10/02/2008 - Tokyo, Japan (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki, the top seed, blasted Japanese wild card Ayumi Morita, 6-2, 6-1, to reach the quarterfinals of the $175,000 Japan Open Tennis Championships.
Wozniacki, who already has two titles this year, the first ones of her career, will take on seventh seed Tamarine Tanasugarn in the quarterfinals.
There was an upset on Thursday with second seed Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain falling to Australian Samantha Stosur, 6-1, 7-5.
In other second-round play, eighth seed Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada dismissed Japanese qualifier Ryoko Fuda, 6-1, 6-1; Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic topped Poland's Marta Domachowska, 6-3, 6-0; and Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova defeated Japanese qualifier Rika Fujiwara, 6-2, 6-4.
Stosur will play Wozniak in the quarterfinals, while the other matchups will have Pavlyuchenkova battling fifth seed Kaia Kanepi of Estonia, and Zakopalova going against Slovakia's Jarmila Gajdosova.
The 2008 Japan Open champion will collect $28,000.
<< Gordon agrees to qualifying offer with Bulls
Chicago, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Restricted free agent guard Ben Gordon accepted
the one-year qualifying offer made by the Chicago Bulls.
The deal was announced Wednesday for Gordon, Chicago's leading scorer the past
three years. He averaged 1
<< Boise State bullies Bulldogs
Boise, ID (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Kellen Moore threw two touchdown passes and D.J.
Harper ran for a pair of scores, as the 17th-ranked Boise State Broncos
pummeled the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs, 38-3.
Moore completed 20-of-28 passes for 3
<< Sheets done for season
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Milwaukee Brewers ace Ben Sheets has a
torn muscle near his pitching elbow which will keep him off the club's
postseason roster.
Sheets has pitched only once in the last 11 days and was kept
<< Homer-happy Dodgers top Cubs in NLDS opener
Chicago, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - James Loney clubbed a two-out grand slam in the
fifth inning and Manny Ramirez homered in the seventh as the Los Angeles
Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs, 7-2, in the opener of their National League
Divisio
Peng reaches Tashkent quarters >>
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Top-seeded Chinese Shuai Peng
led Thursday's charge into the quarterfinals at the $145,000 Tashkent Open.
Peng handled Dutch qualifier Arantxa Rus 6-1, 7-5 on the hardcourts at
Tashken
Woodbine to host pair of Challenge races >>
Toronto, ON (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - A pair of Breeders' Cup Challenge races take
center-stage for Saturday's Woodbine card. The $2 million Pattison Canadian
International and the $1 million E.P. Taylor Stakes will both be contested on
Woodbin
Rays host White Sox in first-ever postseason game at the Trop >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - A lot of people felt that the Tampa Bay Rays were ready
to take the next step this season. But, taking the next step was believed to
be finishing at or near .500, not what eventually transpired.
One year removed from los
NBA referee report finds no additional illegal activity >>
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The NBA released the results of a review of
the league's embattled officiating program Thursday in the wake of the Tim
Donaghy scandal.
Donaghy, a former NBA referee, received a 15-month prison sente
MySportsbook.com Releases World Series Championship Lines
New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox early favorites to win 2008 World Series
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