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  • World TT Holder Zhang to face Wang in all-Chinese final

    In a rematch of last year's Olympic final, defending champion Zhang Jike will fight for the men's singles title against Wang Hao at the World Table Tennis Championships here Monday. Zhang, the fourth seed, crushed top seed and teammate Xu Xin 11-8, 11-2, 11-9, 12-10 while Wang beat second seed Ma Long in the other all-Chinese semifinal 11-9, 11-7, 11-3, 7-11, 12-14, 11-3 Sunday night, Xinhua ...

  • Chinese Taipei win mens doubles TT title

    Chinese Taipei's Chen Chien-An and Chuang Chih-Yuan upset Hao Shuai and Ma Lin from China to win the men's doubles title at the World Table Tennis Championships here. Chen and Chuang fought back from one game down to win three in a row but Ma, former Olympic Champion, and Hao Shuai took the fifth before the Chinese Taipei tandem sealed the victory Sunday by taking the sixth 11-8, reports ...

  • Kyrgios gets Slam shot

    Reigning Australian Open boys champion Nick Kyrgios will get his first taste of Grand Slam tennis next week at Roland Garros after being granted a French Open wildcard when compatriot John Millman was forced to withdraw.Kyrgios is considered one of the best young talents in the country having risen from world number 849 earlier this year to a peak of number 264 after wins on the Futures and ...

  • Zhang Jike retains mens singles title at table tennis worlds

    Fourth seed Zhang Jike retained his men's singles title at the World Table Tennis Championships by beating third seed Wang Hao in an all-Chinese final here on ...

  • Hewitt falls in first round at Nice

    Photos: The best in the game Hewitt, playing in this tournament for the first time, was beaten by Pablo Andujar of Spain 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. Seppi fell to Lu Yen-Hsun of Taiwan 7-5, 1-6, 6-4. Lu will next play Andujar, a semifinalist at this month's Madrid Open. Carlos Berlocq of Argentina and Robin Haase of the Netherlands also advanced. Haase faces fourth-seeded John Isner of the U.S. in ...

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Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) [DVD]

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) [DVD]

Since the earliest days of cinema, one of the principle rules of filmmaking is that the actors never look directly into the camera. In Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Klaus Kinski, starring as the titular character, breaks that rule near the end of the film when he looks d ... ...

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  • Opening day at Strasbourg washed out

    Photos: The best in the game Top-seeded Marion Bartoli of France, Tamira Paszek of Austria and Christina McHale of the United States had been scheduled to play Monday. The Strasbourg International is a warmup tournament for the French Open, which starts ...

  • Lepchenko Govortsova progress in Brussels

    American Varvara Lepchenko edged Serbian Bojana Jovanovski in a tough encounter at the Brussels Open on Monday.The pair were on court for more than two-and-a-half hours in a terrific match, that eventually saw seventh-seed Lepchenko claim a 6-2 6-7 (8-10) 6-4 victory.The left-handed Lepchenko burst out of the blocks in the first set, winning 82 percent of points on her first serve, while she ...

  • Not Nice for Seppi and Hewitt

    Fifth seed Andreas Seppi and former world number one Lleyton Hewitt were big-name first-round casualties at the Open de Nice Cote d'Azur.Seppi looked to have steadied the ship after losing the first set to Chinese Taipei's Yen-Hsun Lu, as he won the second while dropping only one game, but the match swung back Lu's way and he went on to win 7-5 1-6 6-4. It was the third ...

  • Lleyton Hewitt and Marinko Matosevic out of Nice Open

    France Australia's representation at the Nice Open ended at the first hurdle on Monday when Lleyton Hewitt and Marinko Matosevic lost in the opening round.Dutchman Robin Haase needed just 61 minutes to overpower Matosevic 6-1, 6-4 while Hewitt pushed in-form Spaniard Pablo Andujar hard before going down 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.The double defeat on the clay courts in the south of France was far from ...

  • Nieminen sees off Lacko

    Sixth seed Jarkko Nieminen moved into the second round of the inaugural Power Horse Cup in Dusseldorf with a regulation straight-sets victory over Lukas Lacko.The Finn has never won an ATP World Tour clay-court title but today he launched his bid with a 6-3 6-1 victory in which he broke his opponent five times, taking just 76 minutes to ease through. Nieminen, who is scheduled to meet second ...

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