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Tales of two newly minted champions

By Peter Bodo

Monday, August 3, 2009

Shortly after nailing up a tough and gritty three-set upset of heavily favored Venus Williams in the Stanford final on Sunday, WTA outlier Marion Bartoli said: "It was the best effort I ever gave on court." Far down the freeway in Los Angeles, Sam Querrey played in his third consecutive final, and this time he won it, snatching the Los Angeles title from a Cinderella-story qualifier, Carsten Ball. That, too, was a three-setter, and the way Querrey pulled out, and capped a run that brings his re ...

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