{"id":20855,"date":"2013-07-02T23:16:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T21:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/the-weird-and-wonderful-life-of-sport\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T23:16:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T21:16:53","slug":"the-weird-and-wonderful-life-of-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/the-weird-and-wonderful-life-of-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"The weird and wonderful life of sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sabine Lisicki at the 2008 U.S. Open \u2013 Women\u2019s Singles. Photo: Wikipedia<\/p>\n

Day seven of the Wimbledon Championships was a very unlucky one<\/a> for Serena Williams \u2013 and the persons responsible was Sabine Lisicki.<\/p>\n

On the gentlemen\u2019s side<\/a>, Golden Oldie Tommy Haas was beaten by world number one Novak Djokovic. We did some research on the oldest Wimbledon champions and came up with the following top-ten list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Team Orice-GreenEdge\u2019s Simon Gerrans won the third stage of the Tour de France yesterday, thanks to South African<\/a> Daryl Impey. For interesting facts about today\u2019s fourth stag, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When you think things can\u2019t get any weirder<\/a>, someone like Zoe Romano, a Spanish tutor from Virginia, says she will be tackling the Tour de France route on foot to raise money for the World Pediatric Project. Follow her progress on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In local news<\/a> \u2013 well, sort of \u2013 the Gary Player Invitational takes to the Wentworth Golf Club outside London later this month in celebration of The Player Foundation\u2019s 30th anniversary.<\/p>\n

High five,
\nEd<\/p>\n

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