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| • Champions Tour comes to Asia with event in SKorea |
| INCHEON, South Korea (AP) - The Champions Tour has come to Asia and golf greats Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson predict the sport has a bright future in the region.
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| • Nadal reaches US Open quarters by beating Lopez |
| NEW YORK (AP) - Rafael Nadal won his 18th consecutive Grand Slam match by beating fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 Wednesday in the fourth round of the U.S. Open. |
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| • Hockey: Germany beats Australia to reach WCup semis |
| ROSARIO, Argentina (AP): Tina Bachman scored the lone goal to give Germany a 1-0 win over Australia on Tuesday and a berth in the semifinals of the women's field hockey World Cup. |
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| • With 6 of the last 16, Spain reigns at US Open |
| NEW YORK (AP): Before the first ball was struck Tuesday at the U.S. Open, this much was certain: Spain would be the day's big winner. |
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| • Rice apologizes for Twitter slur |
| SYDNEY (AP): Triple Olympic swimming gold medalist Stephanie Rice made a tearful apology Wednesday for a homophobic slur she posted Saturday on Twitter. |
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| • Clijsters beats Stosur to reach US Open semifinals |
| NEW YORK (AP): Clijsters' was anything but easy. |
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| • Venus Williams advances, Querrey loses at US Open |
| NEW YORK (AP): Stanislas Wawrinka beat Sam Querrey in five sets to put two Swiss men in a Grand Slam quarterfinals for the first time in the Open era - and keep the Americans out of the U.S. Open quarters for the second straight year. |
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| • Lithuania, Argentina win, quarters set at worlds |
| ISTANBUL (AP): Linas Kleiza and Lithuania had no expectations coming into basketball's world championship. Now they are thinking about a medal. |
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| • Injured Chong Wei told not to push himself in training |
| PETALING JAYA: A question mark hangs over the participation of world No. 1 Lee Chong Wei in the New Delhi Commonwealth Games next month as he races against time to get fit for the defence of the men’s singles title he won in Melbourne four years ago. |
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| • Chance for back-up players to feature in New Delhi Games |
| PETALING JAYA: A plan is in place to choose from among back-up shuttlers Mohd Arif Abdul Latif, Chong Wei Feng and Liew Daren if world No. 1 Lee Chong Wei is unable to carry Malaysia’s challenge in the Commonwealth Games. |
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| • Terengganu planning to set up professional cycling team |
| PETALING JAYA: Terengganu may create history as the first state to have their own professional cycling team and they are expected to be operational in October. |
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| • Asian champ to train in London during Hari Raya period |
| KUALA LUMPUR: World No. 14 Mohd Azlan Iskandar (pic) will not be celebrating Hari Raya with his family in Kuching. |
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| • Hoffman lands Deutsche Bank title, Tiger still world No. 1 |
| BOSTON: Charley Hoffman fired a nine-under 62 to win the Deutsche Bank Championship by five strokes on Monday as Tiger Woods held onto his world number one ranking. |
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| • Woods and Fowler named in US Ryder Cup team |
| NEW YORK: World number one Tiger Woods was chosen by Corey Pavin as one of the four captain’s picks for the US Ryder Cup team yesterday. |
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| • Test begins for FedEx |
| THE easy part is over for Roger Federer. The US Open is about to get a lot harder for the Swiss master. |
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| • Maturing Joker growing into role as Grand Slam contender |
| NOVAK Djokovic said he was growing into his role as a Grand Slam contender and playing his best tennis of the year just at the right time in his bid for a first US Open title. |
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| • Service woes continue to haunt scream queen Sharapova |
| MARIA Sharapova said it was a Grand Slam year of missed opportunities after service woes haunted the former world number one at the US Open on Monday. |
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| • Short is hot stuff for Cibulkova |
| AT 1.6m (5’3), Dominika Cibulkova is the shortest woman left in the draw. But she’s proud to be petite - especially after advancing to the quarterfinals of the US Open. |
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| • Disciplinary hearing decision may wipe out Alonso’s title chances |
| PARIS: Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso’s hopes of winning a third Formula One title could be wiped out in a disciplinary hearing into how the team broke the rules at the German Grand Prix. |
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| • Kobayashi to stay with Sauber in 2011 |
| LONDON: Japan’s Kamui Kobayashi will stay with Sauber next season but his team-mate remains undecided, the Swiss-based Formula One team said yesterday. |
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| • Dengue fever outbreak adds to Delhi Games fears |
| NEW DELHI: An outbreak of dengue fever threatens to add to the headaches of Commonwealth Games officials already struggling with deadlines and a major clean-up of Delhi. |
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| • Jaguar boils Aussie Rice over gay slur on Twitter |
| SYDNEY: Australia’s triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice was stripped of her sponsorship deal with luxury carmaker Jaguar yesterday after she posted a homophobic remark on Twitter. |
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