Friday, June 12, 2009 LONDON: British number one Andy Murray cruised into the quarterfinals of the Aegon Championships with a 6-4 6-4 win over Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.Top seed Murray took just over an hour to dispose of the world number 52 and will next play Mardy Fish after the American beat Feliciano Lopez 6-1 6-4. Andy Roddick beat Lleyton Hewitt 7-6 (7-2) 7-6 (7-4) and now faces Ivo Karlovic in a repeat of the 2005 final. Sixth seed Blake battled to a 6-4 4-6 6-3 victory over fellow American Sam Querrey and will now play either Russia's Mikhail Youzhny or French third seed Gilles Simon. Former French Open champion Ferrero moved into the last eight with a 6-4 7-6 (7-4) victory over Belgian qualifier Xavier Malisse. Ferrero takes on Steve Darcis after the Belgian was handed a walk-over following Gael Monfils's withdrawal with a wrist injury on Wednesday.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in
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