Women sport news

World No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki won her first match of the Sony Ericsson Open, defeating Bethanie Mattek-Sands on stadium court. Wozniacki won eight break points to prevail over the American, 6-2, 7-5.

Zoe Gillings re-affirmed herself as Britain's No1 Olympic snow sports athlete and one of the best snowboard cross athletes in the World today when she finished on the podium in 3rd place at the World Cup Snowboard cross finals in Arosa, Switzerland

Barnet Ladies won the FA Women's Premier League Cup on penalties after a scoreless 120 minutes at Wycombe Wanderers' Adams Park ground. Report by David Brenchley.

The 1990 graduate of Chelmsford High School is now preparing for her eighth football season and her first with the Manchester (N.H.) Freedom. “I keep coming back because I love it,” Boroyan said.

For the second consecutive year, Korea earned both the ladies’ and men’s titles of World Short Track Speed Skating Team Champion in Warsaw, Poland.

In its statement of March 21, 2011 the ISU communicated the decision of the Japan Skating Federation (JSF) to decline holding the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2011, initially allotted to the JSF and scheduled to be held in Tokyo, Japan this week. In the meantime, the ISU has received applications to hold the Event during the months of April or May of this year from its Member federations in Austria (Graz), Canada (Vancouver), Croatia (Zagreb), Finland (Turku), Russia (Moscow) and USA (Colorado Springs or Lake Placid).

The First Windows Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic have paid a fitting final tribute to their old home court, Mystery Creek, in overwhelming the Melbourne Vixens, 53-41, in their last ANZ Championship match at the Hamilton stadium.

Last year's Slovenia women’s beach volleyball coach Simon Krakar has said the country is already looking forward to the next stage of the CEV Beach Volleyball Continental cup following the results of the drawing of the lots on Saturday in Bucharest, Romania. photo FIVB

Cuba's women's national team is preparing for a busy-looking 2011 season by training at a high-altitude base in Peru. photo FIVB

Bethanie Mattek-Sands, who turned 26-years-old yesterday, has a strategy for playing against world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki today.

Birthday girl Bethanie Mattek-Sands moved comfortably into the second round of the Sony Ericsson Open Wednesday with a 6-1, 6-4 victory against Sweden’s Sofia Arvidsson. The 26-year-old American plans on driving race cars later today at the Miami Speedway with her husband, Justin, to celebrate the occasion.

Former No. 4 Jelena Dokic moved on to the main draw today, with her second three-set win in as many days. Dokic came from down a set to defeat American Christina McHale 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-2.

The Atlanta Xplosion, 2010 Independent Women’s Football League (IWFL) Division Champion, will make Tara Stadium in Jonesboro its home field in 2011. The season opener will be April 16 versus Chattanooga at 6 p.m.

Nottingham Forest Ladies' Catherine Lawson readily admits Thursday night's FA Women's Premier League Cup Final against Barnet will be the biggest game of her career. Report and Photo - The FA

Barnet Ladies manager Tracey Kevins will be looking to her more senior players as her young side go in search of their first piece of major silverware since 1996. Report and Photos by David Brenchley.

The 41st World Squash Federation AGM, 2011, will take place in Rotterdam coinciding with the biggest ever squash championship involving world’s 112 best men and 72 best women and a record prize fund of $418,000. The Women's World Junior Individual & Team Squash Championships will now be played at Harvard University in Boston, not Cairo, due to situation in Egypt.

Dinara Safina showed she is capable of playing high-caliber tennis, giving tennis fans a clean performance Wednesday evening in Key Biscayne. Playing the first night match at the 2011 Sony Ericsson Open, the former World No. 1 and three-time grand slam finalist defeated Jelena Dokic 6-4, 6-4 to advance into the second round.

The Current World Champions, Argentina’s “Las Leonas” were recently honoured by the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires as well as the Argentine Hockey Federation (the CAH).

Great Britain's men's and women's national teams will play the reigning Olympic champions from the USA at the Manchester Evening News (MEN) Arena in warm-up games ahead of the London Olympics, it was announced on Tuesday.

World No. 2 Kim Clijsters was among eight of the most competitive women in tennis who assembled today for an all-access media hour, where they shared thoughts, laughs and sentiments about the Sony Ericsson Open.

World No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki, riding a streak of 14 wins from her past 15 matches, says that she’s an even better player than this time last year.

Following another short break in the Fiat Superleague Season, Loughborough Lightning returned to their second Loughborough home of the Sir David Wallace Sports Hall to entertain Glasgow Wildcats.

After a well earned weekend's rest from the Superleague, Surrey Storm came away with a hard fought 60 - 44 win over Celtic Dragons to take them into third place.The match took place in Wrexham, North Wales, resulting in a travelling fixture for both teams, and was played in front of an excitable crowd.

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The fifth-ranked Oregon State Beavers won the 2011 PAC-10 gymnastics with a season- best score of 197.200 which topped their previous high by two tenths.

LA, California - by Calvin Morris: Stanford's women's basketball team survived a single-minded, determined, aggressive UCLA team to win their twentieth (including two shared titles) PAC-10 championship