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Football Soccer Formula 1 Rugby Racing Golf Blogs TennisPublished: October 23, 2014
The European Tour moves to Australia this week for the 2014 Perth International at Lake Karrinyup Country Club for the competition’s third staging. South Africa’s Charl Schwartzel and the USA’s Jason Dufner lead a strong field in the final tournament before the season-ending Final Series, which includes two weeks in China before Turkey and Dubai bring the curtain down on the...
Published: October 20, 2014
Rafael Nadal suffered a shock loss in the quarter-finals of the 2014 Swiss Indoors Basel, losing to 17-year-old wild card Borna Coric. The Spaniard looked out of sync from the opening exchange and couldn’t turn the tide in the second set, playing arguably the worst match of his 2014 season. After a phenomenal start to the season and a ninth French Open triumph, he picked up a wrist injury in...
Published: October 20, 2014
The season-ending WTA Tour Finals Championships kicked off Monday in Singapore with the world’s top women’s tennis players fighting it out for glory. The top eight players of the season qualified for the event with Serena Williams leading a pack including Maria Sharapova, Petra Kvitova, Simona Halep, Eugenie Bouchard, Agnieszka Radwanska, Ana Ivanovic and Caroline Wozniacki. Williams—the...
Published: October 11, 2014
Jules Bianchi’s horrific crash at the last race in Japan means there will be something of a sombre atmosphere at this weekend’s inaugural Russian Grand Prix. The French Marussia driver suffered a diffuse axonal injury in a high-speed collision at Suzuka last weekend, which left him in intensive care. Understandably, the prevailing thoughts of the Formula One world are with the...
Published: September 9, 2014
Marin Cilic made short work of Kei Nishikori on Monday night to win the 2014 U.S. Open men’s final 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 in New York and claim his first ever Grand Slam title. As was mentioned a great deal in the run up to the match, it was something of an unfamiliar major final considering the absence of a select few players, per Eurosport: Nishikori and Cilic had made it past Djokovic and Federer,...
Published: September 9, 2014
Former Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher has returned home to continue his recovery from severe head wounds suffered over eight months ago in a skiing accident. The retired racing driver’s manager, Sabine Kehm, confirmed the news on Tuesday, but highlighted that Schumacher was still a long way from a full recovery after hitting his head on a rock in Meribel in France last December,...
Published: September 5, 2014
Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg resume their battle for the Formula One world championship this weekend in Italy after the two Mercedes drivers clashed last time out in Belgium. Rosberg has opened up a 29-point lead over the Brit after Hamilton was forced to retire at Spa while the German claimed second. However, Rosberg has been sanctioned by his team for causing the collision with Hamilton that induced...
Published: September 5, 2014
Despite both going out of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil at the last-16 stage, Mexico and Chile lit up the tournament with some very impressive play. Thus the weekend’s friendly match between the two sides at the recently opened Levi’s stadium in Santa Clara, California should be quite an occasion with some high-quality players on show. Amongst the swathe of internationals taking place over...
Published: September 5, 2014
Brazil face Colombia in Florida on Friday for a friendly match which signals the beginning of a long process to expunge the memory of their humiliating end to the 2014 World Cup. Back in July—just days after squeaking past Colombia in the quarter-finals—the Selecao were pummelled 7-1 by Germany in their own back yard in one of the most extraordinary results of all time. Furthermore, they...
Published: August 2, 2014
New South Wales Waratahs claimed a thrilling 33-32 victory over the Crusaders in Sydney on Saturday in the 2014 Super 15 final to claim the title. After cruising into a healthy early lead in the first half at the ANZ stadium, they were pegged back by a resurgent Crusaders side and looked to be heading for a narrow loss. But a brave Bernard Foley penalty in the dying moments handed the Waratahs...