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ROME (Reuters) – Serena Williams still rates herself as the best player in the world even though she has been toppled from the top spot by Russia’s Dinara Safina.

ZÜRICH, Switzerland, CMC – Usain Bolt will hope to use this year’s International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) Golden League meet at the Letzigrund Stadium to celebrate another triumphant appearance at a global event.

Three-time defending champions Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United recorded yet another overwhelming victory when action in the Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) Cellink Plus 2009 Premier League continued at the Tucville Playfield on Sunday.

The first semi-final in the second annual Bakewell Buxton Stars-organized Mackeson Stout/Digicel-sponsored Sweet 16 football tournament kicks off today at the Plaisance Community Centre ground from 20:00 hrs.

Guyana’s women’s football programme is set to kick-off in June with a national team scheduled to participate in a four-team tournament hosted by the Turks & Caicos Football Federation.

Hits and Jams Television (HJTV) in collaboration with the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA), Courts Pacesetters Basketball Club and Lens Craft Optical yesterday officially launched their Inter-Ward Basketball Tournament at the Windjammer International Hotel in Georgetown.

National Twenty20 club champions Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) will leave these shores today for neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago, to compete in the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) club championships.

LONDON, England, CMC – Discarded West Indies batsman Wavell Hinds missed out on his second century in as many days as Derbyshire also lost for the second time in 48 hours in the Friends Provident Trophy yesterday.

The West Indies finally got their captain back yesterday. Two weeks into the team’s tour of England and a couple of days behind his originally scheduled date of arrival, Chris Gayle flew into Heathrow Airport after an overnight, 14-hour flight from South Africa where he was playing in the second season of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Clifford Reis won his first major tournament for this season when he carted off last weekend’s keenly contested Members Golf Competition trophy at the Lusignan Golf Club.

AUSTIN, Texas, CMC – Antiguan Brendan Christian, Ryan Brathwaite, of Barbados, and the US Virgin Islands’ Tabarie Henry were among impressive Caribbean winners at the Texas Invitational track and field meeting this past weekend.

AUSTIN, Texas, CMC – Antiguan Brendan Christian, Ryan Brathwaite, of Barbados, and the US Virgin Islands’ Tabarie Henry were among impressive Caribbean winners at the Texas Invitational track and field meeting this past weekend.

KARACHI (Reuters) – Pakistan named uncapped left-arm fast bowler Mohammad Aamir and hard-hitting opener Shahzaib Hasan in their squad for next month’s Twenty20 World Cup in England yesterday.

KARACHI (Reuters) – Pakistan named uncapped left-arm fast bowler Mohammad Aamir and hard-hitting opener Shahzaib Hasan in their squad for next month’s Twenty20 World Cup in England yesterday.

EAST LONDON, South Africa(Reuters) – An unbeaten half-century from MS Dhoni and four-wickets for Shadab Jakati propelled Chennai Super Kings to the Indian Premier League (IPL) summit after a 78-run victory over Deccan Chargers.

Ravi Singh, Steven Vieira also impress Excellent weather coupled with a day of quality and exciting racing marked the opening of the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) 2009 season yesterday at the South Dakota Circuit.

Berbice’s Cougars Football Club and Georgetown’s Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United have both booked a place in the semi-finals of the second annual Bakewell Buxton Stars-organized, Mackeson Stout/Digicel-sponsored Sweet 16 football tournament.

GTM Under-19 Led by Jonathan Foo’s belligerent innings, defending champions Berbice were able to humble their nemesis Demerara by six wickets in their final preliminary round match of this year’s Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/GTM sponsored Under-19 Inter-county limited overs tournament.

Narayan Ramdhani won three titles when the Guyana Badminton Association (GBA)/West Indian Sports Complex annual junior badminton doubles tournament got underway at the Queen’s College auditorium last Friday.

LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – Manny Pacquiao admitted his  hand was still feeling a little bruised two hours after a  booming left hook knocked out Britain’s Ricky Hatton in the  second round of their eagerly awaited showdown on Saturday.