By: Frank Dalleres

Sports Editor Frank Dalleres is Sports Editor of City AM. He has almost two decades' experience covering the business of sport and has reported from Olympic Games and major international football, rugby union, tennis and golf competitions, both at home and abroad. Get in touch with stories and tip-offs and follow him on X at @frankdalleres

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Australian Open 2016: Johanna Konta becomes first Briton to reach a grand slam quarter-final for 32 years

January 25, 2016

Rising star Johanna Konta insists she is no overnight success after becoming the first British woman for 32 years to reach the quarter-finals of a grand slam tournament. Konta, 24, continued her giddy ascent yesterday by beating No21 seed Ekaterina Makarova 4-6, 6-4, 8-6 in a titanic fourth-round slug-fest – the biggest win of her [...]
Rickie Fowler can win a Major this year after Abu Dhabi triumph – but will find it hard to break dominance of Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and Jason Day

January 25, 2016

The spotlight was on Rory McIlroy for what was his first tournament of the year – the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, which finished on Sunday – and it has to be said he did very little of note all week. Despite that, the Northern Irishman finished just two shots behind eventual winner Rickie Fowler and generally [...]
Legal comment: How can Adidas escape from a multi-year contract with the IAAF?

January 25, 2016

Complex sponsorship contracts of this nature can run to hundreds of pages – with often the most crucial and heavily negotiated part of the deal being each party’s right to terminate early. Read more: Adidas decides to end IAAF sponsorship four years early Sponsors, like Adidas, will try to insist on wide rights to walk [...]
Rickie Fowler aims to form ‘big four’ alongside Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and Jason Day after winning Abu Dhabi HSBC Championships

January 24, 2016

World No4 Rickie Fowler is targeting the Masters winner’s Green Jacket and regular battles with golf’s big three after beating an illustrious field to the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championships on Sunday. Fowler’s final round of 68 left him on 16 under par, enough to beat Belgian youngster Thomas Pieters by a single shot with four-time [...]
Australian Open 2016: Johanna Konta aiming to become Britain’s first woman to reach a grand slam quarter-final since Jo Durie in 1984

January 24, 2016

British No1 Johanna Konta could become the first woman from these shores to reach a grand slam quarter-final for 32 years when she meets Ekaterina Makarova at the Australian Open on Monday. Konta has already beaten former world No1 Venus Williams in Melbourne this month, one of the most recent highlights of the 24-year-old’s extraordinary [...]
Australian Open 2016: Andy Murray warned by Bernard Tomic to expect a fight from fourth round match

January 24, 2016

No2 seed Andy Murray has been warned to expect a fight for a place in the Australian Open quarter-finals by his fourth round opponent, home crowd hope and scourge of the tennis establishment Bernard Tomic. World No17 Tomic, who was arrested for partying in Miami last year and axed from his Davis Cup team for [...]
Racing betting: Cloudy Too can brighten up Haydock in Saturday’s Peter Marsh Chase

January 21, 2016

Even though frost has been the big worry this week, Haydock looks set to race on Saturday and the ground is going to be absolutely bottomless. We’ve had a good run of things over the past fortnight, thanks to Kerry Lee’s exploits with Mountainous and Russe Blanc. Unfortunately the rookie trainer doesn’t have a runner [...]
Racing betting: Clarence House Chase looks a race to savour but save your money for other Ascot races

January 21, 2016

Ascot plays host to a mouth-watering clash between Betway Champion Chase hopefuls Un De Sceaux and Sire De Grugy in Saturday's Sodexo Clarence House Chase (3.00pm). Some bookmakers go as short as 4/7 about the former who is on the comeback trail after falling on his seasonal reappearance at Leopardstown. It seems strange to have [...]
Football betting: No home comforts for Manchester City as West Ham aim for double

January 21, 2016

Things have changed an awful lot at Upton Park in the last couple of years. In January 2014 Manchester City beat a hapless West Ham 9-0 on aggregate in the League Cup semi-finals, with the Hammers stuck near the bottom of the Premier League. As they prepare to welcome City again on Saturday, Slaven Bilic’s [...]
Football betting: Arsenal and Chelsea to share the points in Premier League derby stalemate

January 21, 2016

It says plenty about Chelsea’s dominance of Arsenal in recent years that, even during this nightmare campaign, they still managed a comfortable 2-0 win in September. Chelsea are undefeated in their last eight competitive clashes against their London rivals. New boss Guus Hiddink beat Arsenal 4-1 at the Emirates in 2009 but don’t expect the [...]

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