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Debacle in the desert

By Bonnie DeSimone
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, March 2, 2007

They're trying to hold a tennis tournament out in the land of pay-your-money-and-take-your-chances, but an ice dancing competition broke out instead. The round robin fiasco at the Tennis Channel Open in Las Vegas came complete with the international intrigue and subjective rule interpretation we usually associate with Olympic judging. "I would call it a first-class debacle," said commentator and Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe. "I was initially in favor of round robin to give these smaller e ...

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