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FES, Morocco, May 2 (UPI) -- Anabel Medina Garrigues lost just two games Friday, roaring into the semifinals of the $145,000 Moroccan Grand Prix tennis tournament. ... Medina Garrigues, ranked 34th in the world and seeded first in Morocco, blitzed Olga Savchuk 6-1, 6-1...
Top-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain advanced to the semifinals of the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, routing Olga Savchuk of Ukraine 6-1, 6-1 on Friday. ... Medina Garrigues will next face Greta Arn of Hungary, who downed Petra Cetkovska of the Czech...
FES, Morocco, May 1 (UPI) -- Second-seeded Gisela Dulko coasted in the second round of the Moroccan Grand Prix Thursday with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Emilie Loit. ... Dulko earned a quarterfinal berth in this tune-up for the French Open and will meet Sorana Cirstea, who...
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...
The Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, part of the Women's Tennis Association Tour, kicked off Monday (April 28th) in Fes. Romania's Sorana Ci... ... The Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, part of the Women's Tennis Association Tour, kicked off Monday (April...
Seventh-seeded Sorana Cirstea of Romania and eighth-seeded Ekaterina Makarova of Russia won first-round matches Monday at the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem. ... Cirstea rallied past Marina Erakovic of New Zealand 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, and Makarova defeated Andreja...
Federer and Davydenko advance at Estoril; Almagro reaches Valencia Open semifinals; Serena Williams beats Maria Sharapova at Family Circle; Results for U.S. Clay Court Championships men's singles ... Roger Federer struggled again with unforced errors but defeated...
Second-seeded Russian Maria Kirilenko highlighted Friday's quarterfinal winners at the $145,000 Estoril Open. ... Kirilenko reached her first-ever WTA Tour-level clay-court semi by leveling fifth-seeded Italian Tathiana Garbin 6-0, 6-1 on the red dirt at Estadio...
With six women in the world's top 100 and some highly-talented young prospects on the horizon, the former Soviet state looks like becoming a force to be reckoned with. ... 'Alona Bondarenko just needs a bit more consistency in her game to really challenge for a top-10...
World number one Roger Federer breezed through irritating showers to shrug off Romania’s Victor Hanescu 6-3, 6-2 to reach the Estoril Open quarter-finals yesterday. ... “It was rainy throughout the match, that's always a hard thing,” said 12-time Grand Slam champion...
