Belarusian second seed Aryna Sabalenka beat Iga Swiatek 6-3 3-6 6-3 to win the Madrid Open on Saturday. The win helped to avenge her defeat by the Polish world number one in last month’s Stuttgart final. Sabalenka produced a great performance to beat Swiatek for the first time on...
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Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp hailed Mohamed Salah after the Egyptian striker’s winner against Brentford on Saturday set a number of milestones. The win kept the Reds in the hunt for UEFA Champions League football next season. Salah struck from close range in the 13th minute to score for the...
Chelsea’s interim manager Frank Lampard on Saturday expressed his happiness to see his side finally playing like a team. The former English Premier League (EPL) champions snapped a nine-match winless run in all competitions with a 3-1 victory at Bournemouth on Saturday. Chelsea have looked a fractured outfit after...
A magnanimous gesture by Manchester United’s goal-machine Erling Haaland left Pep Guardiola fuming on Saturday. This was after the Norwegian striker ignored his manager’s instructions to take a penalty kick and handed the ball to team mate Ilkay Gundogan. The German midfielder had scored a first-half brace to put...
Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz celebrated his 20th birthday by storming into the Madrid Open final with a 6-4 6-3 victory over Borna Coric on Friday to stay on track for his fourth title of the season. In Sunday’s title clash, the top-seeded Spaniard will face off against qualifier Aslan...
Chika Obi, a sports analyst, has expressed optimistic that Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets will win their 3rd match against South Africa at the ongoing 2023 African Under-17 Cup of Nation’s on Saturday. Obi, who expressed his optimistic while speaking with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Ota, said...
Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna is through to the semi-finals of the ongoing International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Africa Cup in Nairobi, Kenya. Aruna will face Mohamed El-Beiali of Egypt at the Moi International Sports Centre on Saturday for a place in the finals of the event. He had to see...
Football fans have called on Nigeria international,Victor Osimhen to replicate club form for the national team as Napoli bag Serie A title on Thursday night. Some fans who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on Friday celebrated Osimhen and Napoli for the great feat. Mr...
Napoli coach Luciano Spalletti broke down in tears after his side claimed their long-awaited third Serie A title with a 1-1 draw against Udinese on Thursday. Spalletti explained that it is the club’s fans who deserve this joy the most after 33 years of waiting. “Seeing the Partenopei smiling...
Napoli won their third Serie A title, and their first in 33 years, on Thursday after a 1-1 draw at Udinese gave the Naples side an unassailable lead in the standings. Napoli’s triumph ended the city’s long wait for the Scudetto since Argentine great Diego Maradona led them to...
Organisers of the inaugural African Heroes Penalty Cup have announced the participation of some of Africa’s finest football stars in the tournament scheduled to hold in Lagos later in the year. The organisers of the event, ABAJ Multilinks, at a press briefing on Wednesday in Lagos, said the competition...
A former Super Eagles Captain, Austin Jay Jay Okocha, on Thursday urged the Super Eagles to be more consistent and stable in their quest to maintain the team’s status as Africa’s number one. The mercurial midfielder gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets on Wednesday in Constantine lost 0-1 for Morocco to earn all three points and sail into the quarter-finals of the Africa Under-17 Cup of Nations. The Golden Eaglets wasted a basketful of opportunities in a match they dominated for large periods in the Algerian city. An...
Liverpool turned up the pressure on Manchester United with a 1-0 victory over Fulham on Wednesday, moving them four points off fourth place in the English Premier League (EPL). Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah scored the lone goal which even edged him even closer to a Steven Gerrard record. There...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Offiong Edem Foundation, Offiong Edema, has promised to host a mini-table tennis tournament for children between the ages of 7–15 at the U.J Esuene Stadium on the 3rd to 7th June 2023. Ms. Edema, who stated this in...
Martin Odegaard fired Arsenal back to the top of the Premier League as the Norway midfielder’s double inspired a 3-1 win against woeful Chelsea on Tuesday. Mikel Arteta’s side lost control of the title race after last week’s 4-1 defeat at Manchester City. But the Gunners signalled their intention...
Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) forward Lionel Messi has been suspended for two weeks after an unauthorised trip for two days to Saudi Arabia. The Argentina World Cup winner is banned from playing or training with the team, and his pay will be docked during his suspension, a media report in...
Achraf Hakimi’s red card in the loss to Lorient by Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) was “very stupid”, club coach Christophe Galtier said, asking his side to be more ambitious. The Ligue 1 champions slipped to a 3-1 defeat after they lost the defender inside the first 20 minutes to a second...
Two-time champions Nigeria on Sunday picked all three points in a 1-0 win over Zambia to commence their Africa U17 Cup of Nations (AFCON) campaign in Algeria on a promising note. Favour Daniel struck powerfully past Zambian goal-tender from a goalmouth melee 14 minutes to the end of the...
Diogo Jota scored a stoppage-time winner as Liverpool clinched a barely-believable 4-3 Premier League victory over Tottenham Hotspur to bolster their hopes of qualifying for Europe on Sunday. Liverpool had led 3-0 inside the opening 15 minutes as for the second successive Sunday Tottenham’s defence crumbled, but the visitors...