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Asheville Citizen-Times sports reporter extraordinare Keith Jarrett has a hot follow on the debacle of a tennis event that was held earlier this year.

Only one of the four players competing in Grand Slam Asheville tonight owns a framed Playboy magazine cover.

'The event will go on now,' said Woods. 'My overhead cost has gone down considerably.

News, gossip and other items of interest from the world of tennis: Ankling for an Injury In herA new memoir , On the Line , Serena Williams reveals that her 2003 left knee injury - the one that required surgery and knocked her out of tennis for eight months - was sustained not on the tennis court but while she danced in high heels at a nightclub.

News, gossip and other items of interest from the world of tennis: Ankling for an Injury In herA new memoir , On the Line , Serena Williams reveals that her 2003 left knee injury - the one that required surgery and knocked her out of tennis for eight months - was sustained not on the tennis court but while she danced in high heels at a nightclub.

Never has there been a greater assemblage of pro talent on the courts at the Palisades Tennis Center than there was Sunday afternoon.

Andre Agassi has replaced Novak Djokovic on the Grand Slam stage. Three days before the US Open begins, Andre Agassi and Marat Safin will stage their own Grand Slam showdown in Asheville, North Carolina.

Last year's first-ever "Shotgun 21" Tennis Championships gave Pacific Palisades residents over five hours of thrilling rallies, memorable points and, in the end, one exhausted winner.

When Aces general manager Dani Apted unabashedly proclaims, "I drafted a good-lookin' team," she's referring to the players' appearance as much as their prowess on the court.

He sat in the upstairs pavilion, overlooking the No. 1 court at the Westgate Tennis Center as Lindsay Lee-Waters battled Chieh-Yu Hsu in a qualifying match Sunday afternoon in the Movie Gallery Pro Classic women's tennis tournament.

Melanie Oudin did not reach the Family Circle Cup semifinals as Ashley Harkleroad did in 2003 as a popular upstart teen from Georgia, but the 17-year-old qualifier from Marietta, Ga., had lots of crowd support.

Since its inception in 2002 the Liverpool International Tennis Tournament has seen huge crowds thrilled by International stars such as Bjorn Borg, Novak Djorkovic, Caroline Wozniacki, Ashley Harkleroad, Martina Navratilova, Goran Ivanisevic, Ivan Ljubicic, Marat Safin, Paradorn Schrichaphan, Pat Cash, Illie Nastase, Mansour Bahrami, Henri Leconte, ...