis odds at Bovada to win the gold medal in London, with Venus having won the women's tennis tournament at the Sydney Games back in 2000.

Samantha Stosur of Australia is then at 40/1, with each of Tamira Paszek, Vera Zvonareva, Yaroslava Shvedova and Caroline Wozniacki at 50/1. Wozniacki of Denmark was bounced by Austria's Paszek in the first round at Wimbledon last month.

Ana Ivanovic of Serbia fell to Azarenka in the fourth round at Wimbledon this year; she's a 66/1 long shot on the odds to win the women's gold medal in tennis in London.

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As Roger Federer put the finishing touches to his Olympic preparations on Wednesday, the rest of Wimbledon was a blur of activity as the hallowed arena's remarkable facelift reaches its conclusion in time for the start of the London Games.

Just 20 days after Federer consoled a distraught Andy Murray on Centre Court, following the Swiss star's record equalling seventh Wimbledon final victory, the All England Club will be the centre of attention again on Saturday as it hosts the Olympic tennis event for the first time since 1908. The novelty value of Wimbledon staging the Olympics has got players and fans exicted, but it has also been a logistical nightmare.

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All the star players but one are taking part in the Olympic tennis tournament in London. The event will be played on the famed Wimbledon grass tennis courts, but the players will not have to wear the traditional white.

There will be lots of color at the Olympic tennis tournament. Not only will players get to wear the colors of their country, but the brightly colored banners and logos seen throughout the Olympic Park and other venues for these Games are also in and around the All England Club.

And since the Wimbledon championships concluded just last month after two weeks of competition, the courts were newly seeded to return them to good.


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The Olympics at Wimbledon means Roger Federer going for gold on grass.

It also means pouring seeds and a rooting hormone into hot water tubs, which are then placed in a room heated to 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).

That’s to make the grass grow.

Today, lawn tennis will be played in the Olympics for the first time since 1920. The games will be staged at the All England Club only three weeks after Wimbledon ended, which gave groundskeepers little time to repair damage to the courts.

They now look as pristine as ever, thanks to a reseeding plan formulated through two years of trial and error.

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