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The US Open differs from the other 3 Grand Slam tournaments in that there are final-set tiebreaks. In the other three majors, the fifth set for the men and the third set for the women continue until someone wins by two games.
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Cheryl Gudinas Holmes (Naperville, Ill.) moves into the final round of the US OPEN Racquetball Championship after a win over Kerri Wachtel (Cincinnati, Ohio) Saturday. The five game match was essentially a battle of wills as Gudinas Holmes fought her way back from a 9-2 deficit winning the first game 12-10. After losing the second game 11-5, she recovered late in the third with a six point hot streak that gave her the 12-10 victory. In the fourth, Wachtel tied up the match at two games a piece making the fifth game one to be remembered. MORE
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Golubev came across the game because noted chess director and historian Frank Berry had gone to the trouble of reentering games from the US Open bulletin back into ChessBase. Yes, this does seem like a sad duplication of effort, but as of today I still have not seen any games from the US Open on its website or at Mark Crowther's The Week in Chess, where information is normally disseminated throughout the chess world. One would hope this situation is corrected soon.
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/PRNewswire/ - Andre Agassi, one of the greatest players of his generation, is hanging up his racket at the end of this year's US Open. While he dreams of exiting the game in the same way his old rival Pete Sampras did, by winning the title, the next generation of US stars like
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The following two games were a shock at the US Open. Walter was a major 1.e4 player in his youth, but it's been a very long time, at least two decades, since he's played it. Time control was Game/60.
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