Snooker: Big names in last eight
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Ronnie O'Sullivan, John Higgins, Graeme Dott and Peter Ebdon reach the quarter-finals of the UK Championship.
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MARAT SAFIN crowned an outstanding personal season by winning the Madrid Masters in some style yesterday. The tournament may have been without Roger Federer, Lleyton Hewitt, Carlos Moya and Andy Roddick but
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Greg Rusedski advances to the last eight at the St Petersburg Open in Russia.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan fires a 147 break in the final-frame decider to beat Mark Selby 9-8 in their UK Championship semi-final.
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Five weeks after Ian Poulter and Sergio Garcia were in a play-off for the Volvo Masters title, three more of Europe&#39;s Ryder Cup heroes are battling for victory at the Omega Hong Kong Open.
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Briton Tim Henman struggled to overcome Wayne Moodie of South Africa winning 7-6, 6-7, 6-4 but reached the quarterfinals for the eighth consecutive time at the Swiss Indoors in Basel.
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Sunday&#39;s final of the Madrid Masters pitted players ranked ninth, Marat Safin, and 10th, David Nalbandian, in the world; both near the top of their games.
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The World Match Play Championship in England, which starts Thursday at Wentworth, has a roll call of champions that rivals any tournament.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan reached the quarter-finals of the Welsh Open here Thursday with victory over Steve Davis as defending champion Nathan Robertson bowed out to England's Ali Carter.
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Masters champion Zach Johnson is here. So are eight of the top 10 players in the world. Yet all anyone seems to notice is the looming duel between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. Both were peppered with questions about a potential showdown in this week's Memorial Tournament.
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BASEL, Switzerland  - British second seed Tim  Henman came through an unexpectedly tough second round match  with South Africa's Wesley Moodie to reach the quarter-finals  of the Swiss Indoors tournament Thursday.
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Tim Henman was made to work hard to reach the quarter-finals of the Swiss Indoors tournament yesterday before eventually overcoming South African Wesley Moodie in the second round.
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&quot;We haven&#39;t really thought about the eight victories. We just concentrated on the game here. There&#39;s periods of play where we have played outstanding cricket and there&#39;s also areas where we need to improve for Durban.
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Last night, in one of the underdog matches of the Super 8, it was Weymouth vs. Malden Catholic. Public vs. parochial. David vs. Goliath.
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What had appeared a potentially awkward couple of days for Tim Henman were transformed into sweetness and light yesterday morning when he qualified for the eight-man end-of-season Masters Cup in Houston in a fortnight&#39;s time without the need to win a
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Britain last won the Davis Cup in 1936. You can account for the paucity of confidence in the British team last weekend when you realise their last victory predates rationing.
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Northern Ireland&#39;s Darren Clarke smashed the course record as he sealed victory in the Taiheiyo Masters. Clarke was 22 under for the tournament after a final round of 68 which left him six shots ahead of Britain&#39;s Lee Westwood and Japan&#39;s Nozomi Kawahara.