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Headlines (10 August) :
O'Neill quits Aston Villa
Martin O'Neill resigns as Aston Villa manager with
immediate effect, six days before the start of the Premier League season
England thrash Pakistan
Andrew Strauss and Jonathan Trott hit fifties to guide
England to an emphatic nine-wicket victory over Pakistan in the
second Test
Capello accepts retirements
Fabio Capello sidestep reports of a communication
problem with his England squad after Paul Robinson and Wes Brown both retired
Hart not leaving City
Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini rules out letting
Joe Hart leave the club this summer
Brown quits internationals
Wes Brown follows Paul Robinson in deciding to
announce his retirement from international football "with a very
heavy heart"
Broad escapes ban
Stuart Broad is fined 50% of his match fee for
breaching the code of conduct during the third day's play of the
second Test
Redknapp wants Bellamy
Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp says he admires Craig
Bellamy but is not sure whether Manchester City would sell the striker
Mahan wins, Woods No.1
Hunter Mahan shoots a final round 64 to win the
WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Ohio, while Tiger Woods retains his
world number one status |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 09 August 2010
FOOTBALL
Carling Cup First Round
Stevenage 1 Portsmouth 2
CRICKET
England v Pakistan Test Series : Second Test at Edgbaston
England 251 all out 83.1 ovs 118 - 1 36.3 ovs Pakistan
72 all out 39.3 ovs 296 all out 117.5 ovs England won by 9 wickets.
TENNIS
WTA Western & Southern Open 1st rd:
Vera Dushevina (Rus) bt Anastasia Rodionova (Rus) 6-2
7-6 (9-7)
Akgul Amanmuradova (Uzb) bt Kimiko Date Krumm (Jpn)
6-1 6-2
Bojana Jovanovski (Ser) bt (14) Aravane Rezai (Fra)
4-6 6-3 6-4
Ana Ivanovic (Ser) bt (9) Victoria Azarenka (Blr) 2-6
7-6 (8-6) 6-2
Yaroslava Shvedova (Kaz) bt Alla Kudryavtseva (Rus)
7-5 6-4
Dinara Safina (Rus) bt Roberta Vinci (Ita) 7-5 6-4
Ayumi Morita (Jpn) bt Arantxa Parra Santonja (Spa) 7-6
(9-7) 6-2
Monica Niculescu (Rom) bt Sabine Lisicki (Ger) 6-3 6-0
Sara Errani (Ita) bt Jamie Hampton (USA) 6-4 6-2
(13) Shahar Peer (Isr) bt Olga Govortsova (Blr) 6-3
4-1 ret
Nuria Llagostera Vives (Spa) bt Vania King (USA) 3-6
6-3 6-1
Alisa Kleybanova (Rus) bt Alexandra Dulgheru (Rom) 6-4 6-4
(16) Marion Bartoli (Fra) bt Anabel Medina Garrigues
(Spa) 6-4 6-0
Alona Bondarenko (Ukr) bt Dominika Cibulkova (Svk) 3-6
6-2 6-3
Rogers Cup 1st rd:
Kevin Anderson (Rsa) bt Leonardo Mayer (Arg) 7-6 (7-2) 6-4
Thiemo De Bakker (Ned) bt Feliciano Lopez (Spa) 7-6
(7-2) 6-3
Tommy Robredo (Spa) bt Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) 6-1 6-4
Ernests Gulbis (Lat) bt Thomaz Bellucci (Bra) 6-1 6-4
Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukr) bt Richard Gasquet (Fra) 7-5 6-1
(12) Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) bt Gilles Simon (Fra) 6-4 6-4
(14) Nicolas Almagro (Spa) bt Illya Marchenko (Ukr)
7-5 5-7 6-4
Juan Ignacio Chela (Arg) bt Alejandro Falla (Col) 6-0 6-3
Peter Polansky (Can) bt (13) Jurgen Melzer (Aut) 7-6
(8-6) 6-4
Victor Hanescu (Rom) bt Milos Raonic (Can) 6-4 6-4
Julien Benneteau (Fra) bt Denis Istomin (Uzb) 6-4 6-4
SWIMMING
Hannah Miley claimed
Great Britain's first gold medal of the European Championships in
Budapest after she overhauled world champion Katinka Hosszu in the
400 metres individual medley. The Scot, who was 21 on Sunday,
produced a superb second half to her race and turned first after a
stunning breaststroke leg and maintained her lead on the freestyle to
touch in a new championship record of four minutes 43.09 seconds,
3.34secs clear of Hosszu, whose fellow Hungarian Zsuzsanna Jakabos
was third.
YACHTING
Ben Ainslie sailed into fourth place in the Finn class
on day one of the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta. The triple Olympic
gold medallist is targeting a top-10 finish in Weymouth, venue for
the London 2012 sailing events, and is on track with a 13th and a
fourth for his opening day's efforts seeing him in fourth place overall. |
