Jo-Wilfried Tsonga wins only seven games Friday in the men’s semifinal. The world’s top-ranked player will meet Andy Murray in the championship match.

Roger Federer is through to his 22nd Grand Slam final after defeating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 6-2, 6-3, 6-2, in a near-flawless display Friday at the Australian Open.

Team reached the Women’s Professional Soccer championship match but didn’t draw enough fans to the Home Depot Center.

The Los Angeles Sol of Women’s Professional Soccer announced Thursday that it is ceasing operations after one season.

MELBOURNE, Australia – Defending champion Serena Williams has advanced to her fifth Australian Open final and will put her 100 percent record here on the line against Justine Henin, who is only two tournaments into her comeback from retirement. Both advanced over Chinese players today (Wednesday night PST) to set up a championship match involving two former Australian champions.

In a concession to the long, treacherous voyage to far away Northridge, the Long Beach State men’s basketball team spent Wednesday night hunkering down at the Woodland Hills Hilton in preparation for this evening’s match at Cal State Northridge.

Serena rallies to win quarterfinal match against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus but Venus falls to Li Na of China.

Defending champion Serena Williams survived against Victoria Azarenka today, preventing consecutive upsets after her sister Venus lost to Li Na in the women’s quarterfinals of the Australian Open.

MELBOURNE, Australia – Defending champion Serena Williams survived against Victoria Azarenka in a classic comeback win today (Tuesday night PST), preventing back-to-back upsets after her sister Venus lost to Li Na. Venus Williams had a chance to serve for the match in the second set against Li but she went down in a flurry of errors. Serena Williams lost the first set and was down two breaks of serve against Azarenka until she rallied to win five straight games to get herself back on track for a 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2 win.

A heavy rainstorm. Shots gone awry. A match becoming more physical by the minute. Even overtime. It served as quite a backdrop in another classic Palos Verdes-Mira Costa girls soccer showdown Tuesday afternoon at Palos Verdes.
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MELBOURNE, Australia – Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray held off two of the tallest men and biggest servers in tennis today (Saturday night PST) to set up a quarterfinal meeting at the Australian Open. Defending champion Nadal had a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 win over 6-foot-10 Ivo Karlovic of Croatia, the tallest man on the tour. In the previous match on Rod Laver Arena, No. 5 Murray overcame 6-foot-9 American John Isner, 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-2.

What looked predictable became inevitable Saturday night, when the United States sent a group of backups out to take on a World Cup participant. It was one thing for the U.S. to send out its youth brigade against Honduras in an exhibition at Home Depot Center. It was quite another to expect much more than a 3-1 defeat in front of a mostly Honduran crowd of 18,626 after defender and team captain Jimmy Conrad was sent off with a second yellow card only 17 minutes into the match.

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Freshman Jenna Solberg had three goals, including the game-winner in sudden-death overtime, as the Chadwick girls water polo team defeated El Segundo, 10-9, in four overtimes in a nonleague match at the El Segundo Plunge on Thursday afternoon.

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