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A look back at sports

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Santonio Holmes (L) keeps both feet in the end zone as he beats Arizona Cardinals safety Aaron Francisco to catch the game winning touchdown pass late in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, February 1, 2009. Credit: REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Sports pictures of the year

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Open-Kuznetsova raises claim for top spot

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Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia returns a shot to Shuai Zhang of China during their match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Flushing Meadows, New York August 25, 2008. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former champion Svetlana Kuznetsova recovered from a slow start to beat Romanian teenager Sorana Cirstea 7-6 6-1 to reach the third round of the U.S. Open on Wednesday.

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World number 53 Cirstea, in her first U.S. Open, had the 2004 champion worried when she broke in the sixth game to take a 4-2 lead.

But the Russian third seed broke straight back, won the tiebreak 7-3 and then ripped through the second set to seal a third-round clash with Slovenian 28th seed Katarina Srebotnik or Austrian Yvonne Meusburger.

(Reporting by Simon Cambers, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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