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Four Smashers

by | 1st, July 2004

‘WIMBLEDON is a throwback to a bygone age when sport was not just about taking part in a zoned approach, but about winning and – dare we say it – losing.

Racquet abuse will make you go blind

The tournament has now reached the semi-final stage and there are only four women left in the competition.

“So who is the new Anna?”

The Express follows the Mail’s lead this morning and serves up the semi-finalists – Tatiana Golovin, Maria Kirilenko, Elena Dementieva and of course Maria Sharapova.

And its sister paper, the Star, urges its readers not to give up on the tournament just yet – “there’s still plenty of top tennis totty on show to keep fans happy”.

It’s just a pity that there has to be a winner. And she is…drum roll…

Wait – what’s this? We’ve just received an urgent message from Sport England instructing us to call off the contest and get the girls to take part in some non-competitive group activity instead.

Ooo I say, as Dan Maskell would have said…’



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