Malisse coasts to Delray Beach final
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Xavier Malisse cruised into the final of the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships for the third consecutive year Saturday with a 6-2, 6-2 semifinal win over Vince Spadea.
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No. 7 seed Elena Bovina and No. 8 seed Nathalie Dechy advance to today&#39;s final following their respective semifinal wins Friday on Stadium Court at the Connecticut Tennis Center.
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Nathalie Dechy advanced to the final of the Pilot Pen tournament, using quick, accurate play to beat Lisa Raymond 6-4, 6-0 Friday.
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Mardy Fish beat the hard-serving Ivo Karlovic, 7-6 (3), 6-4, in a Pilot Pen semifinal in New Haven to advance to his first final this year.
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Werner Eschauer of Austria and the qualifier Steve Darcis of Belgium advanced to the final of the Dutch Open yesterday in Amersfoort, Netherlands. Neither one has played for an ATP title before. Darcis, ranked 297th, upset the second-seeded Mikhail Youzhny, 4-6, 6-0, 7-5, and Eschauer defeated Robin Haase, 6-4, 6-4, in the semifinals.At the clay-court Palermo Open in Italy, the 18-year-old Agnes Szavay reached her first career final by beating Sara Errani, 7-6 (0), 6-1, in the semifinals. Szavay, seeded eighth, will face the second-seeded Martina MÃ¼ller in the final today. MÃ¼ller defeated Karin Knapp, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1.At the Western & Southern Financial Group Womenâs Open in Mason, Ohio, Akiko Morigami earned her second berth in a final in three years by outlasting the qualifier Akgul Amanmuradova, 6-7 (8), 6-4, 6-3. She will play the top-seeded Anna Chakvetadze in the final today. Chakvetadze advanced with a 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 win over the third-seeded Sania Mirza.
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Hasselt, Belgium (Sports Network) - Top-seeded Russian Elena Dementieva rallied to post a three-set victory over compatriot Elena Bovina in Sunday&#39;s final at the inaugural Gaz de France Stars tennis tournament.
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Filderstadt, Germany (Sports Network) - Newly-crowned world No. 1 Amelie Mauresmo of France advanced to Sunday&#39;s final of the $650,000 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix with a straight-set victory over fourth-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova on Saturday.
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Trevor Hoffman got the final out and the celebration was on.
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Elena Dementieva somehow outlasted Jennifer Capriati 6-0, 2-6, 7-6 (5) to set up all-Russian women's final at the U.S. Open.
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DELRAY BEACH Â· Ricardo Mello is going to discover this afternoon what Jeff Salzenstein quickly ascertained Saturday night. Top-seeded Vince Spadea, a Boca Raton resident, has the crowd firmly
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After an 18-year pursuit, the Miami Heat have finally brought the NBA championship trophy to South Florida. The newly crowned world champions arrived home shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday. Fans gave huge cheers and pressed up against a chain link fence as the players&#039; plane taxied along the runway at Miami International Airport. Fire trucks shot streams of water over the aircraft.
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Brazilian tennis player Ricardo Mello has upset top seed Vince Spadea to win the hard court event in Delray Beach, Florida. Mello made his first appearance in an ATP final a memorable one, defeating the American 7-6 (7/2), 6-3.
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American top seed James Blake used his precision serve and timely break point chances to breeze past Chile's Paul Capdeville 6-1, 6-4 in a second round match of the Delray Beach Championships on Thursday.
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Top-seeded Elena Dementieva came back to beat Elena Bovina 0-6, 6-0, 6-4 Sunday in the WTA Tour&#39;s latest all-Russian final to win the Gaz de France Stars tournament.
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Sweden&#39;s Robin Soderling beat seventh-seeded American Vince Spadea 6-2, 6-4 Saturday to reach the final of the Lyon Open. Soderling will play Belgium&#39;s Xavier Malisse in Sunday&#39;s final.
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Villanova, PA (Sports Network) - Top-seeded Amelie Mauresmo of France and sixth-seeded Russian Vera Zvonareva each advanced to Sunday&#39;s final at the $585,000 Advanta Championships.
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On a busy day at the US Open, Canadian Daniel Nestor made one final but missed out on another yesterday. The Toronto left-hander and partner Mark Knowles of the Bahamas, seeded third, survived