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Headlines (04 November) :
Rooney's remorse over red card
England striker Wayne Rooney is blaming no-one but
himself for the suspension which has ruled him out of three matches
at Euro 2012.
I'll be back soon - Redknapp
Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has revealed he hopes
to be back on the White Hart Lane touchline "in a couple of weeks".
Khan calls for radical change
Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan has called for
cricket to be radically changed as three players began jail terms for spot-fixing.
Jacobson storms into lead
Sweden's Fredrik Jacobson took over at the top with a
second-round 66 at the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai on Friday.
McClaren on Club Brugge radar
Steve McClaren could be poised for a return to
management with Club Brugge, the Belgian outfit confirmed after their
draw at Birmingham.
Wales set to face Wallabies
World Cup semi-finalists Australia and Wales will meet
in a three-match series Down Under in 2012, the Wallabies announced
on Friday.
Thorpe makes a splash again
Ian Thorpe has made his return to competitive swimming
after a five-year absence at the FINA World Cup in Singapore.
Djokovic storms through in Basle
Novak Djokovic stormed into the quarter-finals of the
Swiss Indoors in Basle on Thursday for the loss of just three games
to Lukasz Kubot.
Fabulous Fulham flatten Krakow
Fulham edged closer to the Europa League knockout
stages with an impressive 4-1 victory against fiery Poles Wisla
Krakow at Craven Cottage.
Natcho bites into Spurs' hopes
Tottenham slipped to their first Europa League defeat
of the season after a 1-0 loss to Rubin Kazan in the Group A tie in
Russia on Thursday. |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 03 November 2011
FOOTBALL
Europa League
Group A
Rubin Kazan 1 Tottenham 0 Shamrock Rovers 1 PAOK
Salonika 3
Group B
FC Copenhagen 1 Hannover 96 2 Vorskla 1 Standard Liege
3
Group C
Legia Warsaw 3 Rapid Bucuresti 1 PSV 3 Hapoel Tel-Aviv
3
Group D
FC Vaslui 1 Sporting 0 Lazio 1 FC Zurich 0
Group E
Besiktas 1 Dynamo Kiev 0 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 1 Stoke 2
Group F
PSG 1 Slovan Bratislava 0 SV Red Bull Salzburg 0
Athletic Bilbao 1
Group G
FC Metalist Kharkiv 3 Malmo FF 1 FK Austria Vienna 2
AZ 2
Group H
Birmingham 2 Club Brugge 2 Braga 5 Maribor 1
Group I
Atletico Madrid 4 Udinese 0 Celtic 3 Rennes 1
Group J
Schalke 04 0 AEK 0 Steaua Bucuresti 4 Maccabi Haifa 2
Group K
FC Twente 3 Odense BK 2 Fulham 4 Wisla Krakow 1
Group L
AEK Athens 1 Lokomotiv Moscow 3 Anderlecht 3 SK Sturm
Graz 0
CRICKET
Zimbabwe v New Zealand Test Series : First Test at
Bulawayo
Zimbabwe 313 all out 121.5 ovs New Zealand 426 all out
143.3 ovs 111 - 3 37 ovs Lunch
akistan v Sri Lanka Test Series : Third Test at Sharjah
Sri Lanka 358 - 7 141.2 ovs In Progress
GOLF
WGC-HSBC Champions First-round collated scores,
Sheshan International GC, Shanghai, China(USA unless stated, par 72):
65 Keegan Bradley 67 Alexander Noren (Swe), Fredrik
Jacobson (Swe), Bo Van Pelt 68 Justin Rose (Eng), K J Choi (Kor),
David Toms, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 69 Rory Sabbatini (Rsa), Graeme
McDowell (NIrl), Adam Scott (Aus), Martin Kaymer (Ger), Simon Dyson
(Eng), Peter Hanson (Swe), Aaron Baddeley (Aus), Jhonattan Vegas
(Ven), Lee Westwood (Eng)
TENNIS
ATP Swiss Indoors 2nd rd:
Florian Mayer (Ger) bt Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) 6-3 6-1
Kei Nishikori (Jpn) bt Andreas Seppi (Ita) 6-3 7-6 (7-4)
Mikhail Kukushkin (Kaz) bt James Blake (USA) 6-3 6-4
(1) Novak Djokovic (Ser) bt Lukasz Kubot (Pol) 6-1 6-2
(7) Andy Roddick (USA) bt Radek Stepanek (Cze) 2-6 6-3 6-3
Stanislas Wawrinka (Swi) bt Robin Haase (Ned) 4-6 6-1 6-2
ATP Valencia Open 500 2nd rd:
Sam Querrey (USA) bt (2) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Fra) 7-6
(7-5) 6-2
Juan Monaco (Arg) bt Fabio Fognini (Ita) 6-3 6-1
Marcel Granollers (Spa) bt Marin Cilic (Cro) 3-6 6-3 7-5
Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spa) bt Alex Bogomolov Jr. (USA)
7-6 (7-3) 4-6 6-2
(6) Juan Martin Del Potro (Arg) bt Kevin Anderson
(Rsa) 6-4 6-4
Nikolay Davydenko (Rus) bt Nicolas Mahut (Fra) w/o
WTA Tournament of Champions Quarter-finals:
Nadia Petrova (Rus) bt (2) Shuai Peng (Chn) 6-4 6-3
Ana Ivanovic (Ser) bt (4) Roberta Vinci (Ita) 6-3 6-3 |
