Jun 30 2009
Top Four Seeds Reach Wimbledon Semifinals
The first four rounds of the Wimbledon’s women’s singles draw offered a lot of upsets. However, order was restored during today’s quarterfinals. The top four seeds–Dinara Safina, Serena Williams, Venus Williams and Elena Dementieva–all won. Only Safina dropped a set Tuesday. Safina will face Venus in one semifinal Thursday while Serena battles Dementieva in the other semifinal.
The men’s quarterfinals are set for Wednesday. Andy Roddick and Andy Murray won fourth-round matches late Monday to advance to the last eight.
Yao Ming’s broken foot is not healing as quickly as expected, leading to speculation Houston’s perennial All-Star center may miss the entire 2009-10 season. The Rockets’ team doctor thinks the injury is possibly career-threatening. Houston already knew it will not have All-Star forward Tracy McGrady at the start of next season. McGrady is recovering from microfracture surgery.
Detroit fired Coach Michael Curry today after one season. The Pistons finished 39-43 last year, then were swept by Cleveland in the first round of the NBA playoffs. Detroit’s streak of six consecutive years in the Eastern Conference finals was ended. Coaches-turned-commentators Doug Collins and Avery Johnson are among the rumored candidates to replace Curry, who had never held a head coaching position before taking the Detroit job 12 months ago.
