of magical maria sharapova beats compactor and namesake her olenka through the semifinals of the indian wells open. and on your mops the mclaren jewel of jenson parts in a new is hamilton set the pace in first practice head of the first formula one race of the new season in melbourne. the first football and it was a bad night for manchester with both city and united being knocked out of the europa league at the last sixteen stage city went out on away goals to portuguese side sporting lisbon while united were eliminated by spanish club athletic bilbao their legal side had a three two lead from the first leg at old trafford last week and goals either side of half time from fernando llorente and oscar de marcos left salix ferguson's men with a mountain to climb wayne rooney's late goals in a consolation as the spaniards run out five three winners on aggregates they'll find out their last eight opponents in the tool later on friday i think you could do very well a finger or center they want to us those are the treatments what reads i am in it with us in europe. and that takes show a long w

they beat and eighty two sixty five in the stamboul to win groupie with a five one record breaker olenka top scoring for them with fifteen points yesterday evening elsewhere limpy are costly to the quarter finals with an eighty eight eighty going when every galut has a right and spanish side just can't build by went through third only just they have to beat hard which they did and then hope does not win by more than twenty three points against multiparty c.n.n. reality couldn't do what they needed to do the match was evenly poised by the end of the third period and even though reale moved up if you get is in the final quarter they could only manage one hundred points to ninety victory against the italians and guess grab a place in the court it's. u.s. ryder cup captain davis love the. story davis love the third tops the leaderboard at the honda classic in florida at the moment where tiger woods is in danger of missing the cut after a poor opening round would started well enough but with a birdie at the first but fellow way to record i won over par seventy one that is seven shots behind l

one shrub burley breaking sweats all the way to setting up the last eight in concho with reoccur olenka who herself beat another russian r.d. through but second seater up but has yet to win a w t a title this season but with a price fund of four point five million dollars financial incentive for this tournament should. elsewhere occur a former world number one sam evanovich and carline wozniacki met on the californian hard courts defending champion wozniacki favorite to progress in this one but serve evanovich well she didn't fold the script was an iraqi taking the lead early in the first sets but that was the. highlights evanovich turning the march around by claiming you are six three before storming to the second six to win the two thousand and eight winner not heads into the quarter finals for more importantly lies in wait. and in the men's draw a rough feel it and roger federer will see if he throws the quarterfinals seeing off composited marcel annoying six one six proved to set up on a country with ukrainian alexander to go pull off in the next stage while third seed better or fou

two six one it was a straightforward victory for the number two stage who now meets compadres here olenka in the last eight days after caroline could beat another russian and not be a patrol on the day that reports claim detroit has announced that she'll apply for u.s. citizenship the twenty nine year old born in moscow a settled in florida describes it as the perfect place to play tennis. meanwhile in the men's draw rafael nadal added roger federer safely through to the quarterfinals of the dalby compactly at them also going all the six one six four and now faces ukrainian alexander told a poll of in the next round while thirteen federer came from a set down to be canadian middle in a much closer contest six seven six two six four the final score was the sixteen time grand slam winner now means thomas baluchi ligi had a real rock the russian nicholai dollar then pulled out from illness. now in the n.b.a. the houston rockets have claimed a narrow one hundred four one hundred three away victory at oklahoma city thunder well in the fourth quarter oklahoma one hundred two ninety one the head

she had to do it the hard way in a match which lasted over three hours the ending said when secure olenka six three it was the first step up it was dropped to a new world number two was a breakdown in the second in full battle back to take it seven five in the decider the australian open final east return to form and drop twenty two games to claim its sixth now takes on valediction the last four. meanwhile in the men's draw world number one and defending champion novak djokovic is through to the semi's after a six three six four when i was spends nicolas almagro next up for this is america's john isner. now the first formula one grand prix of the new season takes place this weekend but friday's practice session in melbourne has been hampered by rain seven so i'm world champion that's forty three year old michael schumacher was fastest in second practice with compassionate nicko holcomb just behind well earlier in the day it was mclaren's jenson button who led the way and he can't wait to race in earnest. oh really good that's been the last couple of days here. we've been getting our bike

sharapova has advanced to the semifinals of the indian wells open as after beating compadre america olenka in three sets but she had to do it the hard way in a match which lasted over three hours hearing set went to q. and a six three there was the first it was dropped in week and the world number two was a great down in the second before back and back as a seven five in the decider the australian open final return to form and drop twenty two games to claim it six two channel takes on an event of the last four. meanwhile in the men's draw world number one and defending champion novak djokovic is through to the semifinals after a six three six four when i was spain's nicolas all night row next up for this is america's job is not. now the first formula one grand prix of the new season takes place this weekend but friday's practice session in melbourne has been hunted by rain seven time world champion forty three year old michael schumacher was fastest in second practice with comparative nickel holcomb just behind earlier in the day it was mclaren's jenson button who led the way and he can't

court sure out of their will play remaining in simona next although also through the russians recur olenka who defeated rumanians it in a big and not even traver got past lauren davis of the usa however you need to make out of losing to world number four powerline was near he. now there has been a shock in the menstrual world number four andy murray losing in straight sets to go mary garcia lopez who was ranked eighty eight places below him the spaniard winning six four six two but there were no problems for top seed novak djokovic to breeze through his opening match an easy straight sets win for him against on very in california six three six to end the story come from pete because that qualifier at the same stage last year djokovic took a south african kevin anderson in the round. things not quite so simple for a local favorite andy roddick he had to come from a set down to get past lucas thought of that finished wrongly. and up next the roddick is seven c. thomas burdick who had to sweat in self a bit to get this far to check the first set of his match against surrogates the hope steve