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Tongan swimmer Amini Fonua gestures during a semi-final for the Men's 50 metre breaststroke for The Commonwealth Games at the S.P. Mukherjee Aquatics Centre in New Delhi on October 7, 2010. Tonga's only Commonwealth Games swimmer Amini Fonua made waves again on Thursday after qualifying for the men's 50m breaststroke final. The 20-year-old US-based student swam into the last eight with the seventh-fastest time and goes in an all-star field featuring Cameron Van Der Burgh of South Africa with Australia's Christian Sprenger and Brenton Rickard. The Commonwealth Games are taking place in the Indian capital from October 3-14.