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Tennis: Andy Murray breezes into US Open quarter-finals
NEW YORK (AFP) – Second seed and 2012 champion Andy Murray crushed Bulgarias Grigor Dimitrov 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 to reach a sixth US Open quarter-final Monday, clocking up a personal fast serve record in the process.The 29-year-old reigning Wimbledon and Olympic champion stormed to an impressive seventh win in 10 meetings against the 22nd-seeded...
Tennis: Del Potro faces Wawrinka for US Open semi-final spot
NEW YORK (AFP) – Juan Martin del Potro became the lowest ranked player in 25 years to reach the US Open quarter-finals Monday, setting up a showdown with fellow Grand Slam title winner, Stan Wawrinka.The 142nd-ranked del Potro was leading eighth-seeded Dominic Thiem 6-3, 3-2 when the Austrian retired with a right knee injury.Del Potro, the...
Obama and Putin tell diplomats to keep working on Syria argument
HANGZHOU, China: US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a longer-than-expected discussion on Monday about whether, and how, they could agree on a ceasefire deal in war-torn Syria, a senior U.S. administration official said. Obama and Putin spent about 90 minutes in a “constructive” meeting about getting...
Williams sister act headlines Labor Day at US Open
NEW YORK (AFP) – The US Open celebrates the American Labor Day holiday with a Williams sisters double-feature, both Serena and Venus vying for quarter-final berths on Arthur Ashe stadium.World number one and top seed Serena Williams takes on Kazakhstans Yaroslava Shvedova while sixth-seeded Venus faces hard-hitting 10th seed Karolina...
Ukraine and Russia wage war — in global courts
After Russia snatched the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Kiev the new authorities installed by Moscow set about taking over one of Ukraine´s largest banks as well as shipyards and hotels. The state lender has now fired back by filing a massive claim with a court in The Hague — one of multiple cases being fought by Kiev on a new legal...
Tennis: Tsonga books US Open quarter-final berth
NEW YORK (AFP) – Jo-Wilfried Tsonga reached the quarter-finals of the US Open for the second successive year on Sunday with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-7 (7/9), 6-2 victory over American Jack Sock.The ninth seed from France fired 54 winners to oust 26th-seeded Sock, the lone remaining US man in the field.In match pitting two players with fearsome...
First Putin-May meeting ‘constructive’: Kremlin
HANGZHOU, China (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with British Prime Minister Theresa May for the first time Sunday, telling her Russia wants to re-establish ties in all areas, the Kremlin said.The meeting, on the margins of a G20 summit in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, was good, constructive and open, Kremlin...
Caroline Wozniacki and Anastasija Sevastova reach US Open last 8
NEW YORK (AFP) – Caroline Wozniacki, derailed this year by an ankle injury which sent her career into a tailspin, and Anastasija Sevastova, who quit the sport three years ago, set up a US Open quarter-final duel Sunday.Former world number one Wozniacki, the runner-up in 2009 and 2014, downed American eighth seed Madison Keys 6-3, 6-4 to...
Injured Kyrgios quits US Open in tears
NEW YORK (AFP) – Fiery Australian Nick Kyrgios’s US Open campaign ended in pain and tears when he retired from his third round match against Ukraine’s Illya Marchenko with a hip injury on Saturday.The 14th seed needed a medical timeout after dropping the second set and despite a series of further checks with the trainer, he quit...
Serena speeds through as Wawrinka, Murray battle into last 16
NEW YORK (AFP) – Serena Williams sped past another milestone Saturday en route to the US Open fourth round as men’s contenders Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka clawed their way into the last 16.World number one Williams dominated Sweden’s Johanna Larsson 6-2, 6-1 to surpass Martina Navratilova for most Grand Slam wins by a woman...
