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MILAN - Venus Williams plans to make her comeback in an exhibition match against her sister Serena in Colombia on Wednesday after being forced to pull out of the U.S. Open because of an immune system disease. Venus tells the Gazzetta dello Sport that she has changed her diet to fill it with vegetables after being diagnosed with Sjogren's syndrome, which can cause fatigue and joint pain. The

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When it comes to the ATP World Tour Finals, Mardy Fish is quick to admit he's simply happy to be there. "I'm sort of taking the approach of, 'Kind of excited to be a part of this thing,'" said Fish, who will be making his debut at the season-ending tournament for the top eight men in tennis a few weeks before his 30th birthday. "I know well enough that you can't take it for granted," the

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova has been honored as the WTA's player of the year for 2011. The 21-year-old Kvitova went 60-13 with six singles titles, including at the season-ending tour championships, and rose from No. 34 to No. 2 in the rankings. She helped the Czech Republic win the Fed Cup and won more than $5 million in prize money. In the awards announced

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PARIS (AP) -Tomas Berdych, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Mardy Fish filled out the last qualifying berths for the eight-man ATP World Tour Finals on Thursday. All three earned their spots for the elite London tournament after Berdych beat Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia 7-5, 6-4 in the third round of the Paris Masters. Tipsarevic needed to win the title in Paris to qualify for the season-ending event,

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LONDON (AP) -American twins Bob and Mike Bryan will finish the year ranked as the No. 1 ATP doubles pair for a record seventh time. The 33-year-old Bryans' first-round win at the Valencia Open on Wednesday means they cannot be overtaken by No. 2-ranked pair Michael Llodra and Nenad Zimonjic. Since 2003, the Bryans have only twice failed to finish No. 1 - in 2004 and 2008. This year, they

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PARIS (AP) -Novak Djokovic rallied from a set down to beat fellow Serb Viktor Troicki 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 and reach the Paris Masters quarterfinals on Thursday. Andy Murray, Roger Federer, Tomas Berdych, David Ferrer of Spain and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France also advanced. The top-ranked Djokovic looked a pale shadow of the player who dominated the first half of the season, making 44 unforced errors

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PARIS (AP) -Novak Djokovic denied his participation in the Paris Masters was linked to a $1.6 million bonus. The ATP bonus pool is split among the world's top dozen players at the end of the year, and No. 1-ranked Djokovic would have lost his entire share if he had not played in Paris, thus missing the last two Masters events. "It was really somehow funny for me to see how people are coming up

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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) -Ana Ivanovic successfully defended her WTA Tournament of Champions title with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Anabel Medina-Garigues on Sunday. The Serb gained momentum against her Spanish opponent early and was untroubled throughout in winning her first final since the same event last year. "I feel great. Very unexpected, actually," said Ivanovic. "I think I played an

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MOSCOW (AP) -The Czech Republic won its first Fed Cup title in 23 years on Sunday after Lucie Hradecka and Kveta Peschke beat Maria Kirilenko and Elena Vesnina 6-4, 6-2 in the decisive doubles match to secure a 3-2 win over Russia in the final. It was the sixth title in the competition for the Czechs but their first since 1988, when it competed as Czechoslovakia and beat the Soviet Union 2-1 in

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MOSCOW (AP) -Maria Kirilenko was surprisingly picked by Russia to face Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in the opening singles of the Fed Cup final on Saturday. Kirilenko, whose Fed Cup experience was limited to two matches five years ago, was tagged as Russia's No. 2 by captain Shamil Tarpischev in Friday's draw. Two-time Grand Slam winner Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia's

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BASEL, Switzerland - Switzerland has chosen to host the United States on an indoor clay court at Fribourg in the 2012 Davis Cup. The Swiss tennis federation says the first-round series will be played Feb. 10-12 at the 7,200-capacity Forum Fribourg arena. Switzerland's biggest indoor arenas in Geneva and Zurich were unavailable to stage the match. The Swiss team did not say whether Roger

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BASEL, Switzerland (AP) -Novak Djokovic fought back from losing the first set to beat Marcos Baghdatis 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the Swiss Indoors quarterfinals on Friday. The top-ranked Djokovic stayed on course to meet hometown favorite Roger Federer in the final for a third straight year, after the defending champion beat Andy Roddick of the United States 6-3, 6-2. Djokovic had his serve broken twice

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MADRID - Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the Paris Masters to focus on the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals and Davis Cup final. The second-ranked Nadal says on his Facebook page the decision to pull out of next week's event at Bercy was necessary "to prepare well for the end of this season and also for 2012." The Spaniard has not played since losing to the 23rd-ranked Florian Mayer in the

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MOSCOW (AP) -Petra Kvitova will have a chance to cap her remarkable season by leading the Czech Republic to its first Fed Cup win in 23 years this weekend against a Russia team struggling with injuries. Kvitova is coming off her first WTA Championships title that lifted her to No. 2 in the world rankings, and is expected to play singles along with Lucie Safarova for the Czech team. "I know

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VIENNA - Jurgen Melzer has pulled out of the Swiss Indoors in Basel and Paris Masters because of a back injury, ending his singles season and raising doubts if he can play doubles at next month's season-ending ATP Finals in London. Melzer's manager, Ronnie Leitgeb, told the Austria Press Agency on Monday that it's "a very difficult decision to probably end the season here, but it's his only

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VALENCIA, Spain (AP) -Nikolay Davydenko beat fifth-seeded Gilles Simon 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 on Monday in the first round of the Valencia Open, denting the Frenchman's hopes of qualifying for the ATP World Tour Finals. Davydenko mostly controlled the match at the City of Arts and Sciences despite dropping the second set, but the 36th-ranked Russian rallied in the decisive set with a forehand winner for

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CHENGDU, China - Former top-ranked tennis player Marat Safin says he's running for the Russian parliament. The 31-year-old Safin is up for election to the State Duma on Dec. 4. He could join other Russian sports stars, including gold medal-winning gymnast Svetlana Khorkina, in the lower house of the parliament. Speaking at an ATP Champions Tour event in Chengdu, Safin says he has "a lot to

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VIENNA (AP) -Top-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga overcame an error-prone start to beat Xavier Malisse 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4 on Friday and reach his eighth semifinal of the season at the Erste Bank Open. Tsonga will play qualifier Daniel Brands of Germany, while No. 2 Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina and No. 6 Kevin Anderson of South Africa will meet in the other semifinal. The ninth-ranked Tsonga,

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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) -Alex Bogomolov Jr. of the United States and Marin Cilic of Croatia both won three-set matches to advance to the quarterfinals of the St. Petersburg Open on Thursday, while eighth-seeded local favorite Dmitry Tursunov was eliminated in straight sets in the second round. The seventh-seeded Bogomolov Jr. beat Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, while

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MOSCOW - Top-seeded Janko Tipsarevic beat defending champion Viktor Troicki 6-4, 6-2 in the first all-Serb ATP final to win the Kremlin Cup on Sunday, and Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia won her first career WTA title, rallying to beat Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 3-6, 7-6 (1), 7-5 for the women's crown. Tipsarevic, who won his first career title in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, this season, broke Troicki

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LUXEMBOURG (AP) -Top-seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus won the Luxembourg Open on Sunday, beating unheralded Monica Niculescu of Romania 6-2, 6-2. The No. 3-ranked Azarenka won the tournament without losing a set all week, and had no problems against a player who was in her first WTA Tour final. It was the 22-year-old Azarenka's eighth career title. The 34th-ranked Niculescu has spent most

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ISTANBUL (AP) -Players at the WTA Championships in Istanbul lent their support Monday to those affected by Turkey's devastating earthquake. Sunday's quake happened in eastern Turkey, far from the tournament location in the west. Women's Tennis Association officials briefed the eight elite players on the 7.2-magnitude quake near the border with Iran. About 270 people were confirmed dead by

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ISTANBUL - Top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki and three-time major winner Maria Sharapova lead two round-robin groups for the WTA Championships this week as Turkey's biggest city hosts the event for the first time. Wozniacki is joined in the red group by Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, Vera Zvonareva and Agnieszka Radwanska. Sharapova, Victoria Azarenka, French Open champion Li Na and U.S. Open

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GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) - American tennis players Irina Falconi and Christina McHale will be playing for medals at the Pan American Games on Friday, and it might not be long before they'll be contending at a Grand Slam. The promising duo already made an impression at this year's U.S. Open, making it to the third round, and their game has been improving at such a pace that they might soon

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MOSCOW (AP) -Dominika Cibulkova advanced to her second straight semifinal Friday, rallying to upset top-seeded Vera Zvonareva of Russia 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the Kremlin Cup. In later quarterfinals, Kaia Kanepi upset sixth-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-1, 6-2 to set up a semifinal clash with Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic, who ousted another Russian, Vera Dushevina, 6-4, 6-4

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Tennis agent Ken Meyerson, who represented Grand Slam winners Andy Roddick, Chris Evert and Justine Henin, has died. He was 48. Meyerson died Wednesday night at his home in Florida, according to a statement by his agency, Lagardere Unlimited. The cause of death was not immediately known. Meyerson had been president of Lagardere's tennis division since 2009. "Ken was a very hard worker and

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STOCKHOLM (AP) -David Nalbandian dropped the first set before going on to beat Xavier Malisse of Belgium 4-6, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (3) in the first round of the Stockholm Open on Tuesday. The Argentine will next face Ivan Dodig of Croatia, who beat Adrian Mannarino of France 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5). South Africa's Kevin Anderson also needed tiebreakers to win against Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 7-6 (1), 7-6 (4),

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LINZ, Austria - Top-seeded Petra Kvitova beat Dominika Cibulkova 6-4, 6-1 on Sunday to win the Generali Ladies for her first title since Wimbledon in June. The fourth-ranked Kvitova had struggled since winning her first major at the All England Club, but she found her form while denying the seventh-seeded Slovak her first WTA Tour title. Kvitova broke Cibulkova's serve six times to win her

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LONDON - Novak Djokovic will finish the year as the top-ranked player in the world. The ATP says the Serb clinched the year-end top spot after No. 2 Rafael Nadal lost in the third round at the Shanghai Masters on Thursday. Nadal's loss to Florian Mayer ensured that Djokovic cannot be overtaken before the end of the year. The 24-year-old Djokovic becomes the first player other than Roger

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SHANGHAI - Rafael Nadal says he will not play the traditional Wimbledon warmup event at Queen's Club next year, citing stringent British tax laws. Nadal says he can "lose money" when he plays at a tournament in Britain because of the tax laws. But the No. 2-ranked Spaniard says he will play Wimbledon and next month's ATP World Tour finals in London. Overseas athletes are taxed on prize money

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LINZ, Austria - Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova eased past Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia 6-2, 6-2 Friday to reach her seventh semifinal of the season at the Generali Ladies. The top-seeded Kvitova will play Jelena Jankovic for a place in Sunday's final. The third-seeded Serb defeated Russian qualifier Evgeniya Rodina 6-2, 6-4. Kvitova, a winner of four events this season and ranked a

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SHANGHAI (AP) -Rafael Nadal was ousted in the third round of the Shanghai Masters by Germany's Florian Mayer, 7-6 (5), 6-3. The 15th-seeded German ran down a drop shot and flicked it past Nadal at the net to break the top-seeded Spaniard for the second time and win the match. Nadal lost in the third round in Shanghai for the second straight year. Last year, he fell to Austria's Jurgen Melzer,

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BRISBANE, Australia - Serena Williams will open her 2012 season for the first time at the Brisbane International tournament, a warmup for the Australian Open. Both U.S. Open finalists will be in the field for the event that begins Jan. 1. Samantha Stosur, who was already confirmed for the tournament, defeated Williams 6-2, 6-3 to earn her first Grand Slam title. "I've never been to Brisbane

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SHANGHAI - Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal have cast doubt on whether the top men's tennis players will be able to sit down with each another this week, or perhaps anytime soon, to discuss their grievances with the ATP Tour. Murray and Nadal have been among the most vocal in advocating changes to the packed tennis calendar. Murray said last month the top players would meet during the Shanghai

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SURPRISE, Ariz. - Pete Sampras won the CTCA Championships for his third Champions Series victory of the year, beating Jim Courier 8-7 (4) on Saturday night. Sampras increased his lead in the series standings to 300 points over Courier after six of 12 events. Sampras advanced to the final with a 6-3 victory over Michael Chang, while Courier topped Mats Wilander 6-3 in the first semifinal.

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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -Top-ranked Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the Shanghai Masters because of a back muscle injury, further delaying his return to competition. Djokovic says he has not yet recovered from the injury he sustained in winning the U.S. Open and which he aggravated while playing for Serbia in the Davis Cup semifinals against Argentina. Djokovic says "I did another check this

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BEIJING - Tomas Berdych upset top-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 Saturday to set up a China Open final against Marin Cilic. In the women's draw, Agnieszka Radwanska will be seeking her second title in two weeks when she takes on Andrea Petkovic in Sunday's final. Tsonga had looked to reach consecutive finals, after winning the Moselle Open last month, but the Frenchman's baseline

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MOSCOW - Marat Safin says former top-ranked tennis player Dinara Safina, his younger sister, has retired from tennis. Safin told the Russian sports agency R-Sport that the 25-year-old Safina considers her decision "as a next step in her life." Safin is a two-time Grand Slam tournament winner now retired. Safina turned pro in 2001 and won 12 titles on the WTA Tour. She first became No. 1 on

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BEIJING (AP) -Top-seeded players Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Caroline Wozniacki both advanced to the quarterfinals at the China Open on Thursday. Tsonga beat Chinese qualifier Zheng Ze 6-3, 6-4 and Wozniacki defeated Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 6-3, 7-6 (3). "It was not easy today, and I'm happy to win, of course, even if I was supposed to win," Tsonga said. The Frenchman, who won a tournament at home

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BELGRADE, Serbia - The Serbian tennis player who received a life ban for attempting to fix matches denied the accusations and said Tuesday he will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The Tennis Integrity Unit found 659th-ranked David Savic guilty Saturday and fined him $100,000 for three violations of the sport's international anti-corruption program. The 26-year-old Savic said in a

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BEIJING - Top-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki advanced Tuesday at the China Open. Tsonga reached the second round by edging Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria 7-6 (7), 7-5, and Wozniacki cruised past Jarmila Gajdosova of Australia 6-2, 6-3. Tsonga finished the match with nine aces and improved to 3-0 against Dimitrov. He will face Chinese qualifier Zhang Ze, who beat Li

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TOKYO - Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska overpowered Vera Zvonareva 6-3, 6-2 on Saturday to win the Pan Pacific Open for her second title of the year. The ninth-seeded Radwanska was down 2-0 at Ariake Colosseum but stormed back to win the first set on the back of Zvonareva's 22 unforced errors. "I was a little bit nervous at first," Radwanska said. "Those first two games went by so fast, I was

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BANGKOK - Fourth-ranked Andy Murray claimed his 19th career title in beating American Donald Young 6-2, 6-0 in the final of the Thailand Open on Sunday. The top-seeded Briton was in complete control throughout the 48-minute match, exploiting the lack of experience and unforced errors from his 55th-ranked opponent. Young was playing in his first tour final. Murray opened the match at Impact

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MELBOURNE, Australia - Australian tennis player Jelena Dokic says she has reconciled with her father and former coach, Damir, after an eight-year rift. Dokic, 28, who was ranked as high as No. 4 as a teenager during her peak, split with her father after a series of embarrassing public indiscretions. She went on to accuse him of years of humiliation and abuse as her coach. In a statement

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -Kei Nishikori of Japan ousted top-seeded Nicolas Almagro of Spain 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-4 Friday to reach the semifinals of the Malaysian Open. The eight-seeded Nishikori will next face Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia, who advanced after Nikolay Davydenko of Russia retired with a left hip injury just four games into their match. The third-seeded Tipsarevic was leading 3-1. "I

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BEIJING - Top-ranked Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the China Open because of a back injury. Tournament organizers said the defending champion withdrew because the latest medical checks show the injury he sustained while winning the U.S. Open has not yet healed. The tournament in Beijing starts on Monday. It is not yet clear whether the 24-year-old Serb will also skip the Shanghai Masters

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LONDON (AP) -Ever since eliminating pizza from his diet, Novak Djokovic has been on a roll. Djokovic has been boasting all season about how he has more energy on the tennis court since starting a gluten-free diet, cutting out pizza and bread from his daily life. But the top-ranked Serb has been reluctant to discuss his new regimen in any detail, preferring to let his game do the talking. The

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BEIJING - French Open champion Li Na says her dip in form since winning at Roland Garros is because she cannot stay mentally tough. Li, who became the first Asian to win a Grand Slam singles title in June, says all the women on tour have the same problem, while the men can stay stronger all season. Li says "all the active women tennis players have the same situation of ups and downs in the

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VIENNA - Former world No. 1 Thomas Muster will retire from full-time tennis following next month's Erste Bank Open tournament in his native Austria. Muster, who turns 44 early next month, made his comeback to professional tennis in 2010 after 11 years away. "You should not drag it along forever," Muster said Wednesday. "I wanted to relive competitive tennis again and I've really enjoyed it."

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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -Second-seeded Florian Mayer of Germany beat Spain's Pablo Andujar 6-3, 6-1 in the final of the Nastase Tiriac Trophy on Sunday. Mayer needed just over an hour to defeat the fourth-seeded Andujar. The Spaniard made a determined start and broke in the 4th game to lead 3-1, but Mayer immediately broke back for 3-2 before holding his serve to level the scores at 3-3. But

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World number three Roger Federer has pulled out of next month's Shanghai Masters to rest and recover after a grueling summer, the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) said on Friday. "After consultation with my team, I've unfortunately decided to pull out of the Shanghai Masters in order to take some necessary time to rest and recuperate after a long summer," the Swiss maestro was quoted as

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TAIPEI - You will not find Maria Sharapova moaning about crowded schedules after a year in which the Russian has returned to within sight of the summit of women's tennis. The world number two has some sympathy for the top male players who have made rumblings about possible strike action over what they see as a too punishing calendar but after having her career knocked sideways by injury she is

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METZ, France - Top-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga defeated French qualifier Mathieu Rodrigues 6-3, 6-4 Thursday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Moselle Open. He'll face Nicolas Mahut, who outlasted 2003 champion Arnaud Clement 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 in an all-French encounter. Second-seeded Richard Gasquet cruised past Olivier Rochus of Belgium 6-2, 6-1. He'll play Gilles Muller of Luxembourg.

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GUANGZHOU, China (AP) -Defending champion Jarmila Gajdosova of Australia advanced to the quarterfinals of the Guangzhou Open by beating Mandy Minella of Luxembourg 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 Wednesday. Top-seeded Maria Kirilenko also advanced, defeating Iryna Bremond of France 6-3, 6-1. Zheng Jie, the last Chinese player in the tournament, moved into the next round by beating Noppawan Lertcheewakarn of

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -Top-seeded Francesca Schiavone lost to Vera Dushevina 7-6 (4), 6-2 Tuesday in the first round of the Korea Open. The eighth-ranked Italian lost to Dushevina for the third time in four meetings. Second-seeded Marion Bartoli advanced at the Olympic Park by beating Nuria Llagostera-Vives of Spain 6-2, 6-2. Three other seeded players also advanced. No. 3 Julia Goerges of

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QUEBEC CITY - Barbora Zahlavova Strycova rallied to beat Marina Erakovic 4-6, 6-1, 6-0 on Sunday in the Bell Challenge final. It was the first singles title for the native of the Czech Republic. In the doubles final, Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears of the United States beat American Jamie Hampton and Georgia's Anna Tatishvili 6-1, 3-6, 10-6.

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TASHKENT, Uzbekistan - Top-seeded Ksenia Pervak of Russia won her maiden WTA title on Saturday, beating Eva Birnerova 6-3, 6-1 in the final of the Tashkent Open. After Birnerova had rallied in the first set from 3-0 down to tie, Pervak responded by winning the next three games to take a 1-0 lead. She won four consecutive games in the second set, serving for the match at love and wrapping up the

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QUEBEC CITY - Top-seeded Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia lost 6-4, 6-4 to unseeded Marina Erakovic of New Zealand in a Bell Challenge quarterfinal on Friday night. In other matches, Michaella Krajicek of Netherlands defeated No. 4-seeded Rebecca Marino of Canada 6-1, 6-3 and No. 3-seeded Tamira Paszek of Austria downed Britain's Heather Watson 6-4, 7-6 (5). In the late match, sixth-seeded

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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -In the absence of the top-ranked Novak Djokovic, David Nalbandian and Juan Martin del Potro won their opening singles Friday to clinch a commanding 2-0 lead for Argentina over defending champion Serbia in the Davis Cup semifinals. Djokovic pulled out of the opening singles against Nalbandian because of back pain, four days after beating Rafael Nadal in the U.S Open final,

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QUEBEC CITY - Top-seeded Daniela Hantuchova beat Ajla Tomljanovic 6-0, 2-6, 6-4 in the first round of the Bell Challenge on Tuesday. No. 2 seed Lucie Safarova, No. 3 Tamira Paszek, No. 5 Sofia Arvidsson and No. 6 Barbora Zahlavova Strycova also advanced in the $220,000 WTA tournament. But No. 8 seed Anna Tatishvili of Georgia lost 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 to French qualifier Julie Coin. Safarova

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NEW YORK - Novak Djokovic's 64-2 record in 2011 has earned him a record amount of prize money. Djokovic's U.S. Open championship — his third Grand Slam title of the year — pushed his earnings past $10.6 million, more than anyone ever took home during a full season of men's tennis, according to the ATP World Tour. The only other men to come close were Rafael Nadal in 2010 and Roger Federer in

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SYDNEY - Switzerland's team manager has confirmed No. 3 ranked Roger Federer will arrive in Australia on Wednesday for the Davis Cup tennis tie against Australia starting Friday. Federer will have little time to recuperate from his five-set loss to Novak Djokovic in the U.S. Open semifinals. Manager Daniel Monnin was reluctant to talk about Federer at the Switzerland team's news conference

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NEW YORK - Lisa Raymond surpassed Billie Jean King as the oldest Grand Slam women's doubles champion Sunday, teaming with Liezel Huber for a 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3) victory over defending champions Vania King and Yaroslava Shedova in the U.S. Open final. The 38-year-old Raymond won her third U.S. Open doubles championship, the last coming in 2005, when she teamed with Sam Stosur, who defeated

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NEW YORK - Already being outplayed by Sam Stosur in the U.S. Open final, the last thing Serena Williams needed was to lose a game for yelling during a point. That's exactly what happened early in the second set, leading to an argument between Williams and the chair umpire, a scene less ugly than — but reminiscent of — the American's tirade two years ago at the same tournament. In the end,

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NEW YORK - Facing two match points against a beloved player whose name is already in the history books, Novak Djokovic clenched his jaw and flashed an ever-so-slight glimpse of a smile. Might as well go down swinging, right? So, he went for it. He turned violently on a 108 mph serve from Roger Federer for a cross-court winner that barely nicked the line. The fans in Arthur Ashe Stadium, ready

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NEW YORK - Roger Federer and Andy Roddick have met 22 times overall and in four Grand Slam finals, including a 16-14 fifth set at Wimbledon in 2009. Now they're taking their rivalry to a new venue: Madison Square Garden. Federer and Roddick will play a best-of-three-sets match as part of the annual BNP Paribas Showdown exhibition March 5, which also will include Maria Sharapova against

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NEWPORT, R.I. - Grand Slam title winners Jennifer Capriati, Gustavo Kuerten and Yevgeny Kafelnikov, along with coach Nick Bollettieri are among the nominees for the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Capriati turned pro at age 13 and wound up winning three major championships and an Olympic gold medal. Kuerten won the French Open three times. Kafelnikov won the 1996 French Open and 1999

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NEW YORK - Roger Federer says "it's been hard to watch" his pal Tiger Woods struggle lately. "It's hard to follow, because you know what an athlete wants to do. He wants to be out there and compete and that's what he's not able to do with his injuries right now," Federer said Saturday after a third-round win at the U.S. Open. Federer said he and Woods chatted briefly on the phone earlier this

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NEW YORK - A little after 3 p.m. Tuesday, Rafael Nadal settled in at a table in the U.S. Open players' cafeteria and sprinkled some salt on his lunch of salmon and rice. The day's work for the defending champion was complete, consisting of a 1½-hour practice session indoors at Flushing Meadows instead of his scheduled fourth-round match outdoors, because steady rain washed out all of Tuesday's

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NEW YORK - Venus Williams says she's eager to return to action after withdrawing from the U.S. Open because of an immune system disease. Williams took to Twitter on Sunday, writing: "Thank you everyone for all your well wishes! It's good to have support! Looking forward to getting better and back on tour!" When the seven-time Grand Slam singles champion pulled out of the tournament before her

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NEW YORK - That Maria Sharapova's shaky serving contributed to her early exit at the U.S. Open — to the tune of a dozen double-faults — came as no surprise. She's faced that problem for quite some time. That Sharapova's other strokes also were problematic Friday could be explained away by the perpetual motion of her opponent in the third round, 26th-seeded Flavia Pennetta of Italy. That

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NEW YORK - The Bryan brothers aren't quite sure what to do with all the free time suddenly on their hands. The top-ranked Americans lost a first-round doubles match at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time since the 2001 Australian Open. Unseeded Ivo Karlovic and Frank Moser beat the twins 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 at the U.S. Open on Wednesday. Bob and Mike Bryan had won three of the last four

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NEW YORK (AP) - Venus Williams says she "absolutely" plans to return to tennis after she withdrew from the U.S. Open because of a recently diagnosed autoimmune disease. Williams revealed Wednesday after pulling out of her second-round match that she had Sjogren's syndrome, which can cause fatigue and joint pain. "I think the best thing that could have happened for me this summer was to feel

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NEW YORK - His ranking down, his health a question mark much of the season, Andy Roddick figures nothing will come easily at the U.S. Open. Roddick held on to avoid a first-round upset Wednesday night at the Grand Slam tournament he won in 2003, beating 96th-ranked Michael Russell 6-2, 6-4, 4-6, 7-5. "Wasn't pretty," the 21st-seeded Roddick said. "I'm certainly not fooling myself by thinking

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NEW YORK - Serena Williams' first U.S. Open singles match since her 2009 foot-fault tirade came and went, quickly and quietly. Williams began her bid for a fourth championship at Flushing Meadows and 14th Grand Slam title overall with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over 54th-ranked Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia on Tuesday night. The 29-year-old American was greeted warmly by the Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd as

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NEW YORK - When third-seeded Maria Sharapova looks at the list of top contenders for the U.S. Open, here's what she sees: —Serena Williams, seeded 28th and on the comeback trail, and her sister, Venus, unseeded and barely on the radar this year. —A top seed, Caroline Wozniacki, who has never won a Grand Slam and a No. 2 seed, Vera Zvonareva, who has won a total of eight games in her two major

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NEW YORK - Mardy Fish is America's Best at this year's U.S. Open. On Monday, he lived up to the billing, opening his stay at Flushing Meadows with a 6-2, 6-2, 6-1 victory over Tobias Kamke of Germany that included a between-the-legs shot in the final game of a match that took only 1 hour, 43 minutes. "To be honest, I thought that was my only shot," Fish said. "I didn't try to hit a winner.

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NEW YORK - Back before Mardy Fish transformed himself into the player he is today, he compiled a record of 5-8 in his first eight visits to the U.S. Open, never making it past the second round from 2000 to 2007. Before changing his eating and workout habits, Fish didn't make it easy to put together a deep run at Grand Slam tournaments. Not only that, but he didn't necessarily believe he was

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NEW YORK - Top-ranked Novak Djokovic is seeded No. 1 at the U.S. Open for the first time, followed by defending champion Rafael Nadal and five-time winner Roger Federer. The tournament followed the ATP rankings for the men's singles seedings Wednesday. It did the same for the women's seedings, with Serena Williams 28th. Djokovic is having one of the best seasons in tennis history: 57-2 with

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Serena Williams was seeded 28th for the U.S. Open, which stuck with its policy of following the rankings instead of taking into account players' past performances. That decision means Williams could face one of the Grand Slam tournament's top eight seeded players as early as the third round. The 29-year-old American leads active women with 13 major championships, including three at Flushing

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NEW YORK - The biggest question heading into the U.S. Open draw was: Which highly seeded woman could be stuck facing Serena Williams in the third round? The answer: No. 4 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus. "Poor, poor, poor Victoria Azarenka," seven-time major champion John McEnroe said at Thursday's draw ceremony in Flushing Meadows. Azarenka was a Wimbledon semifinalist in July, as was No. 22

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland - American tennis player Robert Kendrick had his doping ban reduced to eight months from one year by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Monday. Kendrick tested positive for the banned stimulant methylhexaneamine at the French Open on May 22. He blamed it on a capsule he took to combat jet lag. The 31-year-old American had sought a three-month ban, which would have

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MADRID - Devastated and "without appetite for life," Rafael Nadal contemplated a move into professional golf after a career-threatening injury sidelined him, the 10-time Grand Slam champion writes in his autobiography. The Spanish player writes in "Rafa" that doctors discovered a rare foot injury in 2005 that had the potential to sideline him for good, prompting thoughts of a future in golf. In

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Eighth-seeded Marcos Baghdatis defeated American Ryan Sweeting 7-5, 6-1 on Monday in the second round at the Winston-Salem Open. Baghdatis was the first seeded player to take the court at the final men's tuneup before the U.S. Open. The 16 seeded players, including No. 1-seeded Andy Roddick, received first-round byes. "I was able to find a solution to get by and win.

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NEW YORK - Two-time defending U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters will not go for three in a row this year because of a stomach muscle injury. Clijsters, who missed Wimbledon with an ankle injury, pulled out of a tournament in Toronto this month with a muscle strain on the left side of her stomach. In a statement Friday, she said "two weeks of rehab is not enough to heal this injury." "Obviously

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MASON, Ohio - Rafael Nadal is getting ready to head back to New York with fond memories for the first time. The Spaniard won the U.S. Open last year, becoming only the seventh player to win all four Grand Slam events. The U.S. Open was the most elusive, and he collapsed on the blue court and lay face down after finally winning it by beating Novak Djokovic. Nadal told The Associated Press in

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NEW YORK - Tony Bennett turned 85 earlier this month, but his birthday celebration continues, and will be part of this year's U.S. Open. Bennett, a big tennis fan, will be feted at the Open's president's box before the opening ceremonies on Aug. 29 with Moet & Chandon, which is sponsoring the tennis grand slam for the first time this year. He'll autograph a special bottle, which will be

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PERTH, Australia (AP) -French Open champion Li Na and Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova will contest the mixed-teams Hopman Cup tennis event in January as part of the lead-up to the Australian Open. Li will partner 19-year-old Wu Di for China, while Kvitova will join ninth-ranked Tomas Berdych for the Czech Republic at the Dec. 31-Jan. 7 event. The fifth-ranked Li, who was also runner-up at this

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MASON, Ohio - Rafa Nadal is renowned for burning up calories with his all-action game but on Wednesday it was a curious case of burned fingers for the Spaniard at the Cincinnati Open. World number two Nadal was forced to play his second round match with two bandaged fingers on his right hand after burning them on a hot plate at a restaurant in Ohio. "I got burned. I had a little bit of

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Her game growing stronger as the U.S. Open nears, Serena Williams soared from No. 80 to No. 31 in the WTA rankings following her victory in the Rogers Cup. Williams has won her last two tournaments, the other title coming at the Stanford Classic two weeks ago. She has played in four tournaments since her return. She beat Samantha Stosur 6-4, 6-2 on Sunday in Toronto, the latest step in a

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MASON, Ohio - Juan Martin del Potro didn't have to play a full set to advance at the Western & Southern Open. His next match will be a much tougher challenge. The Argentine advanced against an injured Andreas Seppi on Sunday, setting up a second-round rematch with Roger Federer. Del Potro beat Federer in the 2009 U.S. Open final. "If I have a good day, maybe I can make a surprise," said del

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TORONTO - Serena Williams is looking like her victorious self leading into the U.S. Open. In her fourth tournament since sitting out 49 weeks because of injury and illness, Williams won the Rogers Cup on Sunday, beating Samantha Stosur 6-4, 6-2. A foot injury and then blood clots in her lungs sidelined the 29-year-old American after she won Wimbledon last year. Now she's won two straight

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TORONTO - Samantha Stosur defeated Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 Saturday to reach the final of the Rogers Cup. Stosur broke Radwanska three times in the first set, but the 22-year-old rallied to take the second when Stosur double-faulted. The Australian broke Radwanska to go up 5-2 in the third, then won the match with an ace. The loss snapped a nine-match winning streak for Radwanska,

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MONTREAL - Some top players have shown signs of rust at the Rogers Cup, and Roger Federer was the latest. The third-ranked Swiss star was upset by 13th-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-1 in the third round Thursday night. Federer, who turned 30 on Monday, was playing for the first time since losing to Tsonga in the quarterfinals at Wimbledon. Tsonga — who also beat Federer, then

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A white "9-11-01" will be painted next to the court for the U.S. Open men's and women's singles finals, part of the Grand Slam tennis tournament's commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The men's final in New York is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 11. The women's final is a day earlier. "If you think about it, everybody knows where they were on 9-11. And by

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Serena Williams plans to play for the United States in two Fed Cup series next year, returning to a team she hasn't been a member of since 2007. And the U.S. Tennis Association says that if Williams does play for her country twice in 2012, it will consider the 13-time Grand Slam champion eligible for the London Olympics. The International Tennis Federation's Olympic rules require women to have

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TORONTO - Venus Williams has withdrawn from the Rogers Cup due to an illness. Williams says she wasn't feeling well so she went to see the doctor Sunday. She was diagnosed with a viral illness and says she is "extremely disappointed" she won't be able to play in Toronto. Qualifier Zhang Shuai steps into Williams' first-round match Tuesday against Ana Ivanovic. Lourdes Dominguez Lino got the

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TORONTO - Marion Bartoli of France was upset in the first round of the Rogers Cup on Monday, losing 6-3, 6-3 to qualifier Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan. Voskoboeva is ranked 135th and came into the match off a semifinals appearance at the Baku Cup in Azerbaijan. She has been ranked as high as No. 64. Bartoli was seeded ninth and ranked ninth. Bartoli struggled with her serve,

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CARLSBAD, Calif. - Vera Zvonareva of Russia won the first four games of the third set, then held on for a 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 win over fifth-seeded Ana Ivanovic of Serbia in the semifinals of the Mercury Insurance Open on Saturday night. The top-seeded and third-ranked Zvonareva, who won a hardcourt event last week in Azerbaijan, will play Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland in the finals. Radwanska beat

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NEW YORK - Maria Sharapova may not have won a grand slam title since 2008, but the Russian tennis player remains unchallenged as the world's highest paid woman in professional sports. For the seventh straight year, Sharapova topped the annual list provided by Forbes magazine, despite failing to add to her three grand slam titles, although she did make the Wimbledon final in July. Sharapova's

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