Updated: November 18, 2009, 10:44 AM ET

Federer to face del Potro and Murray

LONDON -- Top-ranked Roger Federer will play U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro and Andy Murray in the round-robin phase of the ATP World Tour Finals.

After Wednesday's draw, Federer also faces Fernando Verdasco in Group A. The Swiss star lost to Del Potro in the U.S. Open final.

"Obviously, I look forward to playing Roger," Murray said. "I've played Juan a few times on the tour recently and also had a close match recently with Verdasco indoors in Valencia."

Second-ranked Rafael Nadal was drawn into Group B with Novak Djokovic, Nikolay Davydenko and Robin Soderling.

The top two players in each group will advance to the semifinals of the season-ending tournament, which starts Sunday at the O2 Arena in London. The final is set for Nov. 29.

The tournament, which could earn an undefeated champion $1.63 million, features the top eight players in the world. Each round-robin match is worth $120,000, while the semifinal winners earn another $380,000 each. The champion will get an extra $770,000.

Federer, who regained the No. 1 ranking from Nadal this season, could still be overtaken by the second-ranked Spaniard because an undefeated winner of the tournament will claim 1,500 points in the rankings. Federer has 10,150 points while Nadal trails with 9,205.

Federer rebounded from a disappointing year in 2008 and completed a career Grand Slam by winning the French Open for the first time. He then reclaimed his Wimbledon title while breaking Pete Sampras' career Grand Slam record with his 15th major title.

In the other two Grand Slam tournaments, Federer lost in five sets in the finals -- to Nadal at the Australian Open and to Del Potro at the U.S. Open.

Despite winning the Australian Open, Nadal struggled with injuries throughout the 2009 season. He lost to Soderling in the fourth round at Roland Garros and then pulled out of Wimbledon, where he was the defending champion. He made the semifinals at the U.S. Open, but again was hampered by injuries and lost to Del Potro.

Djokovic, who won the ATP World Tour Finals in Shanghai last year, seems to be in the best form heading into this year's tournament. The third-ranked Serb beat Federer in the Swiss Indoors final early this month, and then defeated Nadal in the Paris Masters semifinals en route to winning the tournament last Sunday.

Sixth-ranked Andy Roddick had been expected to play in London, but the Wimbledon finalist withdrew late Tuesday with a left knee injury. Ninth-ranked Soderling, who lost to Federer in the French Open final, is Roddick's replacement.

In doubles, Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic, Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles, Frantisek Cermak and Michal Mertinak, and Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram are in Group A. Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, Lukas Dlouhy and Leander Paes, Lukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach, and Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski are in Group B.

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Last Edited: November 21, 2009, 11:04 am

Friday, November 20, 2009
Mina Brees died of drug overdose

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Associated Press

GRANBY, Colo. -- The death of the mother of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees has been ruled a suicide.

 

Brees

 

Mina Brees, an attorney from Austin, Texas, died Aug. 7 while visiting Colorado. Grand County coroner Brenda Bock concluded this week that the 59-year-old Brees died of a prescription drug overdose and ruled the death a suicide.

 

Bock said Brees died while staying at the home of a friend in Granby near Rocky Mountain National Park.

 

It took longer than three months for autopsy results to be released, but Bock said that's typical for cases involving toxicology tests.

 

The Austin American Statesman reported that three days before Brees died, the Texas attorney general's office subpoenaed her business records.

 

She had allegedly sent letters to some restaurants in Austin and Houston stating that they had lost their rights to use their names to a company she represented, Chicksports, but they could win the rights back by paying up to $25,000. She was also the president of Chicksports but that wasn't mentioned in the letter.

 

Relations between Drew Brees and his mother were strained at times and the quarterback asked her to stop using his picture in TV commercials touting her candidacy for a Texas appeals court seat in 2006.

 

Mina Brees said she had not anticipated upsetting her son and sent out replacement commercials omitting mention of him.

 

At the time, Drew Brees called his relationship with his mother "nonexistent," saying it crumbled six years earlier when he refused to hire her as his agent.

 

Austin attorney Marty Akins, the brother of Mina Brees, declined comment late Friday.

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Clerk sells man winning lottery game by mistake

• Yahoo News
• 26 mins ago

BRIDGETON, N.J. – No one is complaining about a mistake made by a store clerk in southern New Jersey. Indian Fields Market owner Domenic Galle said a man walked into the store and asked for a Deuces Wild scratch-off lottery ticket Monday night. Galle said the clerk gave him an Aces High ticket instead. The clerk chased after the man when she realized she made a mistake. But he was gone.

Galle said he walked in an hour later with a $100,000 winner.

The winner did not want to release his name

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