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| Cesc Fabregas sinks Aston Villa with double strike Cesc Fabregas came off the bench to score twice as Arsenal beat Aston Villa 3-0 at the Emirates Stadium. feeds.timesonline.co.uk |
Relaxed Jenson Button creates positive first impression as new kid on McLaren block Just imagine we get to the end of the 2010 Formula One season and Jenson Button has wiped the floor with Lewis Hamilton at McLaren, beating the sport’s youngest world champion consistently in qualifying and in races to take the unofficial No 1 slot at the Woking-based team. feeds.timesonline.co.uk |
Player mistreatment allegations give coaches pause ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Oregon State coach Mike Riley won't stop disciplining players because three of his colleagues were recently forced out after allegations of player abuse.... hosted.ap.org |
Federer eases into Melbourne last 16 • Federer beats Spain's Albert Montañés 6-3, 6-4, 6-4• Djokovic drops just four games against Denis IstominRoger Federer produced an efficient display on serve to comfortably progress to the fourth round of the Australian Open with a straight sets win over Spain's Albert Montañés. The world No1 broke Montañés once in each set and did not allow the 31st seed a single break point en route to a 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 victory.Federer will now face Lleyton Hewitt for a place in the quarter-finals. Hewitt was leading Marcos Baghdatis 6-0, 4-2 in their night match on the Rod Laver Arena when the 2006 finalist was forced to retire because of a shoulder injury.Federer has beaten Hewitt the last 14 times they have played each other and the Swiss believes he is exactly where he wants to be heading into the second week. "I feel good, I feel confident. I feel like I'm obviously fresh and ready to take on the bigger names."Montañés's inability to threaten on Federer's serve undermined an otherwise solid display from the Spaniard with Federer admitting he had struggled to keep up from the back of the court. "He might have had the upper hand [from the baseline] actually," said the three-time champion who won for the 50th time at Melbourne Park."He didn't make many mistakes. I expected him to miss a bit more. I needed to make sure I served well because if I had a hiccup on serve it could have been an even closer game."Two other players looking in ominous form in Federer's half of the draw are Novak Djokovic and Nikolay Davydenko. Djokovic destroyed Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin 6-1, 6-1, 6-2 to suggest that he is building the same kind of momentum that carried him to the 2008 title."At some stage in the tournament you want to have a straight sets win, an easy win, so you can get fast off the court and try to save all the energy as much as you can for the upcoming challenges, which are obviously going to be more difficult," said Djokovic. "So it was good to have the match like this."Davydenko was in a similarly ruthless mood as he dispatched Argentina's Juan Monaco 6-0, 6-3, 6-4. The Russian is yet to drop a set this week and is unbeaten since winning the 2009 season-ending ATP World Tour Finals in London, in a run that has included victories over Federer and Rafael Nadal."I am feeling very good confident now," said the 28-year-old. "Before, I didn't want to tell you guys, yes I can win and I want to win a grand slam. But this level, if I keep it up, maybe I have a chance to win."Davydenko will now play Fernando Verdasco, who advanced when Stefan Koubek of Austria retired due to sickness after losing the first set 6-1. Djokovic's next opponent, Poland's Lukasz Kubot, was also gifted a place in the fourth round - the furthest he has ever been at a grand slam - courtesy of a walkover against the injured Mikhail Youzhny.Meanwhile the man Djokovic beat in the 2008 final, Jo-Wilfred Tsonga, beat Tommy Haas 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 7-5 to set up a last-16 meeting with Spain's Nicolas Almagro.Australian OpenRoger FedererTennisKaty Murrellsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Premier League partially lift Portsmouth's transfer embargo Portsmouth's transfer embargo has been partially lifted by the Premier League after the club was able to prove to the League that they had no exisiting football debts after outstanding payments to Udinese on the transfer of Sulley Muntari in May 2005 had been restructured to the Serie A club's satisfaction. feeds.timesonline.co.uk |