Australian Lleyton Hewitt mixed serve and volley with his natural counter-punching style to reach the second round of the Sydney International yesterday.

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World No. 4 Ana Ivanovic clawed back from 2-5 down in the final set to reach the women's quarter-finals of the Sydney International with a three-set victory yesterday over France's Virginie Razzano.

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Greece's Eleni Daniilidou claimed her first victory in three attempts against Alona Bondarenko to oust the top seed from the Hobart WTA International yesterday.

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World cricket chiefs yesterday scrambled to save India's crisis-hit tour of Australia, axing a top umpire and announcing plans to fly in a top official to ease seething tensions between the two teams.

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Juaquin Hawkins, who played for the NBA's Houston Rockets in 2002-2003, suffered a stroke and will miss the remainder of Australia's National Basketball League season for the Gold Coast Blaze.

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English Premier league side Bolton announced on Monday they have rejected a bid from Chelsea for their French striker Nicolas Anelka.

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Kimi Raikkonen tested Ferrari's 2008 car for the first time on Monday under the watchful eyes of seven-time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher.

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McLaren-Mercedes chose Lewis Hamilton's 23rd birthday to unveil their new car on Monday.

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World sports' highest court has dismissed an appeal by three Austrian cross-country skiers against lifetime Olympic bans for their involvement in the doping scandal at the 2006 Turin Games.

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Former England captain Michael Corry retired from international rugby yesterday.

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A POWERFUL HUNGER: Haye, who holds the WBC and WBA cruiserweight titles, wants one more before he steps up to the heavyweight division
World champion David Haye plans to complete some unfinished business as a cruiserweight before moving up to heavyweight.

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Beijing organizers have chosen more than 80 percent of the 100,000 volunteers required for this year's Olympics and Paralympics from the biggest candidate pool in Games history, officials said yesterday.

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COMMONWEALTH GAMES: Officials are determined to transform Delhi into a 'world-class city,' but some residents have been enraged by the changes
When Baldev Singh arrived to open his car parts showroom last September he found not customers but officials from Delhi's municipal council at his doorstep.

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CHOKE: Ohio State, trying to add to its BCS title from 2002, once again fell apart in college football's biggest game a year after they were defeated 41-14 by Florida
No. 2-ranked Louisiana State University danced, dodged and darted its way into the end zone and dispatched top-ranked Ohio State 38-24 in the US college football championship game on Monday.

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From his parched, pursed lips to the jut of his shoulders, Roger Clemens was holding something back, three body-language analysts who watched him over the past two days said on Monday.

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Acting on recommendations in the Mitchell report, Major League Baseball (MLB) cracked down on clubhouse security on Monday in an effort to prevent the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

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Mathieu Garon made 35 saves for his third shutout of the NHL season and Ales Hemsky and Shawn Horcoff had a goal and assist each as the Edmonton Oilers beat the New York Islanders 4-0 on Monday.

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Miami Heat center Shaquille O'Neal flew to Los Angeles on Monday to seek medical treatment for a hip injury that has sidelined him the past five games.

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Stephen Jackson scored 12 of his 29 points in overtime, and Baron Davis had 34 points and 14 assists in yet another remarkable late-game performance during the Golden State Warriors' 130-121 victory over San Antonio on Monday.

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Edmonton Oilers left-winger Raffi Torres will have surgery to repair a torn knee ligament and will miss the rest of the season.
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