Upstart England try to end Japan’s title defense
EDMONTON (Reuters) – Defending champions Japan are one win away from a return trip to the Women’s World Cup final, and standing in their way is an upbeat England team that beat hosts Canada to reach Wednesday’s semi-final.
Stressed Bouchard has no regrets
LONDON (Reuters) – Eugenie Bouchard was brutally honest after suffering a first-round defeat by China’s Duan Yingying at Wimbledon on Tuesday to end her hopes of repeating last year’s run to the final.
Halep checks out of hotel Wimbledon early
LONDON (Reuters) – Simona Halep lost her chance to go on a court she likened to “a very nice hotel” after she checked out of Wimbledon early on Tuesday following a shock 5-7 6-4 6-3 defeat by 106th-ranked Slovakian Jana Cepelova.
Spanish federation chief to face probe over finances
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Spanish tennis federation (RFET) president Jose Luis Escanuela is to be investigated for alleged financial mismanagement, the country’s government sports council (CSD) said on Tuesday.
Injured Bolt pulls out of Paris, Lausanne
KINGSTON (Reuters) – Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt’s troubled season continued on Tuesday when he pulled out of the Paris and Lausanne Diamond League meetings due to a leg injury.
Murray battles through testing opener
LONDON (Reuters) – Andy Murray was given an unexpected run for his money in his Wimbledon first-round clash against Kazakh Mikhail Kukushkin, but still came through 6-4 7-6(3) 6-4 on Tuesday.
CONCACAF retains adviser to help clean house after FIFA scandal
TORONTO (Reuters) – CONCACAF, the regional body that oversees soccer in North and Central America, said on Tuesday it has retained restructuring specialist Alvarez & Marsal to assess its operations and help it clean house in the wake of the FIFA bribery scandal.
FIFA scandal exacerbates Canadian banks’ Caribbean troubles
TORONTO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – An eyebrow-raising disclosure in the U.S. indictment of FIFA officials is that a representative of a Caribbean bank made it easy for one allegedly illegal transaction to be done by flying to New York to personally collect a check and then returned to deposit it in an account in the Bahamas.
Farah says he is 100 percent clean
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s double Olympic champion Mo Farah said on Tuesday he was “100 per cent clean” and would leave his long-time coach Alberto Salazar if it was proved the American was guilty of violating any doping rules.
Nadal fires early warning to the big guns
LONDON (Reuters) – Rafa Nadal might have been condemned to a lowly 10th seeding at Wimbledon but he remains a floater everyone will want to avoid after getting his campaign off to an impressive start with a straight-sets dismissal of Thomaz Bellucci on…
