Steffi Graf's Teeth Are Fine, People. Fine!

Here is the most media space I have seen dedicated to three stitches since our graceful commander-in-chief took out an unsuspecting Scottish cop while bike-riding.

The Andre "It was completely an accident. I do not abuse my wife, especially with tennis rackets (you'd just love that, wouldn't you)" Agassi-Steffi "Conspicuous No-Comment" Graf accident is covered by the AP here with such detail, you'd think a team of reporters was staked out waiting for something awful to happen--at a charity tennis event. The hard-hitting, leave-no-details-unreported article includes this vital information:

She wiped her mouth with a towel before leaving the stadium for an on-site doctor to administer three stitches to her lip, officials said. It was not clear whether the cut was to the inside or outside of her mouth area.

She suffered no damage to her teeth, officials said.

Ah, thank God her teeth are fine, but do get back to us when you find out the location of that cut, AP guy on the charity tennis beat.

I'm also curious about this incongruity:

Graf and Agassi were holding hands -- her left to his right -- while rallying with a couple of youngsters when Agassi's follow-through struck his wife in the face.

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The doctor who paid $70,000 for a trip to play tennis with the couple stitched up the multiple Grand Slam winner.

I'm going to assume that the neither of the "youngsters" and the magnanimous-to-the-tune-of-$70K-and-some-free-triage doc are the same person, though they're possibly related. Maybe the AP could clear that up for us, too.

And for those of you who care about the U.S. Clay Court Championships, the event playing host to the Graf-Agassi family and their charity games, (and by "those of you who care" I explicitly mean "not me"), the AP includes one essential bit of information at the end:

Ivo Karlovic of Croatia won the clay court title Sunday, his first, when he beat qualifier Mariano Zabaleta 6-4, 6-1.

Bravo, Ivo!