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Argentina beats Chile, enters final

DUSSELDORF: Gaston Gaudio handed Fernando Gonzalez his first ever defeat at the ARAG ATP World Team Championship and Guillermo Canas beat Olympic gold medalist Nicolas Massu to give Argentina an unassailable 2-0 lead over two-time defending champion Chile in the Red Group and advance to the final where it will meet either Germany or Spain.

The results: At Dusseldorf (World Team Cup): Red Group: Argentina 2 Chile 0 (Gaston Gaudio bt Fernando Gonzalez 6-4, 6-2; Guillermo Canas bt Nicolas Massu 6-2, 1-6, 6-3).

France 1 Czech Republic 1 (Sebastien Grosjean bt Jiri Novak 7-6(5), 6-3; Michael Llodra lost to Thomas Berdych 2-6, 1-6).

Blue Group: Spain bt U.S.A 2-1 (Alex Lopez Moron & Santiago Ventura lost to Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan 2-6, 3-6).

Germany bt Sweden 2-1 (Tommy Haas & Alex Waske bt Jonas Bjorkman & Joachim Johansson 6-4, 6-4).

At St. Poelten (Internationaler BTM-Power Grand Prix): Quarterfinal: Nikolay Davydenko bt Felix Mantilla 6-3, 7-5. Second round: Jose Acasuso bt Nicolas Almagro 6-4, 6-4; Michael Kohlmann bt Victor Hanescu 6-3, 2-6, 7-6(2); Guillermo Garcia-Lopez bt Luis Horna 6-1, 6-4; Christophe Rochus bt Davide Sanguinetti 6-3, 6-3.

At Strasbourg (Internationaux de Strasbourg): Quarterfinals: Anabel Medina Garrigues bt Vera Douchevina 6-7(2), 7-5, 6-1; Marta Domachowska bt Shuai Peng 4-6, 7-5, 6-2. Second round: Karolina Sprem bt Jie Zheng 6-4, 6-3; Shuai Peng bt Tatiana Golovin 6-4, 3-6, 7-5; Nathalie Dechy bt Iveta Benesova 6-3 6-2.

At Istanbul (Istanbul Open): Quarterfinals: Anna Smashnova-Pistolesi bt Mashona Washington 6-3, 6-1; Venus Williams bt Anna Chakvetadze 6-2, 6-1; Tszvetana Pironkova bt Shahar Peer 6-3, 7-6(4); Nicole Vaidisova bt Anna-Lena Groenefeld 7-5, 7-6(6). Second round: Anna Smashnova-Pistolesi bt Jennifer Hopkins 6-1, 6-0; Shahar Peer bt Akiko Morigami 3-6, 6-4, 6-2; Nicole Vaidisova bt Ivana Abramovic 6-2, 6-3; Tzvetana Pironkova bt Yuliana Fedak 3-6, 6-4, 6-4; Venus Williams bt Marta Marrero 6-0, 6-0. — Agencies

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