Nadal broke Souza's service late in each set to win in 1 hour, 18 minutes at the indoor clay-court tournament in South America's biggest city.The victory over the 140th-ranked Brazilian came a day after Nadal withdrew from the doubles tournament to preserve the sore knee that sidelined for seven months. The 11-time Grand Slam winner, the tournament champion in 2005, had a bye in the first round."Today I felt good," Nadal said. "It's not perfect yet, I don't know when I'll be at 100 percent. Read more [...]

(BUENOS AIRES, Argentina) — This was a Valentine’s Day wedding that the bride’s family wanted no part of: An Argentine woman married the man convicted of killing her twin sister. Neighbors were against it as well. A mob gathered outside the civil registry office where Thursday’s wedding took place, throwing stones and eggs. (MORE: British Newspaper the Sun To Argentina’s President: ‘Hands Off’ the Falklands) The bride, 23-year-old Edith Casas, says Victor Cingolani Read more [...]

ZURICH — It was in the final minutes of a June 2011 soccer game between Nigeria and Argentina when the little green flags on computer screens in London started to change color.Nigeria was leading 4-0 in the exhibition match of little significance, and more and more money was being laid down around the world on the possibility that one of the teams would score another goal before the game was over. Monitors hired by the soccer governing body FIFA to detect deviations from expected betting patterns Read more [...]

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Diego Maradona is a father again after his long-time partner Veronica Ojeda gave birth to a baby boy who has been named Diego Fernando Maradona Ojeda. Jorge Auruccio, the lawyer for Ojeda, said the baby weighed 3.2 kilograms (7 pounds) and was born on Wednesday at 11:57 p.m. local time in a Buenos Aires hospital. He said the mother and child were in "perfect'' shape. The 52-year-old Maradona has two daughters from his marriage with Claudia Vallafane - Read more [...]

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The young forward believes that his compatriot is the best player in the world, and hopes to join him in the Argentina side in the near future after some fine form with Roma Read more [...]

CRISTINA FERNÁNDEZ presumably hoped that old people in Argentina would be delighted by her announcement on January 28th that public-pension payments would rise in March by 15.8%. But at the weekly meeting in Buenos Aires of the national retirees’ association, where elderly folk get together to gripe about how the government is cheating them, attendees overwhelmingly dismissed the president’s decision as too little, too late. The government’s row with pensioners dates back to the Read more [...]

The game’s 90 minutes of regular time ended without another goal. Referee Ibrahim Chaibou ordered additional time added to the clock — normal in most soccer games to make up for stoppages in play throughout the contest for injuries or other minor delays. He added six minutes — a substantial amount for such a minor game.When that time ran out, the game continued, with the score still at 4-0. The clock reached 98 minutes.That’s when Chaibou called Nigerian defender Efe Ambrose for touching Read more [...]

But they said the Spanish star intends to play his opening singles match Thursday against Brazilian Joao Souza.   World number five Nadal had been scheduled to team up with Argentina’s David Nalbandian in a second-round encounter against Argentine Horacio Zeballos and Oliver Marach of Austria.   Former world number one Nadal only returned to the tour in Chile last week, where he lost in the final, after a seven-month injury absence.   “Nadal thought it was preferable to stay in his Read more [...]

Argentina's David Nalbandian beat Chilean qualifier Jorge Aguilar 7-5, 5-7, 6-3 in a difficult first-round match at the Brazil Open on Wednesday. Nalbandian had 11 aces and broke serve four times to beat Aguilar in 2 hours, 12 minutes in the indoor clay-court tournament.Argentina's Horacio Zeballos, who won his first ATP title by beating Rafael Nadal last week in Chile, retired because of nausea and fatigue while trailing Paul Capdeville of Chile 7-6 , 0-6, 0-3.Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo retired with Read more [...]