Women sport news

Hertfordshire’s Charlie Douglass won the English amateur championship when she defeated Tara Watters of Middlesex 3/2 in the final at Lindrick, Yorkshire. photo ELGA

Another day of sun and wind had the slalom fleet hard at work on the fourth day of competition in Korea. Showing early form, Alice Arutkin (Starboard / North) capitalised on a strong start in the opening women’s race (race 5), to notch up her first win of the competition.

A warm, sunny start to day five’s skippers meeting showed signs of promise for the day ahead, however a lingering heat-haze looked like it might interfere with proceedings. photo PWA

Day one of the 2009 BT Paralympic World Cup saw action from the womens GB wheelchair basketball team, with stars of the future emerging but excruciatingly close results for the women in both their matches. photo John Coxon

The FIVB confirmed today that the 2009 FIVB Womens Junior World Championship scheduled for Tijuana and Mexicali, Mexico would go ahead as scheduled from July 16-25. photo FIVB

Maria Sharapova played her first match yesterday as the first round of the Warsaw Open got underway. Sharapova commented after the match, Its so great to be back after 9 months of alot of hard work and therapy, playing infront of a new crowd and fans is really great.

School children from Taunton will watch their heroes in June at one of this year’s most exhilarating sporting tournaments. This international cricket tournament will see 12 world-class matches take place at Taunton, the home of the England womens team from 11 - 16 June 2009.

Shrugging off the past two days of windless calm, day three in Korea saw Jinha Beach awake to show its true colours. Serving up wall to wall blue sky accompanied by strengthening side shore wind, the sailors took their positions to start proceedings.

Dual Olympic heptathlete and Commonwealth Games medallist Kylie Wheeler has today announced her retirement from athletics, closing the book on an impressive career which spanned 13 years.

Magic def LG Mystics while The Vixens crush West Coast Fever. It was a close match against rivals the Queensland Firebirds and NSW Swifts with the Firebirds winning 58-54. photo Micheal Bradley

The 16 teams to vie for eight European berths at the 2010 Women’s World Championship in Japan were decided this weekend during second-round play in Azerbaijan, Croatia, Bulgaria and France. photo FIVB

SWATCH FIVB World Tour taking a week off after playing its first-ever event in Rome, the international circuit for women resumes competition this week with back-to-back events in Asia starting with the US$190,000 Keihan/SMFG Japan Open in Osaka, Japan. photo FIVB

Top-seeded Malaysian Nicol David overcame defending champion Natalie Grainger for the second time in seven days when she beat her US Tour rival in the final of the Womens Texas Open to lift the $57,000 WISPA World Tour Gold squash title for the first time. photo WISPA

Viborg strike back The Danish Viborg HK returned to the throne of the Women’s EHF Champions League since their first victory in 2006. The Danes defeated Hungarian Győri AUDI ETO KC in a packed Veszprém Aréna by 26:23 and claimed the trophy with a 50:49 aggregate victory. photo EHF

FCK’s take their first title, they defeated the Norwegian Champion Larvik by 25-21 in the Womens Cup Winners Cup. Itxako took the Womens EHF Cup defeating HC Leipzig 52-45. The EHF Womens Challenge Cup went to Nimes beating German club Thuringer HC. photo EHF

Playing in her third final in the last few weeks Safina was by far the favourite. Safina broke 3 times in the opening set to take it 6-2. This continued in the second set to take the match 6-4 and hold on to her World Number 1 status.

Maria Sharapova will make her triumphant return to tennis this week at the Warsaw open in Poland. The former women’s number one has been plagued by injury to her shoulder which has kept her from the game for nearly 9 months.

First-year Duramed FUTURES Tour player Elisa Serramia of Barcelona, Spain, claimed her first Tour victory today in the $100,000 Mercedes-Benz of Kansas City Championship. Serramia won by one shot at 218 (+5), posting a final-round score of 1-under 70. photo futurestour.com

Marie Björling takes the twelfth and final spot to the ISAF Women’s Match Racing World Championship in Lysekil, Sweden, this summer. photo Dan Ljungsvik/Lysekil Womens Match

A new campaign to get everyone ‘Feeling Good About Newport’ is being launched in the City this weekend.

USA Hockey was selected to host the 2010 International Ice Hockey Federation World Women’s U18 Championship by the IIHF Council today in Bern, Switzerland.

Olympic 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu will captain London North at next month’s Super8 competition in Cardiff. The exciting two-hour City versus City concept is being piloted in the Welsh capital next month and leading British athletes are giving their full backing to the idea.

Squash superstar Nicol David is holding an auction of her favourite rackets and clothing to help the sports bid for inclusion in the 2016 Olympics.

Despite a promising forecast, competition’s second day was spent patiently waiting for suitable conditions.

Britain is set to welcome some of Europe’s strongest water polo nations when Manchester hosts the LEN Women’s European Nations Trophy this summer.

For the past 50 years, Callaway Gardens in the State of Georgia, USA, has reserved the Memorial Day weekend to host one of the Worlds most prestigious waterski and wakeboard events on the international calendar.