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BASEL, Switzerland, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Novak Djokovic struggled to outlast Belgian Xavier Malisse in an opening-round match Tuesday at the Basel Indoors event.
Top-ranked Djokovic, returning after a six-week absence with a back injury, needed 2 hours, 13 minutes to down Malisse 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 at St. Jakobshalle.
The Australian Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open winner -- who fell in last year's Basel final to Swiss home crowd favorite Roger Federer -- improved to 65-3 on the year with the victory.
American Mardy Fish, meanwhile, retired from his match against fellow U.S. player James Blake with a left hamstring injury.
The fifth seed exited after winning the first game of the opening set. Fish was hoping to cement his spot in the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals.
Also emerging with wins Tuesday in Basel were Finn Jarkko Nieminen, who outlasted Brazil's Thomaz Bellucci 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, 6-3; and Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka, who defeated Croat Ivan Dodig 6-4, 6-4.
Nieminen now goes on to face the third-seeded Federer.
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DETROIT, June 3 (UPI) --
Phil Hughes logged his second career complete game Sunday, holding Detroit to one run in the New York Yankees' 5-1 victory.
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 3 (UPI) --
"Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes, was honored at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards in San Francisco, the organization said.
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The Internet could someday look very different and be less open and free if a proposal for the International Telecommunications Union, an arm of the United Nations, to take over management of the Internet comes to pass, critics of the proposal say.
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UPI Almanac for Monday, June 4, 2012.
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