 | Judith wins Ladies Tour of Qatar
GERMAN world time trial
champion Judith Arndt of
GreenEDGE-AIS guarded her
slim two-second overnight
lead over closest challenger
Trixi Worrack with brilliant
team work and won the
Ladies Tour of Qatar on
Friday.
She bagged the maximum
points and bonus seconds.
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| | Doubles crown for Albert,
Tomahy; Ianakiev upset |  THE singles semi-finals for
both boys and girls, as well as
the boys´ and girls´ doubles
finals in Qatar´s first ATF
Junior Tennis Tournament
were played on Friday, and
the day´s games had more
than one surprise in store.
The tournament is being held
at the Khalifa Tennis and
Squash Complex.
In the boys´ singles semifinals,
Milen Ianakiev from
Germany played Cypriot
Petros Chrysochos, the former
player being the top seed
in the tournament, and the
latter player having needed to
qualify to enter the main
draw.
Chrysochos quickly won
the first set 6-4 before
Ianakiev (equally quickly)
won the second 6-2. The real
surprise came in the third and
deciding set ... |
| | India finally has sweet taste
of victory in Australia |
 INDIA revived its Australian
tour with a convincing eightwicket
win over the home
side in the second Twenty20
international at the
Melbourne Cricket Ground
on Friday.
The tourists dazzled in the
field with four run outs to
restrict Australia to 131 off
19.4 overs before reaching
the target at 135 for two with
two balls to spare before
62,275 fans.
It was the Indians´ first
victory on their tour of
Australia after losing the
opening T20 game by 31
runs in Sydney on
Wednesday and receiving a
4-0 thrashing in the Test
series.
Australia were scuttled by
a India´s brilliant fielding,
the pick of which came from
man-of-the-match Ravindra
Jadeja who claimed two run
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| | Terry stripped of England´s
captaincy second time |  JOHN Terry was stripped of
the England captaincy for the
second time in two years on
Friday after mounting concern
his ongoing racism court case
had made his position untenable.
The English Football
Association confirmed in a
statement that chairman
David Bernstein had contacted
Terry to inform him of the
body´s decision to remove him
as captain until the racism
allegations were "resolved."
Bernstein had canvassed
opinion amongst members of
the FA board on Thursday to
discuss the best course action
for Terry, who is accused of
racially abusing Queens Park
Rangers defender Anton
Ferdinand during a match last
year.
Terry, 31, strongly ... |
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