Simple, spare, he delivered the details on 16 Super Bowls, the Masters and the U.S. Open tennis tournament with a simple, understated style that was the perfect complement for the "booms!"
It is home to the Cincinnati Masters tennis tournament, and the Lindner Tennis Centre is a fabulous facility.
Not long afterward, I watched Rafael Nadal play a tournament match on the Tennis Channel.
Meanwhile, defending champion Roger Federer crashed out of the Rotterdam World Tennis tournament after suffering a shock 6-3 7-5 defeat by France's Julien Benneteau.
Hallier, who likes to press personalized toy cabs into the hands of executives he meets, got a plug for Show Media during the U.S. Open tennis tournament last summer when its displays were featured in a series of Nike videos starring boxing promoter Don King.
The 2012 Istanbul showpiece attracted the event's biggest crowds for 12 years, in a country not known for its tennis heritage, while China will host a fifth WTA tournament from 2014.
He's the second man in the history of tennis to do this at a Grand Slam tournament, and the first time was in 1927, when Henri Cochet won his final three matches at Wimbledon after losing the first two sets in each.
Before becoming a billionaire, Lemann was a professional tennis player and even played in the prestigious Wimbledom tournament.
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Another motivator for Williams is the prospect of challenging for a fourth Olympic gold medal in London, where the tennis tournament will be held at Wimbledon.
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"It's a big tournament, one of the biggest we have in tennis, " Djokovic told the ATP Tour's official website after securing his 31st career title.
On the women's side, Serena Williams arrives playing possibly the most dominating tennis of her career, and eager to reclaim a tournament that has unraveled her in recent years.
Until now, Patrick has often been lumped into that space traditionally linked to tennis whizzes Anna Kournikova, a highly ranked player who failed to win a major tournament, and Andre ("Image is Everything") Agassi, in the days before he broke through and won a Wimbledon title.
Pioline, the top man in French tennis before a series of injuries caused him to slip down the rankings, entered the tournament as a wild card.
Despite the incident resulting in a one-month ban from the International Tennis Federation, a year later Tomic's father was railing at an Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley so vehemently about the scheduling of one of his son's matches that security had to be placed around the official.
The second Grand Slam event of the tennis calendar begins in Paris on May 23 and Clijsters now faces a race to be fit for the tournament.
The final crowned a memorable week for Argentine tennis, who had four players in the semi-finals - the first time in a Masters series tournament that all the players in the last four were from the same country.
Despite the incident resulting in a one-month ban from the International Tennis Federation, John was up to old his tricks a year later -- railing at Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley so vehemently about the scheduling of one of his son's matches that security was ultimately placed around the official.
This was the earliest the pair had met in a regular tournament since 2004, when Nadal won their first meeting in the third round of the Sony Open Tennis in Miami.
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