Day 13 July 9, 2006
CENTRE COURT REMAINS MR. ROGER'S NEIGHBORHOOD AS FEDERER GIVES YOUNG PUPIL NADAL A MASTER CLASS

It was a tale of two city's classrooms, towns that scribbler Charles Dickens would recognize: Paris and London. And two guys named Federer and Nadal, who might have reminded Dickens of his Oliver Twist because they always want more.

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Day 12 July 8, 2006
WAY TO GO, MO -- MAURESMO CONQUERS HER NERVES AND JUSTINE TO FOLLOW IN SUZANNE'S SNEAKER STEPS 81 YEARS AFTERWARDS

Though brilliant, she had been French toast too many times, burned by critics who complained that in the clutch her nerves went as haywire as the wild horses roaming France's Camargue.

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Day 11 July 7, 2006
CAN ANYBODY AROUND HERE BREAK NADAL'S SERVE OR SPIRIT?

On Thursday, June 25 at 2:58 in the afternoon, Rafael Nadal lost his serve.

So what?

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Day 10 July 6, 2006
JUSTINE, AMELIE - C'EST MAGNIFIQUE, A FRENCH-SPEAKING CHAMPIONSHIP

They were a couple of battlers, and strong wills brought No. 1 Amelie Mauresmo and No. 3 Justine Henin-Hardenne through to the final.

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Day 9 July 5, 2006
ANCIC NEEDED PROTECTION - BUT WHO DOESN'T WHEN FEDERER'S HERE?

Whom could Mario Ancic turn to? Scotland Yard? Sherlock Holmes? A friendly London bobby?

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Day 8 July 4, 2006
A BOTTICELLI BABE'S ADVENTURE SHOWS OFF HER NEAT BRUSH STROKES

It's fun when an unknown slips through the barbed wire, the roadblocks, the tough competition and has at least a day in the sun in a major setting. Such is Severine Beltrame Bremond from France.

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Day 7 July 3, 2006
THE VANISHING AMERICANS - NEVER HAS THE USA SO BOTCHED THE BIG W

For the rest of the fortnight everybody will be asking, "How did the United States vanish, and will it ever reappear?

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Day 6 July 1, 2006
DARK AGES FOR THE U.S. - NOBODY OF NOTE REMAINS

What would the price have been? Ten-thousand -to-1 or something like that if you wanted to bet that a woman from Coral Springs, Fla., named Shenay Perry would be the last remaining American at Wimbledon.

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Day 5 June 30, 2006
A MOURNFUL TUNE, 'FIFTH SET BLUES,' SEEMS TO BE THE BLAKE THEME SONG

As I've said. There are - were - 10 women who could win the title. That's extraordinary, a much tighter race than the men's.

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Day 4 June 29, 2006
TERRIBLE TWO'S -- THE OLD "SO-NEAR-AND-YET SO-FAR" PLIGHT AFFLICTS KENDRICK AND RAYMOND

There are days like this that make the game so fascinating, when form gets battered and somebody unexpected creeps so close to victory that he or she can taste it - but then subsides, and goes home to weep.

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Day 3 June 28, 2006
MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL WHERE BIZARRE MS MATTEK UPSTAGES VENUS

They were finalists a year ago, two returning to their favorite haunt - Andy Roddick and Venus -- the third, Roger Federer, feeling likewise. Having won a round, he was about to commit murder in the cathedral.

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Day 2 June 27, 2006
DADDY ROCKS AND ROLLS TO GROANS AND CHEERS ON CENTRE

For a while the television picture looked terrific in Belgrade. The local boy, Boris Pashanski, was making good - which made 13,798 eyewitnesses feel bad.

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Day 1 June 26, 2006
EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES THE LONE BRIGHT VISION ON MONSOON MONDAY

WELL, Not quite a monsoon, but there was enough moisture in the joint - a steady drizzle - that drowned the 120th opening day. Not a complete washout, but no matches were completed.

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Prelim 2 June 25, 2006
DESPITE CHAMP GORE WIMBLEDON IS COMING ALONG QUITE NICELY

Although he could score, Gore found it a bore.

That was a 27-year-old Londoner Spencer Gore. Nevertheless, he chipped his niche in sporting history by winning the inaugural Wimbledon in 1877.

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Prelim 1 June 24, 2006
PLEASE SAY IT AIN'T SO, ANDRE - SADLY IT'S TRUE, HE'S LEAVING

Suddenly the clock was ticking too fast -- in staccato, like a machine gun - and Father Timeless knew he was caught in the line of fire.

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Introduction June, 2006
SINCE 1877, THE BIG W HAS BEEN BIG STUFF IN TENNIS

Once again the Big W rolls around. Though the grand-daddy of all championships is 129-years-old, interruptions by two world wars mean this is the 120th running of the tourney of the turf.

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