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Friday, October 5, 2007

Valencia goes for sixth consecutive league win

Valencia, Spain (Sports Network) - Since suffering a 3-0 defeat in the season opener against Villarreal, Valencia has reeled off five straight wins to move to within one point of league-leaders Real Madrid. The club will try for a sixth consecutive win on Saturday against Espanyol at Estadio Mestalla.
Valencia must first shake off a 2-1 defeat to Chelsea in the Champions League on Wednesday. After David Villa put Valencia ahead in the first half, Joe Cole and Didier Drogba answered back for Chelsea to give the Blues a 2-1 away win.
Manager Quique Sanchez Flores knows that his team has been shaky at home this season, dropping the Villarreal game and winning a pair of one-goal contests....Full Story

Henin reaches Porsche semis; Kuznetsova drives out Serena

Stuttgart, Germany (Sports Network) - World No. 1 star Justine Henin was among Friday's quarterfinal winners, as was U.S. Open runner-up Svetlana Kuznetsova, who drove out Australian Open titlist Serena Williams at the $650,000 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix.
The top-seeded Henin held off unseeded two-time major runner-up Elena Dementieva of Russia 6-4, 6-4 at Porsche Arena. The reigning French Open and U.S. Open titlist Henin was the Porsche runner-up in 2001 and 2003.
Henin has now won her last 14 WTA Tour matches, including titles in Toronto and at the U.S. Open. The gritty Belgian has only lost once in her last 31 outings, and that came against France's Marion Bartoli in the Wimbledon semifinals.
The high-flying Henin's semifinal opponent on Saturday will be third-seeded Serbian Jelena Jankovic, who knocked out seventh-seeded and defending Stuttgart titlist Nadia Petrova 6-7 (5-7), 5-1, as the Russian retired due to a nagging hip injury. Petrova defeated France's Tatiana Golovin in last year's finale here...Full Story

Azarenka charges into Tashkent semi

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Sports Network) - Top-seeded Belarusian Victoria Azarenka highlighted Friday's quarterfinal winners at the $145,000 Tashkent Open.
The 18-year-old Azarenka erased qualifier Ksenia Palkina of Kyrgyzstan 6-2, 6-1 at Tashkent Tennis Centre. Azarenka won the mixed doubles title at the U.S. Open last month.
Azarenka's semifinal opponent on Saturday will be fourth-seeded Russian Elena Vesnina, who outlasted fifth-seeded Romanian Ioana Raluca Olaru 2-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 on Day 5 here.
The other semifinal will pit third-seeded Belarusian Olga Govortsova against France's Pauline Parmentier, as Govortsova grounded Britain's Katie O'Brien 6-2, 6-3, while Parmentier pasted Tashkent's own Akgul Amanmuradova 6-4, 6-3.
The 2007 champion here will claim $21,165.

Robredo, Canas, Murray charge into Metz semis

Metz, France (Sports Network) - Top-seeded Spaniard Tommy Robredo, second-seeded Argentine Guillermo Canas and third-seeded Brit Andy Murray led the charge into the semifinals at the $500,000 Open de Moselle indoor tennis event.
Robredo rolled past veteran French crowd favorite Sebastien Grosjean 6-4, 6-4 in 1 hour, 24 minutes. The Spaniard will meet another Frenchman, Nicolas Mahut, in Saturday's semis.
Canas handled 19-year-old Russian qualifier Evgeny Korolev 6-1, 6-4, while Murray mauled Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 6-3 on the hardcourt at Les Arenes. Canas dropped just three points on his first serve against the promising Korolev.
The gritty Canas and talented Murray will face-off in the other semifinal here.
One other quarterfinal bout saw the aforementioned Mahut oust eighth-seeded Russian Igor Andreev in come-from-behind fashion, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7-1).

Ferrer, Berdych, Gasquet reach semis; Hewitt loses in Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan (Sports Network) - Top-seeded Spaniard David Ferrer, second- seeded Czech Tomas Berdych and third-seeded Frenchman Richard Gasquet posted quarterfinal wins, while former champion Lleyton Hewitt came up a loser Friday at the $832,000 Japan Open.
The world No. 8 Ferrer, a U.S. Open semifinalist last month, grounded his 10th-seeded countryman Feliciano Lopez 6-4, 6-4, while the former world No. 1 and 2001 Tokyo titlist Hewitt, seeded fourth this week, gave way to seventh- seeded Croat Ivo Karlovic 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (8-6) at Ariake Colosseum.
Ferrer will meet the 6-foot-10 Karlovic in Saturday's semifinals here. During his victory over Hewitt, the massive-serving Karlovic became only the fourth player since 1991 to swat 1,000 aces in a season, as he drilled 25 bombs against the return-of-serve artist Hewitt...Full Story

McCline-Peter fight on despite reported steroid scandal

New York, NY (Sports Network) - The heavyweight title fight between Samuel Peter and Jameel McCline scheduled for Saturday at Madison Square Garden will go on despite a report that McCline received illegal drugs over the last two years.
According to the New York Daily News, McCline (38-7-3, 23 KOs) received more than $12,000 worth of steroids, human growth hormone and related drugs from the Boca Raton, Florida-based Infinity Longevity, a clinic associated with the Signature Pharmacy scandal.
Citing an unnamed source, the newspaper alleged that McCline received testosterone, Stanozolol and Nandrolone, along with human growth hormone and Tamoxifen between March 2005 and December 2006.
"It seems clear that professional athletes from different disciplines are being investigated as it relates to steroids," New York State Athletic Commission chairman Ron Scott Stevens said in a statement. "That being said, the NYSAC will continue to vigorously enforce our steroid policy, that is, we will continue our policy which mandates that we test pre and post-fight boxers for anabolic steroids, performance-enhancing drugs and any illegal substances. The NYSAC will cooperate with law enforcement agencies on this matter."
McCline and Peter (28-1, 22 KOs) are scheduled to meet for the WBC interim heavyweight title.

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