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Roundup Kournikova to play USTA event at Sea IslandPosted: Monday April 28, 2003 9:03 PMSEA ISLAND, Ga. (AP) -- Anna Kournikova, trying to recover from a thigh injury in time for the French Open, is scheduled to play in a USTA Professional Circuit event at Sea Island next month. The $25,000 clay-court tournament will be held May 4-11 at The Cloister tennis facility on Georgia's coast. "This will be a huge thing for us," said Sea Island teaching pro Dickie Anderson. "It's unheard of at this level to have a player like her." Kournikova is recovering from a torn abductor muscle in her thigh. The injury forced her to retire from her opening-round match at the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, S.C., on April 9. She was scheduled to play in a USTA circuit tournament in Dothan, Ala., last week but withdrew. She wants to play at Sea Island in preparation for the French Open, which begins May 26 in Paris. Kournikova has never won a WTA event, but her off-the-court exploits have made her one of the sport's most recognizable players. "It's a bonanza that's fell into everybody's lap," Anderson said. "I pray every night to make sure nothing happens, but I get the gut feeling she's coming unless she reinjures it between now and then." Kournikova has not played in a USTA circuit event since 1996.
Becker, Edberg to meet in Queen's Club exhibitionLONDON (AP) -- Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg will play an exhibition match to mark the 25th anniversary of the Wimbledon warmup tournament at Queen's Club. The two retired stars, who met in three consecutive Wimbledon finals from 1988-90, will play a set between the singles and doubles finals at Queen's on June 15. Becker won Queen's four times; Edberg won it once and lost to Becker in two finals. At Wimbledon, Edberg beat Becker in the 1988 and 1990 finals, and the German beat the Swede for the 1989 title. "Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg have typified the very best of grass-court tennis as the sport was in transition from wooden rackets to the modern power-play game," Queen's tournament director Ian Wight said.
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