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Headlines (04 May) :
Aussie's 'incredible night'
Neil Robertson's mother jets in on last-minute flight
to watch the Aussie's late-night 18-13 win over Graeme Dott at the Crucible
Big Sam's delight in vexing Wenger
Sam Allardyce revels in Blackburn's victory over
Arsenal as Arsene Wenger complains bitterly at some of Rovers'
dubious tactics
Colly frustrated at D/L defeat
Paul Collingwood exasperated at the injustice of
England's Duckworth/Lewis defeat in the World Twenty20 after setting
West Indies a mammoth 192
Confusion reigns over Rafa's fate
Rafael Benitez's fate as Liverpool manager is set to
be resolved next week but reports over his intentions for next season
are wildly conflicting
Murali flies home from World Twenty20
Muttiah Muralitharan is forced to withdraw from Sri
Lanka's World Twenty20 squad due to a groin injury sustained in their
opener against New Zealand
Kuznetsova makes early Rome exit
Last year's finalist Svetlana Kuznetsova suffers a
second-round defeat to fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko at the Rome Masters
Dutch ditch van Nistelrooy
Ruud van Nistelrooy is left out of Holland's 26-man
World Cup training squad despite coming out of international retirement
Ibrox takeover gathers pace
Andrew Ellis is "optimistic" his proposed
takeover of Rangers will move closer to completion later this month |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 03 May 2010
FOOTBALL
Barclays Premier League
Blackburn 2 Arsenal 1 Wigan 2 Hull 2
Blue Square Premier Play-off Semi-Final 2nd Leg
Luton 0 York 1 York won 2-0 on aggregate Oxford Utd 2
Rushden & D'monds 0 Oxford Utd won 3-1 on aggregate
West Indies v EnglandGuyana ICC World Twenty20 Group D
West Indies beat England by 8 wickets.
TENNIS
WTA Estoril Open Men's 1st rd:
Alejandro Falla (Col) bt (7) Juan Ignacio Chela (Arg)
6-4 7-6 (7-4)
Arnaud Clement (Fra) bt Igor Kunitsyn (Rus) 7-5 4-6
6-4
Leonardo Tavares (Por) bt Ricardo Mello (Bra) 6-3 6-3
Marcel Granollers-Pujol (Spa) bt Oscar Hernandez (Spa)
6-2 6-1
Women's 1st rd
Julia Goerges (Ger) bt (3) Aleksandra Wozniak (Can)
6-1 6-1
Tatjana Malek (Ger) bt Klara Zakopalova (Cze) 6-4 7-5
Kirsten Flipkens (Bel) bt (8) Sybille Bammer (Aut) 6-1 6-3
Kimiko Date Krumm (Jpn) bt Petra Martic (Cro) 6-7
(4-7) 7-5 7-6 (7-2)
(7) Shuai Peng (Chn) bt Julie Coin (Fra) 6-2 6-2
Anastasija Sevastova (Lat) bt (1) Agnes Szavay (Hun)
3-6 6-3 6-3
ATP BMW Open 1st rd
(2) Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) bt Jeremy Chardy (Fra) 6-1 6-4
(8) Benjamin Becker (Ger) bt Stephane Robert (Fra) 6-4
4-6 6-0
Andreas Beck (Ger) bt Denis Istomin (Uzb) 2-6 7-6
(7-3) 6-1
Philipp Petzschner (Ger) bt (7) Julien Benneteau (Fra)
3-6 6-3 6-3
(3) Tomas Berdych (Cze) bt Kevin Krawietz (Ger) 6-1 6-1
ATP Serbia Open 1st rd
Florent Serra (Fra) bt Karol Beck (Svk) 6-3 6-3
Igor Andreev (Rus) bt Blaz Kavcic (Slo) 6-3 6-2
Evgeny Korolev (Kaz) bt Michael Russell (USA) 6-1 6-0
(5) Ivo Karlovic (Cro) bt Dusan Lajovic (Ser) 7-6
(7-4) 6-4
(6) Viktor Troicki (Ser) bt Ivan Navarro (Spa) 6-4 6-0
EQUESTRIAN
Australian Paul Tapner held his nerve amid intense
pressure and driving rain to be crowned Mitsubishi Motors Badminton
Horse Trials champion for the first time. Tapner, based at Highworth
near Swindon, held off the challenge of German Andreas Dibowski, with
Britain's Daisy Berkeley - an Olympic bronze medalist in 2008 - third
after a pulsating showjumping finale. But there was no fairytale
ending for 48-year-old British veteran Mary King. She would have
become the oldest Badminton champion in its 61-year history, but four
faults on Imperial Cavalier saw her slip from second to fourth.
MOTOR CYCLING
Stuart Easton took his first victory of the season in
the opening race of the third round of the MCE Insurance British
Superbike Championship at Oulton Park before Michael Laverty took his
maiden win in a damp second race. Behind them, Worx Suzuki rider
Tommy Hill packed in the points, finishing second and third to
tighten his grip in the title chase. Hill currently has 125 points to
Easton's 76. |
