Thompson Eliminated at Women's Mid-Amateur
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Carol Semple Thompson, the winner of a record seven USGA titles, was beaten 4 and 2 by former Arizona State standout Thuhashini Selvaratnam in the third round of the U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur on Monday.
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Britain's defending Olympic Games heptathlon champion Denise Lewis withdrew from the event after the fifth discipline.
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Wild card Mashona Washington combined strong serving with powerful groundstrokes to defeat Meghann Shaughnessy, 6-4, 6-4, in the second upset at the Pilot Pen tennis tournament Monday.
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Kristal Parker-Manzo is going out in style. After shooting a 6-under-par 66 to share the first-round lead of the Wendy's Championship for Children, Parker-Manzo announced that she'll retire after the tournament.
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SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. -- With every errant drive and each missed green, the misery mounted. Finally, Michelle Wie had had enough. Her score running higher than the temperature, the 17-year-old from Hawaii cited a sore left wrist for her decision yesterday to withdraw from the 62d US Women's Open at Pine Needles Lodge &amp; Golf Club.
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Defending champion and top seed Amy Frazier of the United States was upset by Li Na of China 7-5, 7-5 in the first round of the Moorilla International on Monday.
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Jennifer Capriati, of Saddlebrook, Fla., reacts as she loses the first set 6-0 to Russia&#39;s Vera Zvonareva in their quarterfinal match Friday, Nov. 5, 2004, in the Advanta Championship in Villanova, Pa.
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The U.S. Open lost one of its top attractions when champion Maria Sharapova was beaten 6-4 1-6 6-2 by 18-year-old Pole Agnieszka Radwanska in the third round on Saturday.
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Justine Henin-Hardenne lost her U.S. Open title and her No. 1 ranking Monday night. The defending champion was upset by Nadia Petrova 6-3, 6-2 Monday night in the fourth round, the earliest the Open's top-seeded woman has lost since Billie Jean King went out in the third round in 1973.
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Jenny Thompson will take the  spotlight from injured U.S. team mate Michael Phelps at the  world short course championships Saturday as she brings down  the curtain on a spectacular swimming career.
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Defending champion Justine Henin- Hardenne was eliminated by Nadia Petrova in straight sets at the US Open, while two-time champion Andre Agassi advanced to a quarterfinal showdown with top men&#39;s seed Roger Federer.
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Actor and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson on Tuesday announced that he was dropping his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
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FILDERSTADT, Germany : Russian Vera Zvonareva became the second seed to crash out of the 650,000-dollar WTA event falling to a straight sets 6-3, 7-5 first round defeat against compatriot Elena Likhovtseva.
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ATHENS, Greece - Russia's Irina Korzhanenko was stripped of her shot put gold medal Monday, the first athlete of the Athens Games to lose an Olympic title because of doping.    Korzhanenko, 30, the first woman to win a gold medal at the sacred site of Ancient Olympia, tested positive for the steroid stanozolol after Wednesday's competition...
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Nikolay Davydenko and Tommy Robredo, the top two seeds in the menâs draw at the Pilot Pen in New Haven, were eliminated in straight sets yesterday in the third round.And in the womenâs draw, a qualifier advanced to the semifinals when Agnes Szavay defeated eighth-seeded Alona Bondarenko, 6-1, 6-4.Davydenko, the defending champion, lost to Gilles Simon, 6-4, 6-4. Robredo fell to Stanislas Wawrinka, 6-3, 6-3. Igor Andreev beat fourth-seeded David Ferrer, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4.James Blake, seeded third, won, 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-1, after being down three match points to Agustin Calleri.
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Down five strokes when play began Sunday, Annika Sorenstam was the State Farm Classic champion when it ended.
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Sorenstam lost her three-shot lead in five holes, then had to make three birdies over the final six holes to salvage an even-par 72 and take a one-shot lead into the final round of the season-ending ADT Championship.