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Rotorua's teenage rookie golfer Danny Lee has improved seven places on the final day to make the top 10 at the Johnnie Walker championship in Scotland. Lee completed his first ...

The New Zealand triathlete Andrea Hewitt confirmed her top three world ranking with a silver medal performance at the Yokohama round of the Triathlon World Championship Series. In hot and ...

The New Zealand yachtie Karl Purdie has finished a close second at the OK Dinghy World Championships in Kalmar, Sweden. Purdie just missed out on defending his 2008 title, finishing ...

The former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has described his new job as director of football at England's oldest Football League club Notts County as his toughest test yet. The 61-year-old ...

Former Wimbledon champion Michael Stich's return to competitive tennis 12 years after his retirement lasted just over an hour in losing his first round doubles match at the German Open. ...

The former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has joined the country's oldest Football League club Notts County as director of football. The Swede, coached England for five years before ...

Ther former England manager Sven Goran Eriksson is reported to be in talks with England's oldest Football League club Notts County about becoming director of football. BBC Radio Nottingham sayss ...

French Open finalist Robin Soderling overcame some second set nerves to beat Argentine Juan Monaco 6-3 7-6, clinching the Swedish Open title and his first ATP win on clay. World ...

The New Zealand golfer Tim Wilkinson has withdrawn from the field for the British Open starting next week at Turnberry in Scotland. The Palmerston North left-hander has had surgery on ...

Roger Federer will have happy memories of his last encounter with Swede Robin Soderling at Roland Garros and will be hoping for a similar outcome when he opens the day's ...

Swede Robert Karlsson, the 2008 European number one, has withdrawn from next week's US Open because of an eye infection. Karlsson, who tied for fourth in last year's U.S. Open ...

Pete Sampras believes Roger Federer would have gone down as the greatest tennis player of all time even if he hadn't completed a career grand slam. That Federer tied Sampras' ...

The Wellington golfer golfer Mark Brown's finished in a tie for second last at the Wales Open. Brown's last round four over par 75 put him 15 over for the ...

The French Open tennis final in Paris between Roger Federer and Robin Soderling was briefly interrupted on Monday after a man came on Centre Court towards the world number two ...

Champion Rafael Nadal is a doubt for this year's Wimbledon championships because of a knee injury, his coach says. Coach Toni Nadal, Nadal's uncle, says a decision will be made in ...

Roger Federer will play Robin Soderling in the final of the French tennis Open on Monday. Federer's beaten Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina in five sets to reach his ...

Roger Federer of Switzerland will play Robin Soderling of Sweden in the final of the French Open at Roland Garros on Sunday, after both survived marathon five-set semi-finals in Paris.

Rafael Nadal's uncle and coach Toni Nadal has called Roland Garros spectators stupid for their treatment of his nephew during his shock French Open loss to Robin Soderling. The world number ...

Roger Federer will take to centre court in Paris for his fourth-round tennis match against the German Tommy Haas still getting used to the idea that he's now the favourite to ...

The French Open has witnessed one of the greatest upsets in the history of the tennis tournament, with the world number one Rafael Nadal suffering his first ever defeat at Roland ...

Four-times champion Rafael Nadal has been knocked out in the fourth round of the French tennis Open by Sweden's Robin Soderling. Nadal bowed out of the clay court tournament he has ...

Sweden's Henrik Stenson kept his cool in 32 degree heat to win golf's unofficial fifth major, the Players Championship in Florida, as a frustrated Tiger Woods crashed out of contention. ...

Swede Henrik Stenson compiled a brilliant final round to clinch a commanding four-stroke victory at the worlds richest tournament, the $NZ15 million Players golf championship in Florida - the event…

The German golfer Alex Cejka has opened up a five-stroke lead after the third round of the mega-rich Players Championship in Florida. Cejka, ranked 267th in the world, coped with ...

The German golfer Alex Cejka fired a five-under-par 67 to lead by two shots from Britain's Ian Poulter after the second round of the Players Championship. World number one Tiger ...