Sports: Dirrell moves into boxing semifinals
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ATHENS, Greece The US will get at least two boxing medals. Andre Dirrell (dur-EL&#39;) made sure of that today by narrowly beating a Cuban boxer to advance to the Olympic middleweight semifinals.
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Two former world-number-one tennis stars, American Andre Agassi and Lleyton Hewitt of Australia, have advanced to the semifinals of the Legg Mason Classic in Washington.
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Tonight will be a busy one on the local fight scene with two cards. At the Bayside Expo Center, Ray Oliveira will take on Hicklet Lau for the vacant International Boxing Union welterweight title. On the same card, heavyweight prospect Matt Godfrey (4-0, 2 KOs) of Providence will face Andrew Hutchinson.
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ATHENS -- Some guys learn from their mistakes. Andre Dirrell didn't. America's middleweight medal hopeful followed the same pattern against Gennady Golovkin yesterday that he fell into during his quarterfinal victory over Cuba's Yordani Despaigne two days ago but this time he paid a more costly price than he had two days earlier, when he escaped with a 12-11 victory ...
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Defending Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova of Russia has advanced to the semifinals of the China Open women&#39;s tennis tournament in Beijing.
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Vitali Klitschko will make his first defence of his World Boxing Council heavyweight belt on Saturday against a beefed-up challenger Danny Williams who weighed in at a record-equalling 270 pounds (122 kg).
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Andy Roddick out-muscled Russia's Marat  Safin 7-6, 7-6 Thursday to win a battle of the heavy-hitters  and a place in the Masters Cup semifinals.
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The 20-year-old budding superstar from Serbia asserted himself just enough to reach the semifinals, where he will meet David Ferrer of Spain on Saturday.
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Danny Williams weighs in at 19st 4lb for his WBA heavyweight title clash with Vitali Klitschko.
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Top-seeded Lleyton Hewitt of Australia won his 18th straight match in the Sydney International, beating Max Mirnyi of Belarus 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-2 in the semifinals Friday.
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World number one Lindsay Davenport  fought back from a mid-match slump to hold off tenacious local  hope Alicia Molik 6-4, 4-6, 9-7 Wednesday and reach the  semifinals of the Australian Open.
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Top-seeded Tommy Robredo defeated Ramon Delgado 6-2, 7-6 (1) Friday to reach the semifinals of the Mumbai Open.
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ATHENS -- Leon Lawson was watching over Andre Dirrell's shoulder last night, literally and figuratively, as the US middleweight tried to box his way into the medal rounds at the Olympic Games.
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07.12.04 - By Marcus Wood: July 30th 2004 Danny Williams knocked out Mike Tyson in the fourth round in Louisville, USA. Fast forward four months and Danny Williams is preparing to fight reigning WBC world champion Vitali Klitschko as a direct result.
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Athens -- By virtue of making it to the semifinals of the Olympic boxing tournament, Andre Ward is guaranteed of at least taking a bronze medal home to Oakland.
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Top-seeded Lindsay Davenport of the United States advanced to the finals of the Cincinnati Open on Saturday when her scheduled semi-final opponent, Marion Bartoli of France, withdrew with a hand injury.
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Top seed Elena Dementieva of Russia edged Czech Denisa Chladkova 7-5, 6-4 Friday to reach the semifinals of the Gaz de France Stars tennis tournament.