Women sport news

The Women’s British Championships is one of the highlights of the British Gymnastics calendar. The event includes competitions whereby the Senior and Junior British All-around Champions are proclaimed, along with the Apparatus Champions in the Senior, Junior and Espoir categories, on the second day of competition.

Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Crystl Bustos’ return was the difference maker in Akron’s 2-1 victory over the Chicago Bandits at Firestone Stadium tonight.

It is another week’s break for the SWATCH FIVB World Tour before the international circuit resumes competition with its third of six Grand Slam events of the 2010 season in Norway where Stavanger hosts the Beach Volleyball community for the 12th-straight season on the dockside court in Vaagen Harbour. photo FIVB

Venus Williams, Jankovic, Clijsters, Zvonareva and Henin all through while Kleybanova, Kirilenko, Petrova and Wickmayer all fall in the third round. Serena Williams is up on court today playing Dominika Cibulkova, while third Caroline Wozniack faces Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

England Women will look to build on last year's successful trip across the Channel when they host France at Lilleshall National Sports Centre on Saturday July 10.

HONOURS were even in the first of England Under-21 Women’s matches against Scotland, with Friday’s clash at Peffermill Playing Fields in Edinburgh ending goalless.

Amy Begley and Erica McLain each set stadium records Thursday at the 2010 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Drake Stadium on the campus of Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. The championships will run through Sunday.

This weekend is the UK National Championships. Horizon Fitness Racing Team will be with a strong team, to challenge the best riders in the world.

Sunday 20th June 2010 will forever be remembered for the day we arrived in Land's End to a huge crowd, clear blue skies and in excess of £315,000 raised for ParalympicsGB.

2009 double World Youth champion Jodie Williams (coach: Mike McFarlane) is one of 13 athletes named in the first wave of selections for the IAAF World Junior Championships in Moncton, Canada, from 19-25 July 2010.

Australia's Lisa Camilleri celebrated victory in the Women's South Australian Open after overcoming New Zealander Kylie Lindsay in a five-game thriller in the $4,000 WISPA World Tour squash event at the South Adelaide Squash Centre in Adelaide.

French open finalist Samantha Stosur, was taken out of The Wimbledon Championships by Estonian qualifier Kaia Kanepi in straight sets 64 64, she joins French Open Champion Francesca Schiavone who lost yesterday. Top seed Serena Williams is through in both singles and doubles with sister Venus after their defeat of Ditty/Voracova 64 62.

Jennifer Song wasted little time in making her mark as a first-week professional. Song won her pro debut and crashed the tournament record books, leaving the field six shots back at the $125,000 Tate & Lyle Players Championship. photo Futurestour.com

First place in the National Pro Fastpitch standings was on the line as the Chicago Bandits (3-3) played their home debut at Judson University in Elgin, Ill. against the Akron Racers (4-2) on Sunday, June 20.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Katey Stone, head women's ice hockey coach at Harvard University, will lead the U.S. Women's National Program throughout the 2010-11 season. Her duties will begin at the upcoming USA Hockey Women's National Festival in Lake Placid, N.Y.

West Coast Fever defeat The Queensland firebirds while Magic beat The Adelaide Firebirds, Mystics defeat Tactix.

NSW Swifts to play Adelaide Thunderbirds in Semi-Final 1, to be held at Acer Arena on Sunday 27th June

The Dominican Republic and Argentina both secured quarterfinal berths at the Women’s Pan American Cup as the tournament continued in Tijuana, Mexico on Monday. photo FIVB

Venus Williams steam rolls into the second round defeating Rossana de los Rios in straight sets. French open champion Francesca Schiavone was the biggest upset of the day loosing to Vera Dushevina in three sets. Kateryna Bondarenko is also out, she was defeated by qualifier Greta Arn from Hungary.

The Route Organisation-sponsored Cheshire Women powered their way to their first win with a record-breaking victory over Worcestershire, division two’s bottom team.

The ISU Council considered applications made by Members for ISU Championships during its meeting on June 19-20, 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. The ISU Council took the following decisions:

She beat Korean qualifier, HWANG Ji Na in five games at the semi-final hurdle before recording a straight games final victory over top seed and defending champion, Singapore's YU Meng Yu.

An exciting afternoon here in Prague produced surprises left right, and centre. A mother/son podium appearance, as well as a Brit and a Swiss and an unfortunate episode of technical equipment failure.

Olympic 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu will go head-to-head with reigning World champion and Samsung Diamond League Ambassador Sanya Richards-Ross for the first time this year when the pair meet at the Aviva British Grand Prix in Gateshead on 10 July.

Ekaterina Makarova defeated 5 top seeded players to win her first WTA Tour title. Ranked at 100 in the world she was more like number 1. Raymond/Stubbs defeated Peschke/Srebotnik to win the doubles title in three sets.

It was a battle of the balls at Road Ranger Stadium in Rockford, Ill. as the independent baseball Northern League Rockford Riverhawks went mitt for mitt with the National Pro Fastpitch Chicago Bandits.