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Headlines (16 October) :
McLeish will not waste Yeung cash
Alex McLeish insisted Birmingham will not be held to
ransom when signing players after new owner Carson Yeung vowed to
make up to £40 million during the January transfer window.
Toulon too strong for Sarries
Saracens' winning run under Brendan Venter came to an
end with a 31-23 defeat to Toulon in the Amlin Challenge Cup.
Blues to lodge intention to appeal
Chelsea will lodge their intention to appeal against
FIFA's transfer ban with the Court of Arbitration for Sport on
Friday.
Vettel free from pressure
Sebastian Vettel believes all the pressure is on title
rivals Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello in the fight for this
year's Formula One world championship.
Capello keeps door open
Fabio Capello has not ruled out the possibility of a
Theo Walcott-style surprise name in England's World Cup squad.
Rooney to miss Bolton game
Sir Alex Ferguson has ruled Wayne Rooney out of
Manchester United's Barclays Premier League encounter with Bolton at
Old Trafford on Saturday.
Sunderland sign Zenden
Former Chelsea and Liverpool midfielder Boudewijn
Zenden has joined Sunderland until the end of the season after
impressing while training on Wearside.
Solanki: County game behind Tresco
Professional Cricketers' Association chairman Vikram
Solanki believes Marcus Trescothick will receive support from
throughout the county game after flying home from the Champions
League Twenty20.
Rose boosts tour hopes with 65
Justin Rose, unsure what the future holds for him on
the European Tour, took a big step towards easing his worries with a
seven-under-par 65 in the Portugal Masters.
Keatings claims historic medal
Daniel Keatings made history as he claimed Britain's
first all-around medal at the Gymnastics World Championships with a
stunning silver at London's O2 Arena. |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 15
October 2009
GOLF
Japan Open
Collated first round scores in the Japan Tour Japan
Open Golf Championship, Musashi Country Club Toyooka Course, Saitama,
Japan(Jpn unless stated, par 72):
68 Kazuhiro Yamashita, Shigeru Nonaka 69 Michio
Matsumura, Han Lee (USA), Toyokazu Hioki, Hiroyuki Fujita, Ryutaro
Nagano, Taichi Teshima, Yuji Igarashi 70 Azuma Yano, Sushi Ishigaki,
Ryo Ishikawa, Hideki Matsuyama, Katsumasa Miyamoto, Kenichi Kuboya,
Naoya Takemoto 71 Hyung-Sung Kim (Kor), Kaname Yokoo, David Smail
(Nzl), Tomohiro Kondo 72 Hirofumi Miyase, Yudai Maeda, Masayoshi
Nakayama, Kiyoshi Miyazato, Hidemasa Hoshino, Mitsuhiro Tateyama,
Koumei Oda, Toyokazu Fujishima, Shingo Katayama, Makoto Inoue,
Shintaro Kai, Paul Sheehan (Aus)
Ladies Italian Open
Collated first round scores in the Ladies European
Tour Carta Si Ladies Italian Open, Le Rovedine, Milano Golf Club,
Milan, Italy(Ita unless stated, par 72):
67 Iben Tinning (Den), Caroline Afonso (Fra) 68
Marianne Skarpnord (Nor) 69 Becky Brewerton (Wal), Bronwyn
Mullins-Lane (Aus), Gwladys Nocera (Fra), Clare Queen (Sco) 70 Anna
Rossi, Giulia Sergas, Tania Elosegui (Spa), Stefania Croce, Laura
Davies (Eng), Diana Luna, Laura Cabanillas (Spa)
Portugal Masters
Collated first round scores in the European Tour
Portugal Masters, Oceanico Victoria Clube de Golfe, Vilamoura,
Algarve, Portugal(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 72):
63 Francesco Molinari (Ita) 65 Justin Rose, Charl
Schwartzel (Rsa), Alastair Forsyth 66 Pablo Martin (Spa), Mark
Foster, Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den), Simon Khan, Bradley Dredge, Lee
Westwood 67 Felipe Aguilar (Chi), Jose-Filipe Lima (Por), Anton Haig
(Rsa), Oliver Wilson, Marcel Siem (Ger), Oliver Fisher
Justin Timberlake Open
Collated first-round scores from the US PGA Tour's
Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at The TPC at
Summerlin in Las Vegas, Nevada (USA unless stated, par 71):
62 Spencer Levin, Troy Matteson, Tom Pernice Jnr. 63
Martin Laird (Sco), Bob Heintz 64 Jim Furyk, Scott Piercy 65 Jeff
Klauk, Kirk Triplett, Robert Garrigus, Tim Petrovic, Briny Baird 66
Jerry Kelly, Charley Hoffman, Brian Gay, Greg Chalmers (Aus), David
Toms, Matt Kuchar, Greg Owen (Eng), Alex Cejka (Ger), Aaron Baddeley
(Aus), George McNeill, Fredrik Jacobson (Swe), Jay Williamson, Jason
Bohn
TENNIS
WTA HP Open
2nd rd:
Jill Craybas (USA) bt Mathilde Johansson (Fra) 2-6 6-2 6-0
(6) Aleksandra Wozniak (Can) bt Kai Chen Chang (Tpe)
7-5 7-6 (7-2)
(3) Samantha Stosur (Aus) bt Akiko Morigami (Jpn) 6-1 6-2
(1) Caroline Wozniacki (Den) bt Katie O'Brien (Gbr)
6-0 6-1
WTA Generali Ladies Linz
2nd rd: (7) Lucie Safarova (Cze) bt Urszula Radwanska
(Pol) 6-4 6-4
Ioana Raluca Olaru (Rom) bt Julia Goerges (Ger) 3-6
6-2 7-5
(2) Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol) bt Alize Cornet (Fra)
6-4 7-5
(3) Yanina Wickmayer (Bel) bt Alexandra Dulgheru (Rom)
2-6 6-3 6-1
(1) Flavia Pennetta (Ita) bt Anna-Lena Groenefeld
(Ger) 6-3 4-6 6-2
ATP Shanghai Masters 1000
3rd rd:
(6) Nikolay Davydenko (Rus) bt (10) Fernando Gonzalez
(Chi) 6-3 7-5
(13) Radek Stepanek (Cze) bt Stanislas Wawrinka (Swi)
3-6 7-6 (7-5) 4-2 ret
(9) Robin Soderling (Swe) bt (5) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
(Fra) 6-3 6-3
Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) bt (11) Gael Monfils (Fra) 6-2 3-0 ret
(2) Novak Djokovic (Ser) bt Rainer Schuettler (Ger)
6-4 6-2
Feliciano Lopez (Spa) bt Jurgen Melzer (Aut) 5-7 7-6
(7-3) 6-1
(8) Gilles Simon (Fra) bt Tomas Berdych (Cze) 6-3 6-4
(1) Rafael Nadal (Spa) bt (14) Tommy Robredo (Spa) 6-1 6-4
GYMNASTICS
Daniel Keatings was stunned and delighted after
claiming Britain's first all-around medal at the Gymnastics World
Championships with silver at London's O2 Arena on Thursday night. The
Olympic finalist had qualified in fourth place for the final but his
superb display saw him finish second with 88.925 points as Japan's
Kohei Uchimura stormed the field to win gold with 91.500 and Russian
Yury Ryazanov took bronze. |
