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Headlines (31 August 2011) :
QPR close in on Wright-Phillips
Queens Park Rangers are reportedly closing in on the
signing of Manchester City winger Shaun Wright-Phillips.
Stoke strike deal for Jerome
Stoke have agreed an undisclosed fee, thought to be
£6million, with Birmingham over the transfer of striker Cameron Jerome.
Gunners to secure defensive duo
Arsenal are due to formalise the signings of defensive
duo Per Mertesacker and Andre Santos before Wednesday's 11pm transfer deadline.
Magpies snap up Santon
Newcastle boss Alan Pardew finally got his hands on a
new left-back on Tuesday when Davide Santon completed his move from
Inter Milan.
Niland laments Djokovic defeat
Conor Niland blamed food poisoning as world number one
Novak Djokovic dropped only one game in their first-round match at
the US Open.
Li Na crashes out
French Open champion Li Na fell at the first hurdle of
the US Open on Tuesday, following Wimbledon queen Petra Kvitova
through the exit door.
Baltacha moves through
Elena Baltacha emulated Laura Robson in reaching the
second round of the US Open in New York on Tuesday.
Keothavong comes a cropper
Anne Keothavong could not make it three British women
into the second round of the US Open as she went down 7-5 6-3 to
Chanelle Scheepers.
Nadal survives Golubev test
Rafael Nadal overcame Kazakhstan's Andrey Golubev to
reach the US Open second round with a 6-3 7-6 (7/1) 7-5 victory on
Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Ennis eager to move on
Jessica Ennis has pledged not to over-analyse the loss
of her World heptathlon title, despite seeing her long unbeaten run
end in Daegu. |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 30 August 2011
FOOTBALL
Carling Cup Second Round
Aldershot 2 Carlisle 0 Leyton Orient 3 Bristol Rovers
2 Swindon 1 Southampton 3
CRICKET
Sri Lanka v Australia Test Series : First Test at Galle
Australia 105 - 3 34.1 ovs In Progress
TENNIS
US OPEN Men's Singles - Round 1
Novak Djokovic (1) 6 5 - - - Conor Niland 0 1 - - -
Match won by retirement
Pere Riba 5 0 1 - - Carlos Berlocq 7 6 4 - -
Potito Starace 6 4 6 6 - Michael Berrer 4 6 3 2 -
Nikolay Davydenko 6 (6) 6 6 2 6 Ivan Dodig (32) 7 (8)
3 0 6 2
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (11) 6 6 6 - - Yen-Hsun Lu 4 4 4 - -
Andreas Haider-Maurer 3 2 6 4 - Sergei Bubka 6 6 3 6 -
Marsel Ilhan 6 6 1 - - Frank Dancevic 3 2 0 - - Match
won by retirement
Jarkko Nieminen 6 4 1 4 - Fernando Verdasco (19) 3 6 6
6 -
Stanislas Wawrinka (14) 3 6 6 6 - Maximo Gonzalez 6 4
1 3 -
Donald Young 6 6 6 - - Lukas Lacko 4 2 4 - -
Dmitry Tursunov 7 (7) 6 5 1 6 (0) Steve Darcis 6 (4) 4
7 6 7 (7)
Marinko Matosevic 1 - - - - Juan Ignacio Chela (24) 3
- - - - Match won by retirement
David Ferrer (5) 2 6 6 6 - Igor Andreev 6 3 0 4 -
James Blake 6 6 4 6 - Jesse Huta Galung 4 2 6 4 -
Olivier Rochus 6 (5) 2 4 - - Jean-Rene Lisnard 7 (7) 6
6 - -
Adrian Mannarino 2 0 1 - - Florian Mayer (26) 6 6 6 - -
Mikhail Youzhny (16) 2 4 4 - - Ernests Gulbis 6 6 6 - -
Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6 (5) 4 4 - - Gilles Muller 7
(7) 6 6 - -
Matthias Bachinger 6 6 1 4 4 Igor Kunitsyn 2 1 6 6 6
Eric Prodon 2 6 (4) 2 - - Jurgen Melzer (17) 6 7 (7) 6
- -
Ivan Ljubicic (30) 7 (7) 3 6 7 - Blaz Kavcic 6 (5) 6 1
5 -
Bobby Reynolds 6 3 4 3 - David Nalbandian 4 6 6 6 -
Nicolas Mahut 3 6 (4) 6 6 6 Robert Farah 6 7 (7) 2 4 0
Andrey Golubev 3 6 (1) 5 - - Rafael Nadal (2) 6 7 (7) 7
- -
Women's Singles - Round 1
Caroline Wozniacki (1) 6 6 - - - Nuria Llagostera Vives
3 1 - - -
Arantxa Rus 6 6 - - - Elena Vesnina 2 4 - - -
Vania King 6 6 - - - Greta Arn 1 4 - - -
Iveta Benesova 6 (5) 5 - - - Jarmila Gajdosova (29) 7
(7) 7 - - -
Daniela Hantuchova (21) 2 3 - - - Pauline Parmentier 6
6 - - -
Akgul Amanmuradova 6 6 - - - Tamira Paszek 4 2 - - -
Jamie Hampton 6 2 1 - - Elena Baltacha 2 6 5 - - Match
won by retirement
Sara Errani 5 1 - - - Svetlana Kuznetsova (15) 7 6 - -
-
Andrea Petkovic (10) 6 6 - - - Ekaterina Bychkova 2 2 -
- -
Vitalia Diatchenko 6 5 2 - - Jie Zheng 4 7 6 - -
Casey Dellacqua 5 0 - - - Alize Cornet 7 6 - - -
Irina Begu 3 4 - - - Roberta Vinci (18) 6 6 - - -
Kaia Kanepi (31) 6 6 - - - Tamarine Tanasugarn 4 3 - -
-
Kimiko Date Krumm 6 (5) 6 (2) - - - Silvia Soler
Espinosa 7 (7) 7 (7) - - -
Mathilde Johansson 2 6 5 - - Carla Suarez-Navarro 6 4 7
- -
Simona Halep 6 7 - - - Na Li (6) 2 5 - - -
Victoria Azarenka (4) 6 6 - - - Johanna Larsson 1 3 - -
-
Rebecca Marino 3 3 - - - Gisela Dulko 6 6 - - -
Michaella Krajicek 3 7 (7) 6 - - Eleni Daniilidou 6 6
(4) 1 - -
Bojana Jovanovski 1 1 - - - Serena Williams (28) 6 6 -
- -
Shahar Peer (23) 6 (5) 6 6 - - Sania Mirza 7 (7) 3 1 -
-
Reka-Luca Jani 2 6 6 (3) - - Sloane Stephens 6 3 7 (7)
- -
Evgeniya Rodina 6 1 2 - - Petra Cetkovska 1 6 6 - -
Ksenia Pervak 4 2 - - - Ana Ivanovic (16) 6 6 - - -
Jelena Jankovic (11) 6 6 - - - Alison Riske 2 0 - - -
Jelena Dokic 6 6 - - - Olga Govortsova 3 1 - - -
Petra Martic 5 6 6 - - Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova 7 3 4
- -
Anna Tatishvili 2 2 - - - Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (17)
6 6 - - -
Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (32) 3 4 - - - Mona Barthel
6 6 - - -
Chanelle Scheepers 7 6 - - - Anne Keothavong 5 3 - - -
Mirjana Lucic 6 2 6 - - Marina Erakovic 4 6 4 - -
Galina Voskoboeva 3 6 4 - - Francesca Schiavone (7) 6 1
6 - -
Yanina Wickmayer (20) 6 7 - - - Sorana Cirstea 1 5 - -
-
Lauren Davis 6 (3) 3 - - - Angelique Kerber 7 (7) 6 - -
-
Flavia Pennetta (26) 6 6 - - - Aravane Rezai 1 4 - - -
Coco Vandeweghe 7 6 - - - Alberta Brianti 5 3 - - -
Alona Bondarenko 3 3 - - - Sabine Lisicki (22) 6 6 - -
ATHLETICS
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Day Four - MEN:
400m Final: 1 Kirani James (Grn) 44.60secs, 2 LaShawn
Merritt (USA) 44.63, 3 Kevin Borlee (Bel) 44.90, 4 Jermaine Gonzales
(Jam) 44.99, 5 Jonathan Borlee (Bel) 45.07, 6 Rondell Bartholomew
(Grn) 45.45, 7 Tabarie Henry (ISV) 45.55, 8 Femi Ogunode (Qat) 45.55
800m Final: 1 David Lekuta Rudisha (Ken) 1min
43.91secs, 2 Abubaker Kaki (Sud) 1:44.41, 3 Yuriy Borzakovskiy (Rus)
1:44.49, 4 Marcin Lewandowski (Pol) 1:44.80, 5 Nick Symmonds (USA)
1:45.12, 6 Adam Kszczot (Pol) 1:45.25, 7 Alfred Kirwa Yego (Ken)
1:45.83, 8 Mohammed Aman (Eth) 1:45.93
Discus Throw Final: 1 Robert Harting (Ger) 68.97m, 2
Gerd Kanter (Est) 66.95, 3 Ehsan Hadadi (Iri) 66.08, 4 Mart Israel
(Est) 65.2, 5 Benn Harradine (Aus) 64.77, 6 Virgilijus Alekna (Lit)
64.09, 7 Vikas Gowda (Ind) 64.05, 8 Jorge Y. Fernandez (Cub) 63.54, 9
Piotr Malachowski (Pol) 63.37, 10 Jason Young (USA) 63.2, 11 Mario
Pestano (Spa) 63, 12 Brett Morse (Gbr) 62.69
WOMEN
3000m Steeplechase Final: 1 Yuliya Zaripova (Rus)
9mins 07.03secs, 2 Habiba Ghribi (Tun) 9:11.97, 3 Milcah Chemos
Cheywa (Ken) 9:17.16, 4 Mercy Wanjiku Njoroge (Ken) 9:17.88, 5 Lydia
Chebet Rotich (Ken) 9:25.74, 6 Sofia Assefa (Eth) 9:28.24, 7 Binnaz
Uslu (Tur) 9:31.06, 8 Hanane Ouhaddou (Mar) 9:32.36, 9 Gesa Felicitas
Krause (Ger) 9:32.74, 10 Birtukan Fente (Eth) 9:36.81, 11 Lyubov
Kharlamova (Rus) 9:44.14, 12 Sara Moreira (Por) 9:47.87, 13 Emma
Coburn (USA) 9:51.40, 14 Barbara Parker (Gbr) 9:56.66, 15 Birtukan
Adamu (Eth) 10:05.10
Pole Vault Final: 1 Fabiana Murer (Bra) 4.85m, 2
Martina Strutz (Ger) 4.8, 3 Svetlana Feofanova (Rus) 4.75, 4 Jennifer
Suhr (USA) 4.7, 5 Yarisley Silva (Cub) 4.7, 6 Elena Isinbaeva (Rus)
4.65, 7 Jirina Ptacnikova (Cze) 4.65, 8 Nikoleta Kiriakopoulou (Gre)
4.65, 9 Silke Spiegelburg (Ger) 4.65, 10 Kristina Gadschiew (Ger)
4.55, 10 Monika Pyrek (Pol) 4.55, 10 Anna Rogowska (Pol) 4.55
MOTOR CYCLING
Australian Casey Stoner raced to victory in the
Indianapolis Moto Grand Prix, his third consecutive win and seventh
overall this year. Starting from pole position for the seventh time
this season, Stoner completed the 28 laps of the 2.621-mile
Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course in 46 minutes, 52.786
seconds. Stoner, making his seventh start of the year from the pole,
finished 4.828 seconds ahead of defending world champion Dani Pedrosa
of Spain. |
