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EVEN after leading the club to a league and cup double in the just concluded season APR management is still holding out on a contract extension for head coach Ernest Brandts.

CAIRO – After missing out on three consecutive major tournaments, Egypt need to use their recent CAF Africa Cup of Nations flop as an incentive to end a lengthy FIFA World Cup drought, veteran playmaker Mohamed Aboutrika insisted recently.

WITH corporate companies wary of investing big in sports disciplines in the country Rwanda Development Bank (BRD) have announced plans to start sponsoring at least one tennis tournament every year.

LONDON – Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has agreed a new five-year contract with the Premier League champions, the club announced on Monday.

PARIS - New France coach Didier Deschamps will not tolerate the bad behaviour which marred the national team’s last two major tournaments, he said on Monday as he was officially unveiled.

LONDON – The men’s 100 metres is the jewel in the Olympic crown and Yohan Blake’s surprise humanisation of Usain Bolt has ensured that next month’s showdown will be a race worthy of the Games rather than a mere time trial for the defending champion.

WTA Stanford
Wednesday’s results
Vandeweghe bt Czink 6-4, 6-1
Watson bt Stephens 7-6, 4-6, 6-1
Larcher de Brito bt Gajdošová 5-7, 6-2, 6-3