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MOSCOW, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Wild-card entrant Elena Vesnina swept through her first-round match Tuesday at the $1.34 million Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow.
Vesnina defeated Emmanuelle Gagliardi 6-2, 6-4 and earned a second-round shot at No. 8-seeded Nicole Vaidisova, who took a 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 victory from Yaroslava Shvedova in her first-round match of the indoor tournament.
Elena Dementieva, unseeded but twice the Kremlin Cup runner-up, opened her tournament with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win over Alicia Molik. Dementieva next faces seventh-seeded Patty Schnyder.
Crowd favorite Maria Kirilenko was ousted in a 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 loss to Agnieszka Radwanska.
Also claiming first-round wins Tuesday were Gisela Dulko, Tatiana Perebiynis and Victoria Azarenka.
Dulko advanced into a match with top-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova while Azarenka drew No. 2-seeded Maria Sharapova for his second-round match.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 14 (UPI) --
No. 5-seeded Kevin Anderson needed to win a pair of tiebreakers Monday in claiming a first-round win at the SAP Open tennis tournament in California.
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NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 14 (UPI) --
Dozens of fans stood in freezing temperatures along the sidewalks of Newark, N.J., to bear witness to the body of pop singer Whitney Houston being brought home.
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PITTSBURGH, Feb. 13 (UPI) --
Researchers say offshore wind farms planned for the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico face severe risks from hurricanes that could destroy half of them.
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UPI horoscopes for Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012.
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