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S. Open victory over the American great on Sunday. Andy Roddick jolted the German qualifier back to reality with a 6-3 6-4 6-3 victory that lifted the American into the quarter-finals. Former champion Lleyton Hewitt needed five sets to overcome Richard Gasquet of France. Other winners in the men's draw on Monday included Russia's Mikhail Youzhny and second-seeded Spanish star Rafael Nadal in the fourth round. Third-round winners were Tommy Haas of Germany and Marat Safin of Russia. "You know from qualifying, from achieving my goal to be top 100, from playing Agassi and winning yesterday and, you know, getting another chance to play on center court against Roddick today, it's been a pretty, pretty amazing trip for me," Becker said. Becker, a 25-year-old U.S. college champion at Baylor University in Texas, who turned his full attention to the tour last year, said it was hard for him to appreciate what he had accomplished. "It was tough yesterday for me to enjoy it because it was tough for me to accept that I deserved to be the last guy that Agassi played," the slightly built German with the big serve said. "You know, maybe I will, looking at the DVDs, looking maybe at everything else, I will later on." Pulsating battle Hewitt outlasted Frenchman Gasquet 6-4 6-4 4-6 3-6 6-3 in a pulsating late-night fourth-round battle. In a match that finished shortly before 1am local time, the Australian let slip a two-set lead to an inspired Gasquet but hit back to set up a quarterfinal against American Andy Roddick. "It was hard work for both of us," Hewitt said. "He is a young guy on the rise. I was very wary coming out here tonight. This is where it all started for me, at grand slams, so it's good to get through to another quarterfinal." Gasquet said he had given it his all."I'm really tired," he said. "It was a great match for me today. I fought a lot, I did my best today but he was too good." Hewitt, the champion in 2001, eased through the first two sets before Gasquet roared back to level thanks to a series of crushing groundstroke winners. With Gasquet struggling with cramp in the fifth set, Hewitt broke in the second game and though Gasquet saved two match points with outrageous winners, Hewitt served out to clinch victory after three hours 33 minutes. Mighty Tiger makes it 5 in a row POSTED: 2335 GMT (0735 HKT), September 4, 2006 Adjust font size: NORTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- Tiger Woods unleashed two eagles and four birdies in his final round to win the Deutsche Bank Championship on Monday, extending his winning streak to five tournaments.

Guests of the Four Seasons often make the trek up to Montpelier to sample such dishes as snapper with mango and cilantro sauce. Before and after dinner, the Hoffmans and their guests gather nightly in the Great Room. One evening, an American visitor sings the blues while others chat about their day. Calypso, one of the Labs, brings his tennis ball to the doorway, tosses it into the room, and waits hopefully. Meanwhile, the singer's husband, a New York attorney, stands up and imitates fruits and vegetables. Newfound friends guess, "Pineapple!" "No, celery!" I decide that, yes, at Montpelier, I do feel like a houseguest. And that this calls for some more rum punch. Ryanair seeks $5.7M over security Friday, August 25, 2006 Posted: 1834 GMT (0234 HKT) British police walk through crowds of people waiting to check in at Terminal 4 of Heathrow Airport. RELATEDCNN i-Report: Send us your thoughts, pictures • UK baggage restrictions eased • Bank names suspects • Plot 'mirrored one 11 years ago' • TIME.com: Suspects converted QUICKVOTEFollowing recent terror alerts, is airline security Too stringent? Not stringent enough? About right? or View Results LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Low-cost carrier Ryanair said on Friday it had submitted a claim for just over 3 million pounds ($5.7 million) in compensation from the UK government after stepped-up airport security forced it to cancel flights. Ryanair lodged the claim which it said reflected losses from cancellations and lost bookings over the week of August 10 to 16, the airline said in a statement. However, the UK Department for Transport (DFT) said Ryanair had no legal grounds to seek compensation. Other airlines said they had no plans to seek damages from the UK government. Hand luggage restrictions and heightened security screening were introduced at airports by the UK government this month following what it said was a bomb plot, forcing airlines to cancel hundreds of flights. "The longer these additional, yet nonsensical and ineffective security measures remain at the UK airports, then the more UK passengers and visitors will suffer unnecessary queuing, delays and flight cancellations," Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary said in the statement. Ryanair said it would donate any compensation received to charity. The DFT said Ryanair had no legal grounds to sue. "We continue to face a serious security threat and we are not going to compromise security," a DFT spokesman said. "Aviation security measures are directed under the Aviation Security Act 1982 which does not have any provisions for compensation." Ryanair approached British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and other airlines last week urging them to sue the government for compensation. A BA spokeswoman said on Friday the airline did not plan to sue the UK government. BAA, the owner of London's Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports, said it did not expect heightened security to force flight cancellations over the busy bank holiday weekend. BA, which expects to fly about 500,000 passengers over the coming weekend, said on Friday it was not expecting any flight cancellations. Explore Bryce Canyon on horseback POSTED: 1543 GMT (2343 HKT), August 30, 2006 By Beth J. Harpaz Associated Press Adjust font size: BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Utah (AP) -- When you hike for a couple of hours in a national park, you only cover a few miles. When you drive, you cover a lot of ground, but you miss the details of the landscape and even the sounds and smells of the place.

Her only chance came in the second set when she raced into a 2-0 lead. "She knows how to play against top players," Sharapova said. "I expected a really tough match. I was ready. That little break in the first game of the second set was a little bit of a wakeup call and I knew I needed to step it up." In the fourth round, Sharapova plays Li Na, who became the first Chinese woman to reach the last 16 at the U.S. Open with a stunning 4-6 6-0 6-0 victory over 2005 runner-up Mary Pierce. Sharapova has won all three career matches against Li. Baby name challenge for Japan royals POSTED: 0852 GMT (1652 HKT), September 5, 2006 Adjust font size: TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- Ordinary Japanese couples find it hard enough to choose a name for a baby -- there are 2,928 permitted Chinese characters that can stand alone or be combined with others for shades of meaning. For Prince Akishino, who may find himself choosing a name for a future emperor, the task will likely be even harder and must be completed within a week. His wife, Princess Kiko, is due to give birth to a baby by a Caesarean operation on Wednesday, and if it is a boy he will be the first male born into the imperial household in more than 40 years. Only males are allowed to succeed to the throne under current law. Since Akishino is a second son rather than a direct heir to the Chrysanthemum throne he is permitted to name his own children rather than leaving the process up to his father, Emperor Akihito. The couple's two older daughters -- Princesses Mako and Kako -- were given two-syllable names to echo their mother's monicker, the weekly Shukan Bunshun said in its latest edition. The new baby will likely also be given a name composed of two characters, said Yasuo Ohara, a classics professor at Kokugakuin University in Tokyo. Emperors' names traditionally end with the character "hito," meaning the highest moral standard, while names for royal women end in "ko", meaning noblewoman. Names ending in "hito" are highly unusual for commoners and while "ko" was once a popular name ending for girls, it is increasingly rare for new babies. Akishino's given name is Fumihito, his elder brother is Crown Prince Naruhito and their grandfather was the wartime Emperor Hirohito. In a simple naming ceremony held seven days after the birth of Kako, Akishino laid a wooden box on the baby's pillow, containing her name written on a piece of "washi" handmade paper, the Shukan Bunshun said. Although the government's list of approved characters for names does not strictly apply to the royal family, Akishino is unlikely to choose anything too esoteric. "He probably won't choose anything complicated, or that would be difficult for the public to feel familiar with," said Ohara. "That has been the custom since the Meiji period (1868-1912)," he added. Whatever name finds its way into the wooden box next week could influence a generation of Japanese children. When Naruhito was born in 1960 he was also given the childhood title Prince Hiro. That year, four names using the character for "hiro" made it on to the top 10 list of boys' names, with "Hiroshi" the most popular. Following the birth of Naruhito's only daughter Princess Aiko in 2001, the character "ai" -- meaning love -- became a popular choice for girls' names, according to Meiji Yasuda Life, which conducts a survey among its policyholders every year.

"We can't catch everything," Ruttenbur said. "I don't know of any single technology that can be right 100 percent of the time." SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Electronic Arts Inc. said Thursday sales of its latest Madden football video game grossed more than $100 million in its first week, the biggest launch in the franchise's 17-year history and the latest sign of an improving outlook for the industry. EA, the world's largest video game publisher, said consumers snapped up more than 2 million copies of "Madden NFL 07" in its opening week, up 12 percent from last year's game launch. The Madden game is the flagship franchise for the Redwood City-based game maker, with new versions each year ranking consistently as a best seller. To date, more than 53 million copies of the game have been sold. (Watch what the Madden mania is all about -- 1:55) While a handful of other game titles have had more successful openings -- Microsoft Corp. said its Halo 2 game reached $125 million in sales within the first 24 hours in 2004 -- robust interest in the Madden game is a welcome development in a year where game makers are struggling amid a video game console transition period. Along with other game makers, EA's sales have suffered as consumers have delayed purchases until the expected release later this year of next-generation consoles, namely Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Co.'s Wii. An industry turnaround isn't expected until next year, and EA officials predicted during its quarterly earnings report on August 1 that video game sales for 2006 across the industry would be flat to down 5 percent. Still, the success of the latest Madden game illustrates how lucrative the video game industry has become. Its opening-week gross sales rivals some of this year's biggest movie box office draws: "The Da Vinci Code" movie, for instance, drew $102 million in its first week, according to Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. Cell phones won't keep your secrets POSTED: 1257 GMT (2057 HKT), August 30, 2006 Adjust font size: WASHINGTON (AP) -- The married man's girlfriend sent a text message to his cell phone: His wife was getting suspicious. Perhaps they should cool it for a few days. "So," she wrote, "I'll talk to u next week." "You want a break from me? Then fine," he wrote back. Later, the married man bought a new phone. He sold his old one on eBay, at Internet auction, for $290. The guys who bought it now know his secret. The married man had followed the directions in his phone's manual to erase all his information, including lurid exchanges with his lover. But it wasn't enough. Selling your old phone once you upgrade to a fancier model can be like handing over your diaries. All sorts of sensitive information pile up inside our cell phones, and deleting it may be more difficult than you think. A popular practice among sellers, resetting the phone, often means sensitive information appears to have been erased. But it can be resurrected using specialized yet inexpensive software found on the Internet. A company, Trust Digital of McLean, Virginia, bought 10 different phones on eBay this summer to test phone-security tools it sells for businesses. The phones all were fairly sophisticated models capable of working with corporate e-mail systems. Curious software experts at Trust Digital resurrected information on nearly all the used phones, including the racy exchanges between guarded lovers.

Mauresmo sets up Williams showdown POSTED: 1149 GMT (1949 HKT), September 4, 2006 Adjust font size: NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Top seed Amelie Mauresmo survived a wobble to beat Italian Mara Santangelo 6-3 3-6 6-2 on Sunday and set up a U.S. Open fourth-round match against her nemesis Serena Williams. Williams, invited to the Open as a wildcard after a season of inactivity caused her ranking to plunge, booked her date against Mauresmo by trouncing 16th seed Ana Ivanovic of Serbia 6-2 6-4. Mauresmo, the Australian Open and Wimbledon champion, has lost nine of 10 matches against seven-times grand slam winner Williams. "When she's playing well, she just does everything great," Mauresmo told reporters after recovering from 2-0 down in the final set to defeat Santangelo. "She's hitting hard on both sides. She's serving well. She likes to take control of the points. That's when she's playing well, when she's at her best level." Williams has scarcely played this season, skipping six months after the Australian Open due to her off-court interests and an ailing knee. The twice former Open champion, however, feels her game is getting into shape in her fourth tournament of the year and is close to playing her best tennis. "I'm definitely feeling close to that. I think I'm playing better with each match. I try to always do little things better and hopefully peak in the latter rounds." Mauresmo was not sure what to expect from Williams. "I haven't seen her play since she came back from her different injuries," she said. "I guess she's still using the same type of game. She likes to play one or two shots. "But we'll see. It's a good test actually for both of us." Williams acknowledged that Mauresmo, who has climbed to the top of the world rankings, has been on good form. "Mauresmo has been playing the best of anyone on the tour this year," she said. "So it will be a good chance to see how I play against her. I like playing her, should be a good match. "I like the way she hits the ball. I just think we always have some really interesting matches. My game just likes her game." Sharapova through Meanwhile, third seed Maria Sharapova continued her march through the U.S. Open by beating fellow-Russian Elena Likhovtseva 6-3 6-2. Sharapova has not lost a set in her three matches and enters the second week of the Open playing exceptionally well. "The second week of a Grand Slam is obviously going to be a lot tougher than the first," she said. "That's a no brainer. But with every match you've got to play better and better tennis to win it. "That's what it's all about at the end of the day." Likhovtseva never had any weapons to hurt Sharapova, totalling only four winners in the 64-minute match.

But the commander of the ethnic Tamil rebels in the east, S. Elilan, said the battle for the town of Sampur was still raging. "We are fighting them. This is our territory, we can't let it be invaded by the enemy," he said. Recent weeks of near-daily airstrikes and artillery duels between Tamil rebels and government troops shattered the truce on the island just off India's southern tip, and the military offensive at Sampur was a further escalation in a situation verging on all-out war. Soldiers entered Sampur on Monday and were clearing the area of land mines and explosives left by retreating rebels, said a military spokesman, Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe. "We are now fully in control of the area. There may be some resistance, but we are fully in this area," he said. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, as the rebels are known, have been fighting since 1983 for a separate homeland for 3.2 million predominantly Hindu Tamils, who have endured decades of discrimination by the dominant 14 million Sinhalese, most of whom are Buddhist. The conflict -- one of Asia's longest running and known for the Tigers' use of suicide bombers -- is estimated to have killed about 65,000 people before the cease-fire. Violence dropped sharply after the truce was signed, but sporadic shootings and bombings began escalating a year ago and the past six weeks have seen heavy fighting in some areas. Both sides, however, insist they are abiding by the truce. But rebels warned Monday that if a Nordic monitoring mission in place since the cease-fire ruled that the government offensive violated the truce, the Tigers would consider themselves back at war. "If they say it's a full-scale war, then we don't have to be bound by the cease-fire agreement," said Elilan, the rebel commander in the east. The military has been trying for more than a week to take Sampur, which is near the port of Trincomalee, a key government naval base. The battle has killed at least 100 combatants and driven thousands of civilians from their homes. Rebels had been using Sampur to fire howitzers and mortars at Trincomalee, which is the maritime lifeline for 43,000 soldiers stationed in Jaffna, a government stronghold in the island's predominantly Tamil north. Ancestral capital The Tamils held Jaffna until 1995 and claim it as their ancestral capital. They control all the land routes into the city, and the government had long wanted to retake Sampur to secure Trincomalee's port. The apparent retaking of Sampur is the first strategic territorial victory for the army since hawkish Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka was appointed commander in December. "Our armed forces have captured Sampur," President Mahinda Rajapakse told a meeting of his ruling party Monday, reportedly to thunderous applause. But the Tigers still control wide swaths of Sri Lanka's north and east. And analysts said the army's push on Sampur could bring insurgent retaliation in relatively peaceful areas, like Colombo, the capital where the rebels have repeatedly set off suicide and roadside bombs. "In the past ... the (rebels) have hit back ferociously," said M.R. Narayan Swamy, an analyst in New Delhi who has written extensively on the Tamil Tigers. Police said they found hundreds of sticks of explosives in a truck that was trying to enter the Sri Lankan capital late Monday night.