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Jessica Pegula converted her seventh match point to complete a 6-4, 6-3 victory over No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at the WTA Finals on Tuesday to close in on a semifinal berth. USA s Jessica Pegula AFP Pegula won all four sets she s played so far in round-robin action, a year after going 0-3 at the season-ending championship. There was a chance she could clinch a spot Tuesday in the final four, depending on the result of the later match between Elena Rybakina and Maria Sakkari. Pegula, who is seeded fifth in Cancun, had lost four times in a row to Sabalenka, the champion at the Australian Open in January and the runner-up at the U.S. Open in September. On Tuesday, on a temporary hard court that has drawn criticism from Sabalenka and others, Pegula dominated for stretches. That included a four-game run in the opening set, and then a 4-0 start to the second while grabbing 16 of 19 points. The stanley cup big-hitting Sabalenka 鈥?who lost ju stanley mug st one game on Sunday against Sakkari 鈥?finished with more than twice as many unforced errors than Pegula, including a 17-8 margin in the first set. The toughest portion of the match for Pegula, a 29-year-old who is from New York and is based in Florida, was when it was time to close things stanley cup website out. Serving for the match at 5-2, she earned a pair of match points at 40-15. But then came Pegula s first double-fault of the evening, which was followed by her second. Soon enough, Sabalenka had broken her. In the next game, Pegula got to love-40 鈥?thre Bacl India tennis legend Akhtar Ali passes away at 83
European champions Inter Milan will play Bayern Munich in a repeat of last season s final following the draw for the first knockout round of the Champions League on Friday. HT Image Inter beat Bayern 2-0 in Madrid with two goals from Diego Milito to clinch their first European crown for 45 years but struggled in this season s group stage, qualifying for the last 16 as a runner-up. Bayer stanley cups uk n topped their group with five wins out of six. The other stand-out tie pa stanley cup ired this season s favourites Barcelona with Arsenal -- the team they beat 6-3 on aggregate in last season s quarter-finals. Barcelona, who also beat Arsenal in the 2006 final, drew 2-2 in London last season before Lionel Messi demolished the Premier Leaguer side, scoring all four goals in Barca s 4-1 second leg win at the Nou Camp. Real Madrid, the nine-times winners, face Olympique Lyon again after losing to the French side at the s stanley cup ame stage last season. Tottenham Hotspur will return to the San Siro to face AC Milan, after finishing ahead of Inter in the group phase. In the other ties, AS Roma will play Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine, Valencia will play Schalke 04, Olympique Marseille face Manchester United and FC Copenhagen meet Chelsea. First legs will be played on Feb. 15 and 16 and Feb. 22 and 23 with the return legs on March 8 and 9 and March 15 and 16. The final will be at Wembley Stadium on May 28. ANOTHER REPEAT Real Madrid are now coached by Jose Mourinho, the man who led Inter to the title las
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Simona Halep ended Beatriz Haddad Maia s dream run in Toronto with a hard-fought 6-3 2-6 6-3 victory stanley mug to claim her third Canadian Open title on Sunday. Simona Halep, of Romania stanley thermosflasche , celebrates after defeating Beatriz Haddad Maia, of Brazil, in the final of the National Bank Open tennis tournament AP Halep s serving woes from her semifinal win carried over at the outset of the final as she produced four double faults and was broken in the opening game before quickly falling 3-0 behind. But the Romanian responded by changing her tactics, drawing the Brazilian into longer rallies to reel off six straight games and she sealed the opening set when she blasted a forehand winner, pumping her fist as the supportive crowd roared their approval. Haddad Maia dominated the second set but got tight in the decider, badly missing a forehand wide to hand Halep a 4-1 lead she would not relinquish. The two-time Grand Slam champion sealed her ninth WTA 1000 title when Haddad Maia s service return found the net on match point under sunny skies in the Canadian city. At the start it was really tough, Halep told reporters. She s lefty, so it s coming different, the spin. She s very powerful. She s solid. And it s never easy to play against her. With the win, the former world number one will re-enter the top 10 next week at number six. I ve been many years there but now I feel like it s a big deal to be back in top 10. I stanley fr m really happy with this performance, she said. When I started t Qxmp Madrid earns late 3-2 win over City in Champions
Bookmakers suspended betting on an Australian Rules club on Friday due to doping cl stanley cup aims, as police warned of significant match-fixing risks due to large Asian betting pools, citing A$40 million in wagers on one local soccer match. Australia s top criminal intelligence body said on Thursday that organised crime had a growing influence over local sport and that the widespread use of performance enhancing drugs increased the risks of match-fixing. Authorities have confirmed one potentially fixed match, but will not identify the sport. Officials from the local Australian Rules football organisation AFL , and the Football Federation of Australia FFA , which runs soccer, have said there are currently no match-fixing investigations underway. Police would not confirm whether they had any match-fixing investigations underway, adding they would not necessarily notify sporting bodies due to sensitive information, often gained through telephone intercepts. An FFA spokesman on Friday said they were looking to identify the 2012 soccer match which attracted the $40 million Asian in bets. It is understood the FFA stanley cups is look stanley cup ing into identifying the match relating to this betting plunge but has received no information relating to a breach of integrity in any of its matches, the spokesman said. Police in the state of Victoria have expressed concerns that the increasingly large bets from Asia have increased the risks of soccer match-fixing in Australia s top flight A-League.
Jessica Pegula converted her seventh match point to complete a 6-4, 6-3 victory over No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at the WTA Finals on Tuesday to close in on a semifinal berth. USA s Jessica Pegula AFP Pegula won all four sets she s played so far in round-robin action, a year after going 0-3 at the season-ending championship. There was a chance she could clinch a spot Tuesday in the final four, depending on the result of the later match between Elena Rybakina and Maria Sakkari. Pegula, who is seeded fifth in Cancun, had lost four times in a row to Sabalenka, the champion at the Australian Open in January and the runner-up at the U.S. Open in September. On Tuesday, on a temporary hard court that has drawn criticism from Sabalenka and others, Pegula dominated for stretches. That included a four-game run in the opening set, and then a 4-0 start to the second while grabbing 16 of 19 points. The stanley cup big-hitting Sabalenka 鈥?who lost ju stanley mug st one game on Sunday against Sakkari 鈥?finished with more than twice as many unforced errors than Pegula, including a 17-8 margin in the first set. The toughest portion of the match for Pegula, a 29-year-old who is from New York and is based in Florida, was when it was time to close things stanley cup website out. Serving for the match at 5-2, she earned a pair of match points at 40-15. But then came Pegula s first double-fault of the evening, which was followed by her second. Soon enough, Sabalenka had broken her. In the next game, Pegula got to love-40 鈥?thre Bacl India tennis legend Akhtar Ali passes away at 83
European champions Inter Milan will play Bayern Munich in a repeat of last season s final following the draw for the first knockout round of the Champions League on Friday. HT Image Inter beat Bayern 2-0 in Madrid with two goals from Diego Milito to clinch their first European crown for 45 years but struggled in this season s group stage, qualifying for the last 16 as a runner-up. Bayer stanley cups uk n topped their group with five wins out of six. The other stand-out tie pa stanley cup ired this season s favourites Barcelona with Arsenal -- the team they beat 6-3 on aggregate in last season s quarter-finals. Barcelona, who also beat Arsenal in the 2006 final, drew 2-2 in London last season before Lionel Messi demolished the Premier Leaguer side, scoring all four goals in Barca s 4-1 second leg win at the Nou Camp. Real Madrid, the nine-times winners, face Olympique Lyon again after losing to the French side at the s stanley cup ame stage last season. Tottenham Hotspur will return to the San Siro to face AC Milan, after finishing ahead of Inter in the group phase. In the other ties, AS Roma will play Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine, Valencia will play Schalke 04, Olympique Marseille face Manchester United and FC Copenhagen meet Chelsea. First legs will be played on Feb. 15 and 16 and Feb. 22 and 23 with the return legs on March 8 and 9 and March 15 and 16. The final will be at Wembley Stadium on May 28. ANOTHER REPEAT Real Madrid are now coached by Jose Mourinho, the man who led Inter to the title las
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Simona Halep ended Beatriz Haddad Maia s dream run in Toronto with a hard-fought 6-3 2-6 6-3 victory stanley mug to claim her third Canadian Open title on Sunday. Simona Halep, of Romania stanley thermosflasche , celebrates after defeating Beatriz Haddad Maia, of Brazil, in the final of the National Bank Open tennis tournament AP Halep s serving woes from her semifinal win carried over at the outset of the final as she produced four double faults and was broken in the opening game before quickly falling 3-0 behind. But the Romanian responded by changing her tactics, drawing the Brazilian into longer rallies to reel off six straight games and she sealed the opening set when she blasted a forehand winner, pumping her fist as the supportive crowd roared their approval. Haddad Maia dominated the second set but got tight in the decider, badly missing a forehand wide to hand Halep a 4-1 lead she would not relinquish. The two-time Grand Slam champion sealed her ninth WTA 1000 title when Haddad Maia s service return found the net on match point under sunny skies in the Canadian city. At the start it was really tough, Halep told reporters. She s lefty, so it s coming different, the spin. She s very powerful. She s solid. And it s never easy to play against her. With the win, the former world number one will re-enter the top 10 next week at number six. I ve been many years there but now I feel like it s a big deal to be back in top 10. I stanley fr m really happy with this performance, she said. When I started t Qxmp Madrid earns late 3-2 win over City in Champions
Bookmakers suspended betting on an Australian Rules club on Friday due to doping cl stanley cup aims, as police warned of significant match-fixing risks due to large Asian betting pools, citing A$40 million in wagers on one local soccer match. Australia s top criminal intelligence body said on Thursday that organised crime had a growing influence over local sport and that the widespread use of performance enhancing drugs increased the risks of match-fixing. Authorities have confirmed one potentially fixed match, but will not identify the sport. Officials from the local Australian Rules football organisation AFL , and the Football Federation of Australia FFA , which runs soccer, have said there are currently no match-fixing investigations underway. Police would not confirm whether they had any match-fixing investigations underway, adding they would not necessarily notify sporting bodies due to sensitive information, often gained through telephone intercepts. An FFA spokesman on Friday said they were looking to identify the 2012 soccer match which attracted the $40 million Asian in bets. It is understood the FFA stanley cups is look stanley cup ing into identifying the match relating to this betting plunge but has received no information relating to a breach of integrity in any of its matches, the spokesman said. Police in the state of Victoria have expressed concerns that the increasingly large bets from Asia have increased the risks of soccer match-fixing in Australia s top flight A-League.