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- Cavendish scoops BBC Sports Personality of the Year award
- Venus coming to Australian Open - tournament chief
- Scratch pair Liu Ying-Yin Loo stun fancied Indians in Lucknow
| Cavendish scoops BBC Sports Personality of the Year award Posted: 22 Dec 2011 04:14 PM PST LONDON, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Rider Mark Cavendish was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year on Thursday to cap a memorable 12 months in which the Briton won the road race world title and the Tour de France green jersey. The 26-year-old Manxman topped the poll, voted for by the public, beating off competition from golfer Darren Clarke, who came second and athlete Mo Farah in third. "This award is a landmark for cycling," he said on the BBC. "For cycling to be recognised in a non-Olympic year is unheard of." Cavendish won five stages at this year's Tour de France in July to clinch the green jersey, awarded to the race's best sprinter, before taking gold at the world championships in Copenhagen in September. World number one tennis player Novak Djokovic, who won three grand slams in 2011, won Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, while the England cricket team scooped the award for Team of the Year. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Venus coming to Australian Open - tournament chief Posted: 22 Dec 2011 04:13 PM PST MELBOURNE(Reuters) - Seven-times grand slam champion Venus Williams will still play the Australian Open despite withdrawing from her scheduled warm-up tournament in New Zealand for health reasons, according to tournament director Craig Tiley. American Williams, who has been receiving treatment for Sjogren's syndrome, an auto-immune disease, pulled out of the Jan. 2-7 Auckland Classic, organisers said earlier this week. Tiley said he had spoken to Williams's agent to check her availability after news of the withdrawal. "I wanted to touch base but there's no change for her. She's coming," Tiley said in comments published by the Australian newspaper on Friday. Williams withdrew from September's U.S. Open with Sjogren's, a chronic disease where white blood cells attack moisture-producing glands causing fatigue and joint soreness. The five-times Wimbledon champion has since slipped to a world ranking of 102, but said last month that she hoped to return to the tour full-time in 2012 and to climb back up to top of the rankings. She will play in a mixed doubles exhibition match with her younger sister and fellow former world number one Serena in Florida on Friday to help raise funds for a youth education charity. The Australian Open starts on Jan. 16. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Scratch pair Liu Ying-Yin Loo stun fancied Indians in Lucknow Posted: 22 Dec 2011 05:29 PM PST PETALING JAYA: The scratch women's doubles pair of Goh Liu Ying-Lim Yin Loo made heads turn when they sensationally beat third seeds and home favourites Jwala Gutta-Ashwini Ponnappa in the second round of the India Open GP Gold in Lucknow yesterday. Playing together in an international tournament for the first time, Liu Ying-Yin Loo quickly found themselves a game down against the world No.13 Indian pair. Nevertheless, they bounced back quickly and showed good combination to silence the home crowd with a 18-21, 21-14, 21-16 win. The reward for their tenacious play will be a quarter-final meeting against either Singaporeans Shinta Mulia Sari-Yao Lei or Dutch duo Lotte Jonathans-Paulien Van Dooremalen. It will also be the diminutive Liu Ying's second quarter-final appearance in this tournament after she combined well with Chan Peng Soon to reach the last eight of the mixed doubles. It was a good day for Malaysia in women's doubles, as the upcoming duo of Woon Khe Wei-Vivian Hoo shrugged off their recent inconsistencies to score an upset victory over fourth seeds Duanganong Aroonkesorn-Kunchala Voravichit-chaikul of Thailand. Khe Wei-Vivian were in smashing form, winning 21-12, 21-16, leaving the Thai duo no chance of a fightback. Chin Ee Hui-Wong Pei Tty are also through to the next round when they brushed aside team-mates Lai Pei Jing-Marylen Ng 21-13, 21-13. In the men's singles, national backup shuttler Misbun Ramdan Misbun qualified for the quarter-finals without having to lift his racquet. The 20-year-old son of former national coach, Misbun Sidek, was drawn to play Indonesian No. 1 Simon Santoso in the third round. However, the top seeded Simon, withdrew from the competition due to an injury, to hand Ramdan a free ride into the last eight where he will face Thailand's Suppanyu Avihingsanon. It was, however, the end of the road for Chong Wei Feng as he failed to hold onto his advantage against Wong Wing Ki of Hong Kong. Wei Feng won the first game 21-12 and was leading 14-10 in the second but lost his focus to allow the fifth seeded Wing Ki to storm back and take the match 12-21, 21-17, 21-12. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
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