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Love -- Melanie Oudin won in Eastbourne and wore a Santa hat to pose with the winner's trophy. (We're sure there's an obvious reason this happened, but I'd prefer it if there wasn't.) This looks like something "SportsCenter" would Photoshop if Oudin got traded to a team in the North Pole.

15 -- What, the Santa hat in June isn't the big story here? You think Oudin, ranked outside the top 200 before the tournament, continuing her solid run, winning her first-ever tournament, leaping to No. 122 in the rankings and playing her way into Wimbledon is a bigger deal? So does Peter Bodo.

30 -- Wimbledon redesigned its website and like all website redesigns, it initially feels like a step backward. But by next Tuesday, I'll have completely forgotten what the old one looked like. (I hope; even in the world of redesigns, this is pretty awkward.)

40 -- John Isner is on a Coke can celebrating American athletes at the Olympics. I wonder if Richard Gasquet is on the French version?

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The Wimbledon trophies made their debut on American soil this week when John McEnroe and Chris Evert brought the Challenge Cup and Venus Rosewater Dish to ABC's "Good Morning America" to promote ESPN's new 12-year partnership with Wimbledon.

It was the first time the two winner's trophies had left the All England Club.

It must have been a special day for Evert, getting so close to the trophy that her beloved Roger Federer may hold in three weeks. You could sense her trepidation when McEnroe picked Fed to win it all. She must not have wanted to jinx him.

For all of ESPN's faults -- Chris Berman, NFL draft coverage, "Monday Night Football," Jon Gruden, "First Take," Jon Gruden, never showing highlights -- its tennis coverage is excellent. Bringing back "Breakfast at Wimbledon," showing live matches all day for the fortnight and allowing for streaming on various devices are positive signs that this will continue during this year's coverage from the All England Club.

British police will open an investigation into David Nalbandian for his role in bloodying a linesman while kicking an advertising board during Sunday's final at Queen's Club.

Officials ruled that the Argentine had to default the match to Marin Cilic after smashing the sign with his right foot. During that brief outburst, Nalbandian made contact with line judge Andrew McDougal and sent part of the sign flying into his leg. McDougal was bloodied in the encounter but suffered no other injury.

Nalbandian was leading 7-6, 3-4 at the time but was forced to default the match, forfeiting his prize money and rankings points in the process.

"We are aware of an incident at the Aegon Championships on June 17," a Scotland Yard spokesman said. "A complaint has been made and the Metropolitan police service is now investigating. The allegation is of assault."

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Assault?! Look, I think David Nalbandian should be punished more harshly than

The genteel Queens Club tournament was marred by an ugly incident in Sunday's final when David Nalbandian kicked an advertising sign and inadvertently bloodied a linesman sitting above it.

The Argentinian was immediately defaulted from the match, giving Marin Cilic the victory in the grass-court tournament. Nalbandian won the first set 7-6 and was trailing 3-4 in the second when he kicked the sign in frustration.

The linesman later rolled up his pants and blood was seen dripping down his leg.

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"I am very sorry, sometimes you get frustrated on court," said Nalbandian after the match. "Sometimes I make a mistake I agree with. It's a tough moment to end a final like that but sometimes we feel so much pressure from the ATP playing so many tournaments."

Some people are crediting Nalbandian for his apology, saying he seemed contrite toward the linesman, if not about his actions. Nonsense. By blaming the ATP for pressure and hiding behind the "it was an accident" defense, Nalabandian makes

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Love -- Since beating Roger Federer in the third round at Key Biscayne, Andy Roddick has lost six consecutive matches, including an opening-round defeat this week at Queens Club to Edouard Roger-Vasselin. Roddick, currently ranked No. 32, is a four-time winner at the grass court event.

Still, he was somewhat optimistic after the defeat. "It wasn't that bad," he told reporters. "I served 80 percent and had 22 aces. It was better than what I have been doing."

He also dismissed reports that this year's Wimbledon could be his last. Roddick said his quote that didn't rule out the possibility was misunderstood and that he was merely suggesting that he doesn't know what the future holds.

15 -- Speaking of Federer, he had a street named after him in Halle, Germany, site of this week's Gerry Weber Open. He reacted with a classic Federer quote:

"It is a great honour for me that a street is named after me. In

Even the artist's rendering of the plan includes rain clouds (New York Times)

The USTA heralding a $500 million renovation to the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center that doesn't include plans for a roof on Arthur Ashe Stadium is like getting down on one knee and telling your girlfriend how much you love her. It's a nice gesture overshadowed by what it isn't.

While the USTA is focusing on renovations and added capacity at the US Open, the real story of Thursday's announcement is that there won't be a roof for the 23,000-seat show court. The men's final has been postponed until Monday for the past four years due to rain delays. Nearly two full days were washed out at last year's event. These problems won't go away even with a half-billion dollar proposal. But, hey, they're making a new pedestrian walkway in a few years!

The story about why Ashe can't get a roof hasn't changed: It's too big and needs a roof that's too heavy. Since the stadium was built on a "swamp-like ash dump," it can't sustain the weight. It's claimed that an Ashe roof would cover five

(Getty Images)If any tennis player is an expert on battling through pain, it's the oft-injured Tommy Haas. And Herr Hass has a theory about how Andy Murray deals with it.

Speaking to a German television station, Haas suggested Murray, who made a Lazarus-like recovery from a back injury in a second-round French Open win over Janko Tipsarevic, is a bit of a faker.

"It's difficult when you play against someone on the court like he is not well or injured. I find no one does this better than Murray. Sometimes he looks like he can barely move, then comes the trainer and he moves like a cat. I believe everyone knows this. People talk about it in the locker room. Maybe he would like to take some pressure off himself. He tells himself, 'Maybe I have a niggle or a problem, I'm not feeling too well but I'm going to try it anyway.' But he is such a talented player that he does not need to."

I love how Haas made it sound like he was saying something as factual and noncontroversial as "Andy Murray is Scottish."

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Rafael Nadal's $370,000 watch was recovered from a Parisian grassy knoll on Wednesday, closing one of the nation's least sensational crime stories of the 21st century.

The watch went missing on Monday, hours after Nadal won his seventh French Open title. Police investigators located it 36 hours later after arresting an employee at the Paris hotel Nadal was staying in. They say the man stole the watch and hid it near the Metro station at Evry.

The employee was placed under arrest for the crime. Huh. This whole time I was under the impression that anything French men do in hotel rooms was legal.

Le Parisien has the details:

Le suspect a été trahi par son badge magnétique qui lui a permis d'entrer, sans effraction, dans la chambre du joueur. Placé en garde à vue, l'employé indélicat, âgé de 38 ans est rapidement passé aux aveux avant de conduire les policiers sur les lieux où il avait caché cette précieuse montre, situé à proximité de son domicile.

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