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Chelsea and Atletico draw 0-0 in first leg of CL semifinals
Chelsea and Atletico Madrid ended with a scoreless draw in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal.
Jose Mourinho's squad laid on a heavy defensive strategy, which frustrated the Spanish side's strikers. Atletico almost broke through in the final 15 minutes, but the headers from Raul Garcia and Arda Turan were both wide.
Chelsea defender Cesar Azpilicueta said his side didn't consider the scoreless outcome to be a failure.
"I think that we didn't score the goal away that always helps you in the return, but as well we didn't concede. So I think it's a really open result for the return. This is the truth, the best two defensive teams. I think that always we try to not concede a lot of goals and we could see it today."
Chelsea will go straight into Premier League play without goalkeeper Petr Cech and captain John Terry, who were both injured in yesterday's game.
Later, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich will go head to head in the first leg of the other Champions League semifinal.
And in Asian football action,
South China of Hong Kong demolished Malaysian side Kelantan 4-0 in the AFC Cup yesterday.
South China is sitting in third, but is looking at a possible lift up to second and the knockout stage if the AFC decides to disqualify second place Vietnamese club XM Vissai Ninh Binh after its players confessed to match-fixing.
Nishikori, Robredo and Thiem advance to round 3 at Barcelona Open
In tennis, second round action continued at the Barcelona Open today.
Japan's Kei Nishikori won his first match since March to advance to the third round after beating Spain's Roberto Bautista-Agut 6-1, 4-6, 6-3.
Fifth seed Tommy Robredo beat Marinko Matosevic in straight sets 6-3, 6-4.
Austrian qualifier Dominic Thiem rallied from a set down to beat 14th seed Marcel Granollers 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.
The 20-year old is fairly new to the ATP, having just turned professional back in 2012, but he's already managed to knock out former world number 8 Radek Stepanek in the first round.
And in women’s tennis, the Porsche Grand Prix is underway in Germany.
Defending champion Maria Sharapova survived the first round after beating unseeded Czech player Lucie Safarova. But it was no picnic, taking the Russian player a grueling three and a half hours to win 7-6, 6-7, 7-6.
Sara Errani, Jelena Jankovic, and Kaia Kanepi are also through to round 2.
Elsewhere,
China's Peng Shuai advanced to the second round at the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem in Morocco, after a win over Tunisia's Ons Jabeur.
Klitschko and Leapai look ahead to weekend heavyweight championship
This weekend, Ukraine's Vladimir Klitschko and Australia's Alex "Lionheart" Leapai will contend for the heavyweight world championship.
Klitschko is the reigning WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight champion. He heads into the fight with a 61-3 win loss record, and 51 knockouts. Not to mention, his last defeat was a decade ago.
34 year old Samoan born Leapai has the kind of punch that many say could break Klitschko's famous "glass jaw", but the lionheart said the best fighter has to throw more than one good punch.
"Look, we're not here to, everyone says it's that one punch that we're looking for. No, we're here to work hard for twelve rounds and we're looking at a twelve round fight. You know, if it comes, it comes. But that one lucky punch? No, we're not looking at that."
The excitement level at the press conference was taken up a notch when former WBO heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs abruptly stood up, ripped off his t-shirt and threw it at Klitscko's head. The 42 year old started shouting for everyone to look at the "real heavyweight champion" meaning himself. He was removed from the press conference.
Wins for Indiana, Toronto, and Washington
In NBA playoff action,
The Indiana Pacers tied up their series with Atlanta 1-1 after winning 101-85 in game 2.
Indiana's Paul George racked up 27 points, and George Hill decided to score all 15 of his points in the second half. Luis Scala played for 19 minutes and had 20 points and 7 boards.
"The approach we have for the game, the way we played, the energy we play, it changed dramatically verses game one and it's all about that. When you play hard, play with energy everything works and everything is better, the shots fall, the loose balls go to your side, the calls go to your side, so it's all about that."
The Toronto Raptors bested the Brooklyn Nets in game 2 100-95 to level the series at a game a piece. DeMar DeRozan had 30 points for Toronto, and Joe Johnson was top scorer for the Nets with 18. Games 3 and 4 will move over to Brooklyn's territory.
And the Washington Wizards narrowly defeated Chicago in overtime 101-99 to take a 2-0 series lead.
Elsewhere,
Chicago's Joakim Noah has been awarded the NBA defensive player of the year.
The Bulls center said the award is really a team award, but also redirected the spotlight to his basketball mentor and father figure Tyrone Green, who recently passed away.
Noah won the most votes from a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters, coming in just ahead of Indiana's Roy Hibbert and Clippers' DeAndre Jordan.
Montreal Canadiens through to semifinal round in SCP
In hockey, Stanley Cup playoff action continued today.
In the east,
The Montreal Canadiens are through to the semifinal round after beating Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 for a four game sweep.
The two teams were tied with 3 goals a piece at the end of the final period with Tampa Bay fighting for their lives. But with Tampa's Cedric Paquette in the penalty box, Montreal's Max Pacioretty slid the puck into the net with just 43 seconds left for the win.
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