In 1957, Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2.
The 16-year-old eighth seed looked in good form as she earned a hard fought 6-3 7-6 (7-3) victory.
Pennetta beat Lucie Hradecka in straight sets on Saturday -- and followed up that performance with a hard-fought 6-4 7-5 success over Petra Kvitova.
German 14th seed Sabine Lisicki will play Israeli Shahar Peer in round two after a hard-fought 6-2 4-6 6-4 win over Switzerland's Stefaine Vogele.
Earlier, the U.S. military said coalition forces reported that an OH-58 Kiowa Warrior helicopter made a hard landing about 6:20 p.m. local time after it came into contact with wires.
Elsewhere, the No. 4 seed Juan Martin del Potro was forced to save three match points during a hard fought 4-6 6-4 7-6 victory over Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis .
It was a tight affair though and Federer had to work hard for his 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 victory.
Because it has a 6-gigabyte hard drive, most music collectors would be hard-pressed to even come close to exhausting the machine's capacity.
The tourists were leading 13-6 in a hard-fought match when replacement Emerging Springboks wing Danwel Demas went over in the corner for a try.
In the Barcelona WTA tournament, Olga Govortsova of Belarus continued her fine run with a hard-fought 7-6 6-7 6-2 win over home player Laura Pous in the second round.
The Latvian was made to work hard to defeat Filippo Volandri 6-2 3-6 7-6 and next faces Spaniard Feliciano Lopez, who progressed when opponent Ivan Ljubicic withdrew with a side strain.
The ace is Kevin Correia, who is 11-8 with a 4.38 ERA. Charlie Morton (8-5, 3.69) and hard-luck Paul Maholm (6-10, 3.26), the staff veteran, round out a formidable rotation.
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The brave little 1.6-liter four works hard, delivering 138 horsepower and a rather zingy 123 pound-feet of torque.
"Pretending to be an engineer is a hard concept for a 4- or 6-year-old to play out, " she said.
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.
Also, dementia is so hard to justify if they survive past the 6 month window.
On Tuesday, all three equity indexes in the U.S. fell hard after his speech, down 0.6% by 1:40 PM in New York.
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Lee was a hard-luck pitcher last year, going 6-9 despite a 3.16 ERA. He nearly recorded his first complete game since Sept. 15, 2011.
Red Roof Inn and Motel 6 are economy brands that are hard to get a return on if you build a new one using their prototype.
However, there are a lot of variables that are hard to predict for MMI in the next 6 months, including multiple new product, technology and category launches aside from the new dynamic at Verizon.
That country has a lower prevalence of hard-drug addicts per head (1.6 per 1, 000) than France (2.4), Britain (2.6), Italy (3.0) and Switzerland (5.0).
The updated model doubles the memory to 4GB RAM, expands the hard drive storage to 320GB, and packs a 6-cell battery with a rated life of 6 hours.
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For most of the time I've been watching baseball, a strikeout rate of 6.9 would have indicated a reasonably hard-throwing starter.
Berdych, who reached the final the year he beat Federer here, lost in a first-round upset Monday, 7-6(5), 7-6(4), 7-6(4) to Ernests Gulbis, a hard-hitting but erratic underachiever.
She found that it reduced price variations between one market and another by at least 6.4%, and more in remote and hard-to-reach markets.
In general, however, experts say to look hard at leasing if you want an expensive car weighing less than 6, 000 pounds and plan to replace it every two years or so.
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.
She found that it reduced price variations between one market and another by a minimum of 6.4%, and often more in remote and hard-to-reach markets.
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Clijsters, meanwhile, was also made to work hard in her quarterfinal but eventually edged a rollercoaster clash with Lucie Safarova 6-1 0-6 6-4 at the Pat Rafter Arena.
But when we looked at the actual data (which are opaque at first sight and pretty hard to get), the price differences appeared huge: some paid 6 euros for a kilogram, others 8, and yet other 10 or even 12.
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