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Headlines (27 March) :
Vettel marches to Australian win
Sebastian Vettel started the new Formula One season as
he finished last year, with a crushing victory.
Bent happy to repay Capello
England striker Darren Bent was happy to repay Fabio
Capello's faith with a goal after admitting he did not expect to
start against Wales.
Fabio thrilled with formation
Fabio Capello was delighted to see his switch to a
4-3-3 formation pay off as England cruised past Wales in a Euro 2012
qualifier in Cardiff.
Doyle suffers 'serious injury'
Republic of Ireland striker Kevin Doyle could be out
for the rest of the season after suffering a "very serious"
knee injury against Macedonia.
Pendleton loses Keirin heat
Victoria Pendleton failed to advance at the first time
of asking in the Keirin on the fifth and final day of the Track World Championships.
Murray out of doubles too
Andy Murray's poor form continued as he and Novak
Djokovic crashed out of the Sony Ericsson Open doubles.
Nadal and Federer cruise through
Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer breezed through their
opening matches at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami.
Strauss plots new way forward
Andrew Strauss admitted his England team fell well
short at the World Cup, and changes may have to be considered to
bring about improvement.
Collingwood: 'Dark hours' on tour
England all-rounder Paul Collingwood believes it is
time for the international schedule to be revised.
Laird edges ahead in Orlando
Scotland's Martin Laird will take a two-shot lead into
the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Sunday. |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 26
March 2011
FOOTBALL
International
Colombia 2 Ecuador 0 Panama 2 Bolivia 0 Portugal 1
Chile 1
European Championship Qualifying
Group A
Germany 4 Kazakhstan 0
Group B
Andorra 0 Slovakia 1 Armenia 0 Russia 0 Rep of Ireland
2 FYR Macedonia 1
Group D
Albania 1 Belarus 0 Bosnia-Herzegovina 2 Romania 1
Group F
Georgia 1 Croatia 0 Israel 2 Latvia 1 Malta 0 Greece 1
Group G
Bulgaria 0 Switzerland 0 Wales 0 England 2
Group H
Cyprus 0 Iceland 0
CRICKET
Sri Lanka v England Colombo RPS ICC World Cup Quarter Final
Sri Lanka beat England by 10 wickets.
RUGBY UNION
Aviva Premiership Rugby
Bath (3) 6 Leicester (22) 37 Harlequins (24) 53
Gloucester (3) 15 London Irish (18) 39 Exeter (8) 17
The Magners League
Aironi Rugby (14) 25 Connacht (10) 13 Edinburgh (10) 23
Ospreys (13) 16
The Championship Pool A
London Welsh (15) 54 Bristol (6) 9
The Championship Pool B
Doncaster (3) 16 Bedford (3) 17
RUGBY LEAGUE
Super League
Catalan Dragons (4) 10 Salford (10) 22 Hull K R (6) 16
Huddersfield (12) 38
GOLF
Open de Andalucia
Collated third-round scores and totals (Gbr & Irl
unless stated, par 70):
198 Paul Lawrie 66 67 65 199 Mark Foster 67 67 65,
Kenneth Ferrie 70 69 60 201 Johan Edfors (Swe) 65 71 65 202 Felipe
Aguilar (Chi) 67 69 66, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 67 70 65, Raphael
Jacquelin (Fra) 68 69 65 203 Hennie Otto (Rsa) 68 68 67, Marcel Siem
(Ger) 68 67 68, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 67 65 71, Florian Fritsch (Ger)
66 68 69, Oscar Floren (Swe) 65 69 69
Kia Classic (R2) Collated second-round scores (USA
unless stated, par 73):
134 Jiyai Shin (Kor) 70 64 135 Sandra Gal (Ger) 67 68
139 In Kyung Kim (Kor) 70 69 140 Mindy Kim (Kor) 74 66, Chella Choi
(Kor) 72 68, Amanda Blumenherst 66 74 141 Anna Nordqvist (Swe) 71 70,
Sun Young Yoo (Kor) 71 70 142 Paige Mackenzie 71 71 143 Michelle Wie
68 75, Mika Miyazato (Jpn) 70 73, Catriona Matthew (Sco) 70 73
Arnold Palmer Invitational Collated third round scores
and totals (USA unless stated, par 72):
205 Martin Laird (Sco) 70 65 70 207 Spencer Levin 66
70 71 209 Steve Marino 71 67 71, Bubba Watson 70 71 68 210 David Toms
74 67 69, Rickie Fowler 69 71 70 211 Trevor Immelman (Rsa) 72 71 68,
John Senden (Aus) 71 72 68, Marc Leishman (Aus) 73 72 66, Charles
Howell III 73 65 73 212 Brendon De Jonge 71 71 70, K J Choi (Kor) 72
64 76, Chris Couch 70 71 71, Ryan Moore 74 67 71
TENNIS
ATP & WTA Sony Ericsson Open
Men's 2nd rd:
(13) Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) bt Yen-Hsun Lu (Tpe) 6-1 6-0
(15) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Fra) bt Teymuraz Gabashvili
(Rus) 6-3 6-7 (3-7) 6-3
(32) Juan Monaco (Arg) bt Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukr) 6-4
6-7 (2-7) 6-4
Feliciano Lopez (Spa) bt (26) Juan Ignacio Chela (Arg)
7-6 (7-3) 3-6 6-4
(3) Roger Federer (Swi) bt Radek Stepanek (Cze) 6-3 6-3
(21) Alexandr Dolgopolov (Ukr) bt Andreas Seppi (Ita)
6-1 5-3 ret
Florian Mayer (Ger) bt (20) Albert Montanes (Spa) 6-4
3-1 ret
Philipp Petzschner (Ger) bt (10) Jurgen Melzer (Aut)
6-3 6-4
(25) Gilles Simon (Fra) bt Rainer Schuettler (Ger) 6-4 6-3
Olivier Rochus (Bel) bt (22) Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp)
6-2 4-6 6-4
Pablo Cuevas (Uru) bt (8) Andy Roddick (USA) 6-4 7-6 (7-4)
Carlos Berlocq (Arg) bt (28) Ernests Gulbis (Lat) 6-1
2-6 6-4
(1) Rafael Nadal (Spa) bt Kei Nishikori (Jpn) 6-4 6-4
(7) Tomas Berdych (Cze) bt Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (Spa)
6-1 6-7 (4-7) 6-0
Women's 3rd rd:
Shuai Peng (Chn) bt (11) Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus) 6-3 6-1
Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spa) bt Elena Vesnina (Rus)
6-3 6-4
(26) Alexandra Dulgheru (Rom) bt Johanna Larsson (Swe)
6-2 6-1
(6) Jelena Jankovic (Ser) bt (32) Klara Zakopalova
(Cze) 7-5 6-1
(4) Samantha Stosur (Aus) bt (30) Lucie Safarova (Cze)
6-0 7-6 (7-1)
(16) Maria Sharapova (Rus) bt Sabine Lisicki (Ger) 6-2 6-0
(1) Caroline Wozniacki (Den) bt (29) Daniela
Hantuchova (Svk) 6-1 7-6 (9-7)
ROWING
Oxford's stroke Simon Hislop epitomised Oxford's
refusal to be beaten as the Dark Blues produced a commanding
performance to win the 157th Xchanging Boat Race by four lengths.
Hislop, who begins his new career as a junior doctor at Charing Cross
Hospital in August, triumphed on the Tideway just 11 months after
undergoing surgery for testicular cancer.
CYCLING
Australia enjoyed a stellar penultimate day of the
Track Cycling World Championships with gold medals for Anna Meares,
Shane Perkins and Michael Freiberg in Apeldoorn, Holland. Meares
struck gold in the women's sprint, Perkins in the men's Keirin and
Freiberg in the men's omnium as Australia won the title in all three
Olympic events taking place today, while Marianne Vos of Holland won
the non-Olympic scratch race.
DIVING
Peter Waterfield took bronze for Great Britain in the
men's 10m platform final at the Diving World Series in Beijing. China
continued their domination of the weekend as Qiu Bo and Cao Yuan
finished way out in front in the standings in the gold and silver
places respectively, but Waterfield's 546.95 saw him finish third.
TRIATHLON
Australians took gold and silver in today's Mooloolaba
ITU Triathlon World Cup. Brad Kahlefeldt took gold, with compatriot
Brendan Sexton overcoming a 15-second penalty to beat France's David
Hauss for second place. The win was Kahlefeldt's third in Mooloolaba
and the seventh World Cup title of his career, placing him
joint-sixth on the all-time list. Out of the field of 75 men, Great
Britain's Stuart Hayes finished eighth after leading in the early stages. |
