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Number one seed, Gavin Lewis once again retained his top ranking when he defeated Daniel Lopes 6 – 2, 7 – 6 in the boy’s singles final of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) Tennis Tournament on Wednesday night at the GBTI Sports Club, Bel Air Park.

After bluster and bombast at the press conference on Tuesday, the boxers will now have to lend credence to their bravado tonight at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in the fifth edition of the GBBC/GABA Pro-Am card.

10:00am: Portugal vs Brazil Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban 10:00am: North Korea vs Ivory Coast Mbombela Stadium, Nelspruit 2:30pm: Switzerland vs Honduras Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein 2:30pm: Flag of Chile vs Flag of Spain Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Father Time finally caught  up with poor old Italy yesterday when they were deposed as  world champions after suffering a dramatic and shocking 3-2  defeat at the hands of World Cup debutants Slovakia.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Netherlands continued their  impressive charge at the World Cup when they beat Cameroon 2-1  yesterday to make it three wins out of three in Group E and  advance to a last 16 meeting with Slovakia.

POLOKWANE, South Africa, (Reuters) – Paraguay eased  into the last 16 of the World Cup with an unadventurous draw  against a New Zealand team that exit the tournament undefeated  and with their heads held high.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – India outplayed Sri Lanka in  all departments of the game yesterday to win the Asia Cup  final by 81 runs and record a fourth win in seven tournament  finals under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa captain Graeme  Smith wants the International Cricket Council (ICC) to introduce  a new “test championship” at next week’s annual general meeting  in Singapore.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – The strain of living up to  the raised expectations of playing on home soil is the reason  most African countries have underperformed at the World Cup,  Ivory Coast striker Salomon Kalou said yesterday.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters Life!) – South Africa plans  to have a million flags flying next week to maintain the  momentum of the World Cup despite the host nation being bundled  out of the tournament.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Memories of successive  second-round defeats at Wimbledon continue to provide the  inspiration for rejuvenated former champion Maria Sharapova who  cruised into the third round yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Eoin Morgan kept up his purple  patch of form and Paul Collingwood achieved an England landmark  in a four-wicket win over Australia in the second one-day  international in Cardiff yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Rafael Nadal’s focus on winning  Wimbledon again meant he would not change his pre-match routine  to meet Queen Elizabeth, and at moments yesterday the Spaniard  will have been immensely grateful for the extra preparation. 

CROMWELL, Connecticut, (Reuters) – Padraig  Harrington, fresh off a tie for 22nd place at last week’s U.S. 

LONDON, (Reuters) – A seething Serena Williams took  out her anger at being exiled from the main showcourts by  pulverising hapless Russian Anna Chakvetadze 6-0 6-1 to reach  the third round of Wimbledon yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Following is reaction from  tennis players after John Isner and Nicolas Mahut contested the  longest ever tennis match, which the American won 6-4 3-6 6-7  7-6 70-68 after 11 hours five minutes at Wimbledon.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – England and Germany  squeezed into the second round of the World Cup yesterday together with the United States but Australia went out despite a victory that paradoxically saved Africa’s chances.

LONDON, (Reuters) – “Nothing like this will ever happen again – ever,” panted John Isner after he and Nicolas Mahut rewrote every record in the book with a 10-hour epic at Wimbledon that left even Roger Federer agog with admiration.

Giftland Office Max has donated 17 pairs of warm-up and cricket pants to the Media United team at the company’s headquarters in Water Street.

By Orin Davidson Team Guyana’s hopes of a playoff spot in the New York Digicel Caribbean Cup football tournament took a huge hit as they were blanked 4-2 by Jamaica in Brooklyn last weekend.