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Headlines (21 May) :
Grant set for West Ham
Avram Grant 'agrees in principle' to become West Ham's
new manager, say reports. The Israeli quit Portsmouth yesterday
Berbatov not leaving
Dimitar Berbatov is 'definitely not' leaving
Manchester United, says Sir Alex Ferguson, despite the Bulgarian's
underwhelming first full season
Arsenal stand firm over Fab
Cesc Fabregas may be forced to hand in a transfer
request to engineer a move to Barcelona as Arsenal dig their heels in
Milner future uncertain
James Milner admits he does not know if he will still
be at Aston Villa next season after a £20m bid from Manchester
City is rejected
Onions out three months
England paceman Graham Onions is ruled out for up to
three months due to a back injury, and has also undergone a knee op
Willett leads at Wentworth
Danny Willett leads the way after day one of the BMW
PGA Championship at Wentworth following a six-under-par 65
Hartley to miss tour Down Under
England suffer a blow with the news that hooker Dylan
Hartley has been ruled out of their tour of Australia and New Zealand
with a knee injury
ACSU confirm Pakistan investigation
Pakistan's disastrous tour of Australia is the subject
of an ongoing investigation by the ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 20
May 2010
FOOTBALL
European Under-21 Championship Qualifying
Group Two
Estonia U21 2 Armenia U21 3
Coca-Cola Division Two Play-off Semi-Final 2nd Leg
Morecambe 2 Dag & Red 1
CRICKET
Northamptonshire v Sussex LV County Championship -
Division Two at Northampton
Northamptonshire 274 all out 88.5 ovs 171 - 7 48.3 ovs
Sussex 175 all out 52 ovs 269 all out 85.5 ovs Northamptonshire won
by 3 wickets. England Lions v Bangladesh Tour Match : Four Day Match
at Derby
England Lions 296 all out 77.4 ovs Bangladesh 220 all
out 57.2 ovs 156 - 9 49.1 ovs In Progress
GOLF
BMW PGA Championship
Collated first round scores in the European Tour BMW
PGA CHAMPIONSHIP, Wentworth GC, Surrey, England(Gbr & Irl unless
stated, par 71):
65 Danny Willett 66 Richard Green (Aus) 67 Steve
Webster, Richie Ramsay, Ross Fisher, Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia
(Ind) 68 Richard Bland, Soren Kjeldsen (Den), Thomas Aiken (Rsa),
James Kingston (Rsa), Gareth Maybin, Nicolas Colsaerts (Bel), Danny
Lee (Nzl), Luke Donald, Fredrik Andersson Hed (Swe) 69 Craig Lee,
Neil Cheetham, Damien McGrane, Mikko Ilonen (Fin), Craig Shave,
Marcel Siem (Ger), Scott Strange (Aus), Wen-Tang Lin (Tpe), Ricardo
Gonzalez (Arg), Robert Rock, Stephen Gallacher, Alexander Noren
(Swe), Ernie Els (Rsa), Jamie Donaldson
HP Byron Nelson Championship
Latest first-round scores in the USPGA Tour HP Byron
Nelson Championship, TPC Four Seasons Resort Las Colinas, Irving,
Texas, United States of America (USA unless stated, par 70): Note:
First round suspended due to darkness. Play will resume at 7:15am,
local time, with second round tee times delayed one hour.
66 Joe Durant, Jason Day (Aus) 67 Dustin Johnson, Marc
Leishman (Aus), Jay Williamson 68 Rory Sabbatini (Rsa), Mark Hensby
(Aus), James Nitties (Aus), Steve Wheatcroft, Briny Baird, Shaun
Micheel 69 Brent Delahoussaye, Rodney Pampling (Aus), Garth Mulroy
(Rsa), Michael Bradley, Tom Pernice Jnr., Brad Faxon, J J Henry,
Arjun Atwal (Ind), Jason Schultz
TENNIS
WTA Polsat Warsaw Open Quarter-final:
(3) Na Li (Chn) bt Sara Errani (Ita) 6-2 6-1
(5) Jie Zheng (Chn) bt (1) Caroline Wozniacki (Den)
6-3 ret
Alexandra Dulgheru (Rom) bt Tsvetana Pironkova (Bul)
6-4 7-5
Greta Arn (Hun) bt (6) Alona Bondarenko (Ukr) 5-7 6-4 6-4
WTA Internationaux de Strasbourg Quarter-final:
Kristina Barrois (Ger) bt (7) Anastasija Sevastova
(Lat) 6-1 7-5
Vania King (USA) bt Anastasia Rodionova (Rus) 6-4 7-5
ARAG ATP World Team Championship
Red Group:
Sam Querrey (USA) bt Jan Hajek (Cze) 6-3 7-5
Nicolas Almagro (Spa) bt Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) 6-1 6-3
Daniel Gimeno-Traver (Spa) bt Peter Luczak (Aus) 6-3 6-2
Blue Group:
Philipp Kohlschreiber (Ger) bt Viktor Troicki (Ser)
7-6 (7-1) 6-4
Jeremy Chardy (Fra) bt Juan Monaco (Arg) 6-3 6-4
Eduardo Schwank (Arg) bt Paul-Henri Mathieu (Fra) 3-6
6-3 6-2
ATP Open de Nice Cote d' Azur Quarter-final:
Leonardo Mayer (Arg) bt (5) Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) 5-7
6-3 6-4
(2) Fernando Verdasco (Spa) bt Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukr)
6-2 6-7 (5-7) 6-4
Potito Starace (Ita) bt (3) Gael Monfils (Fra) 7-6
(7-2) 6-2
Richard Gasquet (Fra) bt Olivier Rochus (Bel) 6-4 6-2
CYCLING
Team Katusha's Filippo Pozzato recorded the first
Italian stage win in this year's Giro D'Italia after a tight sprint
finish to stage 12. The 206-kilometre haul from Citta Sant'Angelo to
Porto Recanati did not witness a repeat of stage 11's sensational
events, which saw an entirely new top 10 after a mass early breakaway. |
