Sam can say that the Americans have problems too, with the likes of David Duval and Hal Sutton, but the rest of their team is much stronger than ours.

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CNN's Devon Sayers, Chuck Johnston, Carma Hassan, Todd Sperry, Jeremy Moorhead, Mariano Castillo, Joe Sutton, and David Close contributed to this report.

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Ali made the breakthrough, having Luke Sutton caught behind by David Pipe for 51 before quickly removing Chris Bassano (nought) in the same fashion.

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