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Briefs
Published in Al-Ahram Weekly on 19 - 04 - 2007


Henri to stay
ZAMALEK's French football coach Henri Michel has agreed to renew his contract with Zamalek for two more years. The signing ceremony is next week.
Henri came to Zamalek on a six- month deal in January. Since then, Zamalek have compiled the best second half of the season in the league. They are currently battling for second place with five games remaining. Zamalek are in third, two points behind Ismaili but have a game in hand.
Another crown
AHLI's volleyball team thrashed arch-rivals Zamalek to capture the league title to go along with the cup. Ahli won in straight sets 25-23, 25- 23 and 25-20. Ahli fly next week to Niger for the African Club Championship.
Boxing golds
EGYPTIAN boxers took five gold medals in an African championship. Hossam Hussein, Mohamed Heikal, Ramadan Abdel-Ghafaar, Emad Abdel-Halim and Ahmed Samir won in weight categories 57kg, 69kg, 81kg, 91kg and over 91kg.
Sundowns tomorrow
AHLI meet Sundowns of South Africa tomorrow in Cairo in the second leg of their round 16 football African Champions League. The first leg in Pretoria ended 2-2 after Ahli were leading 2-0.
Murray in top 10
BRITISH number one Andy Murray has been confirmed as a top 10 player for the first time in his career.
The 19-year-old Scot moved up to 10th after Tommy Haas failed to reach the US Clay Court Championships semi-finals. "To get into the top 10 is a big deal for most players when they do it for the first time," said Murray.
Murray has a first-round bye in this week's Monte Carlo Masters but will play in the doubles event with his brother Jamie.
The British duo take on Poland's Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski in the final match on court two.
And Murray, who will meet either Frenchman Marc Gicquel or Germany's Florian Mayer in the second round, is looking forward to justifying his place among the tennis elite and seeks to make up for some disappointing displays on clay last season.
"Last year's clay-court season didn't go so well for me," said the eighth seed. "But I'm playing much better than I did last year. I'm much stronger physically as well.
"I think my game is pretty well suited to clay so hopefully I can play well this year.
"I've been playing well in practice so hopefully I can transfer that on to the court."
First Australian
STUART O'Grady became the first- ever Australian winner of cycling's Paris-Roubaix classic on Sunday. The 33-year-old came home alone ahead of Spain's Juan Antonio Flecha and Swiss former winner Steffen Wesemann.
Britain's Roger Hammond, second in this week's Gent-Wevelgem one- day classic in Belgium, continued his good form by finishing in seventh place.
Switzerland's defending champion Fabian Cancellara dropped out of contention late on in 'The Hell of the North'.
Italian Alessandro Ballan, last week's Tour of Flanders winner, also failed to keep up with the pacesetters in the decisive latter stages.
The finale of the race was brought to life by O'Grady, who made up for team-mate Cancellara's demise by attacking on his own in the final 25km.
Before Sunday's win, O'Grady's last major victory was in 2004 when he teamed up with Graeme Brown to win Madison gold at the Athens Olympics.
He switched to CSC following a period in which his career stalled because of a serious crash and a move to a team which did not materialise.


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