Women sport news

New Zealand outsider Joelle King crowned a sensational week in Texas by winning the biggest WISPA World Tour squash title of her life - beating experienced top seed Rachael Grinham in the final of the Champion Fiberglass Women\'s Texas Open, the $26,700 event at The Downtown Club at the Met in Houston, USA.

Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Carla Suarez Navarro in three sets to win The Marebella title.

Scotlands Kate Caithness (pictured) has been elected as the World Curling Federations (WCF) first female President, making her the only Briton to head the international governing body of an Olympic sport.

Ellen Whitaker (pictured) tonight denied her cousin Robert Whitaker a hat-trick of British Open showjumping crowns in dramatic fashion at the LG Arena in Birmingham.

TeamBath played their last home game of the season against Leeds Carnegie at the University of Bath on Saturday night, and secured a convincing 62-44 win.

Preview to the final: Pentathlon GBs Performance Director Jan Bartu hailed his Blue Army after a record-breaking performance in the World Cup semi finals at Medway Park.

Amelie Caze (pictured) claimed gold at the Modern Pentathlon World Cup Final in Medway with the Great British team dominating the top 10. by David Brenchley

Chiles Barbara Riveros Diaz pulled off a stunning upset in Sydney today, topping Kiwi Andrea Hewitt and Australias Emma Moffatt in a thrilling sprint finish to win round one of the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series.

It was a tremendous start to the 2010 Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series in Sydney today, with a surprise sprint winner in the womens race

It’s finals time at the 17/U and 19/U DealsDirect.com.au National Championships with the race to the national title in both divisions wide open.

Loughborough Lightning vs Team Bath on 15th April at 7.30pm. Netball Centre Loughborough University.

Former champion Rachael Grinham became the only top four seed to make the semi-finals of the Champion Fiberglass Women\\\'s Texas Open after another day of upsets in the $26,700 WISPA World Tour squash event at The Downtown Club at the Met in Houston, USA.

Top seed Victoria Azarenka retired after a left thigh injury on Friday against Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of Spain. Pennetta, Navarro and Errani all through to the Semi Finals

The England womens squad welcomes back Claire Taylor and Holly Colvin as they look to defend their ICC World Twenty20 crown.

Mhairi Spence and Katy Livingston led eight Great British women into Sundays Modern Pentathlon World Cup final in Gillingham.

Trofeo Abarth racer Sarah Franklin today announced that during her 2010 season, she will be supporting and promoting the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance (WNAA).

British Judo has selected its team to compete in the Senior European Championships, taking place in Vienna, Austria from the 22nd-25th April.

The U.S. Womens National Under-18 Team captured the silver medal with a 5-4 overtime loss to Canada here tonight in the 2010 International Ice Hockey Federation World Womens U18 Championship gold-medal game in Walter Bush Rink.

Britains Paula Radcliffe (pictured), the world marathon record holder, has revealed today that she is expecting her second child at the end of September but still expects to compete at the London 2012 Olympics.

Bedfordshires Bridie Quinn and Sally Shayler (pictured) scored a four-shot victory in the EWGA East Region foursomes at Hintlesham Hall, Suffolk.

Englands Elizabeth Mallett (pictured) and Bronte Law are at the top of a packed leaderboard after scoring two-under par 70 in the first round of the Scottish U16 open strokeplay championship at Strathmore.

England squad players, led by Emily Taylor of Lancashire (pictured) and Georgia Hall of Dorset, swept the board of honours at the Scottish U16 open strokeplay championship at Strathmore.

UK - PORTSMOUTHS Emma Bonney continued her domination of womens billiards by claiming her fifth world title at the Hall Green Stadium, Birmingham (on Thursday, April 8).

TAMPA/LONDON/PERTH, April, 8th 2010: Huge demand from female kiteboarders on the east coast of the United States has prompted KB4girls to add another event to the 2010 World Tour schedule. Various locations were considered but the NY area stood out so a KB4grils clinic in Montauk/NY will be staged on September 17-18.

At its first-ever UK Open Day, held in Cowes, the Managing Director of The Even Keel Project, David Rutter, presented a brief review of how the Project has started to really move forward over the past year and outlined the Project’s plans for 2010.

U.S. Paralympics has announced the athletes who will compete at the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, August 15-21. The team is stacked with veterans & Paralympic medalists, including Jessica Long who ...