However it was not as bad as the previous day when the top-four seeds including Wimbledon champion Lindsay Davenport and teenaged Russian star Anna Kournikova both perished.

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The effort continued throughout the season with employees wearing buttons, in-stadium videos, and photos of celebrities like Sarah Jessica Parker, Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Anna Kournikova, Mathew Broderick, Ken Burns and some of the Real Houswives (ugh).

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And days later, a fan of Anna Kournikova walked unchallenged into the players' lounge to meet his idol.

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When the Anna Kournikova virus was spreading wildly in 2001, it infected millions of computers and clogged e-mail servers by offering a racy picture of the teen tennis star to unsuspecting e-mailers.

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Until now, Patrick has often been lumped into that space traditionally linked to tennis whizzes Anna Kournikova, a highly ranked player who failed to win a major tournament, and Andre ("Image is Everything") Agassi, in the days before he broke through and won a Wimbledon title.

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