Pete Sampras
Oh, for the Glory Days of Pete Sampras in His Baggy Shorts!
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Andy Roddick.
On the morning of Aug. 22, three days before the start of the U.S. Open, James Blake posed as a tennis star.
On a makeshift blue tennis court set up in the backyard of the Winter Garden in Lower Manhattan, Blake, the biracial darling of American men’s tennis, had just hosted a hit-around for Heineken. As a dozen people milled around waiting for the presentation of an oversize check for charity, Blake stood, unnoticed, near one of the courts, a racket still in hand, dressed casually in a pull-over gray long-sleeve shirt and 33-waist True Religion jeans.
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U.S. Open 2000: Giant Ladies Take Queens
U.S. Open 2000: Giant Ladies Take Queens
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Venus Williams.
