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Vikings' Asher Allen retires at age 24
HALLE, Germany, June 11 (UPI) -- Top-seeded Roger Federer held off Philipp Kohlschreiber for a quarterfinal victory at the Gerry Weber Open, a grass-court tournament in Germany.
Federer, who has won the event five times and has won his last 28 matches in the tournament, advanced with a 7-5, 6-3 win. Federer lost 10 points in 11 service games. Half of those points came in the game in which Kohlschreiber got his only break-point chance of the day.
Philipp Petzschner earned a semifinals shot at Federer with a 6-4, 6-3 defeat of Lukas Lacko in his match Friday. Petzschner piled up four service breaks, including three in the second set.
The other semifinal Sunday will send eighth-seeded Lleyton Hewitt against Benjamin Becker. Hewitt beat Andreas Beck 7-6 (7-0), 6-1, losing 13 points once the first set reached the tie-breaker.
Becker was a 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 victory over Mischa Zverev, losing eight points on serve. Becker won 12 of the 13 points in his three second-set service games.
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PARIS, June 1 (UPI) --
Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova, the world's top two ranked women's tennis players, picked up wins Friday at the French Open.
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NEW YORK, June 1 (UPI) --
U.S. author Lauren Weisberger is working on a sequel to her 2003 blockbuster novel, "The Devil Wears Prada," EW.com reported.
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MIAMI, June 1 (UPI) --
U.S. weather forecasters say the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be about average, despite the rare late-May landfall of Beryl.
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HOLMES BEACH, Fla., June 1 (UPI) --
Employees at a Florida grocery store restrained a Cuban sandwich thief by sitting on him until authorities arrived, police say.
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