Tag: Clinches

MELBOURNE - Lleyton Hewitt put the final polish on his Australian Open preparation Saturday with victory in the Kooyong Classic in his first appearance at the event. The two-time Grand Slam champion downed injured Frenchman Gael Monfils 7-5, 6-3 in the final of the eight-man exhibition event. Hewitt, 29, who is heading into his record 15th straight Australian Open on Monday, had never ventured onto the famous courts of the Kooyong club, the former home of the Open. But Hewitt altered

PERTH - The United States marched to their sixth Hopman Cup title with a 2-1 win over Belgium in the final of the mixed teams tournament on Saturday.
The tie was all square after the singles, but the American team of Bethanie Mattek-Sands and John Isner, capitalising on the absence of top seeds Serbia, claimed the deciding mixed doubles with a comfortable 6-1, 6-3 win over Justine Henin and Ruben Bemelmans. While it was the first time Isner and Mattek-Sands had claimed the unique

DOHA - Roger Federer hammered out his determination to hang on to his Australian Open title when he brushed aside Nikolay Davydenko to regain the Qatar Open crown on Saturday.
Last year the Russian beat the Swiss master on the way to the title.
This time world number two Federer overwhelmed the defending champion, who had put out top seed Rafael Nadal in Friday's semi-finals, 6-3, 6-4 to complete the capture of the trophy without dropping a set. He was assertive,

LAHORE - Multan-born international striker and Wapda's spearhead Arif Mehmood, the only Pakistani to score a hat-trick in the SAFF Championship, clinched the Leading Scorer Award for the fifth time in the Pakistan Premier Football League.
Mehmood struck 21 goals in the 240-match League that finished on Thursday. The 240 matches produced 615 goals, Arif being the only player to score more than 20. Arif was also the leading goal-scorer in PPFL 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2009.
The

SAITAMA - Japan's Koki Kameda won the vacant World Boxing Association (WBA) bantamweight title on Sunday when he defeated Alexander Munoz of Venezuela by a unanimous decision.
The three judges scored it 115-111, 116-109 and 117-109, all in favour of Kameda.
The victory has made Kameda the first Japanese boxer to win three world titles, following the WBA light flyweight title in August 2006 and the World Boxing Council flyweight title in November 2009.
Kameda, ranked

LAHORE: Pakistani racing driver Adnan Sarwar finished 4th at the Sodi World Series Masters Cup final race at the Dubai Autodrome. This remains the best finish for a Pakistani driver in an international race.
Qualifying and starting from 5th place, Adnan fell back to 8th after an incident in turn one but then climbed back up the grid, overtaking four drivers to finish only 0.2 seconds behind third place finisher Fabian Lunz of South Africa and ahead of drivers from Germany,

LAHORE: Lahore School of Economics (LSE) held its annual Sports Gala from 10th to 15th November, 2010. Among the participants were Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Institute of Business Administration (IBA) and University College Lahore (UCL).
Both male and female students took part in a number of sports including basketball, football, cricket and volleyball. LUMS managed to take home the runner-up trophy even though they could not take part in the volleyball