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DOHA - Three-time champions Japan reached the Asian Cup final after defeating arch-rivals South Korea 3-0 in a nail-biting penalty shootout in the semi-finals on Tuesday. Centre-back Yasuyuki Konno netted the decisive penalty, placing the ball into the right-hand side of the goal, after Koo Ja-Cheol, Lee Yong-Rae and Hong Jeong-Ho had all failed from 12 yards for South Korea.
Japan led going into the final minute of extra-time but Hwang Jae-Won slammed in a sensational equaliser

LAHORE - A closing minute goal by Pakistan U-14 team skipper Muneer Aftab helped Lyari Town beat Kalakot 1-0 to stroll into the final of the PFF-KESC Lyari Football League at Kalakot's Shaheed Abdul Rehman Park, Karachi. Lyari Town will take on Singolane in the final on Monday at Peoples Sports Complex, Karachi.
Earlier in first semi-final, Singolane kept their early lead alive for 63 minutes to brush aside Bihar 1-0 in the first semi-final of 17-day Lyari soccer fiesta. Muneer,

ILLUNGA - Australian Cameron Meyer retained the overall lead at the Tour Down Under after Spaniard Francisco Ventoso won the fifth stage on Saturday. Movistar rider Ventoso caught the top sprinters snoozing as he launched his attack far from the finish line of the 131-km stage to beat Australians Michael Matthews and Matthew Goss.
Sprinter Goss, second overall and eight seconds adrift of Garmin-Cervelo's Meyer, will be the favourite to snatch the overall win in Sunday's sixth and

LAHORE - JS Bank/ Waste Busters won their last league match to qualify for the main final of the Caanchi & Lugari Pakistan Polo Cup 2011, to be played on Sunday against Ciro's Pomodoro.
On the other hand PSS International won its match and qualified for the subsidiary final against Master Paints (Black). The combined team of JS Bank and Waste Busters defeated Hattaf 6-4. The win materialised due to the efforts of Ahmed Ali Tiwana, who scored five of the six goals. Zain Khan

LAHORE - The final of the Inter-Region U-19 One Day Tournament will be played on January 23 between Rawalpindi Region and Karachi Region (B) at National Stadium Karachi. Umpires for the match will be Aftab Gillani and Nadeem Iqbal while Masood Anwaar is the referee and Salman Hussain scorer.
The prize distribution ceremony will be held after the completion of final match. Director General PCB Javed Miandad will be the chief guest. The winner team will be given Rs 200,000 while

LAHORE - Jinnah Islamia College of Commerce and Govt Gulberg College qualified for the final of the Punjab University Lahore Zone Inter-collegtiate Cricket Championship here on Thursday.
Jinnah Islamia College beat Islamia College, Civil Lines by 41 runs, while Govt Gulberg College defeated Hailey College by two wickets. The final of the championship will be played today.

MELBOURNE - Andy Roddick is feeling comfortable and at ease with his game as he bids to reach his first Australian Open final in nine attempts. The American power-server is a four-time semi-finalist at Melbourne Park, and is taking it one step at a time after seeing off 99th-ranked Igor Kunitsyn 7-6 (9/7), 6-2, 6-3 in the second round.
The eighth seed, who faces a potential quarter-final with defending champion Roger Federer, will take on either Dutchman Robin Haase or Argentine

LAHORE - Queen Mary College and Lahore College University will play the final of the Inter-collegiate girls Net Ball Championship being played here at the Queen Mary ground.
In the semi-finals, LCU beat Islamia College Cooper Road while Queen Mary beat Sheikhupura College.
Earlier in the day, Govt Islamia College for Women Cooper Road beat Defence Degree College DHA and Queen Mary beat Govt Model Degree College Model Town and Govt Girls Higher Secondary School Sheikhupura

LAHORE - The 5th session of the ASC Netball Coaching, Development and Tournament Program for girls (U-16) was held at Govt. Post Graduate College for Women, Wahadat Road.
Mudassar Arain, Secretary General, Pakistan Netball Federation informed that the programme was organized in collaboration with the Australian Sports Commission and Punjab Netball Association. The technical officials comprising Khalid Parvaiz, Yasir, Adeel Khan, Umer Farooq, Abdul Wahab, Asad Mehmood and Ajaz Ul

LAHORE - Habib Bank beat PIA by five wickets in the final to clinch the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy title at the National Stadium Karachi.
The final of the country's premier domestic cricket tournament was played for the first time under lights and with pink ball.
The winners HBL pocketed Rs 1,000,000 while PIA received Rs 500,000. Man of the final match, Aftab Khan of HBL was awarded Rs.50,000 while the best batsman Rameez Raja (Karachi Blues ) 801 Runs, Best Bowler Sadaf Hussain

LAHORE - Four players have been fined a total of nearly $2,000 for ball-tampering, slow over rates or using abusive language during the domestic final of the Quaid-e-Azam trophy.
HBL defeated PIA by five wickets Monday in the final.
PIA were fined Rs 75,000 for being 15 overs behind schedule, and HBL was fined Rs 33,000 for being eight overs short.
PIA quick Najaf Shah was found guilty of ball-tampering and fined Rs 15,000. Similar punishments were given to captain

LAHORE - Habib Bank reached 101 for three in their second innings on the third day of the four-day Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final at the National Stadium in Karachi. Aftab Khan was not out at 63.
PIA in their second innings scored 319 and gave a target of 214 to HBL with day's play remaining. PIA captain Kamran Sajid scored 70 and Fahad Iqbal 84. Habib Bank had scored 313 in their first innings.
Summarised scores: PIA first Innings 228 in 73.5 (Agha Sabir 13, Sarfraz Ahmed 1,

LAHORE - Lahore Garrison defeated Alfalah Insurance on Saturday and qualified for the final of The Cool & Cool Lahore Open Polo Cup to be played today (Sunday). Rijas have already qualified for the final.
Lahore Garrison grabbed a hard-fought 7-6 win over Alfalah Insurance as Shaukat Ali Malik, Omer Minhas, Asif Manzoor and Ahmed Zubair teamed up to win the tit-for-tat match against Waseem Sial, Shah Qubilai Alam, Abdul Rehman and Raja Temur Nadeem. Alfalah began the match with

KARACHI - Habib Bank's bowlers were in complete control of their Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match against PIA at the National Stadium Karachi on Saturday. The are just two wickets away from giving their batsmen a modest target to chase in order to win the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy in Karachi that is unless the PIA tail wags. HBL reduced PIA to 232 for 8 in the second innings, restricting the lead to only 147, and will hope to finish off the tail quickly on the fourth morning.
The third day

HOBART - American Bethanie Mattek-Sands is one win away from her first WTA singles title after reaching the final of the Hobart International on Friday.
After leading the USA to victory in last week's mixed teams Hopman Cup in Perth, Mattek-Sands continued her impressive start to the new season by overcoming China's Peng Shuai 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 in 1hr 47min.
Mattek-Sands will play Australian Jarmila Groth in Saturday's final.
Sixth seed Groth defeated her doubles partner

LAHORE - The final of the 6th National Deaf Squash Championship will be played today here at the Punjab Squash Complex, between Bilal Tahir and Balil Atiq,
Hamid M. Mirza, Head of Marketing - Bank Alfalah, will be the chief guest at the final, which will be played at 1600 hours. Prize distribution will also be held after the final.
The second round matches started at yesterday at 10 am. Quarter-final and semi-final matches were also decided.
Results:
Quarterfinal:

MELBOURNE - Frenchman Gael Monfils will have the inside track on Lleyton Hewitt as he lines up against the Australian in Saturday's final at the Kooyong Classic. The athletic Monfils booked his place in the deciding match at the eight-man pre-Australian Open tuneup as he beat Roland Garros semi-finalist Jurgen Melzer 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7/4) Friday.
Earlier, Australia's former world number one Hewitt overcame Russian Nikolay Davydenko 6-3, 7-6 (7/3). Monfils is coached by Roger