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Bartoli schools Gacon
Top-seed Marion Bartoli breezed past her French compatriot Stephanie Foretz Gacon 6-1, 6-1 in the opening round of the WTA Bell Challenge tournament in Quebec City, Canada, on Tuesday. Bartoli advances to face Canadian wild-card Rebecca Morino in the second round. Bartoli needed just 58 minutes to oust Foretz in dominating fashion. She hammered four aces and won 84 percent of her first serve points. She also saved six of seven break-points, compared with just one of seven for her opponent. In other matches involving seeded players on Tuesday, fifth-seeded American Melanie Oudin beat Alison Riske 6-2, 7-6 (7/3) and third-seed Lucie Safarova stopped Varvara Lepchenko 7-5, 6-3. French second-seed Aravance Rezai lost to Jill Craybas of the US 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7/3) in the biggest upset of the day.
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Jenkins injured again
New York Jets nose tackle Kris Jenkins has been sidelined for the rest of the season after re-injuring his left knee against the Baltimore Ravens on Monday. The 31-year-old tore the anterior cruciate ligament after being caught in a pileup following a three-yard run by Ravens fullback La’Ron McClain in the first quarter. Jenkins tore the same ACL against the Buffalo Bills in the sixth game of last year and made his first regular season appearance since then against the Ravens on Monday. His absence will be sorely felt by the Jets, who lost their season opener 10-9 to Baltimore after receiving plenty of attention during the off-season for appearing on a reality show and talking up their Super Bowl chances. “He is a physical mismatch against anybody that he plays against,” Ryan said of the 163kg, four-time Pro Bowler.
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Packers lose two players
Green Bay Packers running back Ryan Grant and defensive end Justin Harrell were ruled out for the rest of the season on Tuesday after being placed on injured reserve. Grant (right ankle) and Harrell (left knee) suffered injuries in Green Bay’s 27-20 win over the Philadelphia Eagles in their season opener on Sunday. The loss of Grant, who has rushed for more than 1,200 yards in each of the last two years, came as a particularly severe blow for the Packers. “When you lose a running back of Ryan’s caliber, it’s a big loss,” Packers general manager Ted Thompson said in a statement. “But this is something we have to deal with and move forward from as a team.” Green Bay, viewed as possible Super Bowl candidates with emerging quarterback Aaron Rodgers coming off a Pro-Bowl season, signed running back Dimitri Nance and defensive end Jarius Wynn to replace Grant and Harrell.
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K-Rod back in trouble
New York Mets reliever Francisco Rodriguez violated a protection order and will face additional charges on top of allegedly assaulting his father-in-law, a spokeswoman for the Queens District Attorney said on Tuesday. Rodriguez, known as K-Rod, sent dozens of text-messages to his common-law wife Daian Pena, the spokeswoman said, in violation of a protection order issued following his arrest last month. The four-time All-Star pitcher appeared in Queens Criminal Court for a hearing, but was told to expect criminal contempt charges at his next court appearance on Oct. 7. Rodriguez, 28, was taken into custody last month at the Mets ballpark Citi Field after a 6-2 loss to the Colorado Rockies, during which Rodriguez grew visibly upset that he was not summoned from the bullpen to pitch.
Revelations of positive doping tests for nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers that went unpunished sparked an intense flurry of accusations and legal threats between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the head of the US drug-fighting organization, who has long been one of WADA’s fiercest critics. WADA on Saturday said it was turning to legal counsel to address a statement released by US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) CEO Travis Tygart, who said WADA and anti-doping authorities in China swept positive tests “under the carpet by failing to fairly and evenly follow the global rules that apply to everyone else in the world.” The
Taiwanese judoka Yang Yung-wei on Saturday won silver in the men’s under-60kg category at the Asian Judo Championships in Hong Kong. Nicknamed the “judo heartthrob” in Taiwan, the Olympic silver-medalist missed out on his first Asian Championships gold when he lost to Japanese judoka Taiki Nakamura in the finals. Yang defeated three opponents on Saturday to reach the final after receiving a bye through the round of 32. He first topped Laotian Soukphaxay Sithisane in the round of 16 with two seoi nage (over-the-shoulder throws), then ousted Indian Vijay Kumar Yadav in the quarter-finals with his signature ude hishigi sankaku gatame (triangular armlock). He
RALLY: It was only the second time the Taiwanese has partnered with Kudermetova, and the match seemed tight until they won seven points in a row to take the last set 10-2 Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova on Sunday won the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix women’s doubles final in Stuttgart, Germany. The pair defeated Norway’s Ulrikke Eikeri and Estonia’s Ingrid Neel 4-6, 6-3, 10-2 in a tightly contested match at the WTA 500 tournament. Chan and Kudermetova fell 4-6 in the first set after having their serve broken three times, although they played increasingly well. They fought back in the second set and managed to break their opponents’ serve in the eighth game to triumph 6-3. In the tiebreaker, Chan and Kudermetova took a 3-0 lead before their opponents clawed back two points, but
Taiwanese gymnast Lee Chih-kai failed to secure an Olympic berth in the pommel horse following a second-place finish at the last qualifier in Doha on Friday, a performance that Lee and his coach called “unconvincing.” The Tokyo Olympics silver medalist finished runner-up in the final after scoring 6.6 for degree of difficulty and 8.800 for execution for a combined score of 15.400. That was just 0.100 short of Jordan’s Ahmad Abu Al Soud, who had qualified for the event in Paris before the Apparatus World Cup series in Qatar’s capital. After missing the final rounds in the first two of four qualifier