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KOBE, Japan (AP) -Kimiko Date-Krumm and Ayumi Morita both won on Saturday to give Japan a 2-0 lead over Slovenia in a Fed Cup World Group II tie.

Former top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki has fired coach Ricardo Sanchez of Spain after just two months.

s/t to Chuck Schwartz... This is the hit that the Wisconsin Badgers John Ramage put on SCSU Husky Nick Oliver. The on ice officials gave Ramage a five minute major for contact to the head and a game misconduct. That was a bad call by the officials in my opinion, it looks from the video that this was a shoulder to shoulder hit.

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Check out UND's Jocelyne Lamoureux Spin-o-rama goal at the 3:07 mark of this video. I can imagine that it will be a YouTube sensation soon. Jocelyne's goal was a thing of beauty. That was her 28th goal of the year, which is a school record.

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Grand Forks, ND ? If you haven?t followed the University of North Dakota Women?s hockey team recently you have missed out on quite a bit.

This season, under UND head coach Brian Idalski, University of North Dakota has become a high scoring hockey team. Currently, UND has the third best scoring offense in the country.

Part of that potent UND offense is the highly talented, world class tandem of Jocelyne Lamoureux and Monique Lamoureux-Kolls. The Lamoureux?s twins are second and third in the nation in points respectively and log a ton of ice time. The twins play even strength, on the power play and also kill penalties.

It?s not an understatement to say that they usually play about half the game and most times are double shifted.

UND also has the nation?s top scoring rookie in Michelle Karvinen from Rodovre, Denmark who leads the nation with (21g-27a?48pts) in points.

Tonight, Karvinen would add three goals and an assist to her already impressive point total. Karvinen would draw an assist on UND?s game tying goal in the first period and then lead UND with a natural hat trick during the second period of tonight?s game, to help UND run past BSU.

Unfortunately, Karvinen?s night would be cut short by a questionable checking from behind penalty at the 05:22 mark of the third period, her night would be over and she would watch the rest of the game from the showers.

None the less, Karvinen?s four points would help lead UND to a 5-2 victory of their WCHA rival the Bemidji State Beavers.

Fortunately for UND, they were able to kill the Karvinen major. In fact, UND?s penalty kill was spotless on the night as they killed all nine Beaver power plays.
After the game, UND Coach Brian Idalski had this to say about his freshman forward Karvinen and her four point night.

?She was terrific! Obviously that is the kind of impact player we expected when she came in,? Idalski said. ?She is feeling comfortable and she has chemistry with a lot of players, and she definitely played at a high level for us this evening.?
After the game the freshman forward Karvinen was asked about the five minute checking from behind penalty.

?I was a bit surprised. It wasn?t my intention to hit her in the back but we were skating back at the same time,? Karvinen said.

?When I tried to call her off, she turned around and I accidently hit her in the back. It wasn?t my intention to hit her from behind. Stuff like that happens, but I don?t think it was a five minute penalty. Maybe two minutes. It was an accident and it wasn?t my intention to hit her in the back.?

In the third period, while killing a Bemidji State power play, UND would add a beautiful spin-o-rama goal by Jocelyne Lamoureux; that is bound to be an instant YouTube sensation.

Jocelyne Lamoureux would also have a strong night in all three zones on the ice and would finished the game with three points (1g-2a?3pts) as well.

UND came into the game as the countries most penalized team in the country in Division I Women?s hockey, that statistic would not change after tonight as UND had to kill nine Beaver power plays.

After the game UND head coach Brian Idalski was asked about the amount of penalties and if it threw off his team?s rhythm.

?I am going to take the high road with that. Yeah, I mean it?s hard to get into a flow when they keep calling some of the stuff they were calling down the stretch.? Idalsk said. ?I am not sure it was overly necessary. I didn?t see a lot of them, especially the Karvinen penalty. So, it is what it is, we have to be more disciplined coming down the stretch, because we did need to do that in the third period with all of the penalties both ways.?

The same two teams play game two of the series tomorrow night at 07:07pm at Ralph Englestad Arena.

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Here is this week's Through These Doors Episode another master piece by the UND Sports.

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The United States will look to take its first step in regaining its Fed Cup World Group status for 2013 when it faces Belarus at the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group II First Round.

Find out where the top 25 will be playing in the upcoming weeks

Notable singles ranking movers the week of January 30, 2012

22-year-old becomes first Belarusian to hold top singles ranking

A lot of shifts in the top 10.

Kimiko Date-Krumm and Ayumi Morita both won on Saturday to give Japan a 2-0 lead over Slovenia in a Fed Cup World Group II tie.

A mom accused of snatching Novak Djokovic's shirt from a teenage tennis fan auctioned it for charity Friday because she had been "abused and threatened" over the incident, her upset husband said.

The bright orange car that cemented Bernard Tomic's reputation as the bad boy of Australian tennis, is up for sale.

Tomas Berdych finished off Nicolas Mahut of France with his 14th ace in a 6-3, 6-4 victory Friday to reach the semifinals of the Open Sud de France.

The renovation of Roland Garros, home of the French Open, will be delayed by a year and completed in 2017.

Tennis Schedule: Zagreb, Montpellier and Vina del Mar - Saturday February 4th 2012

Open Sud de France
ATP World Tour 250
Montpellier, France
30 January - 5 February 2012

COURT CENTRAL start 12:00 noon
N Mahut (FRA) / E Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs T Huey (PHI) / K Skupski (GBR)

Not Before 2:00 PM
[3] G Monfils (FRA) vs [2] G Simon (FRA)
[1] T Berdych (CZE) vs [7] P Kohlschreiber (GER)

PBZ Zagreb Indoors
ATP World Tour 250
Zagreb, Croatia
30 January - 5 February 2012

CENTRE COURT start 5:00 pm
M Berrer (GER) vs [3] M Youzhny (RUS)
[6] M Baghdatis (CYP) vs L Lacko (SVK)
[WC] I Dodig (CRO) / M Pavic (CRO) vs I Karlovic (CRO) / F Moser (GER)

COURT 1
M Baghdatis (CYP) / M Youzhny (RUS) vs [2] J Erlich (ISR) / A Ram (ISR) - After Suitable Rest


VTR Open
ATP World Tour 250
Vina del Mar, Chile
30 January - 5 February 2012

CENTRAL start 4:00 pm
S Giraldo (COL) / M Gonzalez (ARG) vs F Gil (POR) / D Gimeno-Traver (ESP)
Not Before 5:45 PM
[7] C Berlocq (ARG) vs [2] J Chela (ARG)
Not Before 8:45 PM
[1] J Monaco (ARG) vs J Chardy (FRA)

COURT 1 not before 7:00 PM
[4] P Andujar (ESP) / C Berlocq (ARG) vs J Souza (BRA) / H Zeballos (ARG)

Tennis Results: Zagreb, Montpellier and Vina del Mar - Friday February 3rd 2012

Montpellier International men?s singles quarter-final results:

7-Philipp Kohlschreiber (Germany) beat 4-Richard Gasquet (France) 6-2 3-6 6-3 3-
Gael Monfils (France) beat 8-Jarkko Nieminen (Finland) 6-3 6-3
1-Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) beat Nicolas Mahut (France) 6-3 6-4
2-Gilles Simon (France) beat Guillaume Rufin (France) 7-6(5) 6-7(2) 6-2

Vina del Mar International men?s singles quarter-final results:

1-Juan Monaco (Argentina) beat 5-Albert Montanes (Spain) 3-6 6-1 6-1
Jeremy Chardy (France) beat Frederico Gil (Portugal) 6-2 7-6(5)
2-Juan Ignacio Chela (Argentina) beat Joao Souza (Brazil) 5-7 7-6(6) 6-1
7-Carlos Berlocq (Argentina) beat Federico Delbonis (Argentina) 6-3 6-4

Zagreb Indoors men?s singles quarter-final results:

6-Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) beat 4-Ivan Dodig (Croatia) 6-4 7-5
3-Mikhail Youzhny (Russia) beat 8-Ivo Karlovic (Croatia) 7-6(10) 3-6 7-6(6)
Michael Berrer (Germany) beat Juergen Melzer (Austria) 5-7 6-4 6-4
Lukas Lacko (Slovakia) beat 7-Robin Haase (Netherlands) 6-4 6-4

Andy Roddick SAP Open Press Conference - February 2nd 2012

GREG SHARKO: Good afternoon and thanks for joining in for today's call with three?time SAP Open champion Andy Roddick, who joins us from Austin, Texas. Andy won titles in 2004, 2005 and 2008 and was runner?up in 2010. Andy will be making his 10th appearance in the Bay Area and he has a 32?6 career record at the SAP Open.
Last season Andy earned his 30th career title on the ATP World Tour in Memphis and extended his title streak to 11 consecutive years, joining Roger Federer as the only active player to accomplish that feat.

Following San Jose, Andy will participate in Memphis where he is also a three?time champion and he'll be playing there for the 12th straight year.
Before we open it up for questions, I'd like to introduce the SAP Open tournament director Bill Rapp.

BILL RAPP: Andy, thanks for joining us today. We're looking forward to having you back in San Jose. I know you're looking forward for your fourth title here. Can you talk about some of your best memories here in San Jose.

ANDY RODDICK: Yeah, sure.
You know, it's been a place that I've always certainly enjoyed playing. I think anyplace you go back to and you've won three times, there's obviously plenty of great memories.
My favorite is probably when I got to play Mardy in the final. Everyone knows our story and our history. He had actually broken through. He wasn't ranked super high going into that tournament, so it was fun for me to play him then.

GREG SHARKO: Peter Lebedevs is the tournament director in Memphis. Any comments?

PETER LEBEDEVS: Andy, thanks for being on the call and we appreciate what you created for us last year at our event. You weren't feeling so good, but walked out and had probably our best final ever, to win your 30th title. We had the shot heard around the world. Tell us about what it was like to play that match last year and how that shot ranks up there in all of your playing days.

ANDY RODDICK: Well, I said right afterwards, it's probably the same as it will be for my life, but considering the circumstance of having a championship point at a big event, you get so few chances to break a guy like Raonic, so to have it end on a diving shot like that. Listen, there's probably about 10% skill and 90% luck on that one. I used all 90% of that luck. But it was a shot I certainly couldn't believe at the time.
As far as the match went, I distinctly remember talking to you about 20 minutes before the match saying, I don't know if this is a go. I didn't feel great. But with the history I've had there, there was going to be no further harm with me going out and giving it a go. Two and a half hours later, it proved to be worth it.

PETER LEBEDEVS: I can't say how cool that was for us to see that. About a month later I see the final in Australia, the shot looked just as good then. Should have been number one. We're glad to have you back again, mate.

ANDY RODDICK: Listen, if that's not the number one shot for the year, I'll never get it.

PETER LEBEDEVS: That's what we thought. The final point after two and a half hours.

GREG SHARKO: Thanks, Peter.
We'll open it up for questions now.

Q. I noticed you were doing a lot of radio lately. Is that trying to take advantage of opportunities or are you at a stage where you're preparing for life after tennis?

ANDY RODDICK: I don't know if that has to be an either/or question. It's certainly something that I'm interested in, that I enjoy doing.
I think it would be foolish not to leverage kind of relevancy in tennis right now towards something that I can probably do for a long time afterwards. I'm not contracted every single week, so there is some wiggle room. I plan on hopefully being in some semifinals down the road. But it's something I've definitely enjoyed doing so far.

Q. Andy, how is your hamstring? Is it a concern at all? Have you recovered?
ANDY RODDICK: No, it's a concern. I haven't hit a ball since Australia. We've just been working on different types of treatments trying to get it right. The MRI came back probably not as good as we were hoping. But I'm hoping to be hitting balls for the first time next Monday. If all goes well there, that should be plenty of time to be ready. Bill was nice enough to confirm a Wednesday night start for me in San Jose, so that gives me a little extra time.
If all goes well on Monday, I should have a good seven, eight, nine days to hit balls beforehand and I think that should be enough.

Q. What did the MRI show?
ANDY RODDICK: There's a partial tear in the hamstring tendon.

Q. You spoke about playing in San Jose, playing in Memphis. If I have your schedule right, you're also going to be playing in the Garden. Such a special venue. What is it going to be like for you to play there?
ANDY RODDICK: It's huge. I probably would have never admitted this during the negotiation, but it's a place I'd want to play just to play in it (laughter). I think we're certainly all aware that the biggest names in every industry have been through there at one time or another. It's probably one of a handful in the world. To play Roger, it will be great.

Q. What do you have to do to break down Roger? How do you attack him?
ANDY RODDICK: Oh, you know, if I figured that out by now, I would have had a couple of Wimbledons.

Q. Talk about the Novak/Rafa matchup, why Djokovic has an advantage over Nadal at least for now.
ANDY RODDICK: Obviously Novak is playing great. The top four are so far ahead of everybody else right now, it's a very wide gap. But inside of that four there seems to be pretty clear?cut matchups that favor somebody. Roger I think has won the majority against Novak, even through this streak, let's say the last year and a half.
With Rafa, I think the one pattern that seems that works against Roger that doesn't really work as much against Novak isn't really the big shots. Against Roger, he kind of has the out ball where he can roll a short forehand cross?court and it gets up a little bit, even if it lands on the service line. Roger doesn't have weaknesses, but that high backhand probably isn't a strength. I think that's the one out ball that Rafa can maybe feel comfortable with.

Q. As a spectator, what did you think of the Australian final? Was it one of the best matches you've ever seen?
ANDY RODDICK: You know what, when I'm not at a tournament, I find it hard to set my alarm for 1 in the morning. I'd be lying if I said I watched it in its entirety.
But just seeing what I did see, it almost looked like kind of the tennis you see when you play XBOX, where the guys really don't get tired and they just hit whatever shot they want.
It's pretty remarkable. Probably at no time in my career, and I've been in pretty good shape throughout it, I'm not sure I could play back?to?back six?hour matches of that intensity. It's not like those guys were getting a lot of free points on their serves either.
What they're doing right now physically is impressive.

Q. With all the success throughout your career, 30 titles, Grand Slam win, Davis Cup, at this stage what accomplishment has meant the most?
ANDY RODDICK: Gosh, it's tough for me to single out one without feeling like I'm disrespecting something else.
I'd probably say the thing I'm most proud of is the body of work. A lot of people have won a slam and they've been 1. But a lot of times it's been in a four?year window or five?year window. Mine has been in a 10?year window. My career win/loss is pretty high. I'm close to 600 match wins, which is a pretty good number. I'd love to be able to get that with you in Memphis, but I'd have to have a good San Jose first.
But I'm thankful for all of it. I certainly have tried not to take any of it for granted.

Q. Assess some of the potential talent that we're starting to see.
ANDY RODDICK: 'Potential' is a tough word. You can look at a prospect and you can normally say whether or not a guy is going to be a top 30. Some have the weapons to get there. It's really unpredictable to say if someone is going to be top 10, and even more difficult to say if they're going to be a great player and in the top five consistently.
I don't know much about Jack's work habit. But I know Ryan, he's down here in Austin. He's doing all the things he should be doing as a professional. He's on the right track as far as being a professional. Now it's just a matter of getting the wins to come more often.

Q. What do you think of the field in San Jose? There's a lot of younger players, Raonic being one of them. What do you think of the guys you might have to face?
ANDY RODDICK: Gosh, you know what, I haven't even thought about it for two seconds because I'm so consumed with just trying to be ready myself.
The field looks stacked from what I see. Obviously Milos is a force to be reckoned with. The thing is, when you look through draws now as opposed to five, six, seven years ago, there's not a lot of really weak first rounds. You used to be able to look at draws and say, I should be comfortable to a certain point. I just think the depth in men's tennis has increased so much, that lends itself to stronger fields, which I think is better for fans.

Q. With your 30th birthday coming up in August, do you feel a sense of urgency in your career? Do you have any idea how much longer you'd like to play?
ANDY RODDICK: To the second part, I don't think I'm going to get in the habit of addressing that every time I'm at a tournament. That seems to be a no?win situation for any athlete (laughter).
But I don't know that I feel a sense of urgency. Honestly at this point, with health and everything else, I feel like I'm almost starting over. I'm not really protecting anything. My streak of top?10 years is over. There are a couple of short?term goals. I'd love to win a tournament, keep that going. I'd love to get 600 wins sooner than later.
But as far as urgency, my only urgent thing right now is getting this hamstring right so I can try to play well in San Jose.

Q. You mentioned how you were 90% luck on that match point in Memphis. You've spoken before a let cord winner you had. In terms of luck, what is the worst break you got in terms of a draw, rain delay, anything?
ANDY RODDICK: Gee, I don't know. There was a certain wind gust on a backhand volley at Wimbledon I'm thinking about (laughter).
You know, I don't know. I don't know. It would be a lot easier for me to point out the good luck than the bad luck.
The thing is, I haven't paid too much attention to draws. The couple of best runs I've had in slams have been through the toughest draws. A lot of times I put more on how I'm playing going in. Most likely, you're going to come out even as far as that stuff goes. Seems like when you're playing well, everything goes your way. When it's tough, the bad luck kind of compounds itself.
I feel if you look at it as a career as a whole, it comes out right.

Q. You're calling from Austin. Can you talk a little bit about Texas, the culture of sports there and tennis in Texas.
ANDY RODDICK: Yeah, I mean, obviously we have massive, massive pro sports are franchises here. In Austin, UT is as big as you get. I think the stadium might be bigger than any pro stadium.
Obviously football rules here. Niche sports like cycling, tennis is getting bigger here. There's a big sense of culture as far as sports go here. I'm not a UT fan. So one of my favorite things during football season, when they have home games, I know I'm going to be the only person on the golf course during game time (laughter).

Q. Do you prefer two?out?of?three sets or three?out?of?five?
ANDY RODDICK: Crap, nowadays, two?out?of?three. I'm having trouble getting through three?out?of?five (laughter).
Yeah, I don't know. You know what it is, I think it's more fair. You don't see as many fluke upsets in three?out?of?five sets. It usually rights itself by the end of an afternoon.
We certainly couldn't play three?out?of?five every week like those guys did last week. It's just getting tougher and tougher and tougher and tougher. I like elements of both. But coming off of an injury, I'm certainly looking forward to maxing out at three sets the next couple of weeks.

Q. How will your schedule in 2012 be different than two or three years ago?
ANDY RODDICK: I don't think there's going to be as many events. Maybe not two or three years ago, but even when I was 1, 2 in the world, in order to get there for me it took 24, 25 events, a full Davis Cup year, and everything in between.
I think the years of me playing 20 events are probably finished. Right now I got to get healthy. I don't think playing every single week is something that will lend itself to help that.

Q. Does it seem like it's been 12 years consecutively in Memphis?
ANDY RODDICK: At times yes. At times no. If I'm not mistaken, I've played that almost as many times as any other tournament except for maybe the US Open. Certainly a lot of history there.
I didn't play as well there as I wanted to early in the career. I kind of flip?flopped. Was really good in San Jose the first couple times I played it, average in Memphis those years. Then I've been average in San Jose since '08 and played really well in Memphis.
Hopefully one of these years I'll get the double.

Q. What is more startling to you, that Andy Murray with all his game still hasn't won a major or that Roger has actually been ranked No.3 and been camping there? Which is more startling to you?
ANDY RODDICK: No, I don't think the Roger thing is that startling. One, the last thing I or any sane person will ever do is knock Roger for not winning enough. It seems a little ludicrous. Especially as long as he's done it, and to still be in that top echelon, give himself a chance every slam, it's pretty incredible.
But personally I hope Murray wins a slam at some point. It used to be a thing where I didn't want guys to win a slam who haven't won one, because it was a selective group. But he's too good not to. I think already he's probably the best guy that hasn't won one ever with the game that he has.
I think he deserves to win one. I think he should win one. I think he will at some point.
GREG SHARKO: All right, Andy, thanks for your time. We look forward to seeing you in San Jose. Any prediction on the game on Sunday? We had John McEnroe's prediction. Any thoughts?
ANDY RODDICK: I'm pretty sure I know who John picked considering his geographical location.
When I analyze the game, everything in me tells me Giants, but I cannot go against the Patriots. I feel like they're going to get it done.
GREG SHARKO: Thank you. Thanks again, everyone. We'll see you soon.

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Mom of teen buys back Djokovic shirt for $6K

Novak Djokovic's nice gesture of giving his Australian Open final t-shirt to his fans ended it up in a big mess and it cost the lucky woman a huge amount of money and bad moments.

Yael Rothschild, a mom of three, was accused of snatching Novak Djokovic's shirt from a teenage tennis fan, auctioned it for charity (money will go to The Alannah and Madeline Foundation, a national charity that aims to protect children from violence) because she had been "abused and threatened" over the incident.

The t-shirt was sold for AU$5,500 (US$5,877) by the mother of the young Djokovic diehard at the center of the controversy.

Yael put the shirt up for sale in a radio charity auction following a backlash after footage of her intercepting it in front of 14-year-old Melissa Cook went viral online.

The teenager claims the Serbian star threw his sweaty shirt to her following his Australian Open final win, and that Rothschild grabbed it out of the air

Rothschild denied this accusation, arguing she had caught it fairly and had been one of around 20 people scrambling for the garment.

Her husband, Raymond Rothschild, said he was disappointed at the abuse his wife had received since footage of the incident spread.

"My wife has been vilified in the social media and by some traditional media as a result of misunderstanding over the shirt of Australian Open winner Novak Djokovic," he said. "Our home address has been broadcast on Facebook and this has led to personal abuse and even threats."

Rothschild said that before Djokovic threw his shirt into the crowd in celebration his wife had shouted to the world No. 1, "Can I have it for my daughter?"

Tennis Schedule: Zagreb, Montpellier and Vina del Mar - Friday February 3rd 2012

Open Sud de France
ATP World Tour 250
Montpellier, France
30 January - 5 February 2012

COURT CENTRAL start 1:00 pm
[WC] G Rufin (FRA) vs [2] G Simon (FRA)
[1] T Berdych (CZE) vs N Mahut (FRA)
[8] J Nieminen (FIN) vs [3] G Monfils (FRA)
Not Before 7:00 PM
[4] R Gasquet (FRA) vs [7] P Kohlschreiber (GER)
[3] P Hanley (AUS) / J Murray (GBR) vs D Brown (GER) / L Zovko (CRO)

PBZ Zagreb Indoors
ATP World Tour 250
Zagreb, Croatia
30 January - 5 February 2012

CENTRE COURT start 2:45 pm
[7] R Haase (NED) vs L Lacko (SVK)
Not Before 5:45 PM
[3] M Youzhny (RUS) vs [8] I Karlovic (CRO)
[6] M Baghdatis (CYP) vs [4] I Dodig (CRO)

COURT 1 not before 5:00 PM
M Berrer (GER) vs [Q] J Melzer (AUT)

VTR Open
ATP World Tour 250
Vina del Mar, Chile
30 January - 5 February 2012

CENTRAL start 2:00 pm
[7] C Berlocq (ARG) vs [Q] F Delbonis (ARG)
Not Before 4:00 PM
J Souza (BRA) vs [2] J Chela (ARG)
Not Before 5:45 PM
F Gil (POR) vs J Chardy (FRA)
Not Before 8:45 PM
[1] J Monaco (ARG) vs [5] A Montanes (ESP)

COURT 2 start 3:00 pm
[1] A Sa (BRA) / B Soares (BRA) vs S Giraldo (COL) / M Gonzalez (ARG)
J Souza (BRA) / H Zeballos (ARG) vs [2] J Cabal (COL) / R Farah (COL) - After Suitable Rest

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