Bastad, Sweden - Top seed David Ferrer and his third- seeded fellow Spaniard
Fernando Verdasco were among Thursdays second-round winners at the Swedish Open.
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champion Ferrer cruised past Romanian veteran Victor Hanescu 6-4, 6-0, while the
left-handed Verdasco handled qualifier and fellow Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas
6-1, 7-5 on the red clay at Bastad Tennis Stadium. Verdasco was last years
runner-up here to Argentine Carlos Berlocq. Ferrer was the 2007 and 2012 Bastad
titlist and runner-up in 2011. Up next for Ferrer will be the defending champion
Berlocq, while Verdasco will encounter fellow Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta in
Fridays quarterfinals. Also on Day 4, a seventh-seeded Berlocq overcame
qualifier Radu Albot, of Moldova, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 and the eighth-seeded rising
star Carreno Busta drilled Italian Paolo Lorenzi 6-2, 6-2. The other quarters
will pit fifth-seeded Portuguese Joao Sousa against Serb Dusan Lajovic and
Uruguays Pablo Cuevas versus qualifier and fellow South American Renzo Olivo of
Argentina. The 2014 Bastad titlist will collect $105,000.
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franchise, the Colts announced they were cutting four fan favourites: running
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been outscored 88-66 in the opening quarter over a three-game span to begin the
month of February. Their most recent loss, 109-101 in Sacramento on Wednesday,
was eerily similar to Saturdays defeat at the hands of the Trail Blazers.TORONTO
- Players opposing the use of artificial turf at next years Womens World Cup won
a partial victory Tuesday when the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario allowed them
to amend their legal complaint to include allegations of reprisals against the
women behind the claim.But while noting such allegations of reprisals strike at
the integrity of the Tribunals process for enforcing human rights in Ontario,
vice-chair Jo-Anne Pickel rejected the players request for a cease and desist
order.The application has been amended to include the applicants reprisal
allegations, Pickel wrote in her interim decision. The Tribunal will hear
evidence in support of these allegations in due course. Given that no evidence
has yet been heard in this case, the Tribunal is not in a position to determine
whether the respondents have engaged in any reprisals contrary to the (Human
Rights) Code.The players allege that Mexican international Teresa Noyola and
French internationals Camille Abily and Elise Bussaglia had been threatened with
reprisals. Noyola, according to an earlier players filing, was told she would
not be invited to play for the Mexican national team unless she withdrew her
name from the legal challenge.Abily and Bussaglia were led to believe that their
continued participation in this action would lead to retaliation by FIFA in the
awarding of the 2019 womens World Cup. France is seeking to host the 2019 World
Cup.All three have withdrawn from the complaint. But Pickel, in ruling against
the crease and desist order, noted that more women had taken their place.Abily,
in a subsequent interview on her Olympique Lyonnais club website, denied she had
been pressured to withdraw her name from the legal challenge. She said it was a
personal decision.The players also allege that Costa Rican internationals Diana
Saenz and Katherine Alvarado, along with a third unidentified player, were told
by Costa Rican Federation officials that their participation put their
positionss on the team in jeopardy as a result of pressure from CSA and FIFA.
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Association rejected the allegations. FIFA took no position, arguing that it had
not been properly served with the legal complaint.Pickel dismissed that claim by
FIFA in another interim decision Monday.The CSA and FIFA now have 21 days to
respond to the amended complaint. The players can file a reply to any such
response within 35 days of Tuesdays interim decision.The case, known as Wambach
et. al. v. Canadian Soccer Association after American star player Abby Wambach,
continues. In related news, FIFA has shown little interest in an offer to meet
with the rebel faction of players.The players offered Monday to meet FIFA
Secretary-General Jerome Valcke at a tournament in Brazil where Wambach and
Brazils Marta — who is also involved in the legal challenge — are playing.But it
appears the meeting will not happen.FIFAs secretary general Jerome Valcke met
with the team representatives within the scope of the final draw staged in
Ottawa, a FIFA media spokesman said in an email Tuesday to The Canadian Press.
For the time being we have no further comments to make.The lawyer for the
players made the offer to meet in person after Valcke turned down a request to
talk via conference call.When asked why, given his earlier comment about wanting
an open dialogue, Valcke said at Fridays tournament draw in Ottawa that he would
talk to players — but not lawyers — in person rather than on the phone. I am
ready to discuss with all the players, with all the technical teams, with all
the coaches. But face to face, said Valcke. And thats what Im ready to do ... Im
ready to travel to wherever I have to travel to do that.Canadian captain
Christine Sinclair was the only player that attended Saturdays draw.The 2015
Womens World Cup is scheduled for June 6 to July 5 in Moncton, Montreal, Ottawa,
Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver.---Follow @NeilMDavidson on Twitter
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