 | Qatar´s Saif enters knock-out round STRUGGLING twice former champion
Jin Long failed to make it to the
knock-out of the Asian Snooker
Championship on Thursday. At the
Qatar Snooker & Billiards
Federation Hall, the Chinese suffered
another defeat (1-4) against
Thai young star Noppon ...
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| | Ding seventh seed to fall |  CHINA´S snooker star Ding
Junhui became the seventh
top-16 player to fall in the first
round of the World
Championship after he suffered
a 9-10 loss to Ryan Day
of Wales.
Ding´s shock exit on
Wednesday left only five of
the seeds so far through to the
last 16 of the tournament,
Xinhua reported.The World
No.10, who trailed Day 5-4 in
the first session, succeeded to
overtake on Wednesday and
consolidated a 9-6 advantage,
seemingly to clinch a comeback
victory under the best of
19 frames.
However, the 32-year-old
Day, who lost all the previous
four meets against Ding,
fought his way back to snatch
three straight frames, levelling
the score to 9-9.
In the last ... | | | Nadal, Murray cruise into
last eight; Stosur wins too |  RAFAEL Nadal ran up his
31st consecutive match win
at his home Barcelona Open
on Thursday to reach the
quarter-finals at the expense
of Colombian qualifier
Robert Farah 6-2, 6-3.
Spain´s world number two
improved his near impeccable
record at the event to 32-
1 as he aims to lift a seventh
title from his last eight
appearances. His only loss
came in 2003 against the
country´s current Davis Cup
captain Alex Corretja.
Top seed Nadal, 24-3 on
the season, has not broken
stride since making tennis
history at the weekend by
notching his eighth straight
title in Monte Carlo as he
beat Novak Djokovic.
He will Friday face Serb
fifth seed Janko Tipsarevic. | | | Bayern´s Neuer feels the
love after Madrid magic |  MANUEL Neuer´s key saves
in Madrid helped put Bayern
Munich into the Champions
League final, inspiring words
of love from his chairman
amidst signs he may have
begun to win over the club´s
hard-core fans.
Gelsenkirchen-born Neuer
proved he was worth every
cent of the 22 million euros
Bayern paid Schalke 04 for
him in July when he stopped
Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka´s
spot-kicks as Munich won the
penalty shoot-out 3-1 against
Real Madrid.
On a tense night at
Madrid´s Santiago Bernabeu
Stadium, Neuer held his
nerve after the scores were
level 3-3 on aggregate following
120 minutes of football on
Wednesday night.
His heroics had... | |
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