Ralf Souquet , World 9-ball Championship

We are proud to announce that Ralf Souquet takes the second place at the World Pool Championship 2006 held in Manila. Ronato Alcano is the 2006 Philippines World Pool Champion following a runaway 17-11 victory over Ralf Souquet, sponsored by Iwan Simonis.

Punk finally does by Jeff Hardy

Jeff Hardy has already does punk. For months Jeff Hardy has been struggling to win back the world heavyweight championship belt from Edge.

Both contenders had put their bodies on the line throughout, though, and Hardy's celebrations were cut short when the Straightedge Superstar Punk quickly capitalised.

The triumph was Punk's second of the night in New Orleans after earlier overcoming the odds to beat The Samoan Bulldozer Umaga.

But Punk somehow managed to drag his opponent to three corners of the ring in their Samoan Strap Match, before hitting the Go To Sleep to get the last ringpost in succession and wrap up the win.

Ireland vs Bangladesh Match

T20 match at Trent Bridge, ,, 8 Jun 2009.

Match begins at 18:00 IST (12:30 GMT)

IRELAND

	Player	Matches	Avg
	Alex Cusack	N/A	N/A
	Andre Botha	N/A	N/A
	Andrew White	N/A	N/A
	Boyd Rankin	N/A	N/A
	Gary Wilson	N/A	N/A
	Jeremy Bray	N/A	N/A
	John Mooney	N/A	N/A
	Kevin O'Brien	N/A	N/A
	Kyle McCallan	N/A	N/A
	Niall O'Brien	N/A	N/A
	Paul Stirling	N/A	N/A
	Peter Connell	N/A	N/A
	Regan West	N/A	N/A
	Trent Johnston	N/A	N/A
	William Porterfield	N/A	N/A
	Coach: Phil Simmons

BANGLADESH

Player	Matches	Avg
		Abdur Razzak	10	2
		Mahmudullah	5	6
		Mashrafe Mortaza	9	15
		Mohammad Ashraful (C)	9	18.22
		Mohammad Mithun	N/A	N/A
		Mushfiqur Rahim	9	7.25
		Naeem Islam	1	15
		Raquibul Hassan	1	3
		Rubel Hossain	N/A	N/A
		Shahadat Hossain	3	7
		Shakib Al Hasan	8	12.13
		Shamsur Rahman	N/A	N/A
		Syed Rasel	8	3.5
		Tamim Iqbal	9	12.89
		Zunaed Siddique	2	37.5
	Coach: Jamie Siddons

Ponting says Lee is back strongly

West Indies captain Gayle during his blistering knock of 88 off 50 balls that handed his team a crushing seven wicket victory against Australia Saturday.

'He (Lee) obviously got taken down a little bit but I don't think it mattered who was bowling to Chris in the sort of mood he was in. I'm happy with the way he's coming along,' Ponting said.

Ponting was also happy with the progress of all-rounder Shane Watson, who is returning from a back injury.

'He'll just get better and better the more overs he gets under his belt. The more he bowls to better players as well he'll benefit from that a lot. He gives us great flexibility.'

England shows the best effort

When England loose their first game against Netherland victory was very necessary for them. Kevin Pietersen, who passed a late fitness test on an Achilles injury, showed how crucial his presence was as he top-scored with 58 off 38 balls in England's total of 185-5.

Salman Butt (28 off 23 balls) dominated the early scoring but he followed next ball when he top-edged an attempted pull to Ravi Bopara at gully.Captain Younus Khan brought up the 50, with a sweep to the boundary in Graeme Swann's first over, but it had taken until the eighth over to reach the landmark.

Shoaib Malik (20) edged an attempted slash-drive to James Foster behind the stumps to leave Pakistan facing a heavy defeat.With 84 needed off the last 5 overs it was now or never for the batting side and Afridi's dismissal - caught by sub fielder Eoin Morgan at long-on off Graeme Swann - at the start of the 16th over signalled the death knell for his team's hopes.

Yasir Arafat (4) was caught at wide long-off by Wright to end Broad's final over and give the fast bowler figures of 3-0-17-3 - an excellent comeback after a harrowing last over against the Dutch on Friday.England's 185, after being put into bat, was an above-par score on a pitch assisting the spinners.Gul, on at the Vauxhall End, struck in his first over when Wright (34 off 16 balls) backed to leg and was bowled by a yorker.

England skipper , (15 off 11 balls) had a brief stay before he holed out to Afridi on the long-off boundary off Ajmal, who returned to finish off with an outstanding spell of 2-8 from his last two overs. Pietersen's innings ended in the same over when he got an outside edge to short third-man.

Foster (14 off 8 balls) was dropped at short fine-leg on 0, off Gul, before he helped Dimitri Mascarenhas (16 off 12 balls) put on 27 for the sixth-wicket (including 15 off the penultimate over from Afridi).

Foster was dropped again (this time on 13) by Butt at deep backward point in the final over from Gul. The bowler also had a couple of costly aberrations as he allowed the batsmen to twice run through for over-throws.

Pakistan now go into their last group match in the knowledge that victory over the Netherlands must be achieved by a sufficiently large margin to pip the Dutch for qualification into the next phase of the tournament.

Dinara Safina ready for French Open

PARIS (AP)—Thinner, mentally tougher and No. 1 in the rankings, Dinara Safina feels ready to win her first Grand Slam title.The top-seeded Safina is half of the third all-Russian major championship match. She needs to beat Svetlana Kuznetsova in Saturday’s French Open final to claim one of the four biggest titles in tennis.Safina took over as the top-ranked player in April, and she has reached the final in the four tournaments she has played, all on clay. In her 21 matches since then, she has lost only once—to Kuznetsova.Her inner toughness came through in the quarterfinals at Roland Garros. After dominating four straight opponents—losing only five games in the first four rounds—Safina lost the first set to Victoria Azarenka 6-1. But in the semifinals, she was back to her dominating self after a slight blip at the start, beating Dominika Cibulkova 6-3, 6-3.

Serena Williams vs Victoria Azarenka - last game

Kobe Bryant: 2009 Top 10 Plays

Tiger Woods and will not be paired together with Phil Mickelson

DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — The U.S. Open has its 1-2 punch now that Phil Mickelson intends to play, although Lefty and Tiger Woods won't see much of each other at Bethpage Black unless it's on the weekend.

Mike Davis, the USGA official in charge of competition, says the top three players in the world ranking won't be in the same group for the opening two rounds as they were last year at Torrey Pines

Future of British Tennis on Reeds School

Clip from Tennis Centre at Reeds School featuring Tim Henman