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The Sony Ericsson Open tennis tournament kicks into high gear this weekend at the Crandon Park Tennis Center in Key Biscayne.

The ladies and the hunks have been in town for a couple weeks already for practice and promotional appearances. Above: Bethanie Mattek-Sands (left), Romania’s Sorana Cirstea, Brit Heather Watson, Germany’s Sabine Lisicki, Slovenia’s Dominika Cibulkova and France’s Alize Cornet.

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Among the men, Vero Beach’s Mardy Fish easily dispatched a Frenchman in his opener today while former Boca Raton resident Andy Roddick (below), last year’s Sony Ericsson winner, starts play Saturday against Uruguay’s Pablo Cuevas.

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Hollywood character actor Burt Young (above), 70, helped open the 16th annual Palm Beach International Film Festival Wednesday at the CityPlace Muvico in West Palm Beach. Young, best known for his Oscar-nominated role of Pauly opposite Sylvester Stallone in the 1976 Rocky, attended a showing of his new flick with Paul Giamatti, Win Win. (Click here to see who else is in town)

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Tucker and Sherry, in happier days

Former New York Giants first-round draft pick and north county developer Tucker Frederickson has been hit by a divorce filing.

His wife of 22 years and the mother of his four children, homemaker Sherry Frederickson, filed in Palm Beach County family court last month and alleges that he squandered marital assets on people other than her.

Sherry, 51, claims her relationship with the college football hall of famer has undergone “an irretrievable breakdown” and their marital bond was severed.

She also accuses Tucker, 68, an All-American at Auburn University in 1964, of “dissipating assets by conferring them upon associates, relatives, paramours.”

Said Sherry’s attorney, Stuart’s Josh Ferraro: “We’re hoping we can resolve this matter quickly and quietly.”

Tucker’s lawyer didn’t return calls for comment but his response to the divorce petition shows he denies wasting marital dollars and keeping galpals.

Still, Sherry wants “a disproportionate” share of the marital assets because she always depended on Tucker for financial support.

She also wants the couple’s $1.5 million home at Seminole Landing, the fancy North Palm Beach community that golfer Tiger Woods‘ ex-wife, Elin Nordegren, now calls home.

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Heigl, made up!

Actress Katherine Heigl wasn’t looking anything like what fans have come to expect (right) from the former Grey’s Anatomye beauty recently in Miami Beach.

No matter! The makeup-free, sun-baked film and TV star,  above with hubby and singer/songwriter Josh Kelley, still seemed to have a good time.

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The couple vacationed in SoFla after Heigl wrapped up her part in New Year’s Eve, a big-screen fare starring Robert DeNiro.

Not too far from Camp Heigl, meanwhile, The Real Housewives of New York City’s Kelly Killoren Bensimon (below) wouldn’t be caught dead without eyeliner and base, even on the sand. She graciously posed for the Page2Live shutterbug while packing it in for the night.

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Even with a brand-new business administration degree from the University of Miami, Robert Riva hasn’t really been in high demand on the job market.

So he did the next best thing to getting a job: He used his boyish good looks, soulful eyes and fancy Palm Beach breeding and set out to be a reality TV star!

Riva, 22, is expected to become one of the main staples on a trashy-but-popular reality fare, Love Games. How trashy? Well, the house where the action takes place boasts a “boom-boom room.” Season 2, taped in the winter, premieres on the women’s cable network Oxygen on April 18.

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The program’s premise: Natalie Nunn, Lea Beaulieu and Amber Buhl, stars from Oxygen’s scandalous The Bad Girls Club, are vying for the affection of 15 boys. By the eighth and final episode, only one of the girls and a boy are left and viewers try to figure out if the relationship will last.

As Riva puts it: “It’s the poor man’s (The) Bachelor.”

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Riva, a graduate of Palm Beach Day School and Benjamin School, is the son of well-known marketing exec Maribel Alvarez. He knows instinctively the kind of exposure he could receive from the average million-plus of viewers per episode, especially when involved in on-air challenges that include doing jumping jacks in his Speedos.

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