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HAMBURG: Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga recovered from a first set whitewash to beat French compatriot Nicolas Mahut in the first round of the Hamburg Masters Series here on Monday. Tsonga got off to a rusty start, winning ... ... HAMBURG: Australian Open...
BERLIN, May 6 (Xinhua) -- China's Peng Shuai and Yan Zi ... ... BERLIN, May 6 (Xinhua) -- China's Peng Shuai and Yan Zi entered the next round of the German Open tennis tournament after beating American Jill Craybas and host player Martina Muller respectively here on...
PRO BASKETBALL DALLAS (AP) -- The Dallas Mavericks fired coach Avery Johnson, the first of what's likely to be many offseason moves after the team with the league's highest payroll again flopped in the first round of the playoffs. The Mavericks followed that 2006...
Wild-card entrant Karolina Pliskova rallied to defeat eighth-seeded Kaia Kanepi 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 Wednesday and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Prague Open. The 16-year-old Pliskova, who beat Alicia Molik 6-4, 6-4 on Tuesday for her first WTA Tour victory, next will play third-seeded Victoria...
Wild-card entrant Karolina Pliskova rallied to defeat eighth-seeded Kaia Kanepi 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 Wednesday and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Prague Open. ... The 16-year-old Pliskova, who beat Alicia Molik 6-4, 6-4 on Tuesday for her first WTA Tour victory, next will...
Country singer Mindy McCready confirms that she had a long-term affair with pitcher Roger Clemens, the New York Daily News reported on its Web site yesterday. ... “I cannot refute anything in the story,” McCready told the newspaper. The paper reported Monday that the two...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, April 29 (UPI) -- Top-seeded Vera Zvonareva claimed a straight-set victory Tuesday in first-round play at the $145,000 Prague Open. ... Zvonareva had little trouble in her 6-2, 6-3 win over Lucie Hradecka in her first match of the clay court...
Maria Sharapova blanked American Bethanie Mattek 6-0, 6-0 in less than an hour in the second round of the Family Circle Cup on Wednesday. ... The second-seeded Russian star, coming off her first claycourt title last week at Amelia Island, was looking for her fourth...
CHARLESTON, South Carolina: Third-seeded Russian Anna Chakvetadze was sent crashing out of the Family Circle Cup after being upset in the second round ... by unseeded Romanian Sorana Cirstea 6-2, 1-6, 6-2 on Tuesday. Surprising defeats during the past two months have...
Serena Williams wins in Charleston, Cirstea upsets Chakvetadze; Federer rallies to advance to second round at clay-court Estoril Open; Unseeded Kunitsyn beats second-seeded Haas to advance in US Clay Court Championship in Houston; Safin knocks 2003 Valencia Open champion Juan Carlos Ferrero out...
