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Daily Bagel: The best (worst?) insults from tennis players

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The Daily Bagel is your dose of the interesting reporting, writing and quipping from around the Internet.

• Video: Roger Federer with a perfect backhand flick lob and anticipation at the net in his straight set win over Mikhail Kukushkin today at Davis Cup.

• The Tennis Space has collected some of the best (worst?) insults levied by tennis players.

Andre Agassi on Pete Sampras:

“Pete sounds more robotic than a parrot. I envy Pete’s dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration, and his peculiar lack of need for inspiration.”

What Anna Kournikova said to Martina Hingis after losing 6-0 6-0 to her at the junior US Open:

“You won, but I’m prettier and more marketable than you.”

• A British teenage prospect is suing the Lawn Tennis Association for racial discrimination.

• Steve Tignor and Richard Pagliaro at Tennis.com discuss the first quarter of the tennis season.

• A fan's view of the Sony Open.

• What's the term for a photo of a selfie in progress? A meta-selfie?

• Klara Zakopalova has gone back to her maiden name, Koukalova.

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Courtney Nguyen
COURTNEY NGUYEN

Contributor, SI.com Nguyen is a freelance writer for SI.com, providing full coverage of professional tennis both on and off the court. Her content has become a must-read for fans and insiders to stay up-to-date with a sport that rarely rests. She has appeared on radio and TV talk shows all over the world and is one of the co-hosts of No Challenges Remaining, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Nguyen graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received a law degree from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She lives in the Bay Area.

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