At this point, Roger Federer will take a title victory however it comes. Top-ranked Federer won the Estoril Open on debut and his first title of 2008 when fourth-ranked Nikolay Davydenko retired with a left leg injury while trailing 7-6 (5), 1-2 on Sunday. He hadn’t won a tournament this late into the season in nine years.
Ferrari are back on top, Lewis Hamilton is a title contender and two-time Formula One champion Fernando Alonso is back with Renault. Add night racing to all that and one of F1’s most exciting seasons in 2007 is set for a worthy follow-up in 2008.
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/ 18 February 2008
South America and Africa have no chance of hosting the 2018 Soccer World Cup. ”Of all five continents available to present, South America and Africa will not be allowed to,” Fifa president Sepp Blatter said on Sunday. ”If we hadn’t taken the decision to have a rotation policy in the first place, Africa would never had had the chance to host the World Cup, neither would South America.”
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/ 4 February 2008
Spain could lose both of its Formula One races following the racist taunting of driver Lewis Hamilton by spectators over the weekend. Governing body the FIA said on Monday that the racial abuse aimed at Hamilton, Formula One’s first black driver, during testing at the Barcelona circuit could result in sanctions.
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/ 12 November 2007
Justin Henin finished the toughest season of her career with one of her toughest victories at the WTA tennis championship. That’s exactly how she would have scripted it. Henin rallied to beat Maria Sharapova 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 on Sunday in the longest three-set final in the tournament’s history.
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/ 28 January 2007
Wayne Rooney scored twice for Manchester United to beat Portsmouth 2-1 as Premier League clubs had a good day in the fourth round of England’s FA Cup on Saturday. Rooney scored from a low cross from Ryan Giggs in the 77th minute before hitting a long-range chip into the top left corner of the goal six minutes later.
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/ 13 November 2006
Justine Henin-Hardenne won her first WTA Championships title on Sunday, beating Amelie Mauresmo 6-4, 6-3 a day after clinching the season-ending number one ranking for the second time. The Belgian won when Mauresmo double-faulted on match point — her fourth double-fault of the day.