Svetlana Kuznetsova gave Russia, beaten by Italy in last year's semifinals, a 1-0 lead when she defeated former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic 6-1 6-4.
Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova battled through to a 7-6 1-6 6-2 victory over former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki, though both players benefited from a heat break before contesting the deciding set.
ATHENS, Greece -- World No 1 Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium overcame France's Mary Pierce 6-4 6-4 to set up an Olympic semifinal with French Open champion Anastasia Myskina.
Baker, 23, gave the team the perfect start with a 6-1 6-4 6-1 victory against world number 866 Ergun Zorlu.
Legitimate Grade 1, world-class equine athletes will be 20, 30, even 67-1 as was the case with Court Vision last year.
Defending champion Sharapova rallied from 4-1 down in the second set against Zheng Jie to beat China's world No. 43 6-1 7-5 despite making 34 unforced errors in a match featuring 11 breaks of serve.
The unfancied Croatian 20th seed came from behind to beat the former world No. 1 3-6 6-4 7-6 (7-1) in the outdoor hardcourt event, which the Spaniard also won in 2007.
Hampton, ranked 54th, upset Czech seventh seed Petra Kvitova 6-1 7-6 (9-7) to earn a clash with Serbia's former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic -- who eliminated Australia's 2010 runner-up Sam Stosur despite losing the first set.
The home crowd were left disappointed when eighth seed Janko Tipsarevic recorded a battling three-set win over former world No. 1 and two-time grand slam champion Lleyton Hewitt .
The tie moved the U.S. (1-1-1) into third place in World Cup qualifying for the North and Central American and Caribbean region after three of 10 matches, one point behind Panama.
Three weeks ago England beat one of those "best teams in the world", with a well-earned 2-1 friendly victory over last September's World Cup semi-finalists Norway.
Kati Whitaker's radio documentary No Country for Old Women is first broadcast on the BBC World Service on 1 September - check the schedule or listen again on the programme website.
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Briton Murray crushed South African qualifier Kevin Anderson, ranked 147 in the world, 6-1 6-1 6-2 in one hour and forty minutes -- while defending champion Nadal recovered from a slow start to overpower Australia's Peter Luczak 7-6 6-1 6-4.
Sharapova's compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova produced the day's biggest shock by registering a comfortable 6-1 6-2 third-round win against Radwanska, who eliminated former world No. 1 Venus Williams on Wednesday.
It is the second time in as many tournaments that Dimitrov has cracked when serving for a set against a top-ranked player, having served four double faults when leading world No. 1 Novak Djokovic 5-3 at Indian Wells earlier this month.
Throughout Latin America - home to 40% of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics - people reacted with delight and surprise.
The official Mass to inaugurate Francis as the bishop of Rome -- and leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics -- will take place Tuesday.
But two-time grand slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova overcame Jankovic's fellow former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic 6-2 2-6 6-4 to give the four-time champions hope of a rematch of last year's final.
Murray, who now lost successive first round matches after reaching the final of the Australian Open in January, was beaten 6-2 6-1 by world number 33 Philipp Kohlschreiber in just over an hour of his maiden clay-court match of the season.
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That could mean a last-eight clash with world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka, who survived a second-set scare to beat 79th-ranked Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu 6-1 3-6 6-1 in her opening match on Centre Court.
Back in 1990, Taylor surprised the darting world by defeating his mentor Eric Bristow 6-1 in the final of the World Championship at the Lakeside, and then was involved in one of the greatest finals ever two years later, winning his second world title in a sudden-death leg against Mike Gregory.
Either way, the impact on their vision is so similar that it's considered one disorder, red-green colorblindness, which is the most common single-gene disorder in humans, affecting 1 in 8 men and 1 in 230 women of Northern European descent world-wide (and slightly fewer in other racial groups).
Should they only manage a draw, then New Zealand - 2000-1 to win the World Cup before the tournament started - could deny them with victory over Paraguay in their final Group F match.
But Halard-Decugis, ranked 17th in the world, stretched into a 4-1 lead at the start of the decider and it looked all over.
Ferrer, ranked five in the world, led 3-1 in the second before Djokovic roared back to take the set.
Schiavone then shocked world number nine Svetlana Kuznetsova 1-6 6-2 6-3 in a match that lasted two hours 21 minutes.
Meanwhile in the Davis Cup, Serbia reached the quarterfinals with a 4-1 win over Sweden despite missing World No.1 Novak Djokovic.
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