Women sport news

Marion Bartoli continued her impressive form in the French capital on Friday, beating compatriot Virginie Razzano in straight sets to set up a clash with the tournament's No.1 seed, Anna Chakvetadze

Hope Powell's England are heading for Doncaster next month where they will face Czech Republic in a qualifier for the European Championship Finals - to be held in Finland in 2009.

USA Water Ski and the National Show Ski Association (NSSA) are pleased to announce that the 2007 Malibu Division 1 Show Ski National Championships will be televised for seven consecutive weeks on the Versus Network (formerly Outdoor Life Network) beginning March 3.

Two goals from Jo Ellis put England 2-0 up on their Aussie rivals. They defeated SIS/SAS today in Perth. They next face The National Team on Thursday. 14th .....stay tuned photo Andrew Beckett

More than 400 players or volunteers are expected to participate at this year’s Imparja Cup, the premier all-Indigenous cricket tournament that gets underway in Alice Springs on Monday (11 February). 28 teams from across Australia will be competing in four divisions during the week before finals are held on Saturday 16 February.

U.S. cross country skiers produced eight top-15 performances over three days at the J1 Scandinavian Championships, competing against traditional nordic powers Norway, Sweden and Finland as well as Estonia and Latvia. The two U.S. women's relay teams finished in the top six.

It was a victorious day Wednesday for Erica Mueller (Steamboat Springs, CO) when she won with U.S. Snowboarding teammate Michelle Gorgone (Boston) in second. Karol Sztokfisz of Poland finished third. U.S. Snowboarding Photo © Jonathan Selkowitz/Selkophoto

Doha's Aspire Dome will be welcoming Artistic Gymnastics' elite for the World Cup Circuit, March 4 - 6 of this year. This is a first for the Qatar Gymnastic Federation and its President, A-Rahman Al-Shathri, also President of the Asian Gymnastics Union.

2B Sport Company has signed an agreement with GIANT Italia srl, the first sportive season of the GIANT Italia Team officially starts from. Some of the most important worldwide bikers will compete for the new Team.

Alize Cornet, Nathalie Dechy and Virginie Razzano sent the crowd home happy on Day 3 of the Open Gaz de France after all three emerged victorious from their first round matches

Scotland’s senior women shake things up in a test series against Belgium, who are preparing for an Olympic qualifier, 15th-16th February in Nivelles.

Today’s 3rd Women’s One-Day International between the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars and England at Drummoyne Oval has been abandoned (February 7).

A drive to encourage hundreds of women and girls to take up golf in Worcestershire and Herefordshire will get underway next week.

Virginia-based AMERICAN SYSTEMS, a professional, technical and IT services company, will serve as the title sponsor for the $100,000 AMERICAN SYSTEMS Invitational, set for April 4-6, at LPGA International Golf Club in Daytona Beach.

Bourges are the only team with a perfect record and are three games clear at the top of the regular season's standings. They also confirmed their improvement in Europe with a road victory against UMMC Ekaterinburg as they moved from last place to second in their group.

Ros Casares and CSKA Moscow remained undefeated in the EuroLeague Women with decisive victories on Tuesday but the best game of the night saw 2006 champions Gambrinus Sika Brno edge MiZo Pecs. photo FIBA

Defending World Champion helm Sarah Ayton has laid down the gauntlet to the fleet ahead of the 2008 Yngling Women’s World Championships starting in Miami this week insisting, “Our plans are on track for another World title”. photo onEdition

Just six months remain until the start of the Beijing Olympic Games and the battle for medals is already heating up.

The Chevy U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix is back in action for its second tour stop of the year at Tamarack Resort. The event will host the Visa Snowboardcross competition, part of the Visa SBX Championship Series, and a halfpipe competition in Tamarack's legendary superpipe.

In October I decided to sign up for this inaugural event as the medal was in the shape of a surf board! Had I known it was going to be a wet and cold marathon of 26.2miles I might not have thought the medal was as great!

The East Midland’s premier netball team, Loughborough Lightning, confirmed it’s place at the top of the Co-operative Netball Superleague this weekend after an impressive 74-38 win against bottom team Northern Thunder. photos Perfect Motion

The U.S. Women’s National Volleyball Team open tryouts set for Feb. 22-24 has 115 athletes prepared to be drilled and tested at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. photo US Volleyball

England international Jenny Duncalf is determined to retain her women's title in next week's British National Squash Championships in Manchester - despite the "shock" that greeted last year's surprise winner on the eve of the event.

With the cooperation between European Handball Federation (EHF)/EHF Marketing GmbH and LAOLA1 Multimedia GmbH, handball fans all around the world will have the possibility to watch the greatest stars of the game.

EHF E-NEWS the links with the Referee and Delegate nominations for the third round of the EHF Women's Champions League.

Kateryna Bondarenko sensationally defeated defending champion Nadia Petrova in the first round of the Open Gaz de France on Tuesday. Amelie Mauresmo and Agnes Szavay also won.