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MELBOURNE, Australia - Maria Sharapova has advanced to the Australian Open final and given herself a chance to regain the No. Mens Autographed Tom Brady Elite White Jersey . 1 ranking, beating Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 on Thursday. Sharapova, the 2008 Australian Open champion, can take the No. 1 ranking if she beats Victoria Azarenka in Saturday at Melbourne Park. Caroline Wozniacki, who has held the top ranking for most of the last 15 months, lost in the quarter-finals and will drop when the new rankings are released by the WTA Tour next week. Earlier Thursday, Azarenka beat defending champion Kim Clijsters 6-4, 1-6, 6-3. Azarenka, Kvitova and Sharapova can all finish the tournament with the No. 1 ranking. The third-seeded Azarenka recovered twice in periods when a resurgent Clijsters seemed to have the upper hand, breaking the veteran Belgians serve three times in the third set to secure victory in only her second appearance in a major semifinal. After a strong start, Azarenkas serve deserted her in the second set and Clijsters dictated play with her solid groundstrokes and some amazing defence. But after getting the momentum back, it was Clijsters who blinked first in the third set, dropping serve in the second game and again in the fourth. She got two of those service games back, including one when she rallied from 40-0 down to win a game to get the score back to 4-3. But Azarenka rallied immediately again, breaking serve. She got triple match point trying to serve out the match and, after a double-fault on her first, she clinched it on a Clijsters error. Azarenka threw her racket on the court and sank to her knees, bent over with her hands covering her face. Clijsters came around the net to congratulate her. "I felt like my hand is about 200 kilograms and my body is about 1,000 and everything is shaking, but that feeling when you finally win is such a relief. My God I cannot believe its over. I just want to cry," Azarenka said as she choked back tears, then buried her face in a towel. "It was just trying to stay in the moment. Kim really took over the second set and I felt there was nothing I could do. I just tried to regroup." Clijsters is a popular player in Australia, where shes widely known as "Aussie Kim." She had most of the backing from the crowd on the national holiday in what is likely to be her last Australian Open. Azarenka held her nerve despite the crowd and the fact she was up against a proven big-match player. Clijsters has won four majors and has defended a Grand Slam title — winning the U.S. Open in 2009 and 10. To reach the semifinals, she saved four matchpoints despite a sprained ankle to beat French Open champion Li Na in the fourth round and then ousted top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki in the quarter-finals. "I guess before you all thought I was a mental case. I was just young and emotional," Azarenka said in a courtside interview. "Im really glad the way I fight, thats the most thing Im really proud of. I fight for every ball." Clijsters credited Azarenka with increasing maturity. "The match was very close. There were a few deciding moments where I think I maybe had a little bit of an advantage, in the third set, especially that first game where I had breakpoint," Clijsters said. "But, you know, she definitely played really well. She was playing very aggressive tennis, moving really well. So she deserved to win at the end." Earl Campbell Jersey . Team Canada captured its third gold medal in the past four world championships, beating Swedens Jalle Jungnell 4-3 on Saturday at the Ice Cube Curling Center in Sochi, Russia, in the final of the 2013 World Wheelchair Curling Championship. cheap jerseys wholesale .m. 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PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Wild finally gave their fans a reason to stand and cheer. Outscored 22-8 over four losses in a row on home ice, they faced just the right foe for stopping the slide, the Edmonton Oilers. Goalie Niklas Backstrom ended a six-start winless streak, beating his favourite opponent in the Wilds 4-2 victory over the Oilers on Thursday night. Backstrom, who made 33 saves, has never lost to the Oilers, improving to 14-0 in his career against them. The Wild beat Edmonton at home for the 16th straight time, matching the longest current run of consecutive home wins against one team in the NHL. Theyve outscored the Oilers 58-21 during the stretch. Backstrom shrugged off that success like he always does. "For me I dont really think about it," Backstrom said. "I think I try to approach every team the same way. It doesnt matter who we play against." Wild coach Todd Richards, though, had a theory. "I think there is a psyche to it. I really do," he said. "Its almost one of those things where youre waiting for bad things to happen just because of the way things have gone in the past with playing in a certain building." Oilers defenceman Tom Gilbert offered his own bad-luck view. "Were just not getting the bounces here," he said. "Obviously its a tough start when two goals go off your own skate. Its tough to come back from that." Gilbert and Linus Omark each had power-play goals -- a rarity for Edmontons struggling special teams unit -- but the last-place Oilers fell to 0-8-3 in their last 11 games. Credit Backstrom, again. "He stands on his head a lot when hes playing against us, and thats why hes a great goalie," Gilbert said. "Hes tough to beat. We gave ourselves a lot of opportunities and back-door plays, and he covers the net as well as anyone in the league." Nikolai Khabibulin started his seventh straight game in goal for Edmonton without a win, his last coming on Feb. 17. He was unlucky at first, with Antti Miettinens goal glancing of Ladislav Smids skate, and Marek Zidlickys hitting off Jeff Petrys in a span of 35 seconds midway throough the first period. Tedy Bruschi Jersey. The Oilers played hard, though, despite several of their top skaters finished for the season due to injuries. "Were not packing it in," coach Tom Renney said. "Were not quitting in any games. Were not quitting in a single period, and were not quitting in a shift. As much as that seems like cosmetic surgery, its real. If youre going to redefine your team and youre going to rebuild an organization, youd better start with that first and foremost." Sam Gagner, Taylor Hall and Ales Hemsky headline the list of absences. Those are Edmontons top three scorers. "You can only imagine what this would look like if we had some other players here," Renney said. "We dont. Were not going to dwell on it. This is it, and thats that." This late-season tilt between division foes was one of those try-not-to-get-hurt games, but Miettinen took a face-first spill into the boards on a cross-check by Jim Vandermeer, shortly after a four-minute high-stick penalty on Miettinen. There were other mini-scuffles that broke out, too, though no serious injuries were apparent. Brad Staubitz and Martin Havlat also scored for Minnesota, which has won two in a row since an eight-game winless streak that ended all hope of a playoff spot. "That stint we went through was really tough on all the guys mentally," Staubitz said. "That was something we needed as a group, a good team win like that." But perspective was pervasive. "Theres always that empty feeling. You win the game and youre happy you won the game, but you always want more," Richards said. "From now until the end of the year thats the way Im going to feel. Hopefully everyone else feels the same way." NOTES: Oilers rookie Chris Vande Velde, a high school star in Moorhead, Minn., played his first pro game in his home state. ... Gilbert, of Bloomington, is also a Minnesotan. Cullen, from Moorhead, notched his 500th career point and ranks eighth in NHL history in scoring by Minnesota natives. Phil Housley is the leader. ... Gilbert scored for the first time in 49 games since Dec. 10. ' ' '
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