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OSTRAVA, Czech Republic -- The Czech Republic took a commanding 2-0 lead over defending champion Italy in their Fed Cup semifinal Saturday after Lucie Safarova and Petra Kvitova won the opening singles matches in straight sets. Safarova gave the Czechs a 1-0 lead by upsetting Sara Errani 6-4, 6-1, and Kvitova used her powerful serve and forehand to follow up with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Camila Giorgi to put the hosts one win away from the final against Australia or Germany. The reverse singles and doubles are planned for Sunday. The sixth-ranked Kvitova dominated the hard-hitting Giorgi and didnt face a break point until in the final game when she saved two and needed four match points to seal the victory. "I played a solid game and my serve helped me a great deal," said Kvitova, who hit 11 aces. Kvitova broke the 54th-ranked Giorgi in the opening game and went on to serve out the first set with an ace. The match had to be interrupted for 20 minutes in the first set with Kvitova leading 4-3 due to a problem with the lights in the CEZ Arena. Giorgi double-faulted twice in the opening game of the second set and produced another double-fault to go 5-2 down. Earlier, the 26th-ranked Safarova converted her first match point with a return winner to complete the victory over her 11th-ranked opponent. "Its an important victory for our team," said Safarova, who improved to 2-1 against Errani. The Czech played aggressively from the start on the fast indoor hard-court at the CEZ Arena, hitting 33 winners to Erranis four. The opening set saw both players losing their serve twice in the first five games. Errani then double-faulted in the ninth game to lose her serve for the third time and Safarova clinched the set with a service winner. "I was nervous at the beginning and made some mistakes," Safarova said. "But then I managed to focus on my game. I went aggressively for the points." Errani continued in the same fashion in the final set, losing her three service games. Cal Ripken Jersey .Y. - The Buffalo Sabres reassigned forward Sam Reinhart to the WHLs Kootenay Ice on Friday. Custom Baltimore Orioles Jerseys . -- Miguel Angel Jimenez quickly shifted his focus back to the Ryder Cup after winning his first Champions Tour event. http://www.theoriolesteamshop.com/Orioles-Roberto-Alomar-Kids-Jersey/ . The Rainbow FlickNext up is the Rainbow Flick, or as you probably know it, the trick that everybody at soccer camp thought they knew how to do. Frank Robinson Jersey .Airport spokeswoman Heather Lissner said that all departing flights were back on schedule. However, arriving flights were still trying to catch up.Super Bowl Sunday got off to an inconvenient start for hundreds of passengers trying to get to Phoenix for the game. Andrew Cashner Jersey . Groves signed with Cleveland as an unrestricted free agent last year after a season with Arizona. He was in the linebacker rotation and had a sack in the season opener against Miami.FRANKFURT - Arjen Robben scored his 100th goal for Bayern Munich in a 2-0 victory over Freiburg on Tuesday that stretched his teams unbeaten run to 20 matches in the Bundesliga.Thomas Mueller added another goal after the break as coach Pep Guardiola celebrated his 50th match in charge with another victory. Since he took over as coach last season, Guardiola has six draws and two defeats to go with 42 wins in the Bundesliga.Elsewhere, 10-man Stuttgart held on for a 1-0 victory at fellow struggler Hamburger SV, Hannover beat Augsburg 2-0 and Mainz drew 0-0 in Cologne.Stuttgarts second away victory under new coach Huub Stevens lifted the team from the bottom of the table, at least until the 16th round is completed on Wednesday.Robben scored in the 41st after Xavi Alonso sent a long ball to Franck Ribery. The Frenchman nodded the ball down for Robben and the winger headed home from closse range.ddddddddddddueller completed the win in the 48th, with another close-range header after an effort by Juan Bernat had crashed off the crossbar.We could have scored a few more goals but its good to win, no matter what the result is, Mueller said. They defended with five, six men in their area and they defended well. How many goals we score is not important, we did what we set out to do and that was to win.Bayern outshot Freiburg 30-2.They were so dominant, we couldnt do anything, Freiburgs Julian Schuster said.In Hamburg, Florian Klein capitalized on an error by Rafael van der Vaart to score the winning goal shortly before halftime and Stuttgart protected the victory despite losing Georg Niedermeier to a red card in the 53rd. Van der Vaart, the Hamburg captain, fired against the crossbar from the ensuing free kick.Stuttgart rose to 15th, just behind Hamburg. ' ' '