Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 09:03 AM
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A look at the top picks for today's quarterfinals action on the ladies side of the draw at Wimbledon....
WOMEN'S QUARTER FINALS
Venus Williams v Agnieska Radwanska
Head-to-head: Williams leads 3-1; never met on grass
Last Meeting: Williams won 6/1, 6/2 at Rome 07/05/09
Venus Williams has been making serene progress through the draw as she looks to claim a third successive Venus Rosewater Dish and a sixth in total. After four matches she has dropped just 16 games and extended her winning streak at SW19 to 18 matches with the last 15 coming in straight sets. She has won each of her matches so far this year by at least seven clear games and back to the 2000 Championships has won all eight of her matches against 6-16 seeds with six wins by six or more games.
Agnieska Radwanska has lost half her six Wimbledon matches against seeded players and in particular three of four against top eight seeds. Each of these three defeats was by seven or more games. As well as her heavy defeat against Venus in Rome back in May she was also thrashed at the US Open in the last 16 last year – winning just four games – and similarly managed to win just four games in each of her two meetings with Serena Williams. Her record in quarter-finals of Tier One and Grand Slam events does not make good reading as she has gone W1-L7 with all seven defeats in straight sets and six by at least a si... [More]
Posted Thursday, June 18, 2009 02:10 AM
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warm-up before they meet South Africa on the 20 June.
This had given him six out of six correct going into the week’s final fixture - USA v England Saxons. He predicted a USA win and for the first 20 minutes the game was close, but the Saxons ran out 56-17 winners.
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Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009 06:02 AM
A full list of fixtures and results for the
FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa.
GROUP STAGE
Sunday June 14 - Group A
Johannesburg - South Africa 0-0 Iraq
Rustenburg - New Zealand 0-5 Spain
Monday June 15 - Group B
Bloemfontein - Brazil 4-3 Egypt
Pretoria - USA 1-3 Italy
Wednesday June 17 - Group A
Mangaung/Bloemfontein - 17:00 - Spain v Iraq
Rustenburg - 21:30 - South Africa v New Zealand
Thursday June 18 - Group B
Tshwane/Pretoria - 17:00 - USA v Brazil
Johannesburg - 21:30 - Egypt v Italy
Saturday June 20 - Group A
Johannesburg - 21:30 - Iraq v New Zealand
Mangaung/Bloemfontein - 21:30 - Spain v South Africa
Sunday June 21 - Group B
Tshwane/Pretoria - 21:30 - Italy v Brazil
Rustenburg - 21:30 - Egypt v USA
SEMI-FINALS
Wednesday June 24
Mangaung/Bloemfontein - 21:30 - Winner Group A v Runner-up Group B
Thursday June 25
Johannesburg - 21:30 - Winner Group B v Runner-up Group A
THIRD PLACE PLAY-OFF
Sunday June 28
Rustenburg - 16:00
FINAL
Sunday June 28
Johannesburg - 21:30
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Posted Monday, June 15, 2009 10:28 AM
t’s Royal
Ascot Gold Cup week and five glorious days of top class racing action begins at the Berkshire course tomorrow.
As usual Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien, who had six winners last year, is sending a large team over from his stables in Ireland.
He is very much the ‘handler’ to follow and there are sure to be more winners among the 15-strong team he is sending over.
You can get the week off to a flying start by backing an O’Brien horse called Mastercraftsman in the St James’s Palace Stakes (3.45pm) on Tuesday.
Aidan
O’Brien has won five of the last nine runnings of this Group 1 contest
and we can’t see past can’t see past Mastercraftsman, currently priced
at 4/5 with BetUK.
Unbeaten as a 2-year-old, where he won twice
in Group 1 company, he stepped up considerably on his 5th in the 2000
Guineas by hosing up in the Irish version.
This race has been
on the agenda ever since and with quicker conditions no problem, he’s
going to be very tough to beat. Delegator, who didn’t handle the ground
in Ireland last time, looks the biggest danger but we think the
favourite should have his measure.
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