Sport Saturday.
| | | Trevor Signorino | AUSTRALIA is the center of the sporting universetoday. The Australian Open of Tennis continuesthis weekend, with contests in the Round of 32, in Men's and Women's singlesand doubles, along with mixed doubles. The event is taking place at Melbourne Park, Melbourne. At this point, Round 3 is coming to an end,as those who are moving into Round 4 are determined. Brit Dan Evans joined Andy Murray in the last16 of the Australian Open with a brilliant performance to give Britain two menin the fourth round. Roger Federer willalso advance, but phenom Novak Djokovic has washed out and will not continue inthe tournament. Play continues throughThursday's celebration of Australia Day and beyond, with the finals on January29th. | | | Rohan Dennis | The Santos Tour Down Under also continues this weekend. Australian Richie Porte, Richie (BMC RacingTeam) currently holds the Overall andKing of the Mountain Jersey, with fellow countryman Caleb Ewan (ORICA - SCOTT)leadingin points. Ruben Guerreiro of Portugal (Trek - Segafredo) currently holds the YoungRider jersey, with UniSA-Australia currently ahead in the teamcompetition. Exciting stages areforeseen today and tomorrow, closing day of the Tour Down Under. Brazil: As mentioned previously, Chapecoensewill play their first match today since the tragic crash which took the livesof almost all their team, a friendly against defending Brazilian leaguechampions Palmeiras. The people of Chapeco will, once-again, fill the smallArena Conda to see some of the 22 new players who make up the squad. Three ofthe six survivors were players, including central defender Neto, who was one ofthe team's leaders. He was the last tobe pulled out from the wreckage. Chapecois a quiet, unassuming city with a population of about 209,553, a tight-knitcommunity, and a major part of that is the Chapecoense football team. The best to them. England and Wales: Another weekend oftop Premier League action is upon us, and it's a big one for Pep Guardiola ashis Manchester City side take on Tottenham. City have struggled in recentmonths, while Tottenham are on the rise, but who will come out on top at theEtihad? Meanwhile, Chelsea have Diego Costa back in the squad but don't seem toneed him that much as they take on lowly Hull City seven points clear at the topof the table. Liverpool host Swansea,while Manchester United travel to Stoke and Arsenal will hope to keep up thepressure on their title rivals with a win over Burnley. In Africa Cup of Nations play today, Ghana faces Mali, and Uganda facesEgypt as group play continues. In Spain today, La Liga clubs Real Madrid and Malaga faces each other. Real Madrid was flying high, having justachieved a league record last weekend with 40 straight victories as they beat Seville,but then they lost twice this week. Howthe mighty have fallen! Malaga has beentaunting Real Madrid in social media, reminding them that last year the teamsplayed to a draw. -- Posted By Rex to Speed o Rex at 1/21/2017 05:28:00 AM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
