Djokovic tops Tsitsipas at Astana Open to collect 90th tour title
Novak Djokovic needed only 75 minutes to win his 90th tour title, overcoming third-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3, 6-4 in the final of the Astana Open on Sunday.
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‘Not too many surprises’ – Gareth Southgate on facing Italy again in Euro 2024 qualification as draw is made
Gareth Southgate reflected on a challenging Euro 2024 qualification draw for England, who are set for two more tussles with reigning champions Italy. The Three Lions head coach was present at Sunday’s draw in Frankfurt, which saw Southgate’s team drawn alongside the Azzurri, Ukraine, North Macedonia and Malta in Group C.
Real Madrid, Juventus and Barca not giving up on Super League
UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin attends the qualifying draw event for the UEFA EURO 2024 football championships, on October 9, 2022 in Frankfurt, Germany. (Photo by Daniel ROLAND / AFP)
Gareth Southgate reacts to England’s ‘tough’ Euro 2024 qualification draw
Gareth Southgate feels England have been handed a difficult qualification group for Euro 2024 after being drawn against reigning champions Italy – who, of course, beat them in the final last time.
Dave Sampson - from competition winner to Ryder Cup course designer for Marco Simone Golf and Country Club
Dave Sampson was busy packing for a flight from the UK back home to South Africa when a golf magazine landed in front of him. A competition to design a golf hole had caught his friend’s eye, and he urged Sampson to enter and indulge a passion that had until that point been nothing but a distraction from the more traditional building architecture work that was paying his bills.
Iga Swiatek into Ostrava final with 60th win of 2022
French and US Open champion Swiatek won 7-6 (7/5), 2-6, 6-4 and equalled Caroline Wozniacki, the last player to win 60 matches in a single season in 2017. The 21-year-old Pole's two-hour and 38-minute win also gave her a 10th successive victory and a spot in her eighth final of the year.
'Five star' Sajan Prakash sets pool on fire
Participating in his second National Games here in Gujarat, Sajan, the first-ever Indian swimmer to breach the FINA ‘A’ Olympic qualification mark when he clocked the national record time of 1:56.38 in 200m butterfly at the Sette Colli meet in Rome last year, left his fellow competitors in his wake by putting on amemorable show of masterful swimming at the Sardar Patel Aquatics Complex. Sajan ended his campaign at the Games with five gold, two silver and a bronze in the butterfly, freestyle and medley events to all but seal the ‘Best Athlete’ award for the second successive time. “I am happy to be competing at the Games.
Real Madrid, Juventus, Barcelona not giving up on controversial Super League
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez, defended the project last Sunday and was followed by his Juventus counterpart Andrea Agnelli and then Barcelona chief Joan Laporta. A court decision in 2023 will be crucial in determining the project's future. "There are no football clubs among the ten richest entities in the world, we must be doing something very wrong in old Europe," Perez explained.