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On This Day in Sport (13 April 2010):

1936: Joe Payne set a Football League record by scoring 10 goals for Luton in a Division Three (South) match against Bristol Rovers.
1980: Seve Ballesteros became the youngest winner of the US Masters at the age of 23 years and four days.
1986: Ayrton Senna, in a Lotus, beat Britain's Nigel Mansell to win the Spanish Grand Prix by just 14 hundredths of a second.
1999: Kevin Phillips scored four as Sunderland clinched promotion to the Premiership with a 5-2 victory over Bury.
2000: Rugby league legend Shaun Edwards, the most decorated player in the game's history, announced his retirement after a 17-year career with Wigan and Great Britain following a succession of knee and head injuries.
2002: First Division champions Manchester City signed former Denmark international and Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel from Aston Villa.
2003: Paula Radcliffe smashed the women's marathon record - becoming the first woman to run under two hours 16 minutes - with a successful defence of her London Marathon title.
2004: Roy Keane announced he would return to play for the Republic of Ireland - having quit international football after his highly-publicised bust-up with former international manager Mick McCarthy at the 2002 World Cup finals..

Headlines (13 April) :

United 'to ditch Berbatov'
Man United set to sell Dimitar Berbatov in summer, according to reports. David Villa or Karim Benzema tipped as replacements
Wembley's pitch battle
Experts queue up to savage the pitch at Wembley, with the head groundsman at the Millennium Stadium branding it 'a global embarrassment'
Murray's fresh snub to GB
Andy Murray says his close relationship with new Davis Cup coach Leon Smith doesn't mean he will resume playing for Great Britain.
Klitschko challenges Haye
Wladimir Klitschko accuses Britain's WBA world heavyweight champion David Haye of "running away" and calls him out for a fight
Arsenal tipped for takeover
Arsenal move a step closer to a takeover as the club's third-largest shareholder reportedly begins the process of selling her stake
Torres concern for Reds
Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez reveals striker Fernando Torres is to visit a specialist to assess his knee injury
'Crashgate' settled at last
The FIA finally draw a line under their bitter battle with Flavio Briatore over the 'crashgate' scandal surrounding the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix
Adebayor quits Togo
Manchester City's Emmanuel Adebayor announces his retirement from international football, citing the attack on the Togo team bus as the reason for his decision

International Results Roundup

Dateline 12 April 2010

FOOTBALL
Coca-Cola Division One
Swindon 1 Exeter 1
Scottish Division One
Airdrie Utd 0 Queen of South 1
Scottish Division Two
Stirling 2 Arbroath 2
TENNIS
ATP Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters
1st rd:
David Nalbandian (Arg) bt Andreas Beck (Ger) 6-3 6-1
Ernests Gulbis (Lat) bt Marco Chiudinelli (Swi) 6-3 6-2
Andrey Golubev (Kaz) bt Jeremy Chardy (Fra) 6-2 7-6 (7-2)
Nicolas Almagro (Spa) bt Simon Greul (Ger) 3-6 7-5 6-2
(10) Tomas Berdych (Cze) bt Feliciano Lopez (Spa) 6-3 6-1
Philipp Petzschner (Ger) bt Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spa) 6-3 2-6 6-2
Julien Benneteau (Fra) bt Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr (Ukr) 6-4 5-7 6-2
Philipp Kohlschreiber (Ger) bt Thomaz Bellucci (Bra) 2-6 6-3 7-6 (7-3)
Richard Gasquet (Fra) bt Daniel Gimeno-Traver (Spa) 6-2 4-6 6-2
Benjamin Becker (Ger) bt Bernard Tomic (Aus) 6-4 6-2
(11) David Ferrer (Spa) bt Peter Luczak (Aus) 6-2 6-4
(9) Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spa) bt Marcel Granollers (Spa) 6-0 6-3
(14) Juan Monaco (Arg) bt Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) 7-5 7-5
ROWING
Alan Campbell, Andrew Triggs Hodge and Pete Reed all took their sixth titles at the British Rowing trials in Hazewinkel, Belgium,, while Katherine Grainger won the women's single scull to take her career trials tally to nine. Campbell won the men's single sculls by a clear margin, while Triggs Hodge and Reed lived up to their favourites' tag with victory in the men's pairs.