Former Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova claimed her 10th singles title after defeating Sara Errani 6-2 1-6 6-1 in the final of the Dubai Championships on Saturday. The Czech, who did not drop a set in the opening four rounds of the tournament, was the favorite after winning her previous three meetings with the Italian and the 22-year-old sought to assert her dominance from the start. “It was ...
Serena Williams has pulled out of the $2,000,000 Dubai Open, partly to consolidate her remarkable return to world number one two days ago by focusing on her home tournament, in Miami, in the second half of next month. "I am just not well - it's my back," Serena explained. "All athletes really get this. "I really can't move. It would be a horrible performance for you guys. It's ...
(AP) — Organized crime gangs have fixed or tried to fix hundreds of soccer matches around the world in recent years, including World Cup and European Championship qualifiers and two Champions League games, Europol announced Monday. The European Union's police agency said an 18-month review found 380 suspicious matches in Europe and another 300 questionable games outside the continent, mainly ...
Mali played party poopers in the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals for the second time within a year as they defeated South Africa 3-1 on penalties Saturday. A tense match of few scoring chances had ended 1-1 after extra time with Tokelo Rantie putting Bafana Bafana (The Boys) ahead on 31 minutes and Seydou Keita levelling with 58 minutes gone. Cheick Tidiane Diabate, Adama Tamboura and Mahaman ...
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo come into Wednesday's 'el clasico' clash in Madrid in the Spanish Cup semi-final in fine form and full of goals. Messi has hit 16 and Ronaldo 12 in their last 10 games, and the four the Argentine got against Osasuna on Sunday makes it 33 in the league while Ronaldo has 21 after his hat-trick against Getafe. It will be the fourth time Real Madrid and Barcelona hav ...
A vastly improved Ivory Coast team qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals following a silky 3-0 win over Tunisia. But the Elephants had to wait for the final match on Saturday in Group D to see if they would qualify. A 2-0 Togo victory sent the Ivory Coast through and Algeria packing. Under fire for an error-strewn opening win over Togo, the Ivory Coast oozed class for much of this ...
Tunisia striker Issam Jemaa will play no further part in the African Nations Cup after spraining his knee in his country’s opening match this week, the Tunisian Football Federation said on Thursday. The former France-based striker had to come off after 16 minutes of Tunisia’s 1-0 win over neighbors Algeria in Rustenburg on Tuesday. “He has to rest for the next six weeks,” s ...
It was a great day for Chelsea in the English Premier League on Saturday, however, one that Jonathan Walters will quickly want to forget. Walters scored two own goals as Chelsea beat Stoke 4-0 emphatically to end the host's unbeaten home record in the Premier League. Walters' miserable day was made even worse when he missed a penalty in the 90th minute, sending the ball off the crossbar. The unfor ...
The Yemeni national team bid farewell the 21st Gulf Cup in Bahrain after losing the third match with the Iraqi team 2-0. The national team played Iraq on Saturday at their last match under the second group, which includes Yemen, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Later on Saturday, the Kuwaiti team won the Saudi team that also left the biennial GCC tournament. ...
AFP - The Agnieszka Radwanska juggernaut ran over hapless Dominika Cibulkova on Friday, as the Pole won the Sydney International to take her unbeaten streak this year to nine ahead of the Australian Open. The top seed crushed Cibulkova 6-0, 6-0 in just over an hour for back-to-back tournament victories, making the perfect preparation for the year-opening Grand Slam, which starts in Melbourne on Mo ...
