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Polands Agnieszka Radwanska won the China Open on Sunday with a straight sets defeat of Britains Johanna Konta.Third seed Radwanska won 6-4, 6-2 to claim her second win in two attempts against Konta.The British No. 1 fought off a first match point in the seventh game of the second set but Radwanska completed victory while serving in the next game to win in one hour 35 minutes.Konta, the 11th seed, had reason to celebrate despite the defeat as she became only the fourth British woman to make the worlds top 10 since the WTA rankings began in 1975.The 25-year-old was ranked 146th in the world as recently as June 2015, but she climbed into the top 10 by winning her semifinal.She defeated Madison Keys 7-6 (7/1), 4-6, 6-4 to become the first British female since Jo Durie in 1984 to make the top 10.Virginia Wade and Sue Barker are the other British females to have been ranked in the worlds top 10.By reaching the China Open final, Konta also moved into the top eight of the Road to Singapore -- the race to reach the WTA Finals later this month. . Vokoun departed practice on Saturday morning after discovering swelling in his thigh. He was taken to a local hospital where the clot was revealed. The club announced the surgery following a 5-3 exhibition loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets. .C. -- Calgarys Kevin Koe did it the hard way again. . Those lessons were more than enough to overwhelm the Utah Jazz. Lou Williams scored 25 points and the Hawks continued their offensive upswing as they rolled to an easy 118-85 victory over the Jazz on Friday night, winning their third straight and for the fourth time in five games. . The injury bothered Bledsoe in the Suns victory over the Clippers on Monday and he sat out the teams home loss to Memphis on Thursday night. .Y. -- Buffalo Bills coach Doug Marrone has drawn on his Syracuse connections once again by hiring Rob Moore to take over as receivers coach. Indian Cyclists bagged six medals, including 3 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze on the opening day of the Track Asia Cup 2016 at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex Velodrome in New Delhi on Wednesday.Deborah Herold took home two gold medals on day one. Her first gold came in the womens elite 500m, where she clocked 35.964. Mohd. Adnan Farina Shawati of Malaysia and Yin Yin from Hong Kong bagged the silver and bronze medal respectively.In womens Team Sprint Elite event, the Indian team comprising Deborah Herold and Kezia Vargheese beat the team from Kazakhstan to bag the gold medal with a timing of 35.962. A bronze medal was awarded to Rajkumari Devi, due to walkover at the womens elite pursuit 3kms event.I was suffering from back pain for the last ten days, but this has been an excellent start for me. I am hoping to keep the medal tally rising. My personal aim at the moment would be to improve my timing with every event, Deborah said.In mens elite team sprint event, the team from Iran bagged gold with a time of 46.330 followed by team Malaysia and team Kazakhstan bagging the silver and bronze medal respectivvely with timing of 47.dddddddddddd99 and 47.641. The Indian team finished fourth in the event.The Junior team lived up to the expectation of their coach R.K. Sharma, who had claimed a day before the event that they will add to Indias medal tally. The mens junior team bagged silver in the sprint event, beating the team from Kazakhstan with a time of 49.299. While the junior womens team bagged gold in the Team Sprint event, Nayana Rajesh and Anu Chutia gave a tough fight to the team from Uzbekistan with a timing of 37.452.Alena Reji, who was taking part in her first international event with the Track Asia Cup 2016, won silver, beating Jantuganova Olga from Uzbekistan. Anis Amira from Malaysia won the gold medal in this event with a timing of 38.443.At the end of the first day of the Track Asia Cup 2016, India and Malaysia share the first spot in the medal tally with 3 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze each. Hong Kong are second with 3 gold and 2 bronze, followed by Iran with 1 gold. ' ' '
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