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Kobe Bryant hit a baseline jump shot with 4.2 seconds left and the Los Angeles Lakers wrapped up a six-game road trip by holding on to beat the Raptors 94-92 on Sunday, their eighth victory in nine meetings with Toronto
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The United States completed a 5-0 rout of Switzerland in the Davis Cup on Sunday, with 19-year-old Ryan Harrison and John Isner winning closing singles matches.
Zambia has won the African Cup of Nations, beating pre-tournament favorite Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in a dramatic final at Stade de l'Amitie.
Tessa Worley of France fought off gusting winds to win a second consecutive World Cup giant slalom Sunday in the Andorran Pyrenees. Overall leader Lindsey Vonn was more than a second behind and finished eighth.
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APBad health’s been a recurring issue for the Belgian, off the tour for months at a time in 2004 and 2005 because of illness or injury. So she could be forgiven for feeling a tad nervous heading into this final, suffering through sleepless nights and worrying about whether her game would hold up for one more match.
With the temperature in the 80s, and spectators flapping hand fans like metronomes across the stands, the match began in the oddest of ways.
On the second point, Henin-Hardenne botched a volley, then told the chair umpire the ball was deflated. He agreed, and informed Kuznetsova the point would be replayed. Kuznetsova cried out, “Why?” and argued. When action resumed, the Russian eventually lost the game thanks to all of those poor forehands and a double-fault.
Henin-Hardenne broke again for a 4-1 lead, then handed over a break with a double-fault, one of her few shaky moments.
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“I just fight on every ball, and that’s very important,” said Henin-Hardenne, the first woman to win consecutive French Open titles since Steffi Graf in 1995-96. “I know that all these kind of players, they don’t like when the ball is coming back all the time.”
How dominant was she the past two weeks?
She’s the first woman since Arantxa Sanchez Vicario in 1994 to win the French Open without dropping a set. Henin-Hardenne lost 39 games over seven matches, never so much as pushed to a tiebreaker.
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The statistics Saturday bear that out. Henin-Hardenne made nearly twice as many unforced errors (30) as winners (16). She made only half her first serves. She won only five of the match’s 20 points that lasted 10 strokes or more.
“That’s not really important now. It doesn’t count,” Henin-Hardenne said. “What are people going to remember? That I played well from beginning to end? Or that I won the French Open?”
The United States completed a 5-0 rout of Switzerland in the Davis Cup on Sunday, with 19-year-old Ryan Harrison and John Isner winning closing singles matches.
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Zambia has won the African Cup of Nations, beating pre-tournament favorite Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in a dramatic final at Stade de l'Amitie.
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