Russians rush in to final
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NEW YORK -- Maybe they should move tonight's women's singles final to the middle of Red Square and play on a real hardcourt, and use Arthur Ashe Stadium for the Queens neighborhood tennis championship. The Russians took over Paris in June, and now they own Gotham, too.
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Yuliya Nesterenko of Belarus sped to an  unexpected victory in the women's 100 meter final at the Athens  Olympics Saturday.
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HOT favourites Russia, seeking their first Fed Cup title, will take on champions France in the final after beating Austria today. French Open champion Anastasia Myskina recovered from a horrendous first set
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Pounding ferocious forehands and covering the baseline with the muscular legs of a Tour de France rider, Svetlana Kuznetsova overwhelmed Elena Dementieva 6-3, 7-5 Saturday night in the U.S. Open's first all-Russian final.
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MOSCOW : Defending champion and French Open winner Anastasia Myskina advanced into the final of the 2.3 million dollar Kremlin Cup beating new world number one Lindsay Davenport of the United States here.
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Russian depth simply short-circuited American power. Even without two injured players, Russia still had enough tennis talent to overcome slugging Venus Williams and the United States, 3-2, yesterday in Stowe, Vt., in the semifinals of the Fed Cup.
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TORONTO -- Pavel Datsyuk, Alex Kovalev, Sergei Samsonov, Alexei Yashin, and Alexander Ovechkin scored for Russia in a 5-2 victory over Slovakia last night in the final preliminary game of the World Cup.
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(SLOVAKIA-RUSSIA) ~~~~ RUSSIA 5, SLOVAKIA 2 ----- TORONTO (Ticker) -- Alexei Kovalev and Sergei Samsonov scored just over four minutes apart in the second period as Russia clinched second place in the North American pool
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Anastasia Myskina and Nikolay Davydenko won Kremlin Cup finals Sunday, giving Russia a sweep of the women's and men's singles titles.
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Moscow - Anastasia Myskina defeated Elena Dementieva 7-5 6-0 to defend her title in the first-ever all-Russian final at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament on Sunday as Russians won all four championship matches.
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Americans Lindsay Davenport and Jennifer Capriati will stand in the path of the runaway Russian juggernaut when the US Open women&#39;s singles reach the semi-final stage on Friday.
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Mikhail Youzhny beat James Blake 7-5 1-6   6-1 7-5 in the second singles to give Russia a commanding 2-0   lead against the United States in their Davis Cup semi-final on   Friday.
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Top-seeded Elena Dementieva of Russia bested unseeded Maria Elena Camerin of Italy 6-3, 6-3 on Saturday to reach the Gaz de France Stars final.
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SUZUKA (Japan) - First football&#39;s English Premiership, then women&#39;s tennis. Now, the Russians are set to make their mark in Formula One.
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BEIJING  - World champion Yevgeny Plushenko and Irina Slutskaya won the men&#39;s and women&#39;s singles titles as Russian skaters dominated the ISU Grand Prix finals.
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Russia&#39;s Mikhail Youzhny and Slovakia&#39;s Karol Beck won three-set semifinals Saturday and will play for the St. Petersburg Open title.
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Venus Williams dispatched her second Russian opponent in as many days to book a spot in the semifinals and Rafael Nadal won a five-set victory to advance.