The first round got underway yesterday with seeds pushing forward into the next round. Top seed Vera Zvonareva ousted Sybille Bammer in straight sets while Jelena Jankovic struggled in the second set but managed to push her partner aside 60 76. Jankovic hasn't shown her best tennis for a while lets hope she can start picking up the pace.
Former World Number 1 Dinara Safina was blown off court by on form Kim Clijsters in just 44 minutes winning the match 60 60. Stosur and Petrova also continue in Melbourne
The Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars have finished the Women's Twenty20 International Series with a commanding 52-run win at Manuka Oval this afternoon, however it came all too late as England took the five-game series 4-1.
The line-up for the showpiece super sixes National Indoor Hockey Finals at London's Wembley Arena is complete following the conclusion of the super sixes women's Premier Division at the weekend.
Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountain, VT) led the U.S. charge winning her third career World Championship gold as the USA landed three of six snowboardcross medals Tuesday in La Molina, Spain
Congratulations to the 2006 European Athletics Championships marathon gold medallist Ulrike Maisch, who gave birth to a son Emil last week (January 8).
Super G. The Women`s Sitting event had Devlin-Young`s compatriot Alana Nichols on top with 1:27.56, followed by Laurie Stephens (USA) and Claudia Loesch (AUT).
England have continued their winning streak in the Twenty20 component of the Women's International Series, making it a 4-0 today after a 13-run win over the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars at Manuka Oval in Canberra.
The Turkish Volleyball Federation has appointed the Brazilian Marco Aurelio Motta to coach and mentor the women's national team that recently wrote history by placing sixth at the 2010 FIVB Women's World Championship in Japan. photo FIVB
This Saturday at 9:30am, a giant sailing fleet, approaching 400 boats, four times bigger than the famous Sydney Hobart fleet will, for the first time ever sail down the Bayside suburbs from St Kilda to Sandringham before heading west to Geelong in the annual Audi Victoria Week sailing regatta.
Olympian Emily Cook (Boston) was the top American finishing just off the podium in fourth, in Sunday’s aerials World Cup at Mont Gabriel. Cook led a U.S. surge.
Argentine legend, Luciana Aymar, record breaking seven times world player of the year, has decided , a month earlier than expected, to rejoin the national team and will train with them from January 24th at CENARD.
Report / photos John Coxon
England women won the third Twenty20 of the series by four wickets at the Manuka Oval in Canberra today - a result which gives them an unassailable 3-0 lead.
England have taken an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the five match Women's International Twenty20 series against the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars, winning today's match at Manuka Oval in Canberra by four wickets (January 16).
Three U.S. women jumped into the top 10 as the U.S. women’s ski jumping squad continued to show stunning team depth in a FIS Continental Cup in Germany Sunday. Photo: Marvin Kimble/U.S. Ski Team
Europe’s best short track speed skaters took to the ice this weekend in Heerenveen, Netherlands for the 2011 ISU European Short Track Speed Skating Championship. Arianna Fontana of Italy was crowned the ladies’ European Short Track Speed Skating Champion. Bernadett Heidum of Hungary finished second overall in the women’s event, with Martina Valcepina of Italy taking third.
The 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships began today with the high powered Downhill race in Sestriere, Italy, giving spectactors and Paralympic Winter Sport fans the ultimate speed experience.
New Zealand were able to hold off a fast finishing England to win Match 1 of the Fiat International Netball Series 42-40 but will count
themselves lucky the final whistle went when it did at the MEN Arena in Manchester.
A draw in the second Test in Kingston has set the scene for a thrilling third and deciding Test on Monday(AEDST) between the Australian Diamonds and Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls.
Li Na defeated Kim Clijsters in straight sets 76 63 to win the Medibank International in Sydney. Benesova/Zahlavova won the doubles final in three sets defeating Peschke and Srebotnik.
The U.S. Ski Team’s Kikkan Randall (Anchorage) skied to an impressive victory Saturday in the free technique sprints for a second career World Cup win, taking over the World Cup sprint lead. It was her third World Cup podium of the season.
The USA's Jessica Jerome (Park City, UT) and Lindsey Van (Park City, UT) finished side-by-side in sixth and seventh Saturday in the Braunlage Continental Cup.
The day kicked off with a small delay due to some clouds hanging over the pipe forcing the organizers to change the format. All women went from semi-finals straight into a two-run final of 21 riders.
The Australian Netball Diamonds have won the first battle against the Jamaican Sunshine Girls as part of the Three-Test Series in
Kingston. In a physical contest, the Diamonds controlled the game throughout, winning 63 goals to Jamaica's 51.
