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| Pakistani Olympic boxer shot dead in hometown Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:36 AM PDT KARACHI, June 16 – Pakistani three-times Olympic boxer Abrar Hussain was shot dead in his hometown of Quetta today, police said. "The assailants shot him in the head while he was coming out of his office today," police official, Hamid Shakil said. Abrar, 50, represented Pakistan in the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Olympics and won a light middleweight gold medal in the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing. He was working as chairman of the provincial sports board in Quetta. "It is a great loss to Pakistan sports because Abrar was working hard on coaching young boxers as well," said Akram Khan, secretary of the Pakistan Boxing Federation. Shakil said no arrests had been made but police were investigating the motive behind the killing. Target killings have become a common practice in Quetta and other cities and towns of the Baluchistan province where separatists and militants have attacked security forces and government officials. – Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
| Hantuchova finally beats Venus to reach Eastbourne semis Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:32 AM PDT LONDON, June 16 – Daniela Hantuchova beat Venus Williams for the first time in 11 career meetings to advance to the semi-finals of the Eastbourne International grass court tournament today. The Slovak overcame difficult, windy conditions to triumph 6-2 5-7 6-2 and cut short Williams' comeback before she begins her bid for a sixth Wimbledon singles title next week. Playing her first tournament following a five-month layoff with an abdominal injury, the American had looked impressive in beating Ana Ivanovic in straight sets yesterday. Having beaten Hantuchova in all 10 of their previous meetings dating back to 2001, she must have been confident of another success in the battle between two unseeded quarter-finalists but was outclassed in the first set. The American fought back from a break down to take the second as the wind contributed to some wild hitting but Hantuchova, who reached the final of last week's Birmingham grass court event, soon took command again to dominate the decisive set. "I was hitting the ball well before it got really windy and then it got difficult for both of us and then it was a question of who had the mentality to win," Hantuchova told British Eurosport." – Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
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