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Reading While Eating for April 18: Highs and Lows

Wednesday’s links feature sky-high sports and underground living quarters.

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Why Doesn’t Serena Williams Love Tennis?

The Grand Slam champion didn’t exactly give her sport a ringing endorsement. Why look at the sport so unfavorably?

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Novak Djokovic Wins U.S. Open, Capping Unbeatable Season

When he won the U.S. Open on Monday night, his third Grand Slam title of the year,  Novak Djokovic didn’t dance to the hip-hop music blaring over the Arthur Ashe Stadium loudspeakers in New York.

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Painful to Watch: Rafael Nadal Suffers Cramp During Press Conference

Severe cramping is a fact of professional sports. It’s just not everyday that it happens at a press conference.

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Photos: The Funniest Faces at the 2011 U.S. Open

Forget all the grunting. What’s worth noting — and ridiculing – at the U.S. Open is the players’ crazy faces.

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How to Celebrate a Wimbledon Title: Eat Dirt

You could forgive 24-year-old Novak Djokovic if the moment got to his head. But his revelry left some scratching their heads.

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Wimbledon: Britain’s Tennis Slump Continues as Murray Falls to Nadal

Fans in London, who were lining up to get in to Wimbledon on Friday morning, were possibly living more in hope than expectation. That’s nothing new.

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Game, Set and Minimize: How to Turn Down the Sound of Wimbledon Grunting

Harrumph! Arrrgh! Is that the sound of tennis players grunting their way through points — or viewers frustrated with the noises being made? Either way, a solution has arrived.

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Esther Vergeer Hits Wimbledon: Meet the World’s Most Dominant Athlete

On Friday, the most dominant athlete in the world will take the court at Wimbledon — and you’ve probably never heard of her.

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Roger Federer On His Wimbledon Loss: ‘I Enjoyed It’

The All-England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC), which hosts the Wimbledon tennis championships each year, goes out of its way to foster a Corinthian spirit among its competitors.