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Serena Williams of the US hits a return against Camila Giorgi of Italy during their women's singles first round match during the Auckland Classic tennis tournament in Auckland on Tuesday. — AFP
Serena powers past Giorgi for 'solid' start to 2020
AUCKLAND — Serena Williams found her power game after a sluggish start as she overcame qualifier Camila Giorgi to open her 2020 season with a straight-sets victory at the Auckland WTA Classic on Tuesday.With an eye on the Australian Open later in the month, the 38-year-old worked her way into a blistering performance that proved too much for the 1.7 meter (5ft 6in) Italian.She described her first match since losing the US Open final in September as "solid" rather than spectacular."Spent a long time off from tournament play, match play, so solid is pretty good. It's a great start to build on," she said after sealing her 6-3, 6-2 victory with her eighth ace against the 99th-ranked Giorgi."It's really good that I still have some power left in my arms and my...
January 07, 2020

Serena powers past Giorgi for 'solid' start to 2020

Reigning champion Aryna Sabalenka suffered shock defeat at the Shenzhen Open on Tuesday, dealing a setback to her Australian Open preparations.
Defending champion Sabalenka suffers shock Shenzhen loss
SHANGHAI — Reigning champion Aryna Sabalenka and top seed Belinda Bencic suffered shock defeats at the Shenzhen Open on Tuesday, dealing a setback to their Australian Open preparations.World No. 11 Sabalenka lost 6-4, 6-4 to the Czech left-hander Kristyna Pliskova as the Belarusian's title defense came to a juddering halt in the second round.Earlier, on a day of upsets in southern China, world number eight Bencic was defeated in her opening match of the year.The Swiss was a surprise loser to the 58th-ranked Anna Blinkova, the Russian coming back from a set down to win 3-6, 6-3, 6-3."I didn't feel great in the beginning of the match," said Blinkova, 21, after claiming the biggest scalp of her career."I didn't feel the ball and my shots. I didn't play bad,...
January 07, 2020

Defending champion Sabalenka suffers shock Shenzhen loss

Naomi Osaka of Japan reacts during the women's singles match on day two of the Brisbane International tennis tournament against Maria Sakkari of Greece in Brisbane on Tuesday. — AFP
Osaka opens year with tough win over Sakkari
BRISBANE, Australia — Japanese star Naomi Osaka came from a break down in the third set to overcome Greece's Maria Sakkari in the first round of the WTA Brisbane International on Tuesday.Sakkari sniffed an upset when she won the second set in a tiebreak then broke Osaka's opening service game of the third set, but the former world No. 1 dug deep and won 6-2, 6-7 (4/7), 6-3 in a two-hour opening-round clash.Osaka, the tournament's third seed, said she was pleased with her first match of the year, after she was forced out of the WTA Finals in October with a shoulder injury."I'm really happy with how I served — I had to retire from my last match because of my shoulder thing, so I wasn't really sure how I was going to serve today," she said."But I was...
January 07, 2020

Osaka opens year with tough win over Sakkari

Rory McIlroy will play his first event of 2020 at the Farmers Insurance Open in California this month. — AFP
McIlroy to open 2020 at Torrey Pines
LOS ANGELES — World No. 2 Rory McIlroy will play his first event of 2020 at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in California later this month, organizers confirmed on Monday.The Northern Irishman and reigning PGA Tour Player of the Year returns to the oceanside course outside San Diego after finishing fifth in the tournament in 2019.The 30-year-old will be aiming to build on a solid showing in his most recent event, a fourth place at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai in November. Prior to that outing, McIlroy had scored a victory in the WGC-HSBC Champions tournament in Shanghai.McIlroy enjoyed a superb 2019 season with wins in the Players Championship, RBC Canadian Open and Tour Championship.His 18 USPGA Tour wins include four major championships, the 2011 US Open, 2012 and...
January 07, 2020

McIlroy to open 2020 at Torrey Pines

In this file photo taken on Dec. 30, 2017 head coach Mike McCarthy of the Green Bay Packers watches his team against the Detroit Lions during the first quarter at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. The Dallas Cowboys are set to appoint former Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy following the sacking of Jason Garrett, reports said on Monday. — AFP
Cowboys to hire former Packers coach McCarthy
LOS ANGELES — The Dallas Cowboys are set to appoint former Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy following the sacking of Jason Garrett, reports said Monday.McCarthy, who has been unemployed since parting company with the Packers after 13 seasons in 2018, has agreed terms with the Cowboys, ESPN reported.The 56-year-old's reported appointment comes just 24 hours after Garrett was fired on Sunday after a season which saw the Cowboys fail to make the playoffs.McCarthy will be saddled with the task of ending the Cowboys' 25-year wait for a Super Bowl title.The former Packers coach led Green Bay to the Super Bowl title in 2011 and reached the playoffs nine times in 13 seasons.However he left the franchise amid acrimony in 2018, sacked with four regular season games remaining amid...
January 07, 2020

Cowboys to hire former Packers coach McCarthy

This photo taken on Monday shows former NBA basketball players Alonzo Mourning (R) and Dikembe Mutombo (2nd L) attending the annual Jack Ma Rural Teacher Award ceremony in Sanya in China's southern Hainan province. some 100 rural teachers and 20 rural headmasters received the award. — AFP
Spurs shock Bucks behind three-point barrage, Mavs beat Bulls
LOS ANGELES — DeMar DeRozan scored 25 points and Patty Mills put aside concern about the deadly fires in his native Australia to help the San Antonio Spurs to a 126-104 upset of the NBA-leading Milwaukee Bucks on Monday.Mills — who has been using his social media accounts to offer updates on the bushfires — made six three-pointers as the Spurs drained a season-high 19 from beyond the arc and turned the tables on Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks, who had beaten them on Saturday.Mills said facing the powerhouse Bucks twice in quick succession was actually a good thing."You can kind of lock in a little bit in a smaller version of a playoff series," Mills said. "You can hone in to their strengths and weaknesses."But even as he focused on the task at hand, Mills...
January 07, 2020

Spurs shock Bucks behind three-point barrage, Mavs beat Bulls

Liverpool have signed a new kit deal with Nike. — AFP
Liverpool sign kit deal with Nike
LONDON — Liverpool have struck a kit deal with Nike from the 2020-21 season to replace New Balance, the Premier League leaders announced on Tuesday.Nike will supply playing, training and travel wear for Liverpool's men's, women's and academy teams and the coaching and Liverpool FC Foundation staff."Our iconic kit is a key part of our history and identity," said Liverpool managing director and chief commercial officer Billy Hogan."We welcome Nike into the LFC family as our new official kit supplier and expect them to be an incredible partner for the club, both at home and globally as we continue to expand our fanbase."As a brand, Nike reflects our ambitions for growth, and we look forward to working with them to bring fans new and exciting products."No...
January 07, 2020

Liverpool sign kit deal with Nike

England players jubilate at the fall of Dean Elgar's wicket as South Africa faces an uphill task on the fourth day of the second Test at Newlands on Monday.
South Africa defiant after Stokes show
CAPE TOWN — Ben Stokes launched an astonishing assault which enabled England to give themselves plenty of time to push for victory, but the tourists had to work hard to take two South African wickets before the close on the fourth day of the second Test at Newlands on Monday.Set to make a world record 438 to win, South Africa were 126 for two at the close. They used up 56 overs on Monday but will need to bat out another 90 on Tuesday to prevent England from leveling the four-match series.Opening batsman Pieter Malan, making his Test debut, scored 63 not out and shared half-century partnerships with Dean Elgar (34) and Zubayr Hamza, who was caught behind off James Anderson in the penultimate over of the day for 18.Stokes slammed 72 off 47 balls to overshadow a maiden Test century by...
January 06, 2020

South Africa defiant after Stokes show

Juventus' Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after scoring his third goal during the Italian Serie A football match Juventus vs Cagliari on Monday at the Juventus Allianz stadium in Turin. — AFP
Ronaldo hat-trick puts Juventus top as Ibrahimovic returns in Milan stalemate
MILAN — Cristiano Ronaldo scored his first Serie A hat-trick to lift Juventus top of Serie A with a 4-0 win over Cagliari on Monday as Zlatan Ibrahimovic made his debut for AC Milan in a goalless draw against Sampdoria.Portugal forward Ronaldo struck for the fifth consecutive league game to move the champions back above Inter Milan in their first match since the Italian SuperCup defeat to Lazio in Saudi Arabia last month.Maurizio Sarri's side had been pegged back in the first half by the sixth-placed Sardinians who have been pushing for a spot in the Champions League places this season but fell to their third consecutive defeat.The second-half was all one-way traffic with 34-year-old Ronaldo breaking the deadlock just after the interval.He added a second from the penalty spot on 67...
January 06, 2020

Ronaldo hat-trick puts Juventus top as Ibrahimovic returns in Milan stalemate

Real Madrid's Welsh forward Gareth Bale falls down during the Spanish league football match aginst Getafe CF at the Col. Alfonso Perez stadium in Getafe on Jan. 4, 2020. — AFP
Bale and Benzema injured ahead of Spanish Super Cup
MADRID — Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale will miss the Spanish Super Cup after Real Madrid announced on Monday that both players were out with fitness problems.Benzema has a hamstring injury while Madrid said Bale has been "diagnosed with an infection in the upper respiratory tract".The duo will not travel to Saudi Arabia, where Madrid face Valencia in the semifinals of a revised four-team tournament on Wednesday, after being left out of a squad list released by the club on Monday.The winner will face either Barcelona or Atletico Madrid in the final in Jeddah on Sunday.Real coach Zinedine Zidane said on Friday that he will also be without Eden Hazard as the Belgian has failed to recover from an ankle fracture.In November it was decided to hold a four-team Super Cup in Saudi...
January 06, 2020

Bale and Benzema injured ahead of Spanish Super Cup

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