Charles Leclerc triggered frenzied Ferrari celebrations on Sunday after holding off a race-long Mercedes challenge to take the Italian Formula One team's first home grand prix victory since 2010. Valtteri Bottas was second for Mercedes with five-times world champion Lewis Hamilton a distant...

Serena Williams was defeated 6-3, 7-5, in the women’s final of the United States Open on Saturday by Bianca Andreescu, a Canadian athlete. In the women's finals of the tournament held in New York, Williams faced Andreescu, who is only 19 years old. Andreescu made history becoming the...

Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton suggested on Saturday it might take a crash before the sport did anything to prevent qualifying turning into a farce at high-speed circuits like Monza. The fastest track on the calendar produced one of the slowest ever final shootouts for pole position...

A clash of generations will decide the U.S. Open on Saturday with Serena Williams taking a fourth crack at Grand Slam history against teenager Bianca Andreescu, who was not even born when the American lifted her first Flushing Meadows trophy. One short of equalling Margaret Court's...

Grigor Dimitrov had struggled through most of the past two seasons and battled with a shoulder injury early this season, but the payoff for his perseverence was sweet indeed. The 78th-ranked Bulgarian delivered a stunning upset of 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer in the US Open...

The official emblem for the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup has been unveiled in the capital Doha. The unveiling took place at 8:22pm local time (17:22 GMT), as thousands of spectators gathered to witness the synchronised projection of the emblem onto a number of the country’s most iconic...

Spanish second seed Rafael Nadal defeated 2014 champion Marin Cilic to reach his ninth US Open quarterfinal.  The 33-year-old Spaniard beat the Croatian 22nd seed with a four-set win in a 6-3 3-6 6-1 6-2 victory in New York. The 18-time Grand Slam champion Nadal will face Argentine...

Neymar, the world's most expensive player, who will stay at Paris Saint-Germain after failing to make the move back to Barcelona. Several big-name players did change clubs on loans, including Mauro Icardi. The transfer window shut gently across much of Europe on Monday evening with a flurry...

Liverpool centre-back Virgil van Dijk is on the shortlist to add FIFA's best player award to his UEFA Men's Player of the Year honour. The Dutch international denied Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi for the European title last week and the same trio are in the running for the FIFA...

World record holder Wayde van Niekerk said he would not defend his 400-metres title at this month’s World Championships in Doha as he has yet to recover from a knee injury. The Olympic champion suffered the injury while playing a charity touch rugby game in October 2017 and has not raced...

Lewis Hamilton admitted that he found it difficult to do his job and take part in Sunday?s Belgian Grand Prix following Anthoine Hubert's death in Saturday?s Formula Two race. The defending five-time world champion said it was hard to accept that life went on in such tragic circumstances....

Serena Williams, seeking her 24th career Grand Slam title to match Margaret Court's all-time record, routed Croatia's Petra Martic 6-3, 6-4 Sunday to reach the US Open quarter-finals. The 37-year-old American, a six-time US Open champion, will play for a semi-final berth on Tuesday against...

Charles Leclerc dedicated his maiden Formula One race victory at the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday to his late friend, Anthoine Hubert. The Ferrari driver led almost the entire race from pole to hold off Mercedes' defending fice time world champion Lewis Hamilton's dramatic late charge by...

Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson insists Sadio Mane's touchline tirade at Burnley showed his side's desire to win the Premier League. Mane launched into a furious rant after being substituted during Liverpool's 3-0 win on Saturday. The Senegal winger was apparently annoyed by Mohamed...

Neymar is to stay at Paris Saint-Germain after seeing his desired transfer back to Barcelona fail, according to press reports Sunday. "Se queda," Spanish for he's staying, read the L'Equipe headline on its front page with a photo of the Brazilian. "Faced with the impossibility of...

Manchester United's patchy start to the Premier League season continued with a 1-1 draw at 10-man Southampton after a Jannik Vestergaard header cancelled out a brilliant Daniel James goal for the visitors Saturday. The result left United on five points from four games after last weekend's...

Practice at Spa was brought to an abrupt halt on Saturday after Lewis Hamilton crashed his Mercedes into a wall. The championship leader and defending five-time world champion was unhurt and climbed out of his car as the red flag came out to suspend the third free practice session....

Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku defended his professionalism in the wake of criticism over his weight towards the end of his time at Manchester United. The Belgian joined Inter in a 65 million euro ($73 million) move earlier this month after two years at Old Trafford. Lukaku scored 42...

US teen sensation Coco Gauff and top-ranked defending champion Naomi Osaka will meet in a third-round showdown Saturday at the US Open, each curious to test her game against the other. Japanese 21-year-old Osaka dispatched Poland's Magda Linette 6-2, 6-4 while 15-year-old American...

Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams, Ashleigh Barty, and Elina Svitolina advanced Thursday to the third round of the U.S. Open 2019 in New York. The number one seed Djokovic faced Juan Ignacio Londero from Argentina in men’s singles. Serbia’s Djokovic beat his opponent on the 56 spot in the...