Lucie Hradecka Knocked out Petra Kvitova In straight Sets 6-4, 6-3 in the second round of the Madrid Open on Wednesday (Thursday, PHL time).World number one Victoria Azarenka, who lost to Kvitova in last year's final of the premier clay event, claimed her place in the quarter-finals with a 6-4, 6-4 success against Ana Ivanovic of Serbia.Belarussian Azarenka, winner of four titles this year including her first grand slam singles at the Australian Open, needed four match points to finish off a stubborn Ivanovic and will play China's Li Na for a place in Friday's (Saturday, PHL time) semifinals.Li, the French Open champion and eighth seed, beat 12th-seeded German Angelique Kerber 7-5, 6-4.Ivanovic, who has never been past the second round in two previous appearances in the Spanish capital, made a strong start on the blue clay of the Manolo Santana show court and conjured an early break of the Azarenka serve. However, she tripped up at crucial moments during the remainder of the match and failed to convert three break points in the final game."I think she started really strong and I was a bit too slow and not aggressive enough," Azarenka, who hired another former number one, Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo, as an adviser last month, told a news conference."I was just trying to stay in there and execute better and get some rhythm into the match," she added.Samantha Stosur of Australia, the fifth seed, also made it through to the last eight when she thrashed Czech Petra Cetkovska 6-3, 6-2 to set up a meeting with Hradecka or Russia's Ekaterina Makarova.Kvitova, the world number four and seeded third this year, used her 2011 success in Madrid as a springboard for a first grand slam singles title at Wimbledon and went on to triumph at the season-ending WTA championships.The graceful left hander has yet to win a title in 2012, however, after claiming six last season, and had her serve broken five times by Hradecka, who is ranked 105th in the world and claimed a first win against a top 10 player of her career. There were no such problems for Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, who leap-frogged Kvitova to number three in the latest rankings, in her second-round match against Sara Errani. Radwanska snapped Errani's 16-match winning streak on clay, which netted her titles in Acapulco, Barcelona and Budapest, with a dominant performance, crushing the Italian 6-0, 6-1 to set up a third-round meeting with another Italian, Roberta Vinci. Ninth-seeded American Serena Williams, making her first appearance in Europe this year, plays her third-round match against fellow former number one Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, the sixth seed, on Thursday
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Thursday 10 May 2012
Atletico Madrid wins Europa League Title
Atletico Madrid Celebrating Their Victory. |
Colombian Radamel Falcao's brace gave Atletico Madrid its second Europa football League title in three seasons with a 3-0 victory over fellow Spanish team Athletic Bilbao.Falcao opened the scoring seven minutes into the final Wednesday and then added a second in the 34th before Diego completed Atletico's win in the 85th.Falcao topped the competition's scoring chart for the second straight year, and the Colombia striker now has 29 goals in 29 games over two seasons in the Europa League, reported Xinhua.Atletico, which beat Fulham in the final two years ago, won its last 12 matches in this season's competition.
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