Keeping tabs on tennis love-love stories
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Get serious, replied tennis player Anna Kournikova's father, Sergei.
Untrue, said the president of the company that represents Kournikova and hockey star Sergei Fedorov.
News to me, said a friend of Fedorov and a coach of Kournikova.
All responded to a report yesterday in The Sun, a London tabloid, that Kournikova and Fedorov have tied the knot.
"Anna is in Florida at the moment and has begun training," Sergei Kournikova told Reuters. "Only yesterday I spoke with her on the phone, and I think she would be very surprised to hear about this latest rumor."
Fedorov, 31, and Kournikova, 20, have been romantically linked since she was 15. But yesterday, no one familiar with the pair had reason to believe they had married. The Sun reported the wedding occurred in Moscow during Wimbledon, June 25 to July 9.
"The rumors are untrue, and we will not justify them with any further comment," said Phil De Picciotto, president of Octagon Athlete Representatives.
Ed Nagel, a friend of Fedorov's and a coach for Kournikova, told The Detroit News, "I was with Anna in Europe for a month, and she didn't tell me anything about getting married."
The Sun quoted Fedorov's mother, Natalya, saying, "It was a lovely ceremony." Sergei Kournikova said, "I don't know how (she) would say anything about a marriage of my daughter. ... She lives in Detroit."
It's a boy for Agassi, Graf
On to tennis' other favorite love-love story: Andre Agassi revealed yesterday that he and Steffi Graf will be parents of a (drumroll, please) baby boy in December.
Agassi, interviewed in Los Angeles in preparation for his opening match today in the Mercedes-Benz Cup, called the news of him becoming a father "a lot of wonderful."
Packers player can't unpack
Playing for the Green Bay Packers might get you free drinks, but it might cost you the keys to an apartment.
Edwin Kehl's status as a Packer got him turned away from renting an apartment in De Pere, Wis., a Green Bay suburb. When Kehl, a guard for the practice team, was ready to sign the lease agreement at Nicolet Gardens, the apartment manager told him the owner had rejected his application.
A Packers player had trashed one of the owner's apartments, Kehl was told, and he'd need a co-signer from the team.
Tyson finally chips in
Charities are splitting the $200,000 that boxer Mike Tyson was fined for refusing to submit to a pre-fight drug test last year. With Iron Mike's record for trouble, he may become the sports equivalent of Bill Gates.
— Compiled from Seattle Times news services