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Federer, Djokovic advance
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NEW YORK: Four-time defending champion Roger Federer cruised into
the fourth round of the US Open on Sunday while Australian Open
champion Novak Djokovic struggled to send off a stubborn teen
challenger.
Twelve-time Grand Slam champion Federer won his
30th consecutive US Open match, defeating Czech Radek Stepanek 6-3,
6-3, 6-2 to book a date with Russian Igor Andreev, who eliminated
Spanish 13th seed Fernando Verdasco 6-2, 6-4, 6-4.
“It’s good for me to not waste any energy, play well and move
on,” Federer said. “What counts is winning the tournament. You
forget who you beat, how you won. I don’t try to impress anybody
in the early rounds. If it happens, great.”
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Pacquiao To Retire Next Year
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY: World Boxing Council lightweight champion Manny
Pacquiao said his December 6 fight against Mexican Oscar de la Hoya
will be one of his last two fights before he retires next year.
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RP 5 surrenders to Korea
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TEHRAN: The RP Youth team opened its quarterfinal campaign in the
20th FIBA Asia Youth Basketball Championship on a wrong foot,
absorbing a 98-80 shellacking from the hot-shooting Korean squad
late Sunday night...
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Olympic champion Dementieva frustrates China’s Li
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NEW YORK: Li Na made a run at matching the greatest Grand Slam
tennis showing in Chinese history but Beijing Olympic champion Elena
Dementieva made sure that bit of history would have to wait.
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So ties for second with Georgian GM
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VUNG Tau, Vietnam: Almost but not enough for GM Wesley So.
So settled for a draw with com-patriot IM
Rolando Nolte in the eighth round...
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Weir grabs lead at Deutsche Bank tilt
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NORTON, Massachusetts: Canada’s Mike Weir birdied the 18th hole to
grab a 1-stroke lead over Colombia’s Camilo Villegas on Sunday
after the third round of the $7-million Deutsche Bank Championship.
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JRU prevails
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JOSE RIZAL UNIVERSITY struck hard in the second half to beat
Philippine Christian University 74-59 on Monday in the NCAA men’s
basketball tournament at the Cuneta Astrodome.
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Former La Salle standout tapped to replace Taino
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THE Philippine Tennis Association has tapped former De La Salle
standout Yannick Guba to replace Fil-American Eric Taino in the team
that will see action in the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania relegation tie
against Kazakhstan on September...
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Faldo picks
Poulter, Casey as wilds cards
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LONDON: Englishmen Ian Poulter and Paul Casey were selected on
Sunday as European skipper Nick Faldo’s two wild card picks for
the biennial match against the Americans in Kentucky next
month.
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