Shepherds Junior School in Arusha, Tanzania, began as a seed of hope in the heart of its founder, Mama Lucy Kamptoni, in 2003.

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Russian third seed Anastasia Myskina is scheduled to face seventh seed Paola Suarez of Argentina while fourth seed Elena Dementieva, another Russian medal hope, would face eighth seed Ai Sugiyama of Japan.

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Other players left sitting it out were third seed Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic, who was due to play home hope Tommy Robredo, fifth seed Milos Raonic of Canada and Japan's sixth seed Kei Nishikori.

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In the other half, second seed Roger Federer will play qualifiers in this first two matches, with home hope Jo-Wilfried Tsonga a likely quarterfinal opponent and fourth seed David Ferrer of Spain in the semifinals.

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The No. 2 seed in the East, the Knicks beat Miami three times and are perhaps the best hope of giving the Heat a challenge in the playoffs.

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The opening day of the second grand slam of the season did not feature the leading attractions, but French hope and fifth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga gave the home crowd some cheer with a four sets win over Russian qualifier Andrey Kuznetsov.

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An internationally sponsored project called Seeds of Hope got more Tio Canela and put the farmer-scientists to work in growing and distributing the seed to neighbouring towns.

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