Ancic reaches semis at Millennium
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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (Ticker) -- Third seed Mario Ancic was the only seeded player remaining in the bottom half of the draw at the Millennium International.
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Hedo Turkoglu shot an off-balance 3-pointer with time running out â when all the host Orlando Magic needed to break a tie against the Kevin Garnett-less Boston Celtics was a 2-pointer.
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Ricardo Mello beat third-seeded Mario Ancic 7-6 (2), 6-3 Saturday to advance to the final of the Millennium International Tennis Championships against top-seeded Vince Spadea.
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Though she gave it her best shot to win a third medal at the World Alpine Championships yesterday, Julia Mancuso, the 20-year-old American sensation, could not break through the European slalom powerhouse of Croatia's Janica Kostelic, Finland's Tanja Poutiainen, and the Czech Republic's Sarka Zahrobska, who filled the podium after last night's second run.
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Radek Stepanek defeated Jose Acasuso 6-4, 7-6 (5) Saturday to reach the final of the Hamburg Masters and secure a top-10 ranking for the first time. The 15th-seeded Czech will meet the winner of Saturday&#039;s semifinal between Tommy Robredo of Spain and Mario Ancic of Croatia.
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Defending champion Jan-Michael Gambill was beaten in straight sets Monday by fourth-seeded Mario Ancic in the rain-interrupted first round of the Millennium International Tennis Championships.
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Mauresmo and Sharapova advanced to the semifinals in the Black Group...Kim Clijsters beat Mauresmo in last year&#39;s final...Davenport won this tournament in 1999 and was the runner-up in 1994, 1998 and 2001...Seventh- seeded Serena Williams was the 2001
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Third seed Jelena Jankovic beats defending champion Serena Williams 6-3 6-4 to reach the Australian Open semi-finals.
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DELRAY BEACH, United States : Top-seeded American Vincent Spadea cruised past compatriot James Blake 6-3, 6-1 here to reach the quarter-finals of the 380,000-dollar Millennium International tennis tournament.
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LINZ, Austria : Recently deposed world number one Amelie Mauresmo shrugged off any doubts over her fitness by beating Poland&#39;s Marta Domachowska 6-4, 6-0 to reach the quarter-finals of the WTA tournament here.
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Bronze is the best the American men can do in basketball, and the reason is simple: A hastily assembled assortment of NBA stars couldn't beat a better team &#151; Argentina. Manu Ginobili scored 29 points to lead his nation to another victory over the country that used to dominate the sport, an 89-81 win in the Olympic semifinals Friday night.
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The 10 teams have all played each other once, and a glance at the table reveals an interesting fact. The top four places - the automatic qualifying slots - are filled by the same countries that took them in the 2002 campaign.
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Carlo Ancelotti won the head-to-head against his former team-mate Frank Rijkaard as a first-half goal by Andriy Shevchenko gave Milan a 1-0 win over Barcelona and left the Italian champions with a maximum haul of nine points from their three Group C
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Jill Anelauskas now stands alone in the basketball record books at Medfield. The senior surpassed both the girls' and boys' all-time scoring records in Medfield's 56-38 win over host Millis yesterday in the Tri-Valley League.
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Wimbledon semifinalist Mario Ancic of Croatia moved into the semifinals Friday at the International Tennis Championships. The third-seeded Ancic defeated Denmark&#39;s Kenneth Carlsen, 6-2, 7-5.
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The all-new, improved Marat Safin  showed yet more signs of his growing maturity on Friday when he  survived a potentially tricky encounter with Mario Ancic to  reach the fourth round of the Australian Open.
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Second-seeded Jiri Novak beat Wesley Moodie 6-3, 6-3 Saturday to advance to the final of the Millennium Tennis Championships.