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Tennis Today Christmas Crossword No.8 by Aleric Linden

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Clues Across

5 French winner of the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2006 (8)
8 Mr Mills, Wimbledon match referee from 1982 until 2005 (4)
9 Ana Ivanovic or Janko Tipsarevic, for example (4)
10 What Agassi did against the big servers better than most (8)
11 The nationality of tennis player Sargis Sargsian (8)
13 Straight _ win, a comfortable victory (4)
14 Winning serves (4)
15 Homeland of Katarina Srebotnik (8)
17 _ smash, tennis shot also known as a slam dunk (8)
19 _ Ljubicic, top seed beaten by Sergiy Stakhovsky in March's Zagreb Indoors final (4)
21 See 15 down
22 James Blake's favoured shot (8)

Clues Down

1 Surname of the last Brit to win a singles tournament at Wimbledon (4)
2 Elite group in the world rankings where Andy Murray has staked his place (3,3)
3 Any doubles partnership (4)
4 Ecuadorian semi-finalist at the 1999 Australian Open (8)
6 Matches played during a David Cup tie (7)
7 Mr Bruguera, French Open champion of 1993 and 1994 (5)
12 A comeback from a losing position (8)
13 _ Open, ATP Tour event played in Bastad (7)
15 & 21 across She won all four Grand Slam singles titles in 1988 (6,4)
16 _ of play, daily tournament schedule (5)
18 Nadal's nickname (4)
20 _ Keothavong, British number 2 (4)