Posted on Wed, Oct. 8, 2008
Wimbledon champion
Venus Williams was beaten in the opening round for the second time in 12 tournaments this season, losing yesterday by 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 to
Flavia Pennetta of Italy in the Kremlin Cup in Moscow.
The sixth-seeded Williams also lost in the first round in Memphis in March.
Svetlana Kuznetsova and
Vera Zvonareva, two seeded Russians who have never reached the final of their home event, won their first-round matches. Former U.S. Open champion Kuznetsova, the fifth seed, earned a 6-4, 7-5 victory over
Li Na of China. The seventh-seeded Zvonareva ousted
Maria Kirilenko, 6-4, 6-4.
Top-seeded
David Nalbandian cruised past American
Bobby Reynolds, 6-1, 6-1, and into the second round of the Stockholm Open in Sweden.
Jonas Bjorkman, who plans to retire after the season, played his last singles match on home soil when he fell to
Juan Monaco of Argentina, 6-2, 6-4. The 36-year-old got a standing ovation.
Colleges
Freshman
Chris Fouch will not play basketball this season because of a knee injury, Drexel officials said. The guard from Brother Rice High in New York injured his left knee last week and will undergo surgery. He will have four seasons of eligibility remaining.
The Temple men's basketball team will make nine appearances on national television, the most since 2001-02.
Temple's home games against St. Louis on Jan. 22 and St. Joseph's on March 5 will be carried nationally by CBS College Sports.
The Owls' Dec. 13 home game against Tennessee will be shown on ESPN, with the team's games at Xavier on Feb. 5 and at St. Joseph's on Feb. 12 scheduled to be on either ESPN or ESPN2. The Owls' game at Villanova on Dec. 29 will be televised by ESPNU.
Starting quarterbacks
Rudy Carpenter of Arizona State and
Mark Sanchez of Southern Cal are doubtful for Saturday's game. Carpenter has a sprained left ankle, and Sanchez has a bone bruise in his left knee.
Elsewhere: Colorado football coach
Dan Hawkins agreed to a contract extension that could keep him with the Buffaloes through 2012.
. . . Tennessee offensive linemen
Ramone Johnson and
Darius Myers have been suspended for two games, coach
Phillip Fulmer said. He cited a lack of academic commitment.
Ball State receiver
Dante Love, recovering from a career-ending spinal injury suffered on Sept. 20, might be released from a rehabilitation center this week, coach
Brady Hoke said. . . .
Dom Rosselli, 93, the winningest basketball and baseball coach at Youngstown State, died yesterday, the university said. . . . Stanford coach
Jim Harbaugh was reprimanded by the Pacific Ten for publicly criticizing conference officials after Saturday's loss at Notre Dame.
Auto racing
Formula One said it was dropping the Canadian Grand Prix from its 2009 schedule.
Last year, F1 dropped the United States Grand Prix when Indy Racing League founder
Tony George and F1 boss
Bernie Ecclestone could not agree on an extension to keep the race in Indianapolis.
Elsewhere: Patrick Carpentier was released from Gillett Evernham Motorsports, and
Mike Wallace and
AJ Allmendinger will finish the season in NASCAR's No. 10 Dodge.
Noteworthy
Horses entered in the 14 Breeders' Cup races to be run Oct. 24-25 at Santa Anita will face drug testing ahead of racing's richest event.
Horses will be selected randomly for testing from the pre-entry lists to be released Tuesday, the California Horse Racing Board announced.
Trainers of horses that test positive for anabolic steroids in the Breeders' Cup will face a one-year suspension from the event; three-time violators will be banned for life.
The Kixx scheduled an open tryout for players 18 and older to be held Nov. 1 at 9 a.m. at Tri-State Sports in Aston, Delaware County. Information is available 1-888-888-5499 or at
www.kixxonline.com.
Kennett High senior
Christine Shimel was one of 12 girls named to the HP Scholastic Junior All-American team by the American Junior Golf Association. Shimel, 17, has a 4.3 grade point average and is ranked second among 253 students in her class.
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