 | Kerber upsets Lisicki in three sets
IT was a day of upsets at
the Qatar Total Open as
world No. 22, Angelique
Kerber of Germany, beat
friend and compatriot
(world No 14) Sabine
Lisicki in three sets, 4-6, 6-
4, 6-1, while Simona Halep
of Romania (63rd) beat
Daniela Hantuchova of
Slovakia (20th) on
Tuesday.
In the first match,
between.
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| | Telfat widens lead in Sail The Gulf |  SALEH Ali Telfat went 11
points clear of his narrowest
challenger in the Optimist
class of the Sail The Gulf
2012 in Doha Bay on
Tuesday.
The local lad, taking advantage
of some interesting battle
among the Norwegians,
finished the third with 23
nett points after eight races.
With two more races to go on
Wednesday, he looks a bright
prospect for the gold medal.
He began the day with a
fourth-place finish. Then he
was 11th in the seventh race
before winding up the schedule,
coming home in the
eighth spot. But due to discard
rule and his impressive
run on the previous two days,
he was able to stay at the top.
Vaar Osborg, who was second
on Monday, slipped to
fourth spot with a nett of 37
as her ... | | | Parents ´stifled´
my career, says
Sanchez Vicario |
 FORMER Spanish tennis ace
Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
lashed out anew at her parents
on Tuesday, accusing
them of "stifling" her in her
career.
The 40-year-old player
spoke as she presented her
autobiography, in which she
blames her parents for losing
the roughly 45 million euros
($60 million) she earned
throughout her career.
"They exercised a control
and protection that stifled me
in the most crucial moments
of my life," she said, visibly
tense, at the event in a
Barcelona bookshop.
Writing the book was "very
painful" but "vitally necessary"
to tell the truth about
her family relations, she said
in a statement she read out to
scores of reporters.
Sanchez Vicario retired in
2002 after winning four
Grand Slam titles ... | | | Turkey´s match-fixing trial
begins amid protests |  NEARLY 100 Turkish football
players and managers, including
the boss of champions
Fenerbahce, went on trial on
Tuesday in a match-fixing case
that has sent shockwaves
through Turkish football.
Hundreds of Fenerbahce fans
wrapped in the club colours of
yellow and blue surrounded the
courthouse in a suburb of
Istanbul, chanting support for
club chairman Aziz Yildirim,
who is among 13 Fenerbahce
players and officials on trial.
Security has been stepped
up for the trial with large
numbers of police keeping
watch over irate fans.
"Our name has been covered
in mud but we are going
to wipe it clean," 29-year-old
Fenerbahce supporter Sedat
Dogan said.
Yildirim has been in police
custody since ... | |
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