Women sport news

It was a glorious home success in the women's WISPA World Tour Gold event in which Nicol David, the world number one from Penang, was celebrating her eighth successive appearance in the final. photo WISPA

The first major competition on the acrobatic gymnastics national calendar, the 2011 British Championships will see over 240 gymnasts representing 28 gym clubs who will do battle for the coveted title of British champion. photo Ben Lee

The weekend saw the Premierships top club Leicester secure their European place and teams secure their places in the EHL Championships. In the Conferences Sevenoaks and Buckingham Women’s were confirmed as Champions and confirmed places in the EHL Promotion Tournament 30 April – 2 May.

Defending champions Shinhan Bank S-Birds completed a 3-0 rout of Shinsegae Cool Cat on Sunday to book their place in the WKBL Finals, while Samsung Life Bichumi kept their hopes very much alive by winning Game 2 of their semi-finals against KDB Life Winnus. photo WKBL

The draw for the 2011 FIBA U19 World Championship for Women was held in Puerto Montt on Friday, ahead of this summer’s tournament, scheduled to take place in Chile between 21 and 31 July. photo FIBA

Crowned World Junior champion in December 2009 in the Colombian city of Cartagena de Indias, 19 year old Wu Yang won the Women’s Singles title at the Polish Open in Wladyslawowo to collect her second ITTF Pro Tour crown of the year.

Success in the Women’s Doubles event at the Polish Open in Wladyslawowo went the way of China on the afternoon of Sunday 20th March 2011. Photo By: Ireneusz Kanabrodzki

After having explored all possible options to maintain the 2011 ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Japan, the JSF has now informed the ISU that regretfully and reluctantly they must decline hosting the Championships in Japan.

England A Women picked up their first win of the season on Saturday at Surrey Sports Park, beating Spain 34-7. Braces of tries for Jane Leonard and Kay Wilson eased England to the victory which saw a strong second half performance put the game out of reach for the full international side.

A Kate Longhurst brace helped Millwall Lionesses lift themselves out of the relegation zone with a 2-1 victory over Barnet yesterday. Report by David Brenchley

After five months of ski racing across a dozen countries, the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup title came down to a mere three points and a hundredth of a second. Germany's Maria Riesch took the title over the U.S. Ski Team's Lindsey Vonn

World Cup Overall champion Hannah Kearney (Norwich, VT) capped her season by winning Sunday’s World Cup dual moguls in Myrkdalen-Voss, Norway. It was the ninth win for Kearney in what was a record season as she took both the moguls and overall FIS Freestyle World Cup crowns.

Northern Thunder have had a perfect season so far in the FIAT Netball Superleague with seven wins from the seven games, but they really raised the bar in the clash with Team Northumbria especially at the shooting end.

Hawaii’s Coco Ho, 19, has won the Association of Surfing Professionals ASP) 6 Star Women’s Legendary Pacific Coast Pro in association with Commonwealth Bank held in excellent 1.5m (4 to 5 feet) surf at Merewether Beach today. Report and photos ASP

Queensland Firebirds underlined their title credentials with a terrific third quarter fightback to down the NSW Swifts 57-53 in Sydney today. An improving Swifts, keen to reverse their three-goal second round loss to the Firebirds, held all the cards when leading by as much as eight goals early in the second half.

The Central Pulse opened their account for 2011 with a dramatic 46-43 win over Canterbury Tactix in Palmerston North.

Netball Australia will stage the World Netball Championships following the announcement by the International Federation of Netball Associations (IFNA) that Sydney has beaten rival bid city Manchester for the right to host the 2015 World Netball Championships (WNC 2015).

Top seed Nicol David confidently reached the women's CIMB KL Open Squash Championships final for the eighth year in a row after beating English rival Alison Waters in straight games in the semi-finals of the WISPA World Tour Gold squash event in Berjaya Times Square in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.

World Number 1 Caroline Wozniacki finished off a sensational week of tennis with a three sest victory over Marion Bartoli to take the BNP Paribas Open title. Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina claimed the women’s doubles title at the 2011 BNP Paribas Open with a 6-0, 7-5 victory over eighth-seeded Americans Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Meghann Shaughnessy.

West Coast Fever shattered Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel’s hopes of a first win on Australian soil with a pulsating come-from-behind 50-47 victory in Perth.

Friday was a strong day for U.S. Snowboarding as Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountain, VT) led the way for the women with a win

The USA's Jamie Anderson (South Lake Tahoe, CA) put together a solid run to clinch the 2011 European X Games slopestyle snowboarding gold medal Friday morning in Tignes.

WTA No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki will have a second shot at the BNP Paribas Open title after trouncing past champion Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-2 on Friday night in Indian Wells.

Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) now trails German Maria Riesch by a mere three points in the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup overall standings with just one race remaining in the 2011 season.

Dutch beach volleyball player and FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour regular Sophie van Gestel has been sidelined just a month before the start of the new tour in Brasilia, Brazil with a knee injury she suffered on Friday. photo FIVB

The Standard Life GB Women’s basketball team will play the Atlanta Dream of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) at the Manchester Evening News Arena (MEN) on Sun. May 29 as part of WNBA Live – Manchester 2011 it was announced today by the WNBA, Manchester City Council and British Basketball.