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Wimbledon organisers on Wednesday defended the state of the grasscourts after concerns from players that the lawns are too slippery.Seven-times champion Serena Williams was forced to retire from her first-round match on Tuesday after appearing to slip and injuring her leg in the opening set against stanley mug Belarussian Aliaksandra Sasnovich o stanley cups uk n Centre Court.Frenchman Adrian Mannarino also quit at two sets apiece against eight-times champion Roger Federer after sliding stanley thermos over on Centre Court and injuring his knee.Mens top seed Novak Djokovic fell twice in the first set of his first-round match against Jack Draper on Monday while twice champion Andy Murray said he felt that Centre Court was slippery with the sliding roof closed.The opening two days of the Championships have been wet with play disrupted on uncovered outside courts while the Centre Court and Court One roofs have been well-used.The All England Club said the courts, which were unused last year after the tournament was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, have been prepared in the usual meticulous way by the groundstaff. Each grass court is checked by the Grand Slam Supervisors, Referees Office and Grounds team ahead of play commencing, and on both days of the Fortnight they have been happy with the conditions and cleared the courts for play, the club said in a statement. The weather conditions on the opening two days have been the wettest we have experienced in almost a decade, which has required the roof to be clos Bqve Hermon voters to consider $12.5 million school budget
PEMBROKE, Maine 鈥?The Maine Marine Patrol has turned over two separate sets of human remains recovered from the waters of Cobscook Bay to the State Medical Examiners Office for identification.One set was recovered in December 2010, and another set of remains was found last week, both by crews on local scallop draggers, according to Marine Patrol Lt. Dale Sprowl.Dr. David King, state medical examiner, confirmed Wednesday that partial remains are being examined at h stanley cup becher is office, but that nothing has been positively identified yet.Five fishermen have drowned in Cobscook Bay since March 2009. One body has not been recovered and two bodies have been recovered intact. Two other bodies have been recovered but not whole, King said. When you have 206 bones in the human body and three fishermen, that complicates everything, King said, referring to the identification process. In all fairness, what we are dealing with are numerous small bone fragments. He said that all of the fishermens families have provided DNA samples for testing but that some of the families do not want to know if stanley cup any of the newly found remains belong to their loved one. Others do. King also said theres always a chance that the bones under review might not be those of the lost Maine fishermen.King s stanley deutschland aid that since the drownings were accidental events and not crimes, such as homicide, there is no urgency in testing the remains. He said positive identifications should be made by late February.Working last week with new N |
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