Sao Paulo: For 15 years, a Brazilian family used a device they found buried on their farm as a doorstop without suspecting that it could be a bomb, media reports said on Monday. The discovery occurred last Saturday after security forces had to remove another explosive device found on a construction site in the city of Campo Grande. A 10-year-old girl who was watching the operation noticed that the device...
11:07 AM, May 01, 2012
Zagreb: Mikhail Youzhny beat Lukas Lacko 6-2, 6-3 Sunday to win the Zagreb Indoors in his 18th career final. The 29-year-old Russian clinched his first title since winning St. Petersburg in 2010. Youzhny faced no break points and lost only 12 points on serve during the 68-minute match. After both players won opening service games, Youzhny then took eight out of nine games, winning the first set and three games...
12:45 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Basel: Roger Federer won the Swiss Indoors title for the fifth time in six years when he demolished unseeded Kei Nishikori in the final on his home town tournament on Sunday. Federer, playing in his 98th ATP final of which he has won 68, triumphed 6-1 6-3 against the 21-year-old Japanese wild card, who was playing in his third. "He didn't give me a chance, he was too good for...
10:11 PM, Nov 06, 2011
Basel: Top-ranked Novak Djokovic was stunned in the Swiss Indoors semifinals on Saturday, losing 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-0 to Japan's Kei Nishikori. Nishikori was overmatched in the first set but turned the match around by winning a thrilling rally when Djokovic was just two points from victory at 5-4 in the second. The 32nd-ranked Nishikori, a wild card entry at the tournament, won the second-set tiebreaker then raced away with...
11:19 PM, Nov 05, 2011
Basel: Novak Djokovic fought back after losing the first set to beat Marcos Baghdatis 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the Swiss Indoors quarter-finals on Friday. The top-ranked Serb stayed on course to meet hometown favorite Roger Federer in the final for a third straight year after the defending champion beat American Andy Roddick 6-3, 6-2. Djokovic had his serve broken twice early on before recovering to seal a victory that improved...
09:56 AM, Nov 05, 2011
Basel: Roger Federer advanced to the quarter-finals and Andy Murray withdrew because of an injury just before his first-round match at the Swiss Indoors on Wednesday. Andy Roddick also advanced, using his serve to beat Tommy Haas of Germany 6-3, 6-4 in the late match. The seventh-seeded American had 12 aces and never allowed Haas a break point chance. Federer, defending champion at his hometown event, dropped a set against...
02:53 PM, Nov 04, 2011
Basel: Mardy Fish retired from his first-round match at the Swiss Indoors against fellow American James Blake on Tuesday after just one game because of a hamstring injury. The fifth-seeded Fish held serve in the opening game and lost the first point of the next game when he decided the pain in his left leg would not allow him to continue. Fish is hoping to qualify for the season-ending ATP...
01:02 PM, Nov 02, 2011
Basel: Novak Djokovic made his return after missing six weeks with a back injury and defeated Xavier Malisse 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 in the first round of the Swiss Indoors on Tuesday. The top-ranked Serb overcame some difficult moments before improving his record this season to 65-3. Djokovic arrived on the court for the first time since September 18 wearing a fright mask resembling rock star Alice Cooper the night after...
12:43 PM, Nov 02, 2011
Basel: Roger Federer made a winning return from a six-week break, beating Potito Starace of Italy 7-6 (3), 6-4 in the first round of his hometown Swiss Indoors event on Monday. The fourth-ranked Federer took time to find the rhythm in his ground strokes, and saved a break point at 5-all before winning the first-set tie-breaker. The 30-year-old Swiss then broke the 54th-ranked Starace's serve in the opening game of...
10:06 AM, Nov 01, 2011
Basel: Novak Djokovic said Sunday he needs "some time" to rediscover top form after his historic season was interrupted by a six-week injury break. The top-ranked Serb resumes at the Swiss Indoors with a 64-3 record this year, after a back muscle injury forced him to retire from a Davis Cup semi-finals singles match against Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina on September 18. "Certainly, it's going to take me...
11:32 AM, Oct 31, 2011
Venice: Gwyneth Paltrow has received a letter from a woman who believes the actress may have inadvertently saved her life on the day of the attacks on New York nearly 10 years ago. As the United States prepares to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Paltrow told Reuters she was more closely involved in the events than she had known at the time. "Basically, what happened was I...
12:12 PM, Sep 06, 2011
New Delhi: Four decades ago, the world lost a gem in the music world. July 3, 1971, saw the demise of rock legend Jim Morrison, lead singer and lyricist of the rock band The Doors . Morrison was ranked number 47 on the Rolling Stones '100 greatest singers of all time'. Born in 1947 in Florida, he was named James Douglas Morrison and with time he become the much known,...
03:20 PM, Jul 03, 2011
Tallahassee: A hot, frenzied night in Miami changed life for Jim Morrison and The Doors. That's something the late singer's pardon on indecent exposure and profanity charges can't correct. "It made him realize he was no longer in the graces of the gods, that things could go wrong," said Ray Manzarek, the band's keyboard player. "Jim had a great line - in that year we had a great visitation of...
02:53 PM, Dec 10, 2010
Basel: Roger Federer regained his hometown title from Novak Djokovic, beating the defending champion 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 in the Swiss Indoors final on Sunday. The top-seeded Federer broke Djokovic's serve early in the first, and twice in the deciding set to cruise to victory in under two hours. "You don't get many chances against Roger when he is on top of you," Djokovic said. "At the start of the third...
11:01 PM, Nov 07, 2010
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