Tag: Quarters

ROME - Leonardo continued his 100 percent run as Inter Milan boss as African pair Samuel Eto'o and McDonald Mariga scored the goals that beat Genoa 3-2 in their Coppa Italia clash on Wednesday.
Cameroon captain Eto'o netted a first-half brace to put the holders in control at the San Siro before Houssine Kharja pulled a goal back from the penalty spot.
Kenya midfielder Mariga restored the hosts' two-goal advantage before Giuseppe Sculli's injury time consolation.
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LAHORE - SPM Stags and Nestle won their respective matches of the 4th SPM League cricket Tournament here on Thursday.
In Professional Group, SPM Stags beat EFU by 64 runs to qualify for the quarter-final at the Model Town Greens ground.
SPM Stags were bowled out for 176 runs. Salman Ali (47), Ayaz Tasawar (40), Usman Liaqat (33) and Nadeem Javed (31) were top scorers for Stags. EFU's Asif Ghaffor took four wickets, Kashif Siddique took three, while Hasan Mehmood bagged

LONDON - Australia's world champion Neil Robertson beat snooker great Stephen Hendry 6-3 to advance into the quarter-finals of the Masters snooker tournament at Wembley on Wednesday.
Robertson, for whom this was the first match of a tournament restricted to snooker's top 16 players, reeled off several breaks in the eighties against Hendry. He will now face Northern Ireland's world championship semi-finalist Mark Allen, who beat Wembley favourite Ronnie O'Sullivan, in the last

DOHA - A thunderbolt from captain Server Djeparov gave Uzbekistan a 2-1 win over Kuwait that took them to the brink of the Asian Cup last eight here on Wednesday and left Kuwait on the verge of elimination. Djeparov cracked home a first-time shot from 20 yards in the 65th minute to continue Uzbekistan's 100 percent record in Group A after the 2-0 defeat of Qatar in their group opener.
Uzbekistan had taken the lead shortly before half-time when Azizbek Haydarov inadvertently

DOHA - Second seed Roger Federer reached the Qatar Open quarter-finals on Wednesday with a 7-6 (7/5), 7-5 win over compatriot and close friend Marco Chiudinelli.
The 2005 and 2006 Doha champion fought back from a 4-5 deficit in the tie-break and then saw qualifier Chiudinelli lead 3-1 in the second set before he recovered to eventually take victory with a smash. French third seed Jo Wilfried Tsonga, making his comeback from a left knee injury, moved into the last eight with a

BRISBANE - Second seeded American Andy Roddick steamrolled his way into the quarter-finals of the Brisbane International when he overpowered Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov in straight sets on Wednesday.
Roddick recovered from an early break to clinch a close first set before running away with the second to win 6-4, 6-1.
Roddick used his booming serve to brilliant effect but he was also able to match his opponent in the rallies, often pinning Dolgopolov deep in the court and

CHENNAI - The Indo-Pak express comprising Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi progressed to the doubles quarterfinals of the Chennai Open with a 6-3, 7-6 (3) win over Brazil's Marcos Daniel and Argentine Eduardo Schwank here on Wednesday.
It was a hard earned win for the 'Indo-Pak Express' as the Brazilian-Argentine pair gave them a good fight. Bopanna and Qureshi broke their rivals once and crucially saved three breakpoints in the opening set to take lead in 28 minutes.