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Sports
Champions Trophy,
Group B
South Africa cruise to six-wicket victory
Centurion—South Africa, led by Roelof van der
Merwe and Wayne Parnell with the ball and AB de
Villiers with the bat, recoiled from their
opening game loss to beat New Zealand in
Centurion. New Zealand struggled to put up runs
after being inserted under slightly overcast
conditions, with van der Merwe starring with ten
cunning overs amid Parnell’s five wickets.
Ross Taylor contributed a responsible innings
that gave New Zealand stability after they were
reduced to 92 for 3, but losing their last seven
wickets for 51 was a crime. With this win,
impossible without de Villiers’ cool
half-century, Group B is now interestingly open
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Chelsea, Tottenham,
Man Utd advance in League Cup
London—Chelsea and Tottenham advanced to the
last 16 of the League Cup on Wednesday with
victories over second-tier opposition, while
defending champion Manchester United eliminated
Premier League rival Wolverhampton on Wednesday.
Peter Crouch scored three goals as Tottenham
routed Preston 5-1 and Salomon Kalou scored at
the start of the second half to clinch Chelsea’s
1-0 win over west London neighbour Queens Park
Rangers. The Red Devils played for an hour with
10 men but Marcus Hahnemann gave up Danny
Welbeck’s 66th minute goal in Wolves’ 1-0 loss. |
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Pakistan draw first
blood in Champions Trophy
Johannesburg—Pakistan defeated the West Indies
by five wickets in their first Group A match of
the ICC Champions Trophy here at the New
Wanderers Stadium on Wednesday night. Chasing a
rather easy target of 134, Pakistan completed
the task in just 30.3 overs for the loss of five
wickets. Young batsman Umar Akmal top scored
with an unbeaten 41 while stand-in captain
Shahid Afridi was 17 not out. |
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Ochoa trying to hang
on to No. 1 ranking
Danville (Calif)—Lorena Ochoa is running out of
tournaments in a startlingly average season for
a player who won 21 times in the previous three
years. Since winning the Corona Championship in
her native Mexico in late April for her second
victory of the year, the top-ranked Ochoa is
winless in 10 starts. South Korea’s Jiyai Shin
leads the player of the year—and rookie—races
and is within striking distance of catching
Ochoa in the rankings. Norway’s Suzann Pettersen
and a handful of other players are also close
heading into the CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge,
set to start Thursday at Blackhawk Country Club.
“It’s not easy so. That’s why I need to work
harder,” Ochoa said Wednesday. “That’s why I
need to start playing better and do whatever it
takes to keep that No. 1 position.” For
nearly two years that wasn’t much of an issue
for the 27-year-old star who replaced Annika
Sorenstam at the top of the rankings in April
2007. |
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Kim Clijsters plans
2010 around her No. 1—Jada
Tessenderlo (Belgium)—Kim Clijsters will center
her 2010 schedule as much around young daughter
Jada as around the four Grand Slams, planning a
limited program that will put family first. The
U.S. Open champion will limit the rest of her
2009 program to just one tournament in
Luxembourg next month before heading into two
months of intense training for the Australian
Open in January. Next year, Clijsters will not
play many tournaments beyond the four majors,
four more mandatory events like Indian Wells,
Miami, Madrid and Beijing, and a few tuneup
tournaments. “We have to see how it will work
out as a family,” Clijsters said at a news
conference Thursday. |
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