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/ 31 January 2005
Lleyton Hewitt struggled to put a brave face on the end of his Australian Open dream on Sunday after his defeat in the final against Marat Safin. Hewitt, who had spent the past nine months carefully tailoring his schedule and training regime for an all-out assault on the title, said he had no regrets following his agonising 1-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 loss.
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/ 31 January 2005
Ajax Cape Town beat Swaziland’s Mhlambanyatsi Rovers in the first leg of the first round of the CAF Champions league by 1-0 at Newlands on Sunday. The goal came in the 35th minute when clever play by Brent Carelse saw the ball go to Nhlanhla Tshabalala, whose powerful shot ricocheted into the goal off a defender.
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/ 31 January 2005
Jomo Cosmos gained a valuable point when they drew 1-1 against title-chasing Moroka Swallows in a hard-fought Castle Premiership match at Rustenburg on Sunday. Struggling Cosmos were full value for their point and coach Jomo Sono was happy after successive defeats at the same venue against leaders Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs.
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/ 31 January 2005
A comment from the television commentators about Colin Montgomerie helped England’s Simon Wakefield to victory at the Dimension Data Pro-Am golf tournament at the par-72 Gary Player Country Club on Sunday. Wakefield signed for a three-under-par 69 on Sunday, to end the tournament on a nine-under total of 279.
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/ 31 January 2005
A pair of portraits by Lee Miller — the brilliant photographer who was the lover-muse of surrealist painter Man Ray and was famously pictured in Hitler’s bath in 1945 — is to be shown for the first time. The portraits, taken in New York in 1933, show opera singers Bruce Howard and Edward Matthews as saints Teresa and Ignatius, in character for the opera Four Saints in Three Acts
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/ 31 January 2005
Scores of people fled their homes in Kenya’s central Rift Valley at the weekend after a new surge in violence between the Maasai and Kikuyu tribes over water rights, police said on Monday. Dozens of families fled their homes in the Rift Valley district of Narok after Maasai warriors armed with crude weapons attacked Kikuyu tribesmen.
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/ 31 January 2005
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Sunday he was ”extremely concerned” about the stalemate in Côte d’Ivoire that has prevented the start of a disarmament campaign and the reunification of the West African powerhouse divided by two years of civil war.
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/ 31 January 2005
Centrebacks Robert Huth and John Terry headed Chelsea into the last 16 of the FA Cup in a 2-0 victory over Birmingham City on Sunday. The German and English internationals scored a goal in each half. In Sunday’s other FA Cup game, Bolton scored a 1-0 victory at League One Oldham.
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/ 31 January 2005
Justin Leonard claimed his first PGA Tour victory in nearly two years at the ,7-million Bob Hope Classic on Sunday as fellow American Joe Ogilvie’s hopes of a first career win evaporated in the final round. Leonard, who last won in 2003, posted a five-under-par 67 to win the five-round event played on four desert courses with a score of 28-under 332.
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/ 31 January 2005
Spinners Mohammad Rafique and Enamul Haque shared four wickets as Bangladesh restricted Zimbabwe to 198 in the fifth and final one-day international in Dhaka on Monday, despite a career-best 84 from Barney Rogers. Bangladesh’s decision to go into the decisive game with three left-arm spinners paid rich dividends.