Problem: (1) Tipsarević started playing tennis at the age of six , and at the age of nine he began with the Russian coach Roman Savochkin at the New Belgrade Tennis Club .
(2) Tipsarević began playing tennis at age six , and at the age of nine , started playing at the New Belgrade Tennis Club with Russian coach Roman Savochkin .

Do (1) and (2) mean the same thing?
A: yes

Problem: (1) About 90 % of all tobacco grown in Canada is manufactured here .
(2) About 90 % of all tobacco grown in Canada is produced here .

Do (1) and (2) mean the same thing?
A: yes

Problem: (1) She is a specialist in West Indian landscape painting and the visual culture of British colonialism and of British slavery .
(2) She is a specialist in British landscape painting and the visual culture of British colonialism and West Indian slavery .

Do (1) and (2) mean the same thing?
A: no

Problem: (1) Matthew Matthew Harrison Brady ( Henry Drummond ) and David Troughton ( Kevin Spacey ) played at The Old Vic in London in a revival in 2009 .
(2) Kevin Spacey ( Henry Drummond ) and David Troughton ( Matthew Harrison Brady ) played in a revival at Old Vic in London in 2009 .

Do (1) and (2) mean the same thing?
A:
no