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Bale dazzles again as Spurs seal famous Inter win” plus 5 more- Gareth Bale dazzles again as Spurs seal famous Inter win - F1 News: Bruno Senna tipped to replace Jarno Trulli at Lotus - Chelsea’s Frank Lampard set to return against Liverpool - Robbie Deans hoping for continuity against Wales - Clijsters and Wozniacki shine in Doha as Dementieva quits - Clijsters wins battle with Wozniacki to take Doha title Gareth Bale dazzles again as Spurs seal famous Inter win Posted: 02 Nov 2010 04:21 PM PDT UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP STAGE, 2 NOVEMBER 2010 Tottenham Hotspur 3 Internazionale 1 Gareth Bale terrorised the Inter Milan rearguard for the second time in a fortnight as Tottenham announced themselves to Europe’s elite with a breathtaking win at White Hart Lane. Summer signing Rafael van der Vaart opened the scoring following an excellent exchange with midfield partner Luca Modric. Bale’s dazzling second-half showing then saw him set up goals for Peter Crouch and Roman Pavlyuchenko after Samuel Eto’o had restored hope for Rafael Benítez’s side ten minutes from time. Van der Vaart was rushed back into the starting line-up despite limping off against Manchester United on Saturday with a hamstring strain. And the gamble paid dividends for Harry Redknapp when the Dutch international coolly fired past Luca Castellazzi after 18 minutes. Bale, fresh from his stunning second-half hat-trick at the San Siro two weeks ago, regularly left Brazilian right-back Maicon stranded with his alarming turn of pace and natural agility. And it was the 21-year-old’s speed on the ball which helped create Tottenham’s second of the night after 61 minutes. Bale streaked past Maicon before delivering a delicious cross which lured Inter goalkeeper Castellazzi from his line and allowed Crouch to apply the finishing touch to an elegant move. Inter boss Benítez persisted with the 4-2-3-1 system which he implemented with much success at Valencia and Liverpool and the Spaniard appeared reluctant to change his tactics despite van der Vaart’s early strike. He was, however, forced to take stock following the home side’s second goal and introduced the prolific Diego Milito and Brazilian prospect Coutinho in an attempt to claw his side back from the jaws of defeat. For the first time in the match nerves appeared to sear through Redknapp’s men and Eto’o capitalised on an edgy few minutes for Spurs by slotting a sublime strike past Carlo Cudicini. But just as the cluster of travelling Nerazzurri fans began to believe their side could complete a comeback, up stepped the tireless Bale to leave his final mark on the two-game encounter with the reigning champions. The Southampton youth product tipped the ball ahead of Maicon and effortlessly speeded past the exhausted defender. Bale’s pace was only matched by substitute Pavlyuchenko who applied a simple finish to a curling low cross from his team-mate. Redknapp was full of praise for his left-winger after the match. “The way the boy can run and run and run against a right-back who is rated by everybody as the best right-back in the world. What he has done to [Maicon] over the last two games is just unbelievable. "He has great ability. He not only has pace but can run and run all day. The Spurs boss added: “He’s got the ability to cross the ball with the left foot. He’s got the ability to shoot and to dribble and to head. He’s got everything. He is also a great lad, believe you me. F1 News: Bruno Senna tipped to replace Jarno Trulli at Lotus Posted: 02 Nov 2010 03:39 PM PDT The Sport Review’s round-up of all of the latest news from the world of Formula 1. Jarno Trulli has been spotted in US following rumours that he could be replaced at Lotus Racing in 2011. A number of drivers have been linked with Trulli's seat, including Vitaly Petrov, Bruno Senna. Senna is rumoured to be in ‘well-advanced’ discussions with the leading newcomers about joining them next year. The Rome Grand Prix is under threat after local residents voiced their opposition to the proposals to hold a street race through their district. Local mayor Gianni Alemanno revealed at a press conference that “a majority, albeit not an overwhelming one, of EUR and Rome residents are in favour of the race”. A letter of intent signed with Bernie Ecclestone could see a race as soon as 2012. Cesar Ramos, Stephane Richelmi and Andrea Caldarelli have all secured Formula 1 tests with Ferrari following the conclusion of the Italian Formula 3 championship. The trio finished first, second, and third respectively in a tight championship which was won by Ramos. Jérôme d'Ambrosio is close to securing his F1 debut in 2011, reportedly partnering Timo Glock at Virgin Racing. The Belgian former GP2 champion is the current test driver for the rookie team and is expected to be confirmed in the coming days. Former FIA president Max Mosley says Ferrari's Fernando Alonso will devalue the Formula 1 championship if he wins it by less than seven points. Mosley is still upset with the way Alonso took victory at Hockenheim in June when Ferrari ordered Alonso's team-mate Felipe Massa to let him through when the Brazilian was leading, despite a ban on team orders. Mercedes have confirmed that GP2 rookie Sam Bird will drive for the team at the Young Drivers' Test at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi on in November. Bird has impressed with ART and is fifth in the championship with just the final race to go at Abu Dhabi. Sir Frank Williams has suggested rookie Nico Hülkenberg will stay with Williams in 2011 despite earlier rumours that he could be dropped in favour of sponsorship money from Venezuelan driver Pastor Maldonado. The German has impressed in his debut season in F1 and it could be team-mate Rubens Barrichello who now misses out as Williams look to plug the financial hole from losing four principal sponsors. Barrichello is the most-experienced driver in the pitlane, and recently competed in his 600th grand prix, but with Hülkenberg looking good, Williams could gamble with another rookie to balance the books. Lotus Racing's Heikki Kovalainen has again signed up for the Race of Champions, the event he surprised at in 2004 as a relatively unknown driver, beating Michael Schumacher in the semi-final and Sébastien Loeb in the final to take victory. Chelsea’s Frank Lampard set to return against Liverpool Posted: 02 Nov 2010 03:22 PM PDT Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti expects Frank Lampard to return to action against Liverpool this Sunday. The 32-year-old England midfielder has missed 11 games after picking up a groin injury against Stoke in August. Chelsea have won nine of those matches but his return will provide a welcome boost ahead of a difficult trip to Anfield. It had been suggested the former West Ham midfielder could feature for the blues against CSKA Moscow on Wednesday but Ancelotti dismissed the possibility of a midweek comeback. “Lampard started training with the team last week,” said Ancelotti. “I don’t think he will be ready for Wednesday but for the next game in the Premier League against Liverpool.” “I hope he will come back quickly because we need to have this kind of player – he is a fantastic player. “Now the team without Lampard is doing very well. But when he comes back I think we will have him straight into the team. The former AC Milan boss added: “We have a lot of games, we have a game every three days and all the players will be involved.” Robbie Deans hoping for continuity against Wales Posted: 02 Nov 2010 03:12 PM PDT Australia coach Robbie Deans believes being able to pick the same side that beat the All Blacks last week will benefit his team against Wales on Saturday. Deans has named an unchanged squad to the side that beat New Zealand 26-24 in the final Bledisloe cup game of the season in Hong Kong and will have stars such as Quade Cooper, Matt Giteau and Kurtley Beale at his disposal for Saturday’s clash at the Millennium Stadium. Deans said: "We will pick what we deem to be our best line-up against Wales to hopefully perform and get a result. “It appears we have come through the New Zealand game unscathed and have the potential to name an unchanged side, which makes a change. “Continuity is starting to serve us. Those who played in Hong Kong have done their chances of being selected on Saturday no harm.” Wales, however, have lost a number of key players including charismatic full-back Lee Byrne, who has been ruled out of all of the autumn internationals. Australia won convincingly 33-12 at the Millennium Stadium last year but have been known to perform inconsistently in the Welsh capital. Deans also stressed his side will not take Wales for granted despite the New Zealand performance. “Confidence and belief are good if well-founded and well-applied,” he added. “If we were to make any presumptions about Saturday it would be to our disadvantage. "The result (against New Zealand) will benefit the side. “But Wales played very well in New Zealand in the summer, far better than the scoreboard indicated. “They played a lot of good rugby, but they did not get a lot of reward for it." The Wallabies will go into the clash as firm favourites, with the dynamic Cooper set to pull the strings from fly half. He added: "What happens in the future remains to be seen, but he (Cooper) is getting an opportunity. He is a bit like us – we are not the complete package, but we are working hard at it.” Australia play Wales on Saturday before England, Italy and France in consecutive weeks as part of their autumn tour. Clijsters and Wozniacki shine in Doha as Dementieva quits Posted: 02 Nov 2010 01:03 AM PDT There were naysayers who wrote off the WTA Championships before they had begun. The year-end tournament between the best eight women on the tour was missing some of the major players of 2010 because of injury: key amongst them the Williams sisters and Justine Henin. But ahead of Doha, the radiant young Dane, Caroline Wozniacki, had risen to the No1 ranking in the world and Russian Vera Zvonareva was close behind at No2. With the most recent Grand Slam champion, Belgian Kim Clijsters at No4, also in Doha, and the naysayers started to look a little out of touch. Yet much continued to be made of the fact that the new No1 had yet to beat the major champions of the women's game: the two Williams and the two Belgians. In practice, Wozniacki had only had the opportunity to play one of those four women since hitting her stride in 2010—a year in which she won six titles and the last 24 out of 25 matches—and that opportunity yielded a tight three-setter against Henin in Miami back in the spring. Wozniacki's one and only match against Clijsters had been in the final of the US Open last year—some achievement in itself for a 19-year-old—but hot and humid Doha offered up the possibility of a rematch if both managed to advance past their respective round robin pools. The Dane was the first to fulfil her part of the bargain and also, in the process, assured herself of the year-end No1 ranking. In her first match against Elena Dementieva, it looked for all the world as though Wozniacki would be unstoppable as she defeated the graceful Russian, 6-1, 6-1. But she lost unexpectedly to Sam Stosur so had to beat Francesca Schiavone to advance. The charismatic Schiavone, a surprising and popular winner at Roland Garros, broke into the top 10 in 2010 for the first time in her 12-year career, and her first set against Wozniacki showed just why she is such a handful, and she zipped her way to a 6-3 first set. But Wozniacki is a fearless and focused young woman, and she produced two sets of percentage tennis that showcased her solid all-court tactics and her ability to outrun even the most resilient of opponents. Clijsters, in her pool, also had to battle hard against Victoria Azarenka. She dropped the second set and littered her game with double faults and over-long forehands, just as she had against Jelena Jankovic in her opening match, but she did enough to seal her semi-final berth as well. There were few others in the tournament who seemed likely to keep pace with Wozniacki except, perhaps, the woman who had been her bête noir all year, Zvonareva. They stood at three all in their head-to-head and two apiece in meetings this year. Now both had booked a place in the semi-finals to play one another again. However, Wozniacki was not to be denied. The superior seed fought to a 7-5 first set and then rushed her way through the weary Russian, 6-0. Clijsters did the same, beating Stosur 7-6, 6-1 to set up the ideal final. On one side, the young Dane trying to claim her first major title against one of the game's 'names'. On the other, the woman who had last won the year-end title back in 2001 and 2002. This was Clijsters first tournament since the US Open, and she had undergone foot surgery in the interim, but she is no ordinary player. She rushed to a 6-3 first set and went 4-1 up in the second. It seemed all over, but Wozniacki is no ordinary player, either. Just as she had dug deep to fight back against Schiavone, so she did against Clijsters, and not only took the second set but went a break up in the third. The two women were almost mirror images of each other—flaxen hair pulled back tightly from high foreheads, dressed in black, nimble and flexible around the court, and rushing the net to take the initiative. Indeed it was sometimes difficult to pick one from the other. Even the often-wayward forehand of the Dane started to score outright winners. In the end, though, it was the woman who had played the fewer tournaments who maintained the pressure: Clijsters was merciless. She broke, was almost broken back at the last, but finally overpowered Wozniacki to win a popular and emotional victory. Surely, though, it cannot be long before Wozniacki captures one of the big events in the calendar and silences the naysayers for good. This was very nearly that occasion, but there is a Grand Slam just around the corner. While Wozniacki is here to stay, another much-loved woman is not. In an emotional on-court announcement after her loss to Schiavone, the admirable Dementieva told the crowd and her fellow players that Doha would be her last tournament. The Russian, who reached two Grand Slam finals in her career, opened 2010 with two title wins, but injury wrecked her French Open and Wimbledon campaigns. She had qualified for the WTA Championships for the 10th time—she reached the semi-finals in both 2000 and 2008. Most memorable of all, she won gold at the Beijing Olympics, taking out Serena Williams, Zvonareva, and Dinara Safina on the way. Her departure came as a shock to her many admirers and fellow players. Great player, role model, tennis ambassador, and gracious opponent, she will be missed. Her mother—a familiar nerve-wracked face at every one of her daughter's games—held her composure during the emotional announcement. Few others could. Clijsters wins battle with Wozniacki to take Doha title Posted: 02 Nov 2010 12:57 AM PDT World number three Kim Clijsters battled to the season-ending WTA Championships title on Sunday night defeating world number one Caroline Wozniacki 6-3 5-7 6-3. The Belgian, 27, claimed the crown for the crown for the third time in her career, playing her first tournament since her US Open triumph in September. Clijsters dominated the opening exchanges with an attacking strategy and heavy groundstrokes. She managed to avoid Wozniacki's lethal backhand and broke Dane three times to take the set 6-3. A champion in 2002 and 2003, Clijsters built on her success to break for a 3-1 lead in the second set. There seemed to be no repercussions of the foot injury that had kept her out since Flushing Meadow as she tracked down all Wozniacki could throw at her. It appeared Clijsters was cruising to another landmark title until a nervy service game at 4-3 enabled Wozniacki to pounce and level the set at 4-4. Suddenly the world number one seized the initiative and broke at 5-5 following a string of unforced errors from the tiring Clijsters to serve out the set 7-5. The momentum shifted again as Clijsters found her range again and fired a selection of blistering groundstrokes down at the helpless Wozniacki. Despite finding herself 15-40 down when serving at 5-3 for the Championships, the reigning US Open Champion dug deep to survive three break points and serve out the match. “I’m kind of relieved because it seemed like it would never end,” said Clijsters. “It was just a great battle, great fitness and I think we showed the crowd some great women’s tennis. “I’m glad I won and it must be disappointing for Caroline, but I don’t know how many more years I’m going to keep doing this." On the other hand, Wozniacki is yet to register a win against the top Grand Slam achievers on the WTA in Clijsters, the Williams sisters or Henin. Consequently there are shadows of doubt over the validity of Wozniacki's No1 ranking. The 20-year-did miss an opportunity on Sunday to assert herself as the leader of the pack but it is clear the Dane has the potential to copy the likes of Clijsters and win Grand Slams. Clijsters agrees and was extremely supportive of Wozniacki, adding: “She will win a Grand Slam. She is too good of a player not to. “She’s young, she’s number, she just has to keep working the way that she has been working. She’s been doing really good things, and the good things will keep coming then.” Wozniacki added, "She played really well, especially in the important moments. Definitely the experience mattered a little bit today.” You are subscribed to email updates from The Sport Review To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. Email delivery powered by Google Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 -- Posted By Mas Item Arekjowo to The Sport Review at 11/03/2010 12:04:00 AM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gugukluhayat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gugukluhayat?hl=en.
