They Lost Their Match, Love-Love

Attention, Anna Kournikova admirers: There is hope. The marriage of tennis’ pinup queen is off.

If it was ever on.

She was supposed to marry fellow Russian Pavel Bure of the Florida Panthers.

“I never said I was engaged or was planning to get married, because I have no such plans,” Kournikova, 18, said in a statement posted on her Web site.

And, “A wedding isn’t entering into my plans just yet,” the 28-year-old Bure told the Russian newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda. “Today, I love hockey more than anything else.”

No word on whether Bure was hit in the head by a puck before making that statement.

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Love match: Dan LeBatard of the Miami Herald figured Kournikova and Bure made a perfect pair:

“One can only imagine their private conversations if they are as deep with each other as they are with reporters.

“Bure: ‘Gosh, you’re good-looking.’

“Kournikova: ‘You too.’

“Or, to break up the monotony . . .

“Bure: ‘Gosh, I’m good-looking.’

“Kournikova: ‘Me too.’ ”

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Next match: Ron Rapoport in the Chicago Sun-Times:

“Anna Kournikova predicts topless tennis. Anna Kournikova dumps one hockey player for another. Anna Kournikova battles an airline crew that wants to put her miniature Doberman pinscher in a carrying case.

“You know what this means, don’t you? She and Dennis Rodman will be an item any day now.”

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Trivia time: Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player played together in the first two rounds of the Masters. How many times has one of this threesome won the tournament?

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It’s logical: Bret Lewis on KCBS-TV: “Cincinnati’s Kenyon Martin was named player of the year in college basketball by the Associated Press. He missed the NCAA tournament because of a severe leg injury.

“Let’s see, probable No. 1 pick, bad leg injury. Sounds like a Clipper to me.”

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Trivia answer: They have 13 Masters wins. Nicklaus has won six times, Palmer four times and Player three.

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And finally: The Cincinnati Bengals, the only NFL team without a Web site, launched one Thursday, https://www.bengals.com.

Considering that Cincinnati was 4-12 last season and set a league record for most losses in a decade, it was suggested in an Associated Press story that the team hadn’t had a Web site because the Bengals couldn’t string three Ws together for an address.