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Lionel Messi scores twice to bring the Argentinians through to the last 16
Continuing with World Cup action in Brazil.
Lionel Messi scored twice this morning to put the Argentinians to the knock out stage.
The see-saw match saw Messi open the scoring in the 3rd minute before Nigeria's Ahmed Musa levelled a minute later.
Messi's second goal came in the first half's stoppage time, but Musa again equalized for Nigeria early in the second half.
Argentina's Marcus Rojo scored the winner and helped his team secure first place in its group.
Despite the loss, Nigeria still moves on and will face Group E leaders France in the knockout stage.
Also this morning, Xherdan Shaqiri scored a hat trick to bring Switzerland to the next round.
The Swiss ousted Honduras in the 3-nil final group match and will next face Argentina.
And coming up midnight tonight,
Germany will face the United States in their last group match.
The two sides are now in a 1-2 position in Group G.
If they draw, both teams will go through, but a win for either side could possibly allow Ghana or Portugal to slip into second place.
Germany's coach Joachim Loew and US coach Jurgen Klinsmann are close friends outside the arena.
There has been gossip of the possibility of a non-aggression pact between the sides to ensure both teams go through to the next round.
But German midfielder Mesut Ozil dismissed such suggestion and said the team will give its best to aviod a second draw in the group stage.
And at 4 am Beijing time tomorrow, Asia's last team in the tournament South Korea will take on Belgium in their last group match.
Belgium will be without Vincent Kompany and Thomas Vermaelen, both on the bench through injury.
Belgium has already qualified for the last 16, but they still need a point to guarantee first place in the group.
Iran, Japan and Australia have all been bounced from the tournament.
Zheng Jie in action now, Li Na through to the third round
Moving onto tennis action at Wimbledon,
Chinese ace Zheng Jie is now battling against Serbia's Ana Ivanovic in second round play.
Zheng came into this match as a straight sets winner over Germany's Annika Beck 6-1, 6-3 in the first round.
Ivanovic is seeded 11th and ousted Italian veteran Francesca Schiavone in her first match.
Earlier, Chinese world number two Li Na made short work of Austrian Yvonne Meusberger 6-2, 6-2.
Li Na will next meet the Czech Republic's Barbora Strycova in round-3.
"I think the last time we met was on clay court, so I know she was a pretty smart player. She can use a lot of access on the court, and I think it's good for her to play on the grass court. For me, I think I should just play my game, be more aggressive as much as I can, come to the net to follow the plan."
Chinese doubles specialist Peng Shuai is also looking strong in single's competition.
She's also into the 3rd round after dispatching Russian Maria Kiralenko 6-love, 6-3.
Two major upsets on the women's side, 8th seed Belarussian Victoria Azarenka was a 3-set loser to Serbian Bojana Jovanovski.
While 12th seeded Italian Flavia Panetta went down to American Lauren Davis, 6-4, 7-6.
Coming up on the men's side,
World number one Rafael Nadal will start his second round test against Czech player Lukas Rosol, the man who ousted him at the same second round stage at Wimbledon two years ago.
Around the same time, fifth seed Stan Wawrinka will face Chinese Taipei's Yen-Hsun Lu.
Earlier,
top seeded Novak Djokovic got through to the 3rd round after dispatching Czech veteran Radek Stepanek in 4-sets.
Home crowd favorite and defending champion Andy Murray also looks on-form, demolishing Slovenian Blaz Rola in straight sets, 6-1, 6-1, 6-love.
Rockets trade Omer Asik to Pelicans
Off court in the NBA,
The Houston Rockets have reached agreement on a trade to send center Omer Asik to the New Orleans Pelicans in exchange for a future first-round draft pick.
For the Rockets, this is the first step in clearing salary-cap space to pursue LeBron James or Carmelo Anthony in free agency.
Asik had asked for a trade a year ago, wanting out of Houston after the team signed Dwight Howard to become its starting center.
Inside sources also suggest that Houston will move Jeremy Lin next to create space for a third maximum contract on the roster.
Dwight Howard and James Harden are already on max contracts for the Rockets.
Tiger Woods prepares comeback from back injury
In golf,
Tiger Woods is now back to competition following a three-month absence.
The former long-time world number one took part in the Quicken Loans National Pro-Am at Congressional Country Club.
Woods was a bit rusty at the Pro-Am, making one birdie and a single bogey.
But the winner of 14 majors didn't show any pain, which could still be an issue following his back surgery.
"As I said, it was little bit rusty and I gotta knock off some rust and, you know, really manage my way around this golf course - this golf course is playing tough and the guys aren't going to go really low here. So, just got to keep it in front of me and obviously put the ball in the right spots on these greens because if you're in the wrong spots, it's an awful tough task to make birdies."
Woods is set to tee off in Thursday's opening round with emerging 20-year-old American Jordan Spieth and Australian Jason Day later tonight.
Woods, who is the host of the Quicken Loans tournament, earlier said he won't play again after this weekend until the British Open.
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