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Headlines (03 May) :
Rafa fate to be decided
Rafael Benitez heads into a meeting with chairman
Martin Broughton this week which could well decide his future at the club
Hearn warning for Higgins
John Higgins weaps down the phone to Barry Hearn but
is told his snooker future will be in peril if frame-fixing
allegations can be confirmed
McIlroy roars to first PGA title
Rory McIlroy sets a new course record on his way to
winning the Quail Hollow Championship, his first PGA title
Robertson fightback rocks Dott
Neil Robertson wins six of the eight frames in
Sunday's second session to take a 9-7 lead over Graeme Dott in the
World Championship final
Muralitharan out of World Twenty20
Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan is ruled out of
the ICC World Twenty20 with a groin injury
Hodgson sticking with Fulham
Roy Hodgson dismisses speculation linking him with
Liverpool after watching his side beat struggling West Ham 3-2 at
Craven Cottage
Watson wallops Pakistan
Shane Watson hits 81 off 49 balls in Australia's
impressive 34-run victory over Pakistan in the World Twenty20
Wigan bounce back to beat Giants
Wigan are top of Super League after bouncing back from
their defeat to Harlequins with a 28-10 win over Huddersfield |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 02 May 2010
FOOTBALL
Barclays Premier League
Fulham 3 West Ham 2 Liverpool 0 Chelsea 2 Sunderland 0
Man Utd 1
Coca-Cola Championship
Blackpool 1 Bristol City 1 Coventry 0 Watford 4 Derby
2 Cardiff 0 Ipswich 0 Sheff Utd 3 Leicester 2 Middlesbrough 0
Plymouth 1 Peterborough 2 QPR 0 Newcastle 1 Reading 4 Preston 1
Scunthorpe 2 Nottm Forest 2 Sheff Wed 2 Crystal Palace 2 Swansea 0
Doncaster 0 West Brom 1 Barnsley 1
RUGBY UNION
Heineken Cup Semi Final
Biarritz (3) 18 Munster (7) 7
RUGBY LEAGUE
Super League
Castleford (16) 34 Catalans Dragons (10) 18 St Helens
(30) 54 Hull K R (0) 0 Wigan (4) 28 Huddersfield (4) 10
WORLD SNOOKER
Final (best of 35 frames)
Neil Robertson (Aus) leads Graeme Dott (Sco) 9-7
Frame scores (Robertson first): 10-87 (80) 65-55 1-93
35-62 68-56 (62 52) 62-56 24-73 (57) 47-74 66-5 (61) 90-6 (90) 79-72
(72 Dott) 79-53 (79) 52-11 4-71 (56) 27-70 (53) 113-23 (70)
GOLF
LPGA Tres Marias Championship
Collated final round scores & totals in the LPGA
Tour Tres Marias Championship, Tres Marias Golf Club Morelia,
Michoacan, Mexico(USA unless stated, par 73):
273 Ai Miyazato (Jpn) 63 72 71 67 274 Stacy Lewis 71
68 69 66 275 Michelle Wie 66 68 73 68 278 In Kyung Kim (Kor) 69 71 74
64 279 Na Yeon Choi (Kor) 69 68 71 71 280 Lorena Ochoa (Mex) 66 73 70
71 281 Maria Hjorth (Swe) 73 67 72 69, Amanda Blumenherst 68 77 68 68
The Crowns
Collated final-round scores (Jpn unless stated, par 70):
267 Ryo Ishikawa 68 70 71 58 272 Hiroyuki Fujita 69 65
72 66, Paul Sheehan (Aus) 66 71 67 68 273 Kurt Barnes (Aus) 71 71 68
63 274 Hiroshi Iwata 68 70 69 67, Wen-Chong Liang (Chn) 67 70 68 69,
Kunihiro Kamii 65 66 73 70 275 Tetsuji Hiratsuka 67 74 66 68,
Yasuharu Imano 66 68 71 70, Shigeki Maruyama 66 69 68 72 277 Yuji
Igarashi 70 68 72 67, Tadahiro Takayama 67 67 73 70, Michio Matsumura
68 67 71 71 278 Kyung-Tae Kim (Kor) 70 69 70 69, Toru Taniguchi 69 70
70 69
Open de Espana
Collated final round scores & totals in the
European Tour Open de Espana, Real Club de Golf de Sevilla, Seville,
Spain(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 72):
277 Alvaro Quiros (Spa) 68 72 67 70 (Quiros won at
first play-off hole), James Morrison 73 67 70 67 278 Alejandro
Canizares (Spa) 71 69 70 68, Mark Foster 69 66 69 74, Raphael
Jacquelin (Fra) 69 67 71 71 279 Stephen Dodd 69 68 71 71, Paul Lawrie
74 67 71 67, Paul Waring 66 75 72 66, Nicolas Colsaerts (Bel) 71 66
72 70 280 Jamie Donaldson 71 72 66 71, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 69 72 69
70 281 Shane Lowry 71 68 70 72, Carlos Del Morral (Spa) 68 69 70 74
Quail Hollow Championship
Collated final round scores & totals in the USPGA
Tour Quail Hollow Championship, Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, North
Carolina, United States of America(USA unless stated, par 72):
273 Rory McIlroy (NIrl) 72 73 66 62 277 Phil Mickelson
70 68 71 68 278 Angel Cabrera (Arg) 70 67 73 68 279 Brendon De Jonge
70 73 70 66 280 Bo Van Pelt 65 76 71 68 281 Rickie Fowler 73 70 71 67
282 J J Henry 68 71 71 72, Anthony Kim 72 69 70 71, Scott McCarron 70
75 67 70, Jim Furyk 75 65 71 71, Matthew Jones (Aus) 74 71 69 68,
Padraig Harrington (Irl) 72 72 70 68, Mark Wilson 73 72 70 67
TENNIS
AEGON Pro-Series
Women's Singles Final:
Romana Tabakova (Svk) bt Lisa Whybourn (Gbr) 6-1 6-7
(7-9) 7-6 (9-7)
WTA Porsche Grand Prix Final
Justine Henin (Bel) bt (7) Samantha Stosur (Aus) 6-4
2-6 6-1
ATP Internationaionali BNL d'Italia Final
(3) Rafael Nadal (Spa) bt (13) David Ferrer (Spa) 7-5 6-2
GYMNASTICS
Beth Tweddle was
energised by the support of the British crowd as she claimed double
gold on the final day of the European Artistic Gymnastics
Championships in Birmingham. Tweddle won uneven bars and floor gold
medals in Milan 12 months ago and successfully defended both titles
at the National Indoor Arena.
MOTOR RACING
Jorge Lorenzo came out on top in his scrap with fellow
Spaniard Dani Pedrosa to claim a thrilling victory at the Gran Premio
de Espana MotoGP event in Jerez. Fiat Yamaha rider Lorenzo passed
Pedrosa's Repsol Honda on the final lap to come home 0.543 seconds
ahead of his rival, with his team-mate Valentino Rossi in third.
Victory moved Lorenzo four points ahead of reigning world champion
Rossi at the top of the standings.
CYCLING
Caisse D'Epargne's Alejandro Valverde won the final
stage of the Tour de Romandie to claim the overall race win by just
over 11 seconds. The Spaniard comfortably overhauled Team Columbia
rider Michael Rogers' overall lead after the Australian finished over
30 seconds back in Sunday's 121.8km stretch starting and finishing in Sion. |
