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stanley cup ch against Jessica Pegula REUTERS Brady was a picture of anguish early in the clash on a stifling day at Rod Laver Arena but gradually dialled in her power game before crushing Pegula in the final set. The 22nd seed has a golden chance to reach her first Grand Slam final after world number one Ash Barty was shocked by Karolina Muchova in the early quarter-final on Wednesday. With Serena Williams to face Naomi Osaka in the other semi-final, the Australian Open could have another all-American title match on Saturday, four years after Serena beat her sister Venus for the 2017 championship. Having long flown under the radar, 25-year-old Brady also reached the semi-finals of the U.S. Open last year and said she hoped more was to come. I hope I make it a habit, she said on court. Hopefully I have a new habit of making finals. Brady s effort is more remarkable for having been one of the 72 players in hard quarantine before the tournament, unable to train on courts for five hours a day like the rest of the field. Despite the limited preparation and a raft of taxing rallies agains
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Canadian wildcard Milos Raonic defeated Spain s Fernando Verdasco for the second time in four days, advancing to the second round of the ATP-WTA indoor tournament in Memphis on Wednesday. HT Image
stanley cup Raonic ousted second seed Verdasco 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 7/5 at the $1.32 million event, booking a second-round date against Czech Radek Stepanek. On Sunday, Raonic defeated top seed Verdasco 7-6 8/6 , 7-6 7/5 in the ATP San Jose final, denying the Spaniard his second title in a row at the event while becoming Canada s first ATP singles winner in 16 years. In the rematch, Verdasco and Raonic exchanged breaks in the 11th and 12th games of the third set to set up the deciding tie-breaker, which Raonic took after two hours and one minute. Also advancing to the second round was 2009 US Open winner Juan Martin del Potro, who downed US sixth seed John Isner -- the famed Wimbledon marathon man who won the longest match in tennis history -- 6-4, 6-3 in 74 minutes. Argentine wildcard Del Potro, who lost a semi-final last Saturd
stanley cup usa ay to Verdasco, is coming back from a wrist injury that required surgery last May and cut short his 2010 campaign. He faces Croatian Ivan Dodig next. Australian Lleyton Hewitt ousted Taiwanese seventh seed Yen-Hsun Lu 6-4, 7-6 7/3 while US third seed Melanie Oudin also was sent packing, leaving only one seeded player in the women s final eight. Former world number one Hewitt booked a second-round date with Frenchman Adrian Mannarino fo
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