LONARD KEEPS AUSSIE OPEN CROWN
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Defending champion Peter Lonard came with a late charge to retain the Australian Open title in Sydney. Lonard, successful when the event was held in Melbourne last year, fired a final-round three-under-par 68 following three successive 71s.
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Peter Lonard, now a two-time winner of the Australian Open, is obviously one of the most reliable players we have and it ought to be a surprise just how ordinary, by his standards, his season in America was.
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ALICIA Molik has become the first Australian in 17 years to win consecutive WTA Tour titles, defeating Russia&#39;s Dinara Safina in the final of the Luxembourg Open.
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Justin Langer and Matthew Hayden finished the third day&#39;s play at Adelaide as they had begun the first, by rumbling along to an unbeaten 57-run stand to take Australia one step closer to a crushing victory in the second Test against New Zealand.
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Molik, who beat Sharapova in the final, was Australia&#39;s first champion of a WTA Tier I event and proved that you can be 20-something and breakthrough.
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Australia took firm control of the second Test against New Zealand after Justin Langerâs superb double century inspired the hosts to a huge total in Adelaide.
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LONDON : Andrew Symonds blasted a quickfire 71 not out as Australia beat New Zealand by seven wickets in the ICC Champions Trophy here at The Oval.
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Joe Ogilvie sat atop the leaderboard at  the Bob Hope Classic for the fourth straight day on Saturday,  carding a three-under 69 to hold the fourth round clubhouse  lead by two strokes over Australia's Peter Lonard.
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Australia's Peter Lonard successfully defended his title in the centennial Australian Open on Sunday, shooting a 3-under 68 for one-stroke victory over countryman Stuart Appleby.
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MELBOURNE -- Maybe no man is an island, but this underpopulated Pacific isle called Australia -- 20 million strong -- is riding on one man. Riding for dear life because glowering yet flowering Lleyton Hewitt is the last horse in the perpetually lost race for the Australian Open title.
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Australia&#39;s Peter Lonard successfully defended his title in the centennial Australian Open on Sunday, shooting a 3-under 68 for one-stroke victory over countryman Stuart Appleby.
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PERTH - French driver Sebastien Loeb won his first motor rally of Australia yesterday when comfortably negotiating the final six stages near Perth.
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Sebastien Loeb crowned his first world championship with a runaway win in the season-ending Rally of Australia on Sunday. The Frenchman finished one minute 55.
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MELBOURNE, Australia  - Lleyton Hewitt maintained  his perfect record against Arnaud Clement by beating the  Frenchman, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1, in the opening round of the  Australian Open on Tuesday.
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World Champion Sebastien Loeb ended day two of the Rally Australia in Perth in the lead after Marcus Gronholm retired early. Citroen driver Loeb won three stages yesterday to take a 1min 20.
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Guillermo Garcia-Lopez beats fifth seed Carlos Moya at the Australian Open.
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Ludde Ingvall claimed his second Sydney-Hobart title when his new 27 metre (90 feet) boat coasted across the finish line under spinnaker in the southern island state of Tasmania just before dawn to win in a time of two days 16 hours 00 minutes and 44