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PARIS, (Reuters) – Dinara Safina woke up from a  first-set snooze to keep alive her dreams of a maiden grand slam  title but Andy Murray paid for his mid-match doze and slid out  of the French Open yesterday.

By Donald Duff in Nassau, Bahamas Vice-president of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) and president of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Colin Klass said on Monday that both CONCACAF and UEFA were in solid financial positions.

…as Windies take easy win LONDON, England, CMC – Explosive opener Chris Gayle single-handedly annihilated Ireland’s bowling to propel West Indies to an emphatic nine-wicket win in their first official ICC World Twenty20 Championship warm-up match on Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Humiliated after losing  last year’s NBA Finals to the Boston Celtics, the Los Angeles  Lakers are looking for redemption when they lock horns with the  Orlando Magic in this season’s best-of-seven finale.

CHENNAI, India, (Reuters) – India’s cricket board has  welcomed back 79 cricketers to the fold after they cut ties with  the ‘rebel’ Indian Cricket League (ICL).

Guyana’s squash queen Nicolette Fernandes has moved 11 places up the Women’s International Squash Players Association (WISPA) World Rankings when the group released their list for June yesterday.

‘We will teach you how to fish’ – Warner By Donald Duff in Nassau, Bahamas They might be presidents of different organisations in the administration of football worldwide but when it comes to the development of the sport in the Caribbean, FIFA president Sepp Blatter and president of CONCACAF and CFU Jack Warner are on the same page.

(BBC)  Kevin Pietersen will seek to play a full part in the ICC World Twenty20 for England even though he has not fully recovered from his Achilles problem.

GCC and Hikers play to stalemate Hikers and Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) battled to a 2-2 draw as play continued in the Farfan and Mendes men’s first division hockey league yesterday at GCC ground, Bourda.

– Horatio robbed at gunpoint Guyana’s premier long-distance athletes impressed at the recently concluded Toyota 5K Road Race in Tobago claiming three of the top five places in the race, but their celebration was marred by the gunpoint robbery of one of the runners.

West Indies Test batsmen Narsingh Deonarine and Sewnarine Chattergoon spurred Albion to victory in the Berbice Division One 50-overs competition over the weekend.

Antoine Gordon and Derrick Hyman walked away with the best lifter awards when the Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association (GAWA) staged its annual National Junior Weightlifting Championships on Sunday at the Uitvlugt Community Centre.

PARIS (Reuters) – Roger Federer roared and 15,000 fans hollered as the Swiss clung on by his fingertips to his French Open dreams yesternday and avoided joining Rafael Nadal on the Roland Garros scrapheap.

With the aim of defending their male basketball title, team Guyana have begun their preparation for the second stage of this year’s Inter Guiana Games which will be held in Suriname.

The race for top individual awards in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA), Hits and Jams Television (HJTV) and Lens Craft sponsored inter-ward championships appears to be headed for a photo-finish climax  but one player is standing tall in the tournament with impressive performances.

LONDON, CMC – Tim May has confirmed that Chris Gayle is only one of many international players who feel they will have to choose between their countries and private franchise-based Twenty20 events in the future.

Newly-appointed national captain Howard Lowe says that it’s a joy for him to lead the refurbished Golden Jaguars in Suriname this week as they contest the biennial Parbo Bier Cup tournament against French Guiana, Antigua and the host.

Collins, McDonald set for wordy finish Defending champion Fred Collins is set to exchange words with Abigail McDonald in a best-of-five playoff as he seeks to repeat his performance last year in the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) National Cham-pionships.

MIAMI (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has accepted an invitation to be honorary chairman of this year’s Presidents Cup, the PGA Tour said yesterday.

— but sees light at the end of the tunnelBy Donald Duff in Nassau, BahamasAustin Jack Warner, president of CONCACAF and vice president of FIFA yesterday said he was disappointed that Guyana’s goal project has not yet gotten off the ground but added that he was finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.