18 August 2000 TASHKENT-Rackets are better than rockets, or at least that's what Uzbek President Islam Karimov likes to say about his country's annual President's Cup tennis tournament. Judging by the response in Tashkent each September, he's not alone in thinking that tennis can bring a good deal of tourism revenues, not to mention pride […]

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