NEW YORK -- When Andy Roddick lost the first five games yesterday, to the groans of the multitude, you wondered if his new tutor, Jimmy Connors, would throw him a banana. Potassium Power was a big item around the US Open after Maria Sharapova seized the women's title Saturday night. She got the banana signal from her courtside posse, and ... (Full article: 834 words)

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