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RUSSIA'S Mikhail Youzhny rallied to beat Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia 6-7 , 6-0, 6-4 to win the Kremlin Cup, while Italian Francesca Schiavone won her second career title, beating Olga Govortsova of Belarus 6-3, 6-0 for the women's crown.

Mikhail Youzhny on a roll in Moscow. No. 3 seed Mikhail Youzhny looks to extend the Russian title streak in Moscow to six consecutive years on Sunday as he takes on No.

Although his opponent in the final of the $50,000 USTA Men's Pro Tennis Championship of Calabasas was 11 years his senior and ranked 129spots higher on the ATP World Tour, it was 20-year-old Donald Young who played like a savvy veteran Sunday.

Russia's Mikhail Youzhny rallied to beat Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia 6-7 , 6-0, 6-4 Sunday to win the Kremlin Cup, while Italian Francesca Schiavone won her second career title, beating Olga Govortsova of Belarus 6-3, 6-0 for the women's crown.

There's just something about California that gets Donald Young's game going. The unseeded 20-year-old took out Taylor Dent in convincing fashion, 6-3, 6-2 on Thursday to move into the quarterfinals of the USTA Men's Pro Tennis Championship of Calabasas.

You can spend Halloween watching the pros work in Charlottesville, Virginia. Former University of Virginia standout Somdev Devvarman, Taylor Dent, Vince Spadea and Donald Young are scheduled to headline the upcoming Virginia National Bank Men's Professional Championship, hosted by The Boar's Head.

Donald Young upset Taylor Dent in convincing fashion, 6-3, 6-2, on Thursday afternoon to move into the quarterfinals of the USTA Men's Pro Tennis Championship of Calabasas.

Former top 25 player Taylor Dent impressed the enthusiastic Calabasas crowd with his big serve and volley game on Tuesday night, scoring a 6-3, 6-4 win over Italy's Riccardo Ghedin in the first round of USTA Men's Pro Tennis Championship of Calabasas.

Wayne Odesnik made a memorable Moscow debut today. The 91st-ranked lefthander broke serve six times and fought off a match point in the second set to surprise second-seeded Victor Hanescu, 5-7, 7-5, 6-4, in a two hour, 15-minute opening-round match at the Kremlin Cup.

Jan-Michael Gambill, a former top-25 player in the world, will receive top billing Monday at the $50,000 RBS Tiburon Challenger men's pro tennis tournament by playing in the 3:30 p.m. feature match.

Tiburon native Alex Rosinski, a junior on the University of Washington tennis team, on Thursday was awarded a wildcard entry into the 32-player qualifying tournament for the RBS Tiburon Challenger men's professional event, which starts Monday.

In pro tennis' minor leagues, young players battle their way up the rankings and older players slip back down.

Frenchman Gilles Simon of France emerged as the new PTT Thailand Open champion with a splendid 7-5 6-3 victory over Serbian Viktor Troicki in the final in front of some 8,000 fans at the Impact Arena Muang Thong Thani yesterday.

Taylor Dent relaxes at Reinhart residence on Wednesday. Photograph by: Gerry Kahrmann, The Province, The Province Taylor Dent talked about the six months he spent in a body cast to heal his fractured L-5 vertebra.

Top seed Nikolay Davydenko won the inaugural Malaysian Open title after the World No 8 clinched a straight sets win against second-seeded Fernando Verdasco of Spain in the final held at Putra Stadium here Sunday.

Andre Agassi and wife Steffi Graf will play Sunday at Harbor Point in Mill Valley.

RUSSIA'S Nikolay Davydenko, the top seed, made it into the Proton Malaysian Open quarter-finals with a hard-fought 6-3, 7-6 win over American wild card Taylor Dent at the Putra Stadium in Bukit Jalil yesterday.

TAYLOR Dent of the United States justified his Proton Malaysian Open wildcard with a hard-fought first round victory over World No 67 Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan at Putra Stadium in Bukit Jalil yesterday.

Robin Soderling cruised into the quarterfinals of the Malaysian Open on Wednesday by beating Brendan Evans of the United States 6-1, 6-1. Soderling never lost a point on his booming first serve and broke the American five times to wrap up the win in less than an hour.

KUALA LUMPUR: It is truly a new lease of life for American Taylor Dent as playing tennis again was the last thing on his mind after undergoing surgery to fix a vertebra that was broken in two places in his lower back three years ago.