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- Yani Tseng takes LPGA Tour lead
- Recovering Rudisha expects to be ready for the world meet
- Ferrari set the pace
| Yani Tseng takes LPGA Tour lead Posted: 11 Jun 2011 06:43 PM PDT SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (AP): Top-ranked Yani Tseng shot her second straight 6-under 66 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over Mindy Kim in the LPGA State Farm Classic. Tseng reached 17 under, birdieing all four of Panther Creek's par 5s in her bogey-free round. She won the season-opening LPGA Thailand for her sixth tour title in four years. Kim, the leader after the first two rounds, bogeyed the final hole for a 69. Playing a group apart, Kim and Tseng battled through most of the day, with Kim maintaining at least a share of the lead until her final hole. "My goal is to have fun and make birdies," Tseng said. "You're not going to shoot even and then wait for another player to miss. You need to be aggressive. I can't wait to go out there tomorrow and make a lot of birdies." In addition to dominating the par 5s, she added birdies on the par-4 12th and par-3 17th in tough afternoon wind. "I just tried to be patient and hit the fairway and green and make two putt," she said. "I feel really good. It was great even though I miss a putt on 18. I tried my best." Kim struggled with her ball-striking. "My ball wasn't going so straight," she said, "but my round turned into a good round." She had six birdies on the day, including three in a row to start the back nine, but she also had three bogeys. Still, she's playing in the final group with a chance to win her first LPGA Tour title. "I'm excited about Sunday," she said. "I'm playing with the No. 1 player in the world. I'm very excited to be playing with her. Hopefully it will be a good day." Brittany Lincicome, coming off a victory Sunday in New Jersey, shot a 66 to join Shanshan Feng (69) at 14 under. Defending champion Cristie Kerr (66) was another stroke back at 13 under. Lincicome birdied five of the first eight holes. "I was happy to be 3 under though four holes. I wanted to stop then," she said. "I'd have taken 69." Kerr missed a 3-foot putt on No. 9, then birdied four of the next five holes en route to a back-nine 31. "I got pretty mad that I three-putted," she said. "I hit a perfect 5-iron into the green and just kind of hit (the par putt) a little thin and right. That putt kind of got me going. I started hitting it better." Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
| Recovering Rudisha expects to be ready for the world meet Posted: 11 Jun 2011 06:39 PM PDT RALEIGH (North Carolina): Kenyan 800m world record holder David Rudisha's long injury layoff should not affect his chances of winning gold at this year's world championships in South Korea, his manager said on Friday. Rudisha, who broke the world record twice in a week last year, has not competed since running in Australia in March because of tendinitis in his left ankle but is now ready to resume racing. The IAAF world athlete of the year will return on June 24 in Nancy, France before his first real test at the Lausanne Diamond League meeting on June 30. His manager James Templeton told Reuters THAT Rudisha was confident he would be over his injury problems and at his peak for the world championships in August. "He told me 'JT don't worry, by the time August comes around, I will be at my very best,'" Templeton said in a telephone interview. The tendinitis, on the inside of the left ankle around the shoe line, caused the 22-year-old Kenyan to miss three races, including Diamond League meetings in Doha and Rome. "But he has been training nicely for the last three weeks in training shoes," Templeton said. "He still had some lingering soreness when he tried it in spikes, so it is only been this week that he has been back in spikes. "He is feeling strong and looking healthy and is looking forward to racing." In August last year, Rudisha stopped the clock at 1:41.09 for 800m, shaving 0.02 off the previous mark set by Wilson Kipketer 13 years earlier. Seven days later, Rudisha clipped another 0.08 off his own record and has predicted he can eventually go under 1:40.00. – Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
| Posted: 11 Jun 2011 06:39 PM PDT CANADIAN GP FORMULA One leader Sebastian Vettel smashed into the 'Wall of Champions' while Ferrari's Fernando Alonso set the practice pace on a crash-filled Canadian Grand Prix on Friday. Double world champion Alonso roared around the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in a best time of 1:15.107, offering hope that Ferrari, without a pole position since Singapore last September, might be able to take the fight to Red Bull. "It was definitely one of our best Fridays," Alonso told reporters. "It doesn't happen often that we see our cars in the top five places. "It's hard to drive in these conditions and there are three or four places where the slightest error sees you end up in the wall. In the race, I expect the safety car will play a part." The sunny afternoon session was interrupted by several crashes with Sauber's Japanese driver Kamui Kobayashi, Belgian Jerome D'Ambrosio for Virgin and Force India's Adrian Sutil all causing delays when they skidded off the track into the wall. World champion Vettel, winner of five of the season's first six races and sure to be the man to reckon with again in Montreal, damaged his Red Bull in the morning. With 34 minutes remaining in the opening session, Vettel drifted wide coming out of the chicane into the home straight and joined a list of illustrious names to have hit the notorious wall over the years. Vettel was one of the first on track in the afternoon and set a time that immediately sent the 23-year-old to the top of the timing screens, remaining there until finally being nudged into second by Alonso. The reigning champion ended up with the day's second best time of 1:15.476. "I lost the rear but by the time I hit the wall I had low speed, so the crash was quite mild," said Vettel. "There wasn't much damage so we could fix the car and get back in the afternoon. It's a special circuit here, it's quite rough with the kerbs and chicanes but I like it." Brazilian Filipe Massa was third quickest in the afternoon followed by the McLarens of Lewis Hamilton, a double winner in Canada, and fellow Briton Jenson Button. Another Briton, Paul di Resta, was sixth for Force India. "It was a very good session, a good day for me and we got through a a lot of tests," said Hamilton, who took his first Grand Prix win in Montreal in 2007 and led a McLaren one-two from pole position last year. "I think the speed is there. It looks very close between us, the Ferraris and the Red Bulls. We're competitive it looks like we have good race pace." Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa, a McLaren reserve driver, was 18th fastest in the Sauber after being drafted in as a race replacement for Mexican rookie Sergio Perez, who was still feeling the effects of his big Monaco crash. "Just 10 minutes before the session I was told (to go), if I was ready," said De la Rosa, who raced for Sauber last year until he was dropped. "After that it was all bang, bang, bang. It is the latest call in my whole career but I am extremely happy McLaren released me and Sauber thought about me to replace Sergio. I have a lot to learn but we will build on today." Virgin will also have a lot of building to do, the team reporting that D'Ambrosio would need a chassis change after his crash: "This is a big job that will take us late into the night," said team principal John Booth. – Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
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