Tennis
Men's Singles Competition:
- Gianluca Pozzi
- First Round — Defeated Jiří Novák (CZE), 6-1 6-2
- Second Round — Lost to Karim Alami (MOR), 2-6 6-4 6-8
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“The boneless quality of English conversation, which, so far as I have heard it, is all form and no content. Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)
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—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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