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slams Liverpool display after Braga defeat” plus 2 more- Dalglish slams Liverpool display after Braga defeat - Sebastian Vettel dominates pre-season test in Barcelona - Tennis’s Oasis: Indian Wells launches 2011’s Masters Series Dalglish slams Liverpool display after Braga defeat Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:19 PM PST EUROPA LEAGUE LAST-16 FIRST-LEG, 10 MARCH 2011, Estadio Municipal Braga Alan (18 pen) 1 – 0 Liverpool Liverpool's hopes of rescuing a miserable season took a blow in Portugal as Kenny Dalglish's side slumped to defeat at SC Braga in the first leg of their last 16 Europa League tie. Alan tucked away a first-half penalty after Sotirios Kyrgiakos clumsily fouled Mossoró to hand the Portuguese side a slender advantage to take to Anfield in the return leg next week. Reds boss Dalglish admitted his side were lucky to escape with a one-goal defeat following a lacklustre first-half display in which his side lacked creativity and any sense of urgency. "Considering the way we played in the first half we are fortunate to come away with a 1-0,” said Dalglish. “You don’t know if it is a good or bad result until the second leg is over but there is no-one [from our side] pleased with the performance or the result.” Substitute Andy Carroll injected some much-needed impetus in the second period when he was brought on after 58 minutes. But the £35m striker—who made his Liverpool debut in the Reds' 3-1 win over Manchester United last Sunday—was unable to muster an equaliser for Dalglish's men. “We picked it up a little bit in the second half and looked a bit more threatening, especially after Andy [Carroll] came on, and I think we were probably denied with a stone wall penalty ourselves," Dalglish added. “He [Carroll] worried them. We played better once he came on. He’s a good option for us. “We’ve got to give him as many minutes as we can to make sure we’re making a contribution to getting him fit. "It was a bit longer than he got on Sunday and we will continue to make a contribution towards his fitness.” Sebastian Vettel dominates pre-season test in Barcelona Posted: 10 Mar 2011 12:22 PM PST Sebastian Vettel continued Red Bull's domination of the final pre-season test at the Circuit de Catalunya after topping the time-sheet early on the second day. The reigning world champion completed his unbeatable time of 1:21.865 on a five-lap run in the morning, seven tenths quicker than team-mate Mark Webber's time on Tuesday. Sébastien Buemi was closest to Vettel's time for Red Bull junior team Toro Rosso, finishing half a second slower with some short afternoon runs as the Swiss driver completed 120 laps in the STR6. Vitaly Petrov was third quickest for Renault, setting his best time of 1:22.670 in the morning session before switching to longer runs in the afternoon. Just 11 cars were on track near Barcelona with Hispania Racing opting to wait until Friday to begin testing following the launch of their 2011 car, the F111, at the circuit. McLaren experienced further problems with their MP4-26 which had been heavily criticised by Jenson Button earlier this week as an exhaust problem sidelined Lewis Hamilton before the 2008 world champion was able to get some competitive laps in. The Woking-based team has much work to do to get the radical car up to speed for the first race in two weeks' time, and will return to the track on Friday for the final two days of the test. Ferrari got their first run out of the final test with Felipe Massa behind the wheel of the 150 Italia as they tested new parts, including a new exhaust system. The Brazilian finished fifth quickest with a time of 1:23.324 and looked consistent over longer runs, with no noticeable problems with the new additions. Paul di Resta was again behind the wheel of Force India's 2011 car, completing 118 laps on his way to sixth quickest with a time of 1:24.334 as he completed a full race weekend simulation with qualifying runs and live pit stops with full race crew ahead of his debut in Australia. Kamui Kobayashi ran a similar programme to Sergio Pérez on Tuesday as Sauber evaluated new parts on the C30 through various set-ups. The afternoon saw the team gather data with Pirelli tyres in the to record a time of 1:24.436 for seventh quickest ahead of race simulations later in the week. Mercedes also returned to the circuit with new parts, including a completely new rear as the team looks to resolve overheating problems. Nico Rosberg completed 100 laps as the team began with baseline runs, before moving on to set-up and tyre management in the afternoon with the German's quickest lap–four seconds slower than Vettel's time–coming on the first lap of a long run before a bodywork problem ended their session early. Williams endured a difficult start to their test programme with a KERS problem halting Pastor Maldonado on track after just five laps preventing any further running until late afternoon as the team went through the lengthy process of removing it from the FW33. The Venezuelan was able to return to the track late in the afternoon to complete a further 24 laps of set-up work and aero mapping with a quickest time of 1:26.989. Lotus had a productive day with Jarno Trulli completing 98 laps as the team worked on long runs to evaluate set-ups and tyre degradation, with a quickest time of 1:26.090 coming on towards the end of the afternoon to finish just two tenths slower than Rosberg. Jérôme d'Ambrosio was again bottom of the pile for Virgin Racing after completing 64 laps as the team evaluated the harder Pirelli compounds, despite an electrical problem which also caused damage to the gearbox. The team also worked through suspension geometry changes ahead of the opening race. Despite only setting a time of 1:28.982, the team were happy with the outcome ahead of planned longer runs. Tennis’s Oasis: Indian Wells launches 2011’s Masters Series Posted: 10 Mar 2011 07:08 AM PST These are the last hard court events before spring ushers in the clay, and they will not appear again until the tour heads back to North America in late July. Little wonder, then, that the United States' hard court siblings draw the biggest crowds and the biggest prizes outside the Majors. The first of them, Indian Wells, is set like a sapphire in the Californian desert, and attracts more people than any other Masters—a record 340,000 last year. It's a place drenched in blue, wholly in tune with its watery origins. This popular stop on the tennis tour is as close to paradise as wealth can bring to the desert. It overflows with flowers, trees and fountains, and the courts sit like miniature Aegean Seas within their grass-green surrounds. The pale violet and blue peaks of the Santa Rosa mountain range provide the serene backdrop to an oasis of a tennis garden spread out in the dry heat beneath cloudless skies. The setting may be perfect, but the Masters challenge is huge. The draw contains a quality of field matched only by the Majors—Indian Wells has every player in the top 10 and 45 of the top 50. And although matches are best-of-three-sets, the tournament is crammed into little more than a week. That means six matches are played back-to-back, sometimes day, sometimes night. Small wonder that no player has managed to win all nine Masters. All three of the top seeds—Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, are past champions at Indian Wells. Fourth seed, Robin Soderling, has been all but unbeatable in 2011, with 18 wins from 19 matches and three titles from four tournaments. No5, Andy Murray, was runner-up at the Australian Open, won two hard court Masters last autumn and was runner-up in Indian Wells in 2009. On paper, then, this big title is a very close one to call. Quarter 1 Top seed Nadal returned to action in the Davis Cup last week after a five-week lay-off with a thigh injury. He's also just played a Nike exhibition in Oregon where he beat Federer 7-5, so he appears to be fighting fit. He has a good record at Indian Wells: He has reached the semis or better in all six previous visits, and won the title in 2007 and 2009, beating top hard-court exponents Djokovic and Murray respectively. Nadal has a record 18 Masters titles to his name already and, judging from his draw, he won't miss a 19th by much at Indian Wells. For there is very little, including no fewer than four qualifiers, to worry him in his eighth. His scheduled quarterfinal opponent is David Ferrer, probably the least threatening opponent that each of the top four contemplates. Ferrer has had a great season thus far, but this is not his environment: He has never won a Masters event, never reached the final of a hard-court Masters, and went out in the first round last year. There are only a couple of other players capable of disrupting the Nadal cruise. Gilles Simon, now high enough in the rankings to be seeded, has had some good performances this year, but he had a heavy schedule in last weekend's Davis Cup, where he lost, in more than four hours, against Jurgen Melzer. Meanwhile, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has lost to Nadal in their last four matches, all of them on hard courts. Semi-finalist: Nadal Quarter 2 This is a far more interesting quarter, placing man-of-the-moment Soderling at the top against—at the bottom—a Murray just returning to the tour after a break to recuperate a sore wrist. Since the two of them met in the quarters in Indian Wells last year—Soderling won in straight sets—they have swapped positions in the rankings and the Swede is enjoying a real surge of form. He does, though, face one of the toughest eighths in the draw. The exciting newcomer in the rankings, Alexandr Dolgopolov, shocked Soderling in the Australian Open and is a potential opponent in the last 16. That's always supposing the returning Juan Martin Del Potro, who won in Delray Beach last week, doesn't beat Dolgopolov to it in the third round. Murray should have no problems against Fernando Verdasco or Sam Querrey—neither is playing reliable tennis. Indeed fast-rising Wild Card Richard Berankis has the potential to upset both those seeds on his way to the last 16. But expect a Murray-Soderling quarter. Semi-finalist: Soderling Quarter 3 Djokovic has the No2 ranking in his sights after a stunning opening to 2011. He is on a 12-match winning streak, including back-to-back wins at the Australian Open and Dubai, and he won in Indian Wells in 2008. The Serb can take overtake Federer if he wins the title next week, or if he reaches the final and Federer does not, or if he reaches the semis and Federer loses before the quarters. He will be the favourite in his quarter, though a strong challenge may come in the second round from Andrey Golubev, another young player rising through the ranks. At the other end of this quarter, however, is Andy Roddick, who always performs well in March's American double-header: He was a finalist in Indian Wells and the winner in Miami last year. He also troubles Djokovic on the North American courts: He won three of their last four meetings in Indian Wells, Cincinnati and Montreal. So this has the potential to be the quarter-final of the tournament and one that may see an upset, especially if the sore shoulder that kept Djokovic out of last week's Davis Cup tie is not 100 per cent. Semi-finalist: Roddick Quarter 4 Federer won three successive titles in Indian Wells from 2004 to 2006 but this year faces two contrasting challenges. He has to fend off a Djokovic nipping at his heels in the rankings and is attempting to equal Nadal's 18 Masters titles. However, his quarter is full of tripwires, and that's before a potential quarter-final against the man who put him out of last year's Wimbledon, Tomas Berdych. With not a single qualifier in this quarter, there are instead two wild cards. One is wunderkind Milos Raonic, who tops the ATP aces stats for the year and has hurtled to just outside the seedings—at No 37—from 156 at the start of 2011. His game is a big threat in the hot, dry Californian conditions. Also lurking is Nikolay Davydenko. The Russian has had a torrid time of late and so has plunged out of the seedings. But on a good day, on hard courts, in a best-of-three-sets contest, he can beat anyone, though he has Stan Wawrinka and Marin Cilic to beat before he can reach Berdych and then Federer. While Federer should make the quarters—subject to the Raonic serve—Berdych will face a strong challenge in his eighth. Should he meet Federer, however, it will be a tight match, just as both their 2010 hard-court Masters were: Miami and Toronto both went to third-set tie-breakers. Semi-finalist: Federer Final: Nadal-Federer Win: Federer You are subscribed to email updates from The Sport Review To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. Email delivery powered by Google Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 -- Posted By Mas Item Arekjowo to The Sport Review at 3/10/2011 11:31:00 PM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gugukluhayat" group. 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