puig will now face the local favourite, wang qiang.34 in the world, beat the unseeded australian daria gavrilova to stay on course for back—to—back tour titles following her victory in guangzhou last week. wang, who also won on home soil in jiangxi back in july, came through in straight sets 7—5, 6—2. she's on the verge of breaking into the world's top 30 for the first time. in the other half of the draw, the number three seed and reigning wimbledon champion, anqelique kerber, was knocked out by ashleigh barty. the number 16 seed from australia won a tight first set 7—5, and then raced through the second for the loss ofjust one game. barty now plays anastasia pavlyuchenkova, who beat petra kvitova, but had to come from behind to win after the number five seed and former wimbledon champion took the first set 6—3. but pavlyuchenkova, who's now ranked 39 in the world, turned it round by winning the next two sets, 6—3, 6—3 to claim her place in the last eight. we're just over 24 hours away from the start of this year's ryder cup between eu

in the other half of the draw, local favourite wang qiang remains on course to win a second tour titler 34 is through to the semi—finals and a match against estonia's annett kontaveit after beating the olympic champion monica puig in straight sets. wang, who won in guangzhou last week, came through 6—3, 6—1. reigning champions india take on bangladesh in the final of cricket's asia cup on friday. india have won six of the previous 13 editions of this tournament and they come up against a bangladesh team who have featured in two of the past three finals with indian batsman shikhar dawhan aware of the threat their opponents pose in dubai. it is tough to beat bangladesh in bangladesh. you have seen all the overseas teams, and they are really strong. i believe selections are more stronger than words —— actions of. they are showing by their performances that they have gotten so performances that they have gotten so much better. and they have experienced players in their side that know the game. india is a far better team, the number one team that know the game. india is a far betterteam, th

and wang qiang keeps chinese hopes alive as she moves through to the quarter finals of the wuhan openain undefeated at the top of italy's serie a. that's after a 2—0 win over bologna in turin. two goals in the opening 20 minutes proved enough for max allegri's side, with paulo dybala claiming the first after he hooked the ball back when blaise matuidi's shot was parried by the goalkeeper. and it was matuidi who was the recipient of a cristiano ronaldo pass for their second, keeping them three

but there was an upset for the world number seven, karolina pliskova, who was beaten by china's wang qianghe end it was a double fault from pliskova that handed qiang the win to take her through to a match against daria gavrilova. it's less than a month until the new nba season gets underway as the new look los angeles lakers with lebronjames leading the charge. the lakers who started training camp on tuesday will get their pre season campaign underway when they face the denver nuggets in san diego on sunday. their first regular season match sees them travel to the portland trailblazers on the 19th of october and james who's featured in the past eight nba finals with former teams cleveland and miami is having to teach himself some new tricks though. iam nota i am not a very patient guy. i understand that they have to be patient, you know? right now. i need to be patient with myself, to, because this is a new start to me. —— i had to be patient. it is my first year. i napa played game of basketball, but this is all new to me. i have to be patient with myself 110w. “— me. i have to be patien

unseeded wild card, wang qiang, heads into third round action at the wuhan open later as she looks tothe czech pliskova was coming off a victory in the pan pacific open last week but she couldn't deny the local player who now faces australia's daria gavrilova. the world number 34 and chinese number one goes in search of a place in the last eight and a second title in consecutive weeks after victory in guangzhou last time out. in case you missed it manchester united have been knocked out of the english league cup in the third round by second tier side derby county after being reduced to ten men in the second half when goalkeeper sergio romero was sent off. minus paul pogba who was ommitted from the team by managerjose mourinho, the hosts had to score late to salvage a 2—2 draw at old trafford at the end of 90 minutes. philjones then missed the penalty for united that saw frank lampard's side progress to the last 16. tiger mania has hit france after american player tiger woods, fresh off his win in atlanta on sunday, practised and answered questions ahead of the ryder cup which starts o