• He will be replaced in the draw by a lucky loser from one of the qualifying competitions.

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  • Pavlyuchenkova ended the dream run of Lesia Tsurenko, a 116th-ranked Ukrainian who only made it into the main draw as a lucky loser from the qualifiers.

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  • They contain emotional landmines and serve as support networks -- and, like Will and Grace, those lucky enough to have them draw on each other for a lifelong platonic bond.

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  • Later on Saturday, world No. 1 Roger Federer begins his bid for a record-equaling 17th Masters 1000 tournament victory against Ecuador's Nicolas Lapentti, who made it into the main draw as a lucky loser in qualifying.

    CNN: Champion Murray battered by Fish in another Miami upset

  • On the men's side, No. 4-ranked David Ferrer needed five match points before clinching a 6-0, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 win over American Tim Smyczek, who got into the main draw as a lucky loser from qualifying.

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  • "I've never felt this fit, this strong, this happy to play -- and I think I can be even better, " fourth-ranked Williams told the WTA Tour's website after her 7-5 6-3 win over the 20-year-old Vandeweghe, who made it into the main draw as a lucky loser from qualifying.

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  • We USMNT fans are also spoiled by those echoes growing fainter by the year of that glorious 2002 quarterfinal run by the our boys in the World Cup which, in the end, was really nothing more than a bunch of mature and young players coming together at exactly the right time, a fortuitous draw and a few lucky bounces.

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  • The sides last met in Toronto in 2000 with the Irish lucky to come away with 27-27 draw thanks to an outstanding performance by Ronan O'Gara.

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  • Another largely confusing, listless, and lucky-to-get-a-draw performance left Spurs fans questioning how the club is in this position yet again given the lead they had over Chelsea and Arsenal the first week of March.

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  • Linfield manager David Jeffrey admitted the holders were lucky to get away with the 0-0 draw.

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  • If Samoa is now lucky enough to escape similar turbulence, it may have to draw on the new tradition of power-sharing that Malietoa helped to entrench.

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  • Gajdosova will play lucky loser Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine, who replaces Sharapova in the draw.

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  • The place is so iconic that thousands of Irish draw straws every year for the chance to be among the lucky ten or twenty to squeeze 60 feet into the magic chamber whose surrounding walls are inscribed with runic whorls, serpent forms, chevrons, and spiral signs of infinity.

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  • By putting up huge numbers annually while chasing the all-time home run record, Rodriguez would singularly draw extra fans and pump up local TV ratings for the team lucky enough to get him.

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  • By winning through to the second round, we put ourselves in with a chance of qualifying as a 'lucky loser' - meaning that if another team pulled out of the main draw, we would be in.

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  • Despite this blip, and unconvincing Tory attempts to draw broader conclusions from it, Mr Milburn and Tony Blair must be thanking their lucky stars.

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