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...boycotting or injured. Andy Roddick, who won at Memphis on Sunday, withdrew to protest the United Arab Emirates's decision not to grant Israeli player Shahar Peer a visa to compete in last week's women's event. Israeli Andy Ram was...

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...by the United Arab Emirates . . . Andy Roddick said he won't defend his title in Dubai next week because he disagrees with the United Arab Emirates' decision to deny Peer a visa to play in the women's tournament. Roddick announced his decision...

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...giving my best to succeed is precisely why I love my job so much." Andy Murray, Nikolay Davydenko, Andy Roddick and James Blake make-up the six-man field in the UAE. Federer said he was taking a lot of positives from 2008 where he picked...

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...is simply not acceptable. Tennis pro Andy Roddick, the defending champion in the Dubai tourney, pulled out, saying he wouldn't attend because of the country's exclusion of the Israeli player. Serena Williams, who plays for the...

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...miss Australian Open Russia's Nikolay Davydenko returns the ball to Andy Roddick from the U.S. during the first day of Capitala World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, Jan.1, 2009. More News Nikolay...

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...where everyone will listen." Subsequently, Andy Roddick declined to defend his title at the Dubai ATP tournament in protest of the UAE's refusal to grant the visa to Peer at the WTA event at the same venue. Venus Williams and Andy Roddick...

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...Murray advance in Abu Dhabi ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates Andy Murray defeated James Blake 6-2, 6-2 today to set up a semifinal meeting with Roger Federer at the inaugural Capitala World Tennis Championship. In the other first-round...

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...see the government make a decision that reflects poorly on a great tournament. </p><p>"I don't think you make political statements through sports," Roddick said. </p><p>In Memphis, he will play Lleyton Hewitt, a 6-2, 6-3 winner over Belgian...

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...Blake. Roddick made headlines this week when he withdrew from the Dubai tournament, which he won last year, partly as a protest of the United Arab Emirates' exclusion of Israeli Shahar Peer from a women's tournament in Dubai last week.

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