Wimbledon: Classy Petra Kvitova can repeat last year’s triumph June 25, 2015 Last year’s women’s singles was a strange tournament with only three of the top 10 seeds reaching the quarter-final stage. Compare that with the men’s where four of the top five made the last eight. Serena Williams fell to Alize Cornet of France in the third round, even though she breezed through the first [...]
Maximum excitement on Wimbledon June 25, 2015 Wimbledon gets underway on Monday and the fortnight at SW19 is always a fantastic occasion. Sporting Index will be offering a plethora of markets to make the action even more exciting. The draw takes place today so most of the markets aren’t live yet. They will be later on this afternoon and you will [...]
German businessman who sued Ecclestone jumps into F1 bid talks June 24, 2015 ONE OF the leaders of the German sports media firm that brought a $100m (£64m) case against Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone in 2013 has reportedly been brought on board as part of the consortium trying to buy the motor-racing giant. Bidders RSE Ventures and Qatari Sport are looking to buy a controlling 35 per [...]
Farah coach Salazar: Let haters hate June 24, 2015 DOUBLE Olympic champion Mo Farah’s American coach Alberto Salazar has hit back at doping allegations, depicting the claims as a baseless smear campaign and declaring: “Let the haters hate.” In a painstaking and robust defence of his methods, Salazar addressed the multiple claims of sharp practice made against him in a BBC programme by former [...]
James Anderson urges England to douse Ashes flames and ease sledging June 24, 2015 Record-breaking seamer James Anderson insists the competitive respect on show during England’s tussles with New Zealand this summer has proven that he no longer needs to depend on sledging for increased motivation. Anderson, who became the first England bowler to claim 400 Test wickets in May, is no stranger to on-field tensions and was [...]
U21 European Championship: European crash sees young lions hit rock bottom June 24, 2015 England Under-21 boss Gareth Southgate blamed collective failure in both penalty areas as the Young Lions failed to qualify from the group stages of the European Championships for the third successive tournament after defeat to Italy last night. The only chink of light for England in an otherwise drab performance was winger Nathan Redmond’s [...]
In-form Konta lifts Wimbledon hopes as Murray is seeded third June 24, 2015 Britain's Johanna Konta boosted hopes of a Wimbledon run with a second major scalp in as many days in the Aegon International at Eastbourne yesterday. Konta followed her first career win over a top-10 opponent on Tuesday with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 victory over Spanish world No14 Garbine Muguruza. She faces Swiss teenager Belinda [...]
Cricket Comment: Root is now a master of all trades June 24, 2015 ENGLAND produced another eye-catching limited-overs performance when beating New Zealand in their T20 international at Old Trafford on Tuesday and Yorkshire’s Joe Root once again delivered with the bat. He has been on fire during the last 18 months or so since being dropped for the final Ashes Test at Sydney during the 2013-14 tour, [...]
European Games: Olympic champion Nicola Adams out to make history again in Baku June 24, 2015 Boxer Nicola Adams has vowed to claim another piece of sporting history when she competes in the women’s flyweight final of the European Games today in Baku, Azerbaijan. Adams, 32, became the first female boxing champion in Olympic history when she won gold at London 2012, and the Leeds fighter is aiming to repeat [...]
£10m Dimitri Payet to join West Ham June 24, 2015 West Ham are poised to make their second major signing of the summer by recruiting Marseille and France attacking midfielder Dimitri Payet for £10.5m. The 28-year-old is expected to sign a five-year contract this week and follows the arrival earlier this month of £4m Spain Under-21 midfielder Pedro Obiang from Sampdoria, as well as [...]