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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Kaia Kanepi of Estonia beat Peng Shuai of China 6-2, 7-5 to win the Brussels Open on Saturday. Kanepi won the fourth tournament in her WTA career by racing out to build a big lead before surviving some late jitters and clinching a big boost ahead of the French Open which starts on Sunday. "This win gives me confidence and I feel good going to Roland Garros," 27-year-old Kanepi said. The sun finally broke out over the Heysel courts on Saturday after a week filled with frustration over the unusually cold and wet conditions. "It has been a really tough week because wind and weather and cold," she said. The long delays forced the players to finish both semis and final on the same day. In Saturday mornings semifinals, eighth-seeded Peng defeated Romina Oprandi of Switzerland in a tough three-setter 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. Kanepi moved into the final by edging Jamie Hampton of the United States, 7-6 (6), 6-4. The players were given a few hours rest before their final later Saturday. Peng, ranked 34th in the world, already reached the final in 2011. Kanepi is 40th in the WTA rankings and reached the semifinals in Brussels last year. Cheap Air Max Plus Black . Tests earlier this week revealed a Grade 2 left hamstring strain for Sabathia, who was hurt in last Fridays start against San Francisco. Its an injury that will require about eight weeks to heal. He finished a disappointing campaign just 14-13 with a career-worst 4. Wholesale Vapormax Plus . MLS Commissioner Don Garber and Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez also will attend the session, which was announced Monday. The league has discussed placing its next two expansion teams in Miami and Atlanta. http://www.cheapairmaxplusclearance.com/cheap-air-vapormax-plus.html . -- Patrick Reed got an early start in golf. Air Max Plus On Sale . After Gasquet beat fifth-seeded Ivan Dodig of Croatia 7-5, 6-3, Tsonga followed up with a 6-7 (3), 6-2, 6-2 win against sixth-seeded Edouard Roger-Vasselin in an all-French match. Vapormax For Sale Cheap . Following a lopsided 5-2 loss against the New Jersey Devils on Wednesday night, Paul MacLean told reporters that "theres a lack of focus, theres a lack of leadership and theres a lack of preparation" with his struggling team. That came on the heels of Bryan Murray taking the unusual step of going into the locker room at the Prudential Center and addressing the players himself. MOSCOW -- Russia will accept an International Olympic Committee plan to retest all drug test samples given by its athletes at the 2012 and 2014 Olympics, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko said Saturday.The IOC has now decided to retest all the samples; let them retest, Mutko, who was sports minister at the time of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics, told Russian state agency R-Sport. He added that Russia will keep a careful eye on the process.The IOCs declaration Friday followed the publication of a report by World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren. This alleged that more than 1,000 Russian athletes, including medal winners at the London and Sochi games, had benefited from a state-backed campaign of doping and drug test cover-ups.Mutko, whose brief as deputy prime minister covers sports policy, also suggested that he does not expect Russia to be barred from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. He said the IOC sett a precedent when it decided against a blanket ban for Russia from this summers Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.ddddddddddddI think that the IOC has chosen its direction, that there should be no collective responsibility in this situation, he said. If a specific athlete is found to have committed an offense, then lets punish him rather than excluding the whole Russian team, Mutko said.Mutko repeated the Russian governments claim that it has never given state support to doping and that there was no widespread doping of the Russian team at the Sochi Olympics.Mutko did not address allegations in McLarens report that he directed so-called washout testing -- unofficial internal tests before major competitions to ensure banned substances would not be detectable when doped athletes later gave samples at the event. ' ' '