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On This Day in Sport (25 April 2010):

1872: CB Fry, one of the greatest all-round British sportsmen, was born. He played cricket for Sussex and Hampshire and was capped 26 times by England. He was an England football international and also appeared for Southampton in the 1902 FA Cup final. He also played rugby union for the Barbarians, and in 1893 he set a world long-jump record. He died on September 7, 1956.
2001: Leeds wrapped up the signing of Robbie Keane ahead of schedule by agreeing to stagger payments with Inter Milan.
2001: Peter Schmeichel bowed out of international football following his 129th Denmark appearance.
2004: Arsenal clinched the Premiership title by drawing 2-2 with Tottenham at White Hart Lane.
2006: Jens Lehmann saved a late Juan Roman Riquelme penalty as Arsenal claimed a goalless draw at Villarreal to seal their place in the Champions League final. They went on to lose the final 2-1 to Barcelona in Paris.
2007: It was confirmed that England World Cup winner Alan Ball had died aged 61. He died of a suspected heart attack after battling to put out a bonfire in his garden.

Headlines (25 April) :

Froch beaten by Kessler
Carl Froch loses his WBC super-middleweight title after a unanimous points decision in favour of Mikkel Kessler
Rooney's season could be over
Sir Alex Ferguson admits Wayne Rooney could take "two to three weeks to recover" from a hamstring injury
Given out for the season
Shay Given dislocates his shoulder during the bore draw with Arsenal, leaving Manchester City short of goalkeeping options
Premier League round-up
Man Utd beat Spurs to go top, Man City shut out Arsenal, West Ham all but ensure survival and Hull look doomed after home defeat
Legend Davis pips Higgins
Steve Davis rolls back the years to beat reigning champion John Higgins 13-11 at the World Snooker Championship
Tigers pull clear after win
Leicester cement their position at the Guinness Premiership summit with a 40-22 win over Harlequins at Welford Road
Robertson crushes Gould's dream
Neil Robertson pulls off one of the classic Crucible comebacks to keep his World Championship hopes intact and shatter poor Martin Gould 13-12
Rhinos thrashed by Saints
St Helens end the champions' recent revival in emphatic style by running in six tries at Knowsley Road

International Results Roundup

Dateline 24 April 2010

FOOTBALL
Barclays Premier League
Arsenal 0 Man City 0 Bolton 2 Portsmouth 2 Hull 0 Sunderland 1 Man Utd 3 Tottenham 1 West Ham 3 Wigan 2 Wolverhampton 1 Blackburn 1
Scottish Premier
Falkirk 0 Hamilton 1 Hearts 0 Motherwell 2 St Johnstone 1 Aberdeen 1 St Mirren 1 Kilmarnock 0
Coca-Cola Championship
Barnsley 0 QPR 1 Bristol City 2 Derby 1 Cardiff 3 Sheff Wed 2 Doncaster 4 Scunthorpe 3 Middlesbrough 1 Coventry 1 Newcastle 2 Ipswich 2 Nottm Forest 3 Plymouth 0 Peterborough 0 Blackpool 1 Preston 0 Leicester 1 Sheff Utd 2 Swansea 0 Watford 3 Reading 0
RUGBY UNION
British and Irish Cup Semi Final
Munster (13) 27 Ulster (3) 3
Guinness Premiership
Gloucester (27) 34 London Irish (3) 20 Leicester (16) 40 Harlequins (17) 22 Northampton (16) 27 Saracens (10) 28 Wasps (9) 19 Bath (18) 35
The Magners League
Munster (3) 11 Ospreys (6) 15
The Championship Pool C
Moseley (13) 0 Coventry (0) 0
RUGBY LEAGUE
Super League
St Helens (20) 41 Leeds (6) 20
WORLD SNOOKER
Second round (all matches best of 25):
Steve Davis (Eng) bt John Higgins (Sco) 13-11
Frame scores (Davis first breaks in brackets): 69-1 (53), 15-70 (60), 83-7, 34-60, 72-24 (72), 61-52 (52 Higgins), 102-5 (102), 68-33 (53), 48-78 (78), 39-58, 99-28 (83), 71-36, 12-48, 21-106 (106), 33-63, 63-28, 0-98 (70), 0-135 (115), 87-22, 60-47, 33-75 (59), 19-69 (56), 62-22, 60-43.
Mark Williams (Wal) level with Ronnie O'Sullivan (Eng) 4-4
Frame scores (Williams first, breaks in brackets): 58-21, 0-67 (67), 2-87 (78), 0-83 (83), 0-78 (78), 103-0 (75), 61-24 (57), 74-41 (74)
Neil Robertson (Aus) bt Martin Gould (Eng) 13-12
Frame scores (Robertson first breaks in brackets): 1-78 13-71 (70) 12-116 0-80 38-75 16-71 (53) 76-4 (71) 60-22 (53) 109-14 (86) 0-93 61-22 4-88 (58) 31-103 8-61 81-13 (65) 1-69 (63) 65-1 (64) 112-0 62-16 54-22 63-18 48-68 63-45 75-7 70-40 (52)
Graeme Dott (Sco) bt Stephen Maguire (Sco) 13-6
Frame scores (Dott first, breaks in brackets): 66-59 94-4 (94) 18-64 68-35 110-20 (110) 66-55 99-0 (99) 96-19 (59) 130-1 (130) 66-9 (60) 131-0 (127) 67-20 (50) 0-125 (120) 0-82 (82) 67-7 46-66 (58) 19-75 (75) 9-81 (77) 99-23
Ali Carter (Eng) level with Joe Perry (Eng) 4-4
Frame scores (Carter first breaks in brackets): 92-4 (88) 29-68 (50) 0-63 (50) 69-36 0-85 (56) 72-0 (72) 29-60 71-44
GOLF
Ballantine's Championship
Collated second-round scores (Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 72):
135 Marcus Fraser (Aus) 65 70 136 Gareth Maybin 68 68, Tano Goya (Arg) 66 70, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 69 67 137 Brett Rumford (Aus) 67 70, Ernie Els (Rsa) 68 69, Ted Oh (Kor) 67 70 138 Mardan Mamat (Sin) 68 70, Oliver Fisher 68 70 139 Robert Jan Derksen (Ned) 71 68, Rick Kulacz (Aus) 68 71, Rhys Davies 67 72, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 69 70, Johan Edfors (Swe) 68 71
Ladies European Nations Cup
Collated third-round scores & totals in the Ladies European Tour Comunitat Valenciana European Nations Cup, La Sella Golf Resort, Alicante, Spain (Ita unless stated, par 72):
199 Anna Nordqvist & Sophie Gustafson (Swe) 67 62 70 201 Karrie Webb & Karen Lunn (Aus) 69 65 67, Iben Tinning & Lisa Holm Sorensen (Den) 68 66 67 202 Gwladys Nocera & Jade Schaeffer (Fra) 67 69 66, Giulia Sergas & Veronica Zorzi 68 66 68 203 Beth Daniel & Meg Mallon (USA) 67 71 65 204 Tania Elosegui & Emma Cabrera Bello (Spa) 66 65 73, Maria Verchenova & Anastasia Kostina (Rus) 71 68 65
Zurich Classic of New Orleans (Rd 2)
Collated second round scores in the USPGA Tour Zurich Classic of New Orleans, TPC of Louisiana, Avondale, Louisiana, United States of America(USA unless stated, par 72):
132 Jason Bohn 65 67 136 Jeff Overton 67 69, John Senden (Aus) 67 69 137 Brian Davis (Eng) 71 66, Lee Janzen 71 66, Greg Owen (Eng) 67 70, Shaun Micheel 70 67, Alex Cejka (Ger) 70 67 138 Jarrod Lyle (Aus) 70 68, David Toms 69 69, Greg Chalmers (Aus) 70 68, Chris Couch 67 71, Troy Merritt 68 70 139 Aron Price (Aus) 69 70, Chris Riley 73 66, Brenden Pappas (Rsa) 71 68, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 72 67
TENNIS
Fed Cup
World Group semi-finals:
Italy v Czech Republic, Foro Italico, Rome
Rubber 1: Flavia Pennetta (Ita) bt Lucie Hradecka (Cze) 6-4 7-5 Rubber 2: Francesca Schiavone (Ita) bt Lucie Safarova (Cze) 6-0 6-2 Italy lead 2-0
United States v Russia, BJCC Arena, Birmingham, Alabama
Rubber 1: Melanie Oudin (USA) bt Alla Kudryavtseva (Rus) 6-3 6-3 Rubber 2: Elena Dementieva (Rus) beat Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) 6-4 6-3 Match level at 1-1
ATP Barcelona Open
Semi-final:
(5) Fernando Verdasco (Spa) bt (8) David Ferrer (Spa) 6-7 (3-7) 7-5 6-1
(2) Robin Soderling (Swe) bt Thiemo De Bakker (Ned) 6-1 6-4
GYMNASTICS
Great Britain's men won a European Artistic Gymnastics Championships team medal for the first time on Saturday, winning silver as Germany took gold in Birmingham. Errors on the pommel horse and parallel bars from World Championships all-around silver medallist Daniel Keatings cost Britain though as Germany triumphed by 3.125 points in a total of 266.150. Britain's team of Keatings, Olympic pommel horse bronze medallist Louis Smith, Sam Hunter, Kristian Thomas and Daniel Purvis scored 263.025 points, while France finished third with 260.100.