# Tennis: Defending champion Taylor Fritz is through to the semifinals as he bids for a fourth Eastbourne title. The American defeated countryman Marcos Giron, 7-5, 4-6, 7-5, to book a last-four clash with Spain’s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina today. France’s Ugo Humbert and American Jenson Brooksby put an end to British hopes by defeating Billy […]
# Olympic Games: International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry says there is overwhelming support among members to protect the female category in sport. This follows the controversy around the Paris 2024 boxing tournament after two athletes, Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting, won gold medals. This is despite having been disqualified from the previous year’s World […]
# Tennis: Die Tsjeg Barbora Krejcikova se verdediging van haar Wimbledon-titel hang moontlik in die weegskaal nadat ‘n dyspier-besering haar uit die Eastbourne Ope in Engeland gedwing het. Sy het onttrek voor haar kwarteindstryd teen Varvara Gracheva van Frankryk. Krejcikova is veronderstel om Dinsdag haar eerste wedstryd op Wimbledon te speel. Die 29-jarige, wat haar […]
# Tennis: Czech player Barbora Krejcikova’s defense of her Wimbledon title may hang in the balance after a thigh injury forced her out of the Eastbourne Open in England. She withdrew before her quarterfinal match against Varvara Gracheva of France. Krejcikova is supposed to play her first match at Wimbledon on Tuesday. Twenty-nine-year-old Krejcikova, who clinched […]
# Krieket: Rassie van der Dussen voer die Proteas aan in volgende maand se driehoekige T20-reeks teen die gasheer, Zimbabwe, en Nieu-Seeland. Die gereelde kaptein, Aiden Markram, asook Ryan Rickelton, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Marco Jansen, Kagiso Rabada en Keshav Majaraj kry ‘n ruskans, terwyl Anrich Nortjé beseer is. Die kolwer Lhuan-dré Pretorius kan moontlik […]
# Cricket: Rassie van der Dussen will captain the Proteas in the T20 tri-series against hosts Zimbabwe and New Zealand next month. Regular captain Aiden Markram as well as Ryan Rickelton, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Marco Jansen, Kagiso Rabada and Keshav Majaraj are rested, while Anrich Nortjé is injured. Batter Lhuan-dré Pretorius could make his […]
# Sokker: Christiano Ronaldo het na maande se bespiegeling sy kontrak met die Saoedi-Arabiese klub Al Nassr met twee jaar verleng. Die Portugese superster het in 2023 in die koninkryk aangekom om vir die klub te begin speel, wat gelei het tot ’n toestroming van ouers spelers na die olieryke land. Ronaldo was die Pro-liga […]
# Krieket: ‘n Stophorlosie-reël word in toetskrieket bekend gestel weens die jarelange probleem van stadige boulwerk. Die reël, wat reeds die afgelope jaar in witbalkrieket van krag is, dwing die veldwerkspan om met ‘n boulbeurt te begin binne ‘n minuut nadat die vorige een geëindig het. Die Internasionale Krieketraad sê ‘n elektroniese horlosie langs die […]
# Cricket: A stop-clock rule has been introduced in Tests because of the long-standing problem of slow over-rates. The rule, already in use in white-ball cricket for the past year, forces the fielding side to start an over within a minute after ending the previous one. The International Cricket Council says an electronic clock will […]
