Perennial Serbian and Adriatic League champion Partizan continued its efforts to build a new roster for the upcoming Euroleague season by inking scoring guard Stefan Sinovec to a four-year deal. Sinovec (195, 21) arrives from Khimik-OPZ Yuzny, where he averaged 6.5 points and 1.3 assists in 15 Ukrainian League games last season.
Serbian defender signs new five-year deal with German club Borussia Dortmund youngster Neven Subotic has silenced speculation regarding his future and signed a new five-year deal with the German club.
Tottenham could use Roman Pavlyuchenko as bait to lure striker Mirko Vucinic, the Roma striker, to White Hart Lane.
Manchester United have taken the first step towards replacing Cristiano Ronaldo by signing Antonio Valencia from Wigan for a fee believed to be in the region of £16 million.
Manchester United have made their first signing of the summer after confirming a deal has been done for Antonio Valencia.
Duško Vujošević is the best Euroleague Head Coach for the season 2008/2009 according to the votes of the 24 Head Coaches of Euroleague team.
Fourth-seeded Novak Djokovic booked his place in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon (grass, £ 12,550,000) for the second time in his career, after defeating world no.46 Dudi Sela of Israel in straight sets 6-2 6-4 6-1 in just 89 minutes.
Ana has been boosted by the prognosis of her injury, which she suffered during her fourth round match at Wimbledon yesterday.
Ana’s 2009 Wimbledon campaign came to an end as she was forced to retired injured while trailing five-time champion Venus Williams 6-1, 0-1 in the fourth round. It is the first time the 21-year-old has had to retire from a match since 2006, when she led China’s Li Na by the same scoreline in Berlin. [...]
Despite 15 double faults and 38 unforced errors, Dinara Safina outlasted dynamic German teenager Sabine Lisicki to win a tougher-then-expected quarter-final 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-1. The world No.1 battled for two hours 25 minutes to book a semi-final tie against Venus Williams.
Another stroll in the Wimbledon sunshine carried Venus Williams past opposition that varied between the overawed and the inadequate and into the semi-finals of the 2009 Championships. The latest victim was Agnieszka Radwanska, the 20-year-old Pole seeded 11th, who managed to retrieve three games from the carnage as Venus won 6-1, 6-2 in 68 minutes.
Horrible way to go. ANA IVANOVIC: Yeah, definitely. Uhm, that’s the most disappointing thing because I felt like I wasn’t given a fair chance, you know, to fight. But, yeah, it was really disappointing, especially that, you know, all of a sudden I felt pain after that serve. And, yeah, I’m really disappointing.
