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/ 20 November 2006
Twenty years after Mike Tyson battered Trevor Berbick to become the youngest heavyweight world champion in history, the ”Baddest Man on the Planet” is aging as badly as any boxing cautionary tale. Tyson was 20 years old on November 22 1986 when he pummelled Berbick into submission in two rounds, seizing the World Boxing Council crown.
Top-seeded Russian Maria Sharapova avenged a French Open fourth-round defeat with a straight-set win over compatriot Dinara Safina on Friday to reach the semifinals of this 600 000-dollar WTA tournament. Sharapova, seeking to keep the momentum going after her WTA triumph in San Diego last week, defeated the fifth-seeded Safina 6-2, 6-4.
Phil Mickelson, bidding for his third straight major title, fired a one-under 69 on Saturday to seize a share of the third-round US Open lead along with England’s Kenneth Ferrie. The 27-year-old Ferrie, a two-time winner on the European tour, is playing in his first US Open and just his fourth major championship.
Colin Montgomerie was the only player to pass golf’s toughest test in the red colours on Thursday, as his one-under 69 gave him the first-round lead in the 2006 US Open. Montgomerie’s was the only under-par effort on a day when a wind-blown Winged Foot humbled a host of top players, including Tiger Woods.
Tiger Woods admits he will be taking a step into the unknown at next week’s US Open as he returns to competition for the first time since the death of his father. Woods’s father Earl died on May 3 after a long battle with cancer and the American hasn’t played since the Masters in April.
Roger Federer didn’t give Ivan Ljubicic a look in on Thursday as he sped past the Croatian Davis Cup hero and into the semifinals of the Indian Wells Masters Series. Ljubicic had stretched the Swiss world number one to three sets in three of their five encounters last year, but Federer quickly sucked any suspense out of this one, needing just 66 minutes to post a 6-2, 6-3 victory.
A baffled Andre Agassi was bundled out of the ,27-million Pacific Life Open 7-5, 6-2 on Monday by Germany’s Tommy Haas. Despite his status as the Masters Series event’s eighth seed, Agassi clearly had his work cut out for him against Haas, who has already won titles this year in Delray Beach and Memphis.
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/ 13 November 2005
Mary Pierce beat world number one Lindsay Davenport, and Amelie Mauresmo ousted defending champion Maria Sharapova on Saturday to set up an all-French final at the WTA Tour Championships. Their semifinal victories insured the elite season-ending event will have a French champion for the first time.
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/ 12 October 2005
Less than a week into her pro career, golf prodigy Michelle Wie isn’t seeing any cons. The Korean-American schoolgirl celebrated her 16th birthday on Tuesday at the Bighorn Golf Club, where she will make her pro debut on Thursday in the 000 LPGA Samsung World Championship.
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/ 8 September 2005
Second-seeded Lindsay Davenport and number three Amelie Mauresmo were sent packing on Wednesday as Elena Dementieva and Mary Pierce set up a semifinal clash at the United States Open tennis championships. Meanwhile, Andre Agassi electrified the US Open on Wednesday with a battling quarterfinal win over a man 10 years his junior.