Baltacha run ends in heavy defeat
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Britain's Elena Baltacha is beaten 6-1 6-0 by Silvia Farina Elia at the Australian Open.
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Australian skipper Ricky Ponting slammed the crumbling track on which his team crashed to a 13-run defeat yesterday after being bundled out for 93 runs in their second innings of the fourth and final Test match against India.
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Blowout win. Blowout loss. Terrible first half. Terrific second half.
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It was a day of upsets at the Wismilak International yesterday as Ai Sugiyama, Chanda Rubin, and Jelena Jankovic all fell in the first round to unheralded opponents.
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PARIS  - Glasgow Rangers&#39; hopes of reaching the knockout stages of the UEFA Cup suffered a major setback when they went down to a 1-0 defeat against AZ Alkmaar.
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Tour of Spain favourite Roberto Heras lost ground as Spanish compatriot Jose Gutierrez came home alone to win the penultimate stage, a 178-km stretch ending at the summit of Puerto de Navacerrada.
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Disappointing guidance marks this winner as a loser.
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The main rival of President Hamid Karzai has conceded defeat in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election with less than six per cent of the vote left to be counted.
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At half-time it looked like a rag-tag tartan army were going to suffer the ultimate humiliation - a record loss. They didn&#39;t. They actually won the second half 14-3 against Australian opponents who had clearly done enough.
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CHITTAGONG: A match that should have been over on Day 3, was given the death blow by the Turbanator with the fourth ball of the first over on the fourth morning when he dismissed Talha Jubair caught at long-on fence by Irfan Pathan.
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A last-gasp goal by Zinedine Zidanegave Real Madrid a hard-earned 3-2 victory over Santander on Saturday, while leader Barcelona conceded home points in a 1-1 draw with Valencia.
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90 mins: And so the curtain comes down on a match of very fine margins. Not an epic by any stretch of the imagination but both teams worked extremely hard but never really showed enough craft to open the opposition defence.
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India's governing Congress Party suffers a setback in  state elections in Punjab and Uttaranchal.
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Vienna, Austria (Sports Network) - Sixth-seeded Guillermo Canas moved on, but his fellow Argentine, fourth-seeded Juan Ignacio Chela, was among Monday&#39;s opening-round losers at the BA-CA Tennis Trophy.
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Japan&#39;s Ai Sugiyama suffered a shock first-round loss as the top seeds had a bad day at the Wismilak International. Third-seed Sugiyama was fuming after her 6-4 7-6 (7-1) loss in Bali to Aiko Nakamura, who is 151 places below her in the world rankings.
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A last minute goal by Democratic Republic of Congo international striker Lomana LuaLua consigned Premiership tailenders West Brom to a devastating 3-2 defeat at the hands of Portsmouth.
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NEW YORK - Defending World Cup champion Brazil suffered the most shocking result of the day, but China was the biggest loser. The Brazilians lost to Ecuador for the just the second time in their history.