Women sport news

Stacy Lewis has had a soft spot for St Andrews since the summer of 2008 when she claimed five points out of five in America’s victory over Great Britain & Ireland in the Curtis Cup over the Old Course.

Serbia overcame a resilient Puerto Rico in four sets (25-22, 22-25, 25-17, 25-22) to conclude with a 3-0 win-loss mark, and the maximum nine points, in Pool B of the FIVB World Grand Prix on Sunday.

Bethania De la Cruz scored a match-high of 28 points carrying the Dominican Republic to a 3-1 (25-22, 25-20, 23-25, 25-18) victory over the Czech Republic in the last match of Pool B to close the first weekend of action in the FIVB World Grand Prix on Sunday.

Russia needed a tie-break to do it, but claimed their first win of the 2013 World Grand Prix with an exciting 3-2 (25-21, 22-25, 29-27, 28-30, 15-13) win against Poland.

Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling's double Olympic champion won the inaugural edition of the Prudential RideLondon Grand Prix on The Mall, in front of Buckingham Palace, after a perfect lead out from fellow Olympic champion Dani King.

The ASP 1-Star Women's Gijon Pro Junior was completed today at the secondary location of Salinas crowning Johanne Defay (FRA) as the first ever Gijon Pro Junior Champion .

The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) 6-Star Ford Supergirl Pro returned to building two-to-four foot (1 metre) waves at Oceanside Pier today, with several ASP World Championship Tour (WCT) surfers dominating their heat despite a shock elimination from current ASP World No. 1 Carissa Moore (HAW), 20.

American Morgan Pressel holed a 20-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to take a one-shot lead into the final round of the RICOH Women’s British Open.

The inaugural day of the PWA Tenerife World Cup saw the sailors registering for the competition between 10am and 11am. With good conditions from the beginning of the day - with winds of 25-30knots and waist to head high waves - the competition promptly began just after 1:30pm with the completion of the trial heats.

The third round of the RICOH Women’s British Open was suspended at 12.33pm on Saturday due to high winds.

The ASP 1-Star Gijon Pro Junior resumed this morning in clean 2Ft surf at the secondary location of Salinas with the opening round of the Women’s in playful surf.

Australian Diamonds coach Lisa Alexander has named separate teams for the upcoming Constellation Cup series against the New Zealand Silver Ferns and two-Test series against Malawi starting next month.

The eyes of the golfing world are on Inbee Park this week as she goes in pursuit of her fourth straight major championship. However, another talented South Korean stole the limelight in the second round of the Ricoh Women’s British Open on Friday.

The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) 6-Star Ford Supergirl Pro chopped the field in half on the opening day of competition, narrowing the draw down from 96 to 48 in peaky one-to-three foot (1 metre) waves at Oceanside Pier.

Midway through the Ricoh Women’s British Open, there are still a number of scenarios which could impact on the European Solheim Cup Team, to be announced on Sunday evening.

Sweden’s Camilla Lennarth shared the lead with Morgan Pressel of the United States after the first round at the Ricoh Women’s British Open.

World No.3 Italy left the Liptapanlop Hall with heads low in great despair after suffering a bitter 2-3 (18-25 25-14 25-23 22-25 15-7) loss to world No.2 and three-time world champions Brazil.

Continuing to expand on the scope and reach of international professional beach volleyball, the FIVB announced that Xiamen, China will host one of the two women’s only Open tournaments on the beach volleyball calendar for 2013.

Three-time Olympic medalist and USA Basketball legend Dawn Staley believes there should be no overreaction to the continued dominance of her nation in women's basketball, or in respect of developing the women's game in general.

Last week Inbee Park was given a Ferrari on a short visit home to South Korea but on Thursday she will have her eyes on an even more valuable prize.

"I hope you are all in the mood to join our party," said goalkeeper Nadine Angerer as Germany's UEFA Women's EURO-winning squad were welcomed home by 7,000 fans.

There's no time for Breanna Stewart to sit back, put her feet up and savour her second gold medal at the FIBA U19 World Championship for Women, or being deservedly hailed as the best player on view in Lithuania.

British Athletics has today named Christine Ohuruogu (coach: Lloyd Cowan) as captain to the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team for the IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia.

On 7 June 2014, Elsa Hammond will depart from Monterey Bay, California to row at least 2,400 miles across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii.

Nadine Angerer saved a penalty in either half and substitute Anja Mittag hit the winner as the holders claimed their sixth consecutive European title.

A late crash in the Sparkassen Giro, in Bochum, Germany, denied Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling a probably podium finish as Charlotte Becker came down on the final corner of the 76.2km race.