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SYDNEY - Australias Samantha Stosur overcame her home-crowd jitters to rally for a 7-6 (3), 5-7, 6-3 win over Lucie Safarova in the first round of the Sydney International on Monday.Stosur has long struggled to match her other Grand Slam results — including a win at the 2011 U.S. Open — at her home major, the Australian Open, as well as other tournaments Down Under.Last week, she fell to American Varvara Lepchenko 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 in the first round of the Brisbane International after leading 5-1 in the third set. She has also lost four times in the first round at Sydney and had a mediocre 7-7 record at the tournament before Mondays three-hour victory.Little separated Stosur and Safarova in a back-and-forth match. Safarova saved eight of nine break points in the first set and Stosur six of seven before the set headed to a tiebreaker, which Stosur won with a series of emphatic groundstrokes after saving three set points.Stosur then rallied from 4-1 down in the second set to level the score at 5-all before Safarova broke her for a third time to even the match.Stosur then saved three break points to take a 3-2 lead in the deciding set before breaking Safarova again when the Czech player double faulted on back-to-back points.It was relatively important win, Stosur said. I gave it everything and it was great to have the home support.It was good to step up and win the match after what happened last week, and I am very happy with it.In other matches on the womens side, sixth-seeded Ekaterina Makarova of Russia beat Elina Svitolina of the Ukraine 7-6 (1), 6-2 and Garbine Muguruza of Spain beat Sara Errani of Italy 6-0, 7-5.At the Hobart International tournament in Tasmania, third-seeded Camila Giorgi of Italy overcame 23 double faults to beat Australian wild card Storm Sanders 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (6) in a 2 hour, 20 minute match, while second-seeded Zarina Diyas of Kazakhstan beat Silvia Soler-Espinosa of Spain 6-3, 6-4.Adrian Mannarino of France beat Federico Delbonis of Argentina 6-1, 6-1 at the ATP Tours Heineken Open in Auckland in the first match of a main draw gutted by the late withdrawals of defending champion John Isner, top seed David Ferrer and Frances Gael Monfils. Marvin Harrison Womens Jersey . 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On Saturday night, Winnipegs strong offense was again accompanied by some fantastic pitching which gave the Fish a commanding victory. Pat McAfee Womens Jersey . Bozak and Clarkson suffered the injuries in pre-training camp workouts, according to Carlyle, who said they made "small amounts of improvement" from Friday to Saturday. After the players were deemed less than 100 per cent by doctors after Thursdays medical testing, the Leafs held them out of on-ice testing and are being cautious.Weightlifting great Ilya Ilyin of Kazakhstan is among 10 competitors to have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs at London 2012. Four Olympic champions from Kazakhstan were caught after their samples from four summers ago were retested by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Ilyin, the mens 94kg gold medallist, and three women champions - Zulfiya Chinshanlo (53kg), Maiya Maneza (63kg) and Svetlana Podobedova (75kg) - failed tests according to the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). The 10 lifters, including seven London medallists in total and a current world champion, most of whom were expected to be medal contenders in Rio this summer, have all been provisionally suspended, the IWF said.Double Olympic champion Ilyin, 28, is to weightlifting what Usain Bolt is to athletics - he has nearly 400,000 followers on social media and has been named male weightlifter of the year four times.A winner of the sports leading accolade in 2005, 2006, 2014 and 2015, four-time world champion Ilyin is a national hero and also a personal friend of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev.His victory in London followed his triumph in Beijing in 2008. 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Kazakhstans Zulfiya Chinshanlo has also tested positive Of the Kazakh women gold medallists, Chinshanlo, in 2012, and Podobedova, 2010, are both former IWF female weightlifters of the year.The other 2012 medallists who tested positive were Russian mens 85kg silver medallist Apti Aukhadov and two womens bronze medallists, Ukrainian Yuliya Kalina (58kg) and Belaruss Maryna Shkermankova (69kg).The reigning womens 58kg world champion Boyanka Kostova, a Bulgarian who now competes for Azerbaijan and finished fifth in London, was also among the positive tests.Two other athletes from Belarus failed tests - Yauheni Zharnasek (ninth in the mens +105kg) and Dzina Sazanavets (fourth in the womens 69kg).All four of Kazakhstans gold medallists in London are now set to be stripped of their titles. Also See: New doping claims hit Russia Puerto blood bags to be released ' ' '