Showing posts with label quarterfinal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quarterfinal. Show all posts

Sunday, July 3, 2011

US qualifies for quarterfinals.


The U.S. advanced to the quarterfinals of the Women’s World Cup with a 3-0 rout of Colombia on Saturday.The two-time World Cup champions advanced to the last eight with Sweden, which beat North Korea 1-0 in the early Group C match.The Americans and Sweden both have six points, but the U.S. leads the group on goal differential and can claim the top spot with a victory or a tie.Colombia is a team on the rise, finishing fourth at the Under-20 World Cup last year. But the youngsters were no match for the more experienced Americans. The U.S. harassed goalkeeper Sandra Sepulveda relentlessly, and she didn't get much help from her defenders, who were shredded by the speedy O'Reilly time and again - and set up O'Reilly's goal in the 12th minute.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Six-time champ Federer stunned at Wimbledon.


The six time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer was eliminated in the Wimbledon quarterfinals for the second straight year wednesday losing to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 3-6, 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.The Swiss star barely looked challenged while winning the first two sets against the 12th-seeded Frenchman.But Federer, who had been 178-0 in matches in which he had won the opening two sets at a major tournament, was broken one time in each of the last three sets."It's kind of hard going out of the tournament that way, but unfortunately it does happen sometimes, at least it took him sort of a special performance to beat me, which is somewhat nice."" said Federer.Federer may be right. The 16-time Grand Slam champion finished the match with only 11 unforced errors, half as many as Tsonga, but it didn't help him get close to breaking Tsonga's serve when he needed it.In the next round, Tsonga will face second-seeded Novak Djokovic, who defeated 18-year-old Australian qualifier Bernard Tomic 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5.