Sports

Phillip Squires avenged his defeat to Jeremy Miller in last year’s tournament to win the men’s singles title of the second edition of the Le Meridien, Pegasus Lawn Tennis tournament on Tuesday last at the hotel’s hard courts.

The first prize of four million dollars (one pound of gold) for the 22nd annual Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) football tournament was presented yesterday in a simple handing over ceremony at the residence of Aruwai Mining Enterprise Inc.

There are two acting presidents at the helm of football in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago namely Franklyn Wilson and Lennox Watson as the two regional football bodies plunge deeper into crisis.

The semi-finals of the Digicel/Guyana Netball Association (GNA) Senior League is expected to commence tomorrow at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall court while the final is billed for Saturday.

National schools female cycling champion and Flying Aces Cycling Club (FACC) member, Marica Dick has received much needed cycling equipment, compliments of Canada-based Guyanese Wilbert Benjamin who is a former national cyclist and FACC member.

LONDON, (Reuters) – David Ferrer, the lesser known Spaniard in the ATP World Tour Finals, burst out of Rafa Nadal’s shadow to reach the last four yesterday with a demolition job on world number one Novak Djokovic at the O2 Arena.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Following is the latest Caribbean Football Union rankings list released yesterday.

Mike Mangal carted off the United Insurance Medal Play Golf Tournament with a scintillating performance over the weekend at the Lusignan Golf Club.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Disgraced Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Amir, who were jailed for spot-fixing elements of a test match, lost their appeals against their sentences yesterday.

MUMBAI, India, IANS/CMC – All four West Indies top order batsmen stroked half-centuries as the Caribbean side flourished on the opening day of the third and final Test here yesterday.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Teenaged West Indies batsman Kraigg Brathwaite says the Caribbean side will be looking to bat deep into the second day in the third and final Test here, in order to put pressure on India and force a win.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Holder Roger Federer produced an hour of sublime quality to crush Rafa Nadal 6-3 6-0 at the ATP World Tour Finals yesterday and clinch a place in the last four with a match to spare.

Trinidadian football coach Jamaal Shabazz seems to be caught up in a tug-of-war between two countries desperate to secure his services just weeks after he sent his country’s national team crashing out of the 2014 World Cup qualifying competition.

Justice William Ramlall yesterday ordered lawyers for the Raj Singh faction of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) to prove their innocence against the contempt action filed by Roger Harper.

By Iva Wharton Three months on the job and the new Sports Coordinator at the University of Guyana, Laver Fraser-Thomas is already making inroads into the development of sports on the Campus.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Jamaican sprinter Steve Mullings has been banned for life for failing a drugs test last June.

(Reuters) – The eagerly-awaited rematch between Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico and Mexico’s Antonio Margarito will go ahead as planned in New York next month after officials finally gave the go ahead for the world title fight to proceed.

(Reuters) – A preliminary hearing for former Penn State University assistant coach Jerry Sandusky on child sex abuse charges has been postponed until mid-December, court officials said yesterday.

Jewan Persaud, manager of the East Coast Jaguars Cricket Team which participated in the current Pepsi/Carib Beer Twenty20 competition has written the West Indies Cricket Board over the alleged “incorrect and unfair practice of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).

A Guyana representative beach football team reached the semi-finals of an invitational tournament in Trinidad and Tobago last week before bowing out of the competition.