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Why can't the women serve?

By Kamakshi Tandon
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

It's a faint but funny memory: A 15-year-old Dinara Safina, playing the Wimbledon juniors in 2001, walking around the grounds wearing a Nike T-shirt emblazoned with a slogan along the lines of "Anyone seen my serve?" The T-shirt might no longer fit, but the words have become rather apt. Safina, now all grown up and No. 1 in the world, is the latest player on the women's tour to find her serve suddenly and inexplicably deserting her during matches. Last week at the Rogers Cup in Toronto, S ...

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