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American Andy Roddick ended Andy Murray's dream of becoming the first British man to play in a Wimbledon final since 1938 by winning their semi-final 6-4 4-6 7-6 7-6 on Friday.

Andy Murray vowed to return to Wimbledon a better player next year after Andy Roddick ended his hopes of being a first Briton in the men's final since 1938 with a clinical masterclass of power serving and variation in pace.

Tiger Woods played the role of inhospitable host by soaring to the top of the leaderboard after the second round of the AT&T National on Friday.

Over the past fortnight Andy Murray has had a congratulatory note from Queen Elizabeth, a good luck message from actor Sean Connery and now he wants a letter of apology from umpire Pascal Maria.

LDA Coaching Centre (LDACC) defeated LCA Vikas Nagar by nine wickets while Gujral Cricket Academy beat LCA by 39 runs in their respective quarter-final matches to secure a berth for themselves in the last four stage of the 8th Under-16 Varsha Trophy cricket tournament at Chowk Stadium, Lucknow on Friday.

Scoreboard from the third one day international between West Indies and India at the Beausejour Stadium on Friday.

Another political heavyweight is all set to join cricket officialdom, with Union Minister for Heavy Industries and former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh throwing his hat into the ring for the Mumbai Cricket Association elections, filing his nomination for the post of vice-president.

Bouyed by a combined effort from Kinderpreet Singh (83) and Mehanzpreet (77) enabled MCA, Mohali to beat MCM Blue Caps Academy by seven wickets in the ongoing Ind-Swift Under-15 Inter-Academy Cricket Tournament being organised by Desh Prem Azad Cricket Academy in a match played at St Stephen's School-45 in Chandigarh on Friday.

Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni struck an unbeaten 46 off 34 balls to guide India to a six-wicket victory, under the Duckworth-Lewis method, in a rain affected third one-dayer against West Indies on Friday.

St. Lucia (Gros Islet), July 4 (IANS) The following is the scoreboard of the match between India and the West Indies in the rain marred third One-day international of the four-match series at the Beausejor Stadium here Friday.