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Vikings' Asher Allen retires at age 24
BAD GASTEIN, Austria, July 16 (UPI) -- Wildcard Patricia Mayr-Achleitner delighted her Austrian countrymen Saturday by blanking Ksenia Pervak in the semifinals of the Gastein Ladies Open.
Mayr-Achleitner blew by the eighth-seeded Russian 6-0, 6-0 in 48 minutes to advance to Sunday's finals match against Spain's Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez.
Martinez Sanchez ousted Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine Saturday 6-1, 7-6 (7-5).
Martinez Sanchez and Mayr-Achleitner have met once before in the semifinals of the 2009 Bogota tournament with Martinez Sanchez coming away with the victory. Like this week's Gastein tourney, the Bogota event was played on clay.
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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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