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LONDON -- Organizers say highest-ranked U.S. tennis player Mardy Fish is set to play at the Queens Club tournament next month as a grass-court warmup for Wimbledon and the London Olympics. The No. 9-ranked Fish pulled out of the U.S. Davis Cup teams quarterfinal against France in early April due to a health scare. Britains Andy Murray is set to defend the Queens Club title a week before playing at Wimbledon. The Olympic tennis tournament will also be held at the All England Club. Murray will not have to face second-ranked Rafael Nadal at Queens this year after the Spaniard pulled out of the tournament, citing stringent British tax laws that could cause the player to lose money by playing the weeklong tournament. Wholesale Jerseys China . Joey Elliott will replace Alex Brink under centre for the Bombers when they play host to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats this Thursday. Wholesale NFL Jerseys China . How much the recently re-acquired wide receiver plays against the Tennessee Titans is the big question. http://bloodcopy.org/wholesale.html . The senior teams bronze-medal performance at the London Olympics has already done that. Canada will play its first game of the tournament Monday against Argentina in Kobe, Japan. LONDON -- Chelsea showed its rivals for Englands final Champions League place just how hard they will have to fight to finish in the top four, beating Queens Park Rangers 6-1 on Sunday. Although Tottenham returned to fourth place with a 2-0 win over Blackburn, Fernando Torres first hat trick in more than 2 1/2 years helped confirm that Chelsea is the in-form team of three aiming to qualify for Europes club top competition. Chelsea, which could yet render the race for fourth place immaterial if it wins next months Champions League final, hit four goals in the opening 25 minutes at Stamford Bridge and only conceded with six minutes left. The Blues reached the Champions League final in midweek by completing a two-legged win over Barcelona and would qualify as defending champion if it beats Bayern Munich for the trophy, leaving Englands fourth-place team to enter the second-tier Europa League instead. "After a Champions League game in midweek, it always proves difficult in the next game in the Premier League," Chelsea interim manager Roberto Di Matteo said: "I have to say that the team surprised me. I wasnt expecting but I was hoping. "They really put in a great performance today." Daniel Sturridge scored after 49 seconds, John Terry headed in a corner and the rejuvenated Torres scored twice to put the result beyond doubt with more than an hour remaining. The Spain strikers first goal was very similar to the one that earned a 2-2 draw at Barcelona. He knocked the ball around the goalkeeper with one touch and rolled it into an unguarded net with his next. He made it 4-0 after goalkeeper Paddy Kenny had dropped the slippery ball following a header back to him from teammate Nedum Onuoha. Torres struck again in the 64th for his first hat trick since September 2009, when he scored three times in Liverpools 6-1 win over Hull, and substitute Florent Malouda scored in the 80th. Djibril Cisse got a late goal back for relegation-threatened QPR. After just eight goals in his first 61 games since joining Chelsea for 50 million pounds ($81.3 millionn), Torres now has four from his last two matches.dddddddddddd "I was feeling very good, very sharp, playing well, but I couldnt score," Torres said. "Now I feel Im not playing as well as before, but I am scoring goals, which is the important thing for the strikers." With Chelsea fans looking forward to next months Champions League final and FA Cup final, the opening half-hour was played in a party atmosphere despite heavy rain that meant water splashed with players every footstep and the ball barely travelled when passed along the ground. Still, a large number of Chelsea fans jeered and taunted QPR defender Anton Ferdinand throughout for his accusation earlier this season that Terry had racially abused him. Terry lost the England captaincy and faces a criminal trial after the European Championship in the summer. The furor meant that the traditional pre-match handshake between the sides was abandoned Sunday to avoid the players coming into contact outside of the game. Defeat further damaged QPRs chances of avoiding relegation, although it is still just above the bottom three on goal difference. "Weve damaged our own goal difference today," QPR manager Mark Hughes said. "At halftime we talked about that." Chelsea next hosts fifth-place Newcastle on Wednesday, when Tottenham is at Bolton. Rafael van der Vaart and Kyle Walker scored Sunday for Tottenham, which had 19 shots to none by relegation-threatened Blackburn. Van der Vaart put Spurs ahead in the 22nd after Gareth Bales header from a cross by Aaron Lennon hit the bar, but the home sides comprehensive domination yielded only Walkers 75th-minute strike after that. Tottenhams second win in 10 matches lifted it above Newcastle, which crashed 4-0 at Wigan on Saturday, on goal difference and to within four points of third-place Arsenal. Chelsea is a point further back with three games remaining. The title race resumes Monday, when defending champion Manchester United travels to second-place Manchester City -- with just three points separating the sides. ' ' '