The stock of CONMED took a hard beating earlier this month, after the company took a significant cut to fourth-quarter and 2009 sales and earnings guidance, due to a stronger dollar and reductions in hospital spending.
Sixth seed Roddick, who lost the 2004 and 2005 finals to Federer, was pushed hard before beating Jurgen Melzer 7-6 (7-2) 7-6 (7-2) 4-6 6-3 after almost three hours on court.
Serena had made hard work of beating another Russian, Vera Dushevina, in a three-set opener on Monday, but appeared in command against world number 18 Petrova as she won the first set.
Meanwhile, U.S. men remained undefeated in volleyball of the hard-floor variety, beating Russia in five intense sets for a spot in the final.
The super-fit Courier was a constant thorn in his side, pressing the irritation home when he would go jogging after beating Agassi in hard-fought sets.
His 22-month-long journey to the White House was, to borrow a phrase, "a long, hard slog" that began with beating an opponent who, in a bruising primary battle, earned 18 million votes in defeat.
Jurgen Melzer reached the final of the Memphis hard-court event on Saturday, beating Czech third seed Radek Stepanek 6-4 3-6 6-3.
But, with pessimism being so thick you can cut it with a plasma torch, the rest of the market beating expectations is not a hard thing to do.
In my opinion, the U.S. financial sector has been given a beating of our lifetime, and it is hard to imagine anything more crippling than what the sector has already gone through.
It's going to be hard to unseat Erbitux, because getting approved for cancer will mean beating it in a clinical trial.
But beating 4% over the next 25 years should not be too hard.
One of three people accused of beating a man to death told a jury he did not realise how hard he was striking him.
BBC: Glenn Clary murder trial: Accused 'did not mean to kill'
The defeat will be hard to take for Gary Brabin's Cambridge side, who had a chance of beating the Brewers to the title on the last day.
Indirect evidence of unhappiness is equally hard to gather, since so many potential proxies, such as drug abuse and wife-beating, are hushed up.
应用推荐