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Another week, another player calls it a day and after [b]Elena Dementieva[/b] it was the turn of America's[b] Taylor Dent[/b] to hang up his racquet this time. The retirement of Dent, although nowhere near as successful as Dementieva, is probably more significant because of the loss of a playing style in the men's game that it represents. Dent's big [b]serve and volley[/b] game is dying out in the men's game and it's pretty much extinct on the women's side with only the likes of [b]Amelie Mauresmo[/b] in recent memory adopting that technique on occasion to any great success. Dent is worthy of huge respect for fighting back from a [b]serious back injury[/b] that rendered him immobile for months, but once he returned to the tour he found that the game had moved on. In 2005, the...