By Jilawatan

Roger Federer has advanced to the semifinals at the Sony Ericsson Open by beating Andy Roddick 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.

With the victory Wednesday night, Federer improved to 17-2 against Roddick and avenged a loss when they met in Key Biscayne quarterfinals last year.

A profligate Sania Mirza squandered four match points to crash out of the women’s singles event of the Wimbledon Championships as she lost her second round match 0-6 6-4 7-9 to qualifier Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez here today.
The 21-year-old Indian did manage to overcame a sloppy start after losing the first set on love but awful misses on easy points proved fatal for her.

London: In sport, as in life, everybody wants to be somewhere else, no matter where they happen to be.

But in the unforgiving cauldron of competition, “you must run twice as fast” to get anywhere else, as Alice found out in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass.