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Scarlett Johansson ("The Island"), Jonathan Rhys-Meyers ("Bend It Like Beckham"), Emily Mortimer ("Lovely & Amazing"), Matthew Goode ("Chasing Liberty"), Brian Cox ("The Bourne Identity,", "The Bourne Supremacy") and Penelope Wilton ("Iris," "Calendar Girls") star in "Match Point," a new dramatic thriller from writer/director Woody Allen.
"Match Point" is a drama about ambition, the seduction of wealth, love, and sexual passion. Perhaps most importantly, however, the story reveals the huge part luck plays in events, refuting the comforting misconception that more of life is under our control than really is.
Written and directed by Academy Award® winner Woody Allen ("Annie Hall," "Hannah and Her Sisters"), "Match Point" represents a departure for the native New Yorker, the majority of whose films lovingly depict New York and—not always so lovingly—New Yorkers. Crossing the Atlantic for the first time in his film career, Allen set "Match Point" in London, where it was also filmed.

AFP - Russia's former world number one Marat Safin saved three match points here on Monday to prolong his career for a little longer.

PARIS (Reuters) - Former world number one Marat Safin, in his final tournament before retiring, squeezed past French qualifier Thierry Ascione 6-4 4-6 7-6 in a Paris Masters first-round match on Monday.

International News: Drama stars Martin Sheen as grieving dad -- Canadian thesp Deborah Kara Unger ("88 Minutes," "Crash") and the U.K.'s James Nesbitt ("Bloody Sunday," "Match Point") have joined Martin Sheen to star in the Emilio Estevez-directed family drama "The Way."

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roger Federer conjured a brilliant winner from between his legs to bring up match point as he beat Novak Djokovic 7-6 7-5 7-5 in the semi-finals to move within one win of a sixth successive U.S. Open crown.

Serena Williams was penalized on match point for berating an official in her 6-4, 7-5 loss to Kim Clijsters. It was one of the most bizarre finishes in Open history, says Richard Deitsch.

Top-seeded Serena Williams was eliminated from the U.S. Open in controversial fashion Saturday night on a rare point penalty on match point for a code violation.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kim Clijsters reached the U.S. Open final after beating defending champion Serena Williams 6-4 7-5 Saturday in a contest that ended in chaos after the American was handed a point penalty on match point.

Serena Williams' U.S. Open title defense ended in bizarre, ugly fashion when she was penalized on match point, completing her 6-4, 7-5 loss to unseeded Kim Clijsters in the semifinals.

AFP - Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki won her second straight New Haven WTA title Saturday, downing Russian Elena Vesnina 6-2, 6-4 in the final of the US Open tuneup.

AFP - Second-seeded Serena Williams stormed into the semi-finals of the two million-dollar WTA Rogers Cup Friday with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Lucie Safarova.

AFP - Second-seeded Serena Williams eased into the quarter-finals of the two million-dollar WTA hardcourt tournament here with a straight sets victory over Ukrainian Alona Bondarenko.

AFP - Australia's Lleyton Hewitt saved two match points in a second-set tiebreaker and rallied to beat Sweden's Robin Soderling 3-6, 7-6 (10/8), 6-4 to advance at the ATP Cincinnati Masters.