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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. |
