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On This Day in Sport (01 May 2010): 1904: The first football international outside Great Britain was played by Belgium and France at Uccle, near Brussels, and ended in a 3-3 draw. 1955: Stirling Moss and co-driver Dennis Jenkinson became the first British winners of the Mille Miglia in a Mercedes Benz. 1988: Ben Lexcen, designer of Australia II, the first non-American yacht to win the America's Cup (1983), died. 2000: The Norwegian owners of Wimbledon, prompted by player power, parted company with manager Egil Olsen after eight successive defeats - replacing him with assistant Terry Burton. 2002: West Brom chairman Paul Thompson resigned following a feud with promotion-winning manager Gary Megson. 2006: Graeme Dott won the snooker World Championship with an 18-14 victory over Peter Ebdon in the final. 2007: Worcester appointed former Wales coach Mike Ruddock as their new director of rugby on a three-year contract. 2007: Liverpool reached their second Champions League final in three years with a victory over Chelsea on penalties in the semi-final second leg at Anfield. Headlines (01 May) : Fresh humiliation for Tiger Tiger Woods shoots nine over in 2nd round at the Quail Hollow Championship to miss only his sixth cut in 241 events as a pro Ridsdale to step down at Cardiff Peter Ridsdale will step down as Cardiff City chairman next month after securing new investment from the Middle East Robertson closes in on final Aussie Neil Robertson builds 15-9 lead over Ali Carter in their World Championship semi-final at the Crucible; Graeme Dott leads Mark Selby 10-6 Sammy stars as hosts thrash Ireland Darren Sammy tonks 30 then takes three wickets as Ireland slump to 68 all out in 70-run defeat to West Indies at the World Twenty20 Magic McCullum settles thriller Nathan McCullum hits a six off the second to last ball to clinch two-wicket win for New Zealand in the World Twenty20 opener against Sri Lanka Zola in dark over transfers Gianfranco Zola hits out at West Ham's co-owners David Sullivan and David Gold after admitting he knew nothing about the bid for Graham Dorrans Wilko boots Toulon into final Fourteen points from the boot of Jonny Wilkinson propels Toulin into the Amlin Challenge Cup after a 19-12 win over Connacht in Galway. Nadal breezes through Rafael Nadal eases into the Rome Masters semi-finals after sealing a 6-4 6-1 win over Stanislas Wawrinka International Results Roundup Dateline 30 April 2010 CRICKET West Indies v Ireland ICC World Twenty20 2010 : Group D at Guyana West Indies 138 - 9 20 ovs Ireland 68 all out 16.4 ovs West Indies won by 70 runs. WORLD SNOOKER Semi-final (all matches best of 33): Neil Robertson (Aus) lead Ali Carter (Eng) 15-9 Frame scores (Robertson first breaks in brackets): 60-7 124-8 (124) 70-60 92-11 (91) 124-0 (76) 49-64 85-27 (52) 0-107 (69) 140-0 (140) 74-67 32-55 27-100 (76) 12-82 0-82 (81) 84-8 (59) 104-2 (104) 34-56 92-0 117-8 (116) 79-5 (78) 98-1 (51) 21-65 1-72 (55) 62-51 Graeme Dott (Sco) leads Mark Selby (Eng) 10-6 Frame scores (Dott first breaks in brackets): 105-27 (79) 53-68 (53 Dott) 71-19 (70) 77-6 26-65 68-10 (50) 105-4 (93) 0-142 (142) 73-54 (54 Selby) 66-68 (66 Dott 63 Selby) 0-84 (51) 84-19 (84) 146-0 (146) 6-58 66-52 (66 51) 92-4 (86) TENNIS WTA Porsche Grand Prix Quarter-final: (7) Samantha Stosur (Aus) bt Na Li (Chn) 6-3 6-3 Shahar Peer (Isr) bt (2) Dinara Safina (Rus) 6-3 6-2 Justine Henin (Bel) bt (4) Jelena Jankovic (Ser) 3-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 Anna Lapushchenkova (Rus) bt Lucie Safarova (Cze) 7-6 (7-1) 1-6 6-1 AEGON Pro-Series Men's Semi-finals: Eric Prodon (Fra) bt Kamil Capkovic (Svk) 6-4 6-7 (2-7) 7-5 Mikhail Vasiliev (Rus) bt Gleb Sakharov (Fra) 6-3 6-2 Women's Quarter-finals: Lisa Whybourn (Gbr) bt Petra Sanduska (Pol) 3-6 6-3 6-3 Francesca Stephenson (Gbr) bt Alice Balducci (Ita) 4-4 ret Audrey Bergot (Fra) bt Tara Moore (Gbr) 6-0 6-1 RomanaTabakova (Svk) bt Lucy Brown (Gbr) 6-1 6-3 Men's Doubles Final: Claudio Grassi & Matteo Marrai (Ita) bt Colin Ebelthite & Jarryd Maher (Aus) 6-3 6-3 Women's Doubles Final: Alice Balducci & Martina Caciotti (Ita) bt Jessica Ren (Gbr) & Alexandra Cannizaro (Aus) 6-4 6-3 ATP Internationaionali BNL d'Italia Quarter-final: (6) Fernando Verdasco (Spa) bt (2) Novak Djokovic (Ser) 7-6 (7-4) 3-6 6-4 (13) David Ferrer (Spa) bt (7) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Fra) 6-4 6-1 (3) Rafael Nadal (Spa) bt Stanislas Wawrinka (Swi) 6-4 6-1 Ernests Gulbis (Lat) bt Feliciano Lopez (Spa) 7-6 (8-6) 6-1 WTA Fes Grand Prix Semi-final: Simona Halep (Rom) bt Renata Voracova (Cze) 7-5 6-4 (7) Iveta Benesova (Cze) bt Alize Cornet (Fra) 6-3 4-6 7-5 YACHTING Britain's sailors claimed a golden hat-trick on the final day of competition in Hyeres. Paul Goodison, Bryony Shaw and Paul Brotherton and Mark Asquith all sealed victory on Friday despite more light wind conditions. Shaw's medal race was abandoned, handing her overall victory and her second straight World Cup podium finish. CYCLING Britain's Emma Pooley won the GP Suisse as her Cervelo Test Team dominated the race. Pooley, the Olympic time-trial silver medallist, won the 23.4-kilometre race against the clock ahead of Germany's Judith Arndt (HTC-Columbia) and Jeannie Longo of France.