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Headlines (04 September) :
Hammers look forward
West Ham maintain there are "positive" times
ahead at Upton Park, despite the resignation and stinging criticism
of manager Alan Curbishley.
Roeder slams Newcastle 'tragedy'
Former Newcastle boss Glenn Roeder has labelled the
club "a tragedy" going "from one disaster to
another" as Kevin Keegan's position as manager remains unclear
for a third day.
England whitewash washed out
England's hopes of inflicting a whitewash on South
Africa disappeared in the Cardiff rain as the final NatWest Series
match was abandoned, with only three overs possible.
Robinho rebuffs criticism after City move
Robinho has responded to reports Pele has criticised
him for joining Manchester City, insisting the Brazil icon would have
done the same.
Scruton joins Bulls
Bradford have confirmed the signing of prop forward
Nick Scruton from Leeds.
Harrington backs Faldo's choices
Padraig Harrington insists he has no problem with Nick
Faldo choosing Paul Casey and Ian Poulter as his two captain's picks
for the European Ryder Cup team.
Murray keen to relax
Andy Murray will spend the next two days trying to
avoid any thought of playing his first grand slam semi-final against
world number one Rafael Nadal.
Serena secures semi-final spot
Fourth seed Serena Williams edged a tightly contested
quarter-final clash with sister Venus 7-6 (8/6) 7-6 (9/7) to book a
place in the last four of the US Open on Wednesday.
Saha on the attack with yak
Everton new-boy Louis Saha believes his fledgling
partnership with Ayegbeni Yakubu can force Everton into the Barclays
Premier League's top four.
Mayweather to train Hatton
Ricky Hatton will be trained by Floyd Mayweather snr
for his fight against IBF light-welterweight champion Paulie
Malignaggi in Las Vegas on November 22. |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 03 September 2008
FOOTBALL
Football League Trophy Northern Section - First Round
Chesterfield 2 Grimsby 2
Scottish Division One
Queen of South 1 Ross County 0
GOLF
Telkom PGA Pro-Am Collated first round scores in the
Sunshine Tour Telkom PGA Pro-Am, Centurion Country Club, Michiel
Bothma, South Africa(Rsa Unless Stated, Par 72):
63 Merrick Bremner, Garth Mulroy 66 Dean Lambert, Jaco
Van Zyl, Des Terblanche, Michiel Bothma 67 Grant Muller, Chris
Williams, Louis de Jager, Jake Roos, Trevor Fisher Jnr, Tyrone
Ferreira 68 Louis Moolman, Keith Horne, Charl Coetzee 69 Neil
Cheetham (Eng), Alex Haindl, Omar Sandys 70 Josh Cunliffe, Ryan
Tipping, Alan Michell, Albert Pistorius, Ashley Roestoff, Desvonde
Botes, Brett Liddle, Marc Cayeux (Zim), Kevin Stone
TENNIS
US OPEN
Men's Singles 4th rd:
(3) Novak Djokovic (Ser) bt (15) Tommy Robredo (Spa)
4-6 6-2 6-3 5-7 6-3 Gilles Muller (Lux) bt (5) Nikolay Davydenko
(Rus) 6-4 4-6 6-3 7-6 (12-10) (2) Roger Federer (Swi) bt (23) Igor
Andreev (Rus) 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 3-6 6-3 (8) Andy Roddick (USA)
bt (11) Fernando Gonzalez (Chi) 6-2 6-4 6-1
Women's Singles quarter-finals:
(5) Elena Dementieva (Rus) bt (15) Patty Schnyder
(Swi) 6-2 6-3 (2) Jelena Jankovic (Ser) bt (29) Sybille Bammer (Aut)
6-1 6-4
Men's Doubles quarter-finals:
Maximo Gonzalez (Arg) & Juan Monaco (Arg) bt Bruno
Soares (Bra) & Dusan Vemic (Ser) 6-2 6-7 (3-7) 6-3 (7) Lukas
Dlouhy (Cze) & Leander Paes (Ind) bt Robert Lindstedt (Swe) &
Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) 6-3 6-7 (2-7) 6-3 Tommy Robredo (Spa) &
Sergio Roitman (Arg) bt Feliciano Lopez (Spa) & Fernando Verdasco
(Spa) 6-4 7-6 (7-5) (2) Bob Bryan (USA) & Mike Bryan (USA) bt
Christopher Kas (Ger) & Philipp Petzschner (Ger) 7-6 (16-14) 6-4
Women's Doubles quarter-finals:
(10) Lisa Raymond (USA) & Samantha Stosur (Aus) bt
Marina Erakovic (Nzl) & Jelena Kostanic Tosic (Cro) 7-6 (7-3) 6-0
(4) Katarina Srebotnik (Slo) & Ai Sugiyama (Jpn) bt Dominika
Cibulkova (Svk) & Virginie Razzano (Fra) 6-1 4-6 6-3
Mixed Doubles semi-finals:
(5) Cara Black (Zim) & Leander Paes (Ind) bt Nadia
Petrova (Rus) & Jonas Bjorkman (Swe) 6-4 6-4 Liezel Huber (USA)
& Jamie Murray (Gbr) bt Jill Craybas (USA) & Eric Butorac
(USA) 6-3 6-4
Boys' Singles 2nd rd (selected):
Daniel Cox (Gbr) bt Alessandro Giannessi (Ita) 6-0 6-1
Boys' Singles 1st rd (selected):
Marcus Willis (Gbr) bt Dane Propoggia (Aus) 6-0 6-2
Dan Smethurst (Gbr) bt Evan King (USA) 1-6 7-5 7-5
Girls' Singles 2nd rd (selected):
(3) Noppawan Lertcheewakarn (Tha) bt Heather Watson
(Gbr)6-4 6-4
BASKETBALL
Great Britain were beaten in their opening EuroBasket
qualifier as they went down 102-92 to Israel after overtime in Tel Aviv.
ATHLETICS
Former world record holder Asafa Powell matched the
world's second fastest 100 metres time with a dazzling 9.72 seconds
at the IAAF Super Grand Prix meeting in Lausanne |
