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Headlines (02 September) :
McClaren ponders Forest future
Nottingham Forest are maintaining their silence on
speculation manager Steve McClaren is considering his future at the
City Ground.
Capello hints at Smalling role
Fabio Capello says he would have no problem handing
Chris Smalling his England debut in Sofia on Friday night.
Pearce hails fantastic start
Stuart Pearce admitted he could not have asked for a
better start from his latest England Under-21 crop after they beat
Azerbaijan 6-0.
Baltacha beaten by Kuznetsova
British number one Elena Baltacha pushed Svetlana
Kuznetsova in the second round of the US Open but found the former
champion just too strong.
Jankovic suffers injury in win
Jelena Jankovic saw off Jelena Dokic 6-3 6-4 to reach
the third round of the US Open - but victory may have come at a price
for the 11th seed.
Federer eases into round three
Roger Federer cruised through to the third round of
the US Open with a 6-3 6-2 6-2 victory over Dudi Sela at Flushing Meadows.
Mackay confirms Bellamy bid
Cardiff manager Malky Mackay has revealed the club
failed in a late bid to bring Craig Bellamy back to the club.
Greene ends GB's wait for gold
Dai Greene finally ended Britain's wait for a World
Championship gold medal with victory in the 400 metres hurdles in
Daegu on Thursday.
Dougherty dazzles in Switzerland
Nick Dougherty finally had something to cheer this
season when he began the Ryder Cup race with an eight-under-par 63 at Crans-sur-Sierre.
Wiggins retains red jersey
Bradley Wiggins maintained his seven-second lead over
Chris Froome as the duo finished in the peloton in the 12th stage of
the Vuelta a Espana. |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 01 September 2011
FOOTBALL
European Under-21 Championship Qualifying
Group One
Germany U21 7 San Marino U21 0
Group Four
Estonia U21 0 Switzerland U21 0 Georgia U21 2 Spain
U21 7
Group Five
Moldova U21 0 Portugal U21 2
Group Six
Rep of Ireland U21 2 Hungary U21 1
Group Seven
England U21 6 Azerbaijan U21 0 Iceland U21 2 Belgium
U21 1
Group Nine
Bulgaria U21 0 Holland U21 1 Luxembourg U21 1 Austria
U21 4
Group Ten
Lithuania U21 0 Sweden U21 1 Malta U21 1 Slovenia U21 4
CRICKET
Sri Lanka v Australia Test Series : First Test at Galle
Sri Lanka 105 all out 50 ovs 28 - 2 15 ovs Australia
273 all out 86.4 ovs 210 all out 59.2 ovs In Progress
Zimbabwe v Pakistan Test Series : First Test at Bulawayo
Zimbabwe 284 - 5 111.1 ovs In Progress
Somerset v Hampshire LV County Championship : Division
One at Taunton
Somerset 204 all out 58.3 ovs Hampshire 480 - 4 133
ovs Close of play
Sussex v Durham LV County Championship : Division One
at Hove
Sussex 218 all out 59.3 ovs Durham 372 all out 99.1
ovs 93 - 0 30 ovs Close of play
Warwickshire v Yorkshire LV County Championship :
Division One at Edgbaston
Warwickshire 281 - 6 84.1 ovs Yorkshire 281 all out
106.5 ovs Close of play
Worcestershire v Lancashire LV County Championship :
Division One at New Road
Worcestershire 237 all out 71.4 ovs 5 - 0 .3 ovs
Lancashire 161 all out 35.2 ovs 80 all out 30.1 ovs Worcestershire
won by 10 wickets.
Middlesex v Leicestershire LV County Championship :
Division Two at Lord's
Middlesex 496 - 2 dec 119 ovs Leicestershire 193 all
out 64.3 ovs 308 - 7 96 ovs Close of play
Gloucestershire v Glamorgan LV County Championship :
Division Two at Bristol
Gloucestershire 278 - 2 76 ovs Glamorgan 378 all out
114 ovs Close of play
Kent v Essex LV County Championship : Division Two at Canterbury
Kent 260 all out 76.2 ovs Essex 144 all out 53.4 ovs
180 - 9 59 ovs Close of play
Northamptonshire v Surrey LV County Championship :
Division Two at Northampton
Northamptonshire 194 all out 67.2 ovs Surrey 269 all
out 88.5 ovs 115 - 3 33 ovs Close of play
TENNIS
US OPEN
Men's Singles - Round 2
Novak Djokovic (1) 6 6 6 - - Carlos Berlocq 0 0 2 - -
Potito Starace 2 4 5 - - Nikolay Davydenko 6 6 7 - -
Alexandr Dolgopolov (22) 6 7 2 5 6 Flavio Cipolla 0 5
6 7 4
Ivo Karlovic 6 6 2 7 (7) - Richard Gasquet (13) 4 2 6
6 (4) -
Tomas Berdych (9) 7 6 6 - - Fabio Fognini 5 0 0 - -
Philipp Petzschner 0 3 6 3 - Janko Tipsarevic (20) 6 6
3 6 -
Marcel Granollers (31) 7 6 6 - - Mikhail Kukushkin 5 3
4 - -
Juan Carlos Ferrero 7 (7) 5 6 (5) 6 6 Gael Monfils (7)
6 (5) 7 7 (7) 4 4
Roger Federer (3) 6 6 6 - - Dudi Sela 3 2 2 - -
Bernard Tomic 1 0 2 - - Marin Cilic (27) 6 6 6 - -
Radek Stepanek (23) 4 1 0 - - Juan Monaco 6 6 2 - -
Match won by retirement
Tommy Haas 7 (7) 6 7 - - Alejandro Falla 6 (5) 1 5 - -
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (11) 6 7 6 - - Sergei Bubka 3 5 2 - -
Marsel Ilhan 4 3 1 - - Fernando Verdasco (19) 6 6 6 - -
Michael Llodra (29) 1 2 2 - - Kevin Anderson 6 6 6 - -
Malek Jaziri 2 2 4 - - Mardy Fish (8) 6 6 6 - -
Women's Singles - Round 2
Caroline Wozniacki (1) 6 6 - - - Arantxa Rus 2 0 - - -
Vania King 6 6 - - - Jarmila Gajdosova (29) 2 0 - - -
Pauline Parmentier 3 5 - - - Akgul Amanmuradova 6 7 -
- -
Elena Baltacha 4 3 - - - Svetlana Kuznetsova (15) 6 6
- - -
Andrea Petkovic (10) 3 6 6 - - Jie Zheng 6 3 3 - -
Alize Cornet 2 3 - - - Roberta Vinci (18) 6 6 - - -
Kaia Kanepi (31) 4 2 - - - Silvia Soler Espinosa 6 6 -
- -
Carla Suarez-Navarro 3 6 6 - - Simona Halep 6 2 2 - -
Victoria Azarenka (4) 6 6 - - - Gisela Dulko 4 3 - - -
Michaella Krajicek 0 1 - - - Serena Williams (28) 6 6
- - -
Shahar Peer (23) 1 6 (4) - - - Sloane Stephens 6 7 (7)
- - -
Jelena Jankovic (11) 6 6 - - - Jelena Dokic 3 4 - - -
Petra Martic 4 6 4 - - Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (17) 6
2 6 - -
Mona Barthel 4 5 - - - Chanelle Scheepers 6 7 - - -
Mirjana Lucic 1 1 - - - Francesca Schiavone (7) 6 6 -
- -
ATHLETICS
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
MEN
3000m Steeplechase Final 1 Alberto Paulo (Por) 8mins
22.41secs, 2 Hamid Ezzine (Mar) 8:11.81, 3 Ion Luchianov (Mda)
8:23.88, 4 Benjamin Kiplagat (Uga) 8:08.43, 5 Abraham Kipkirong
Chirchir (Ken) 8:23.09, 6 Vincent Zouaoui-Dandrieux (Fra) 8:17.84, 7
Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong (Ken) 8:07.41, 8 Mahiedine
Mekhissi-Benabbad (Fra) 8:02.09, 9 Jacob Araptany (Uga) 8:15.72, 10
Brimin Kiprop Kipruto (Ken) 7:53.64, 11 Bouabdellah Tahri (Fra)
8:05.72, 12 Ruben Ramolefi (Rsa) 8:11.50, 13 Ezekiel Kemboi (Ken)
7:55.76, 14 Nahom Mesfin (Eth) 8:12.04, 15 Roba Gari (Eth) 8:10.03
400m Hurdles Final 1 David Greene
(Gbr) 48.26secs, 2 Javier Culson (Pur) 48.44, 3 L.J. van
Zyl (Rsa) 48.8, 4 Felix Sanchez (Dom) 48.87, 5 Cornel Fredericks
(Rsa) 49.12, 6 Bershawn Jackson (USA) 49.24, 7 Angelo Taylor (USA)
49.31, 8 Aleksandr Derevyagin (Rus) 49.32
High Jump Final 1 Jesse Williams (USA) 2.35m, 2
Aleksey Dmitrik (Rus) 2.35, 3 Trevor Barry (Bah) 2.32, 4 Jaroslav
Baba (Cze) 2.32, 5 Dimitrios Chondrokoukis (Gre) 2.32, 5 Ivan Ukhov
(Rus) 2.32, 7 Mutaz Essa Barshim (Qat) 2.32, 8 Aleksandr Shustov
(Rus) 2.29, 9 Raul Spank (Ger) 2.29, 10 Guowei Zhang (Chn) 2.25, 11
Donald Thomas (Bah) 2.2, 12 Darvin Edwards (Lca) 2.2, 12 Dmytro
Dem'yanyuk (Ukr) 2.2
1500m Final 1 Jennifer Barringer Simpson (USA) 4mins
05.40secs, 2 Hannah England (Gbr) 4:05.68,
3 Natalia Rodriguez (Spa) 4:05.87, 4 Btissam Lakhouad (Mar) 4:06.18,
5 Kalkidan Gezahegne (Eth) 4:06.42, 6 Ingvill Makestad Bovim (Nor)
4:06.85, 7 Mimi Belete (Brn) 4:07.60, 8 Tugba Karakaya (Tur) 4:08.14,
9 Nataliya Tobias (Ukr) 4:08.68, 10 Morgan Uceny (USA) 4:19.71, 11
Hellen Onsando Obiri (Ken) 4:20.23, 12 Maryam Yusuf Jamal (Brn) 4:22.67
400m Hurdles Final: 1 Lashinda Demus (USA) 52.47secs,
2 Melaine Walker (Jam) 52.73, 3 Natalya Antyukh (Rus) 53.85, 4
Kaliese Spencer (Jam) 54.01, 5 Anastasiya Rabchenyuk (Ukr) 54.18, 6
Vania Stambolova (Bul) 54.23, 7 Zuzana Hejnova (Cze) 54.23, 8 Elena
Churakova (Rus) 55.17
Triple Jump Final 1 Olha Saladuha (Ukr) 14.94m, 2 Olga
Rypakova (Kaz) 14.89, 3 Caterine Ibarguen (Col) 14.84, 4 Mabel Gay
(Cub) 14.67, 5 Yamile Aldama (Gbr) 14.5, 6 Yargeris Savigne (Cub)
14.43, 7 Anna Kuropatkina (Rus) 14.23, 8 Baya Rahouli (Alg) 14.12, 9
Natalia Iastrebova (Ukr) 14.12, 10 Biljana Topic (Ser) 14.03, 11 Dana
Veldakova (Svk) 13.96, 12 Keila Costa (Bra) 13.72
GOLF
Omega European Masters Collated first round scores in
the European Tour Omega European Masters, Crans-sur-Sierre, Crans
Montana, Switzerland(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 71):
63 Nick Dougherty 65 Gary Boyd, Rory McIlroy, Sung Lee
(Kor), Martin Kaymer (Ger) 66 Alejandro Canizares (Spa), Simon Dyson
67 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind), Michael Campbell (Nzl), Richard McEvoy,
Jaco Van Zyl (Rsa), Darren Clarke, Lee Westwood 68 Maarten Lafeber
(Ned), David Lynn, Peter Hanson (Swe), Brett Rumford (Aus), David
Drysdale, Stephen Dodd, Niclas Fasth (Swe), Thomas Bjorn (Den), Jbe
Kruger (Rsa), Jamie Donaldson
CYCLING
Bradley Wiggins maintained his seven-second lead over
Team Sky team-mate and British rival Chris Froome as both riders
finished safely in the peloton in the 12th stage of the Vuelta a
Espana. Wiggins and Froome trailed behind the stage winner, Slovakian
sprinter Peter Sagan, who took his second stage of the tour in a
dramatic finish on a day dominated by sprinters.
BASKETBALL
Great Britain slumped to a heavy 90-61 defeat against
Turkey in a flat performance on the second day of the European
Championships in Lithuania.
ROWING
Great Britain's Peter Chambers
and Kieren Emery won gold in the lightweight men's pair at
the World Championships in Bled, Slovenia. The pair produced a superb
second half of their final to power away from the field and take
gold. And there were silver medals for Helen Glover and Heather
Stanning in the women's pair and for the men's eight on a strong day
for British competitors. |
