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Article: Brash boys of Stella Artois help to stir senses before gentler sips of Wimbledon
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- Scotland on Sunday
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- June 8, 2003
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QUINTESSENTIALLY English, politeness and etiquette hang in the air
like lobelia from a flowering basket, affording the Queen's Club,
setting for the Stella Artois tournament, a degree of serenity.
The irony is that there is nothing serene about the brilliant
brats who have dominated the event, which gets under way tomorrow,
and which has cultivated a reputation as a perfect precursor to the
All England championships.
The Stella Artois is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and while
SW19 is synonymous with strawberries and cream and gentlemanly
figures such as Fred Perry, Pete Sampras and Tim Henman, its warm-up
act remains inextricably linked with a sequence of temper- tantrums,
from John ...
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