Day 3 July 16, 2006
IT'S A WILD WILD WEEKEND AT THE CASINO CHASE FOR THE VAN ALEN CUP

Sometimes, in their wildest dreams, tennis promoters give wild cards - amounting to free rides into their tournaments - to somebody who travels all the way.

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Day 2 July 15, 2006
IT'S THE GOLDEN OLDIES SHOW BUT GIMELSTOB HAS A RARE PART

For Patrick Michael Rafter , the aged tennis ground, The Casino, was the beginning and the end. For Justin Gimelstob it was the beginning after 152 dead-ends.

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Day 1 July 14, 2006
THE DIVINE ARGENTINE, SABATINI, DASHING AUSSIE RAFTER TO BE TAPPED

When Fred Perry, the last great Englishman-with-racket was anointed for the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1975, he remarked that it was "something like attending your own embalming."

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Introduction July 13, 2006
HERE'S THE TENNIS VERSION OF CANONIZATION FOR THREE STARS

A high spot of the year occurs the week after Wimbledon at the cradle of the American game, The Casino in Newport, Rhode Island, home of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

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