Women sport news

The winner in the city of Sheffield at the English Open earlier this year in January, Ding Ning repeated that success at the United Arab Emirates Open in Dubai on Saturday 19th February 2011. Photo By: Atef Alghamery

Glasgow Wildcats put up great fight against Surrey Storm in Round 6 of the FIAT Netball Superleague but where beaten by 36 goals in the end at the Glasgow Club a Bellahouston.

World Number 1 Caroline Wozniacki is back in the driving seat and meaning business seeing off Jelena Jankovic in straight sets 75 63 to come face to face with Svetlana Kuznetsova who ousted Flavia Pennetta 64 64 in tomorrows Dubai Duty Free Final.

It was not a good day for several top seeds at the Dubai Duty Championships after dull skies left second seed Vera Zvonareva going down to Alisa Kleybanova 63 62. Francesca Schiavone also went out after a three set match against Svetlana Kuznetsova, Kuznetsova getting revenge for her match defeat at the Australian Open in January.

New women’s world number one Yani Tseng is hoping that the HSBC Women’s Champions rule that its winners belong to the exclusive club of top-ranked players still applies when she gets to Singapore next week.

Hundreds of the world’s top gymnasts will bounce into Birmingham later this year for the Trampoline, Tumbling and Double Mini Trampoline World Championships. The prestigious event, featuring around 650 competitors and officials from 40 countries, will be held at the National Indoor Arena from November 17 – 20.

In the women's final, favourites Hong Kong China successfully defended their title, beating Malaysia 2/0 in a repeat of the 2007 final in Hong Kong.

Amanda Evora - "We've had quite a stressful week here. We have been skating great in our practices and we're disappointed we didn't show it in the performance. However, with the circumstances, I'm taking the attitude that it's better to make mistakes here than in a month from now."

Teenager Charley Hull is the highest-ranked English woman amateur in the world, according to a new ranking website just launched.

New Zealand’s Shannon McIlroy is the only remaining obstacle standing in the way of Leif Selby and the world number one’s quest for a second Australian Open crown in Melbourne tomorrow (19/2).

American discus throw champion Becky Breisch has today confirmed her intentions to compete Down Under next month and will face off with world discus champion Dani Samuels at the Sydney Track Classic in Round 4 of the Australian Athletics Tour on March 19.

The relief was palpable. After two silver medals at last season's Olympic Games, a silver medal at the last World Championships, and a silver medal here, Silver Tina Maze finally got her gold

The Australian Open women’s pairs crown is once again in the possession of world number four Karen Murphy after another power-packed performance at the Darebin International Sports Centre today (17/2).

USA women's coach Hugh McCutcheon has accepted a posting at the University of Minnesota to become its women's volleyball coach. photo FIVB

Eleven teams out of the 16 due to participate in the FIVB Women’s Junior World Championship in July have already been determined and in this "state of play" report we review who has qualified and who still has the job ahead of them. photo FIVB

The schedule for the London 2012 Olympic Games was released on Monday with the beach volleyball tournament comprising 13 days of competition and volleyball 16 days. photo FIVB

The United States will have arguably the best player in the world in their team at next year’s Olympic Games in London after the provisional doping ban on Diana Taurasi was lifted by the Turkish Basketball Federation (TBF). photo FIBA

Australia and Turkey submitted the complete bidding documents for the 2014 FIBA World Championship for Women to the FIBA offices in Geneva within the given deadline that expired yesterday.

Hana Horakova of the Czech Republic was named the 2010 European Women's Player of the Year by FIBA Europe on Wednesday. photo FIBA Elio Castoria

The French won the team event with a full set of heroics on a parallel GS course down the Kandahar track defeating the prohibitive favorite Austrians on a tie breaker and .28 of a second.

The 2011 ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships opened in Taipei City (TPE) on Thursday with 93 skaters/couples from 16 ISU members competing. The ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2011 are being held in Taipei for the first time in history.

Egypt's Salma Nassar celebrated title success in the inaugural Women's International WISPA Persian Gulf Championship after upsetting both of the top two seeds

Amanda Evora (Sugar Land, Texas / Southwest Florida FSC) and Mark Ladwig (Fargo, N.D./Moorhead, Minn. / Red River Valley FSC) - 52.23 (6th place) (on boot breaking midway through short program)

The Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist is hoping Geelong will deliver him a long-awaited career win as the pair contest the Australian Sprint Championships (750m swim, 20km cycle, 5km run) at the Geelong Multi Sport Festival this weekend.

The powerhouse field for the HSBC Women's Champions 2011 will see the world's leading players seeking to claim the world number one ranking. 63 of the LPGA's best will descend on Singapore for the fourth edition of the tournament from February 24-27.

The recruitment process for the Diamonds head coach is underway. Netball Australia CEO Kate Palmer said today that the appointment is one of the most critical the sport makes and that it was important to establish a process and time line that allows current Coach Norma Plummer to focus on winning in World Netball Championships in July. photo John Coxon