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Roger Federer has set his sights on reclaiming the top ranking after capturing the Madrid Open title and knowing he will climb back above Rafa Nadal to No2 in the world. The resurgent 30-year-old Swiss came from a set down to beat Tomas Berdych 3-6, 7-5, 7-5 in the Madrid final on Sunday, his fourth title of the year and a third in the Spanish capital that put him level on 20 Masters titles with Nadal.

Success in one of the upcoming grand slams could catapult him above Novak Djokovic to world No1 – a position he last held in May 2010 – and he would then equal and almost certainly break Pete Sampras’s record of 286 weeks at the top.

A buoyant Federer said: “Back then I was just trying to stay world No1 and I never really looked at Pete’s record that much. I g

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The Falcon softball team came up just short losing a 3-2 game to Luther College in a NCAA Regional final played in Pella, Iowa on Monday.

The Falcons end their season with a 34-15 record. The 34 wins is a school record. Luther advances to the Championship series for the third straight year and have a 40-7 record.
 
Luther scored two unearned runs in the first inning and added a single run in the fourth. The Falcons scored both of its runs in the sixth. UWRF scored two runs on four hits and made two errors. The Norse scored three runs on six hits and made one error. 

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Milos Raonic is hoping the sequel has a better ending.

Two months after he met Roger Federer for the first time on a tennis court, the two will hook up again in the second round of the Mutua Madrid Masters Wednesday. Federer needed three sets to beat Raonic in the third round of the tournament in Indian Wells, Calif, in mid-March.

“It’s these kind of moments that I want to be in, these kind of opportunities I want to have,” Raonic said on tennistv.com. “I feel good going into it and I’m playing well. It was a close match (last time) and I felt like I oculd have done a few things better. Hopefully I’m able to do that (Wednesday).”

The 21-year-old Canadian set up his rematch with one of tennis’s legendary players by downing Argentine David Nalbandian 6-4, 6-4 in the first round Tuesday in Madrid.

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New Jersey Devils right wing David Clarkson celebrates his first-period goal against Philadelphia Flyers goalie Ilya Bryzgalov.

However, in a snapshot of his season, the Flyers goalie did assist on a goal. No one wearing the free orange t-shirts that read “rise to the occasion” cheered, though.

Clearly, like he didn’t do with that puck, Bryz didn’t “rise to the occasion.”

“I wanted to put the puck in the corner for Kimmo (Timonen) to start back up,” Bryzgalov said about the numbing pass he attempted that ended up behind him, “and the puck, I don’t know, hit him in his stick and going in the net.

“A bad bounce, unfortunately.

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Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska showed real class as she beat the world No2 Maria Sharapova 7-5 6-4 to claim Saturday’s Sony Ericsson Open final.

The result meant Sharapova has now lost all four finals she has featured in at the Miami tournament, and all three she has played in this year.

Radwanska’s victory was her second of the year following a triumph in Dubai and her ninth WTA title, arguably her most valuable.

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