 | Doha Bank to sponsor
third PSA squash series DOHA Bank will sponsor the
third leg of the PSA Challenger
Squash Series to be organised
by the Qatar Squash
Federation from February 23
to 25.
Doha Bank and the QSF
signed the agreement for the
sponsorship on Tuesday. Doha
Bank ...
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| | Radwanska, Safarova
enter second round |
AGNIESZKA Radwanska
struggled with desert wind
and a determined opponent in
qualifying as the fifth seed
scratched out a 6-1, 6-7 (6-8),
7-5 defeat of Canadian
Aleksandra Wozniak on
Tuesday to reach the second
round of the Dubai
Championships.
Czech Lucie Safarova beat
Croatian Petra Martic 6-3, 5-
7, 6-2 in another slow-running
match, while Iveta
Benesova also moved
throughas injured Slovak
opponent Dominika
Cibulkova had to quit trailing
3-1 with a hamstring problem.
Two-time quarter-finalist
Daniela Hantuchova, playing
the event for the seventh time,
took two and a half hours to
beat Polona Hercog of
Slovenia 1-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7-4) ... | | | Qatar´s Al Anabi enters semis | THE QATAR Al Anabi
Racing Top Fuel Team,
owned by HE Sheikh Khalid
bin Hamad Al Thani,
advanced to the semifinals in
the second race of the year
on Sunday in Phoenix,
Arizona in the United States.
The Phoenix race was the
second of 23 races that make
up America´s 2012 National
Hot Rod Association Drag
Racing season.
Dubai UAE native Khalid
al Balooshi was the No. 9
qualifier at the NHRA
Arizona Nationals. In the
first round of eliminations,
rookie driver al Balooshi
faced veteran Morgan Lucas.
Despite a valiant effort in
which al Balooshi made his
best run yet as a Top Fuel
driver recording a 3.808-
second pass, Lucas advanced
to the second ... | | | Inter Milan seeks to revive
UEFA campaign at Marseille | FOR INTER Milan,
Wednesday´s Champions
League last 16 encounter with
Marseille at Stade Velodrome
represents an opportunity to
rejuvenate a campaign that is
unravelling at bewildering
speed. Both sides enjoyed
similar fortunes in their
respective domestic leagues
during the first half of the season
— starting poorly before
rallying in the autumn — but
their paths have since
diverged sharply.
Marseille´s push for a topthree
finish in Ligue 1 may
have been stalled by draws in
their last two outings, but
they remain unbeaten since
November 23 and are still
competing on four fronts.
Inter´s malediction is rather
more severe.
Having won nine games out
of 10 either side of ... | |
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