SPORTSMONDAY, PAGE D1 Safin Wins Australian Open Crowd support was not enough for Lleyton Hewitt of Australia, who lost to Marat Safin of Russia, 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.
She will have crowd support as she tries to win her country's first gold in the event.
Among others advancing in the athletes-only competition were Tonya Harding (getting crowd support from Allison Janney, who won an Oscar for playing Harding's mom in the movie, "I, Tonya") and basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Perhaps with crowd support, Sweden might have found the strength to win.
He vilifies a political foe in "Hamlet," and stages "Richard III" to win the crowd's support for rebellious aristocrats.
At the film's climax, on the eve of the half-hearted Essex uprising in 1601, De Vere stages Richard III in order to win the crowd's support for his faction.
At Wimbledon, Murray was perceived as Federer's principal threat; he had a four-match winning streak against Federer and could expect to have crowd support in the final.
Britain have won eight out of their last nine Davis Cup home ties, which says a lot for the crowd support, as Murray acknowledged.
Using vocal crowd support to her advantage, Errani fought back from a 4-1 definithen the second set for a 6-3, 7-5 win over two-time Rome champion Jelena Jankovic.
With the 1,000 computer points he won in Paris, Soderling leaped past Murray into the No. 4 spot in the rankings, but Murray will have more crowd support than anyone in London even if he remains a proud Scotsman.
