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    Roger Federer (redirect from Swiss Maestro)
    and an Open Era joint-record five men's singles US Open titles) and six year-end championships. A Wimbledon junior champion in 1998 and former ball boy,...
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    Michael Ashley Ball OBE (born 27 June 1962) is an English singer, presenter and actor. In 1985, he made his West End debut as Marius Pontmercy in the original...
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    Ralf Souquet (category WPA World Eight-ball Champions)
    Alcano. In 2000, Souquet won the BCA U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship and also won the U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship in 2002 by defeating Alex Pagulayan...
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    region of Switzerland, conventionally referred to as the Swiss Alps, represents a major natural feature of the country and is, along with the Swiss Plateau...
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    Basketball (redirect from Basket ball)
    an additional period of play (overtime) is mandated. Players advance the ball by bouncing it while walking or running (dribbling) or by passing it to a...
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    Marc Forster (category German people of Swiss descent)
    November 1969) is a German-Swiss film director, producer and writer. He is best known for directing the feature films Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland, Stranger...
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    teams. The match was played at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany, on 9 July 2006, and was contested between Italy and France. The event comprised hosts...
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    beating Patty Schnyder of Switzerland 6–3, 2–6, 9–7 in 3 hours, 19 minutes in the final. In January 2000 at the Australian Open Martínez beat Elena Likhovtseva...
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  • openings in Swiss city centers: two in Geneva, one in Vevey and one in Winterthur. Indeed, it was announced that a new Decathlon store would open in Agy Centre...
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    Netherlands then went in front in the 10th minute, when Memphis Depay received a ball from the right from Denzel Dumfries and finished into the left corner of...
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    propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond...
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    Italian: Cartuccia per Fucile) to the French- and Italian-speaking Swiss militiamen. The Swiss refer to the round as the 5.6 mm Gw Pat 90, although it is interchangeable...
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    Floorball (redirect from Floor ball)
    the ball leaving play are resumed from a fixed point (e.g. corner, centre line) no physical contact, high sticks or dangerous activity allowed. Swiss floorball...
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    Football (redirect from Foot ball)
    September 2010. Retrieved 19 June 2010. Soccer Ball World – Early History. Retrieved 9 June 2006. Archived 16 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine soccerballworld...
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    Pesäpallo (category Ball and bat games)
    literally meaning "nest ball", colloquially known in Finnish as pesis and also referred to as Finnish baseball) is a fast-moving bat-and-ball sport that is often...
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    from the 2020 US Open after accidentally hitting a line official with a ball that was not in play. Djokovic withdrew from the 2022 US Open due to the federal...
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    Stan Wawrinka (category Swiss-French people)
    press conferences. Wawrinka was born in Switzerland to a German father and Swiss mother. He holds dual Swiss–German citizenship. His father Wolfram Wawrinka...
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    accidentally striking a linesperson in the neck with a tennis ball. Djokovic withdrew from the 2022 US Open due to the federal government's COVID-19 vaccination...
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  • official match ball for the 2010 Champions League final, the Adidas Finale Madrid, was unveiled on 9 March 2010. It was the tenth ball to use the "Starball"...
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    Boudin (redirect from Boudin ball)
    [budɛ̃]) The added ingredients vary in French, Luxembourgish, Belgian, Swiss, Québec, Acadian, Aostan, Louisiana Creole, and Cajun cuisine. The Anglo-Norman...
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  • 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July...
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  • all four major finals in 2006, winning three of them. His only loss at the majors came against Rafael Nadal in the French Open final in four sets, 6–1...
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    it also bought oil from Romania, chromium from Turkey and ball bearings from Sweden. Swiss companies including Oerlikon-Bührle, Tavaro, Hispano-Suiza...
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    Alexander Zverev (category Australian Open (tennis) junior champions)
    Mexican Open, Zverev repeatedly struck umpire Alessandro Germani's chair with his racket, believing that Germani had incorrectly called a ball out during...
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  • feature Tim Harding. Prior to production of the ninth series of Hi-5 in 2006, Kathleen de Leon Jones announced that she was pregnant, and that she would...
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    Hofburg (section Swiss Wing)
    Sundays. The appearance of the Swiss Court dates from the Renaissance, during the reign of the Emperor Ferdinand I. The Swiss Gate entrance (Schweizertor)...
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  • national football team was played on 5 April 1908, against Switzerland in Basel, with the Swiss winning 5–3. A follow-up to the earlier series between England...
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    Lausanne, Switzerland, 1949), the Swiss journalist Léon Savary retrospectively denounced in this sense "the occult influence of Hitlerism on the Swiss people...
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    On 21 June 2011, Clare performed at the Queens' College, Cambridge May Ball. On 14 August 2011, Clare performed at the Summer Well festival in Buftea...
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    criticised for Wigan's second goal of the game, prior to which he lost the ball on the edge of his own box, resulting in a deflected own goal by Paul McShane...
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