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AFP - Wimbledon champion Roger Federer insists his friend Thierry Henry shouldn't be blamed for the controversial goal that sent France to the World Cup at the Republic of Ireland's expense.

AFP - America's Wimbledon finalist Andy Roddick withdrew from the season ending ATP Masters tournament on Tuesday with him explaining that he had not recovered from a knee injury.

U.K. sports bodies could lose hundreds of millions of pounds in revenues from broadcast contracts after a long-awaited review of British sport recommended that top national sports including home Ashes cricket matches, the Wimbledon Tennis Championship and a range of national soccer and rugby matches should be kept on free-to-air television.

AFP - Serena Williams heads for 2010 as world number one, WTA Championships, Australian Open and Wimbledon champion, but there's a worrying storm gathering over women's tennis.

AFP - Former tennis star Andre Agassi has admitted the lion mane-style hairstyle he sported during the 1990s was actually a wig, in extracts from his autobiography published in British newspapers Saturday.

Back when I was a high school tennis player in New Jersey in the mid- to late-90s, the most grievous offense that an opposing coach could commit was to engage in what we used to call "stacking" his lineup. A team's best player was supposed to play first singles; its next-best player was supposed to play second singles; and so on. Once in awhile, a nefarious coach would put someone who looked as comfortable with a tennis racket as Kirsten Dunst did in the movie Wimbledon at the top of his lineup, thereby matching up his best players with the opponent's inferior ones. This would enrage us, the honor-bound Columbia Cougars that we were, and the worst part was that it sometimes worked.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Former world number three and 2002 Wimbledon finalist David Nalbandian will make his comeback from hip surgery in an exhibition tournament in Buenos Aires in December, organizers said.