February 19, 2007 Sports » Sports Feature

Where's Federer? Roger Dodges Memphis Tourney Again

by John Branston

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The sad truth is that the continued absence from Memphis of one Roger Federer — as dominant on the tennis court today as Tiger Woods has ever been on the golf links — turns this week's local ATP event into a B-list audition for pretenders to the throne.

For the rest of Frank Murtaugh's tell-it-like-it-is take on Roger the Dodger, go to "Sports Beat".

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