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Headlines (24 October) :
Rhodes savours toughest success
Ryan Rhodes hailed the toughest win of his long career
after claiming the European light-middleweight title with a stunning
victory over Jamie Moore.
FOTA chief issues Todt plea
Formula One Teams' Association chairman Luca di
Montezemolo has urged new FIA president Jean Todt to be "open
and constructive" in dealing with his organisation.
Wenger fully focused on Hammers
Arsene Wenger may have just turned 60, but the desire
to drive his young Arsenal side on to bigger and better things burns
as fierce as ever.
Katich hails T20 experience
New South Wales Blues captain Simon Katich believes
the Champions League Twenty20 opened a new chapter in international
cricket and felt the experience it provided for young cricketers was
invaluable.
Richards a 'big part' of plans
Manchester City boss Mark Hughes is adamant Micah
Richards has a long-term future with the club.
Smith targets improvement
England wanted to put the World Cup behind them but
the memories came flooding back as Tony Smith's men struggled to make
a confident start to the Gillette Four Nations.
Blues fret over CAS ruling
Success for Chelsea this season could hinge on the
Court of Arbitration for Sport - and assistant manager Ray Wilkins
admits the Blues are worried at the prospect of losing four key
players in January, with no means of replacing them.
Owen will cope with Kop - Ferguson
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson is braced for
another intense clash at Liverpool on Sunday - but is confident the
player likely to face the most flak will sail through.
Fergie sympathetic for Southgate plight
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has
expressed his sympathy for sacked Middlesbrough boss Gareth
Southgate.
Moles: My position was untenable
Andy Moles says he was left with little choice but to
resign from his position as New Zealand head coach after senior
players and others at New Zealand Cricket had questioned his
abilities to run the team. |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 23
October 2009
FOOTBALL
Coca-Cola Championship
Watford 4 Sheff Wed 1
GOLF
Japan Tour Bridgestone Open
Collated second round scores & totals in the Japan
Tour Bridgestone Open, Sodegaura Country Club Sodegaura Course,
Chiba, Japan(Jpn unless stated, par 72):
134 Yuta Ikeda 67 67, Koumei Oda 68 66 135 Shingo
Katayama 70 65, Toru Suzuki 68 67 137 Kenichi Kuboya 69 68, Ryuichi
Oda 70 67, Katsunori Kuwabara 70 67 138 Masanori Kobayashi 71 67,
Naoya Takemoto 67 71 139 Hidemasa Hoshino 68 71, Kyung-Tae Kim (Kor)
69 70, Tadahiro Takayama 68 71, Azuma Yano 71 68, Tetsuji Hiratsuka
69 70, Kaname Yokoo 68 71
Italian Federation Cup
Collated third round scores & totals in the
European Challenge Tour Italian Federation Cup, Olgiata GC, Rome,
Italy(Ita unless stated, par 72):
200 N Colsaerts (Bel) 68 66 66 201 F Andersson Hed
(Swe) 69 68 64, R Davies (Wal) 66 68 67, E Molinari 66 67 68 204 S
Thornton (Irl) 65 69 70, T Olesen (Den) 70 68 66 205 J Sjoholm (Swe)
69 69 67 206 P Gustafsson (Swe) 70 66 70 207 S Jamieson (Sco) 68 70
69, S Manley (Wal) 70 70 67, I Pyman (Eng) 71 70 66, M Haastrup (Den)
66 70 71, J Quesne (Fra) 71 69 67, A Mellor (Eng) 72 69 66, A Tampion
(Aus) 68 68 71
Castello Masters R2
Latest second round scores & totals in the
European Tour CASTELLO MASTERS Costa Azahar, Club de Campo del
Mediterraneo, Castellon, Spain
(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 71): Note: Second
round has been suspended due to darkness play will resume on Saturday
at 8:45am local time. 50 players are still to finish their first round.
130 Robert Allenby (Aus) 64 66, Martin Kaymer (Ger) 63
67 132 Shiv Kapur (Ind) 67 65 133 Sam Hutsby 65 68 134 Peter Hanson
(Swe) 66 68, John E Morgan 66 68, Benn Barham 68 66, Andrew Coltart
70 64, Miles Tunnicliff 67 67, Paul Broadhurst 70 64
TENNIS
Aegon Pro Series
Men's 15,000 Futures
Semi-finals
Yannick Mertens (Bel) bt Mathieu Rodrigues (Fra) 6-2 7-5
Daniel Evans (Gbr) bt Claudio Grassi (Ita) 6-2 6-1
Men's Doubles Final
Chris Eaton & Dominic Inglot (Gbr) bt Daniel Cox
(Gbr) & Uladzimir Ignatik (Blr) 6-0 7-6 (7-5)
Women's 25,000 Event Quarter-finals
Stephanie Vongsouthi (Fra) bt Patricia Mayr (Aut) 3-6
7-6 (10-8) 5-2 ret
Johanna Larsson (Swe) bt Yulia Fedossova (Fra) 5-0 ret
Katarzyna Piter (Pol) bt Selima Sfar (Tun) 6-3 7-6 (11-9)
Melanie South (Gbr) bt Julia Mayr (Ita) 6-4 6-3
WTA BGL Luxembourg Open
Quarter-finals
(5) Yanina Wickmayer (Bel) bt Kirsten Flipkens (Bel)
7-6 (7-1) 4-6 6-1
(3) Timea Bacsinszky (Swi) bt Katarina Srebotnik (Slo)
6-7 (3-7) 6-1 6-4
(6) Sabine Lisicki (Ger) bt Patty Schnyder (Swi) 6-4 6-2
Shahar Peer (Isr) bt (4) Daniela Hantuchova (Svk) 6-2
7-6 (7-4)
ATP & WTA Kremlin Cup
Men's Quarter-final:
(6) Janko Tipsarevic (Ser) bt Robby Ginepri (USA) 6-3 6-3
Mikhail Kukushkin (Kaz) bt (5) Pablo Cuevas (Uru) 4-6
6-1 6-4
Illya Marchenko (Ukr) bt Evgeny Korolev (Rus) 0-6 6-2 6-3
(3) Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) bt Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukr)
6-3 6-3
Women's Quarter-final:
Alona Bondarenko (Ukr) bt Tsvetana Pironkova (Bul) 6-3 6-3
(8) Francesca Schiavone (Ita) bt Maria Kirilenko (Rus)
6-3 6-2
Alisa Kleybanova (Rus) bt (2) Jelena Jankovic (Ser)
6-4 6-3
Olga Govortsova (Blr) bt Vera Dushevina (Rus) 6-3 6-0
ATP If Stockholm Open Quarter-final:
Olivier Rochus (Bel) bt Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) 6-3 2-6 6-1
Thomaz Bellucci (Bra) bt Joachim Johansson (Swe) 7-6
(7-4) 6-3
(1) Robin Soderling (Swe) bt Guillermo Garcia-Lopez
(Spa) 7-6 (7-4) 6-4
Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) bt Arnaud Clement (Fra) 6-4 6-4
CYCLING
Lizzie Armitstead won her second title in two days
with victory in the women's points race at the British National Track
Cycling Championships in Manchester. The 20-year-old from Otley, who
won three medals at the World Championships in March, once again
demonstrated her form before next week's Track World Cup at the same venue,
SWIMMING
Heather Frederiksen
won her fifth gold medal of the IPC Swimming European Championships
in Reykjavik - as Great Britain collected six gold, four silver and
four bronze medals. The City of Salford swimmer won the women's S8
100 metres freestyle in one minute 7.51 seconds - ahead of team-mate
Emma Hollis in third - while Sascha Kindred, Stephanie Millward,
Natalie Massey, Matthew Walker and Daniel Pepper also won gold medals.
RALLYING
Sebastien Loeb made the perfect start to his bid to
secure his sixth straight World Rally Championship title by winning
four of Friday's six stages to lead by 5.3 seconds after day one of
the Rally of Great Britain. |
