The Alpine skiing World Cup season gets underway this weekend in Soelden Austria, and with the Winter Olympics just a few months away, it may prove to be an early indication of who will be challenging for the medals in

Jenson Button won the drivers' championship with a superb tactical drive in a dramatic Brazilian Grand Prix.The race was won by Mark Webber driving a Red Bull.Brawn's English driver started from 14th but executed a number of superb early overtaking

Casey Stoner converted his pole position into taking the chequered flag at Phillips Island as he led from start to finish to pip a determined Valentino Rossi and win his home Australian MotoGP.Ducati rider Stoner, held off Rossi (Yamaha) to

David Beckham's Fury At Bag SearchDavid Beckham was left fuming when he was held for three hours at Los Angeles airport on Thursday (15Oct09).The soccer ace flew into the city from London and was detained while his 12 bags were

Casey Stoner took pole position in Australia Stoner qualifying for his home MotoGP edged world champion Valentino Rossi in Saturday's close qualifying session.Stoner, chasing a third consecutive win at Phillip Island, clocked 1:30.341 seconds, while Rossi was just five hundredths

Fernando Alonso topped the timesheets in second practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix as all three title hopefuls finished in the top seven.Rubens Barrichello was third fastest for Brawn GP, 0.145 seconds off the pace while championship leader Jenson Button

Rafael Nadal continued his return to form as he progressed to the quarter finals of the Shanghai Masters with a straight sets win over compatriot Tommy Robredo.The world number two was barely troubled by Robredo in the opening set as

After defeat to Australia in the first match of the Co-operative International Series the last thing England head coach Sue Hawkins wanted her side to do was start by giving the ball away or fail to convert the centre pass.Annoyingly

Rafael Nadal battled past James Black for the second time in as many weeks to progress to the third round of the Shanghai masters.The pair met the previous week at the China Open in one of the best matches of

Andy Roddick's chances of qualifying for the ATP World Tour finals in London took another blow yesterday after being forced to pull out of his second round match at the Shanghai Masters because of injury.This came just twenty four hours

Australia showed why they are still the world's best team after coming on strong to make it a convincing win over England in the Co-operative International Series maintaining their impressive test record against their great rivals.If you don't count the

Fernando Gonzalez progressed into the second round of the Shanghai Masters after his opponent Mischa Zverev retired with an injury.Despite the injury to the young German he made tenth seed Gonzalez battle into a third and deciding set before calling

Novak Djokovic saw off the challenge from Marin Cilic to win the China Open title yesterday.By winning the tournament in Beijing the Serb has now overtaken Andy Murray in the ATP rankings pushing the Scot down into fourth.It had been

Jo-Wilfred Tsonga triumphed in Tokyo against Mikhail Youzhny to move one step closer to the ATP World Tour finals in London.The fight is now on for the last three places at the coveted end of season tournament that will be

Svetlana Kuznetsova lifted the China Open title in Beijing at the weekend, seeing off Agnieszka Radwanska.It's been a mixed season for the Russian after lifting the French Open tile back in June having suffered from up and down form.She crashed

Umpires: Mandy Nottingham, Joel Young StrongReserves; Dalton HinesEngland versus Australia was supposed to be the final but Jamaica and New Zealand booked their places in the showpiece of The Co-operative World Netball Series instead.Stinging from defeat by the 'auld enemy'