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Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
Spain’s world number one Rafael Nadal fell short on 24 of 26 break point chances Saturday as he lost his Thailand Open semifinal 2-6, 7-6 (7/3), 6-3 to compatriot Guillermo Garcia-Lopez. The surprise winner, who handed world number one Nadal only his eighth loss of the season against 61 wins and six titles, will Sunday [...]
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
Rafael Nadal rode a big serve to sweep past Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan 6-2, 6-3 Friday and reach the Thailand Open semifinals. The top-ranked Spaniard next plays compatriot Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, who beat fourth-seeded Ernests Gulbis of Latvia 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-3. Earlier, Jarkko Nieminen of Finland reached his second semifinal of the year with a [...]
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Sunday, August 29th, 2010
Kenyan David Rudisha broke the 800m world record for the second time in a week, setting a new marker of 1min 41.01sec at a meeting in Rieti, Italy on Sunday. It was only last Sunday in Berlin that the 21-year-old had set a mark of 1:41.09 to beat Wilson Kipketer’s 13-year-old record by two hundreths [...]
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
Dani Pedrosa of Spain held off compatriot and world championship leader Jorge Lorenzo to win a shortened German GP on Sunday. Pole-sitter Lorenzo’s three-race winning streak ended as he was passed by Pedrosa, who crossed for victory in 28 minutes, 50.476 seconds at the Sachsenring circuit to cut Lorenzo’s lead in the MotoGP standings to [...]