WTA
Palermo Final
Two italians and best friends
Roberta Vinci vs Sara Errani

Budapest Final
Yvonne Meusburger vs Simona Halep

ATP
Sttutgart(mercedes cup) Final
Phillipe Kohlschreiber vs Fabio Fognini

Bastad Final
Verdasco vs Carlos Berlocq

In newport semis
Lleyton Hewitt vs John Isner
Nicolas Mahut vs Micheal Russell


In bastad semis
Verdasco vs Grigor dimitrov
De bakker vs Carlos berlocq

Sttugart(mercedes cup) semis
Hanenscu vs philippe kohlschreiber
Roberto Bautista vs fabio fognini.....


WTA

Palermo semis
Sara errani vs Klara Zakopalova
Roberta Vinci vs Estrella Candela

Budapest semis
Alexandra Candentu vs Simona Halep
Yvonne Meusburger vs Danka Kovinic

Asier Illarramendi has completed a reported €38m move from @RealSociedad to @RealMadridEN - http:///UnsSxZugY9

SouthamptonFC have broken a club record transfer fee to sign Kenya midfielder Victor Wanyama from celticfc - http:///hP3PzT5TcD

Italy centre-back Angelo Ogbonna has joined Italian champions juventus fc from Torino for €13m - http:///3Y356tGH6G

Forward José Callejón has left Realmadrid for the second time after agreeing a four-year deal with SSC Napoli - http:///Y5kEEt29d9

This week's Atp and Wta tournaments are at the quater-final stage.....Tommy Haas, Nicolas Almagro, Verdasco, Garcia-Lopez, Tomas Berdych, Viktor Troicki, John Isner, Nicholas Mahut, Lleyton Hewitt, Davydenko are all doing great, which means all are playing in the quater-finals of either newport or sttutgart/mercedes-cup or Bastad ATP...

Swansea City have broken their transfer record to sign striker Wilfried Bony - http:///AgH9Vnm1tO

Atletico signs Martin Demichelis to 1-year deal: Atletico Madrid has reinforced its already soli... http:///rPMJA5NTI6

Everton have signed FCBarcelona academy and Spain U-20 striker Gerard Deulofeu on a season-long loan - http:///rV6zy2x52O

Chelsea FC is delighted to announce the signing of Mark Schwarzer on a free transfer... http:///RSVLNhNBcR #CFC http:///Co9RcPtElx

Benfica sign Lisandro Lopez http:///MBP3gUmkxW

Four Bayern Munich stars were nominated in a 10-man list by UEFA on Tuesday to decide the top player plying his trade in Europe
The award will be handed out on August 29 in Monaco, the day of the Champions League group stage draw and day before the European Super Cup.
Ribery, Mueller, Robben and Schweinsteiger made the list alongside Messi and Gareth Bale.
Messi was one of only two Spain-based players alongside Cristiano Ronaldo, the man he deposed as World Player of the Year.
Man United's Robin van persie only epl player while Zlatan represents PSG and France with Dortmund's Lewandowski ensuring Germany provided half the nominees.
It will be the third edition of the award won by Messi in 2011 and Andres Iniesta last year.
A short-list of 3 finalists will be announced on Aug 6, after which d winner will be voted for by journalists from UEFA's 53 member nations.
10-man shortlist uefa best: Gareth Bale (WAL/Tottenham), Cristiano Ronaldo (POR/Real Madrid), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (SWE/Paris Saint-Germain), Robert Lewandowski (POL/ Dortmund), Lionel Messi (ARG/Barcelona), Mueller (GER/Bayern Munich), Frank Ribery (FRA/Bayern Munich), Arjen Robben (NED/Bayern Munich), Bastian Schweinsteiger (GER/Bayern Munich), Robin van Persie (NED/Man United)

All Super Eagles coaches since 2010 earn N5m monthly....

$20k (abt N3.4m) winning bonus per game...
$10k (N1.7m) for a draw....

$200 daily allowance....

What Super Eagles first assistant coaches earn since 2010: N3m monthly as salaries, $15k winning bonus per game, $150 daily allowance...

What Super Eagles other assistant coaches earn since 2010: N1m monthly salaries, $15k n $750k winning bonus per game, $150 daily allowance...
Eagles Doctor, Physiotherapist, Secretary, Team Coordinator don't earn monthly salaries, because unlike the team coordinator, they are either staff of the Sport Ministry or the NFF....
What Super Eagles Doctor, Physiotherapist, Secretary, Team Coordinator earn. No monthly salaries, $8k winning bonus, $100 daily allowance

Chelsea have signed free agent Mark Schwarzer in a move that could see the veteran goalkeeper play in the Premier League past his 41st birthday.

Mark Schwarzer makes the short move across West London after recently leaving Fulham.
Schwarzer left Fulham at the end of last season after five years at Craven Cottage and has signed a one-year deal at Stamford Bridge, ending Jose Mourinho's search for an experienced back-up to current Blues No. 1 Petr Cech.

The Australia international, who is his country's most capped player of all-time and has been playing in English football for 17 years, was delighted to make such an illustrious move in the twilight of his career.

"It's a phenomenal club," Schwarzer told Chelsea's official website. "It's one of the biggest and best clubs in the world, and it's an honour to sign for Chelsea. I didn't take much convincing to come here.

"There were other interests but once I knew Chelsea was interested it was very much the case that I wanted to try and make it happen. I'm very fortunate and delighted to be sitting here today.

"There were a lot of things that ticked all the boxes, but most of all Chelsea Football Club is an enormous club and I think a club that can re-establish itself as the best club in the country. It has an unbelievable manager and an unbelievable squad of players and it's very exciting."

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Palermo wta 2013 order of play for today

Estrella Cabeza Candela (ESP) v Alice Matteucci (ITA)
[4] Klara Zakopalova (CZE) v Flavia Pennetta (ITA)
Giulia Gatto-Monticone (ITA) v [2] Roberta Vinci (ITA)
Nastassja Burnett (ITA) v Maryna Zanevska (UKR)
 
Kristyna Pliskova (CZE) v Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE)
Teliana Pereira (BRA) v Karin Knapp (ITA)
Eva Birnerova / Irina Buryachok (CZE / UKR) v Julia Cohen / Aliaksandra Sasnovich (USA / BLR)
[5] Lourdes Dominguez Lino (ESP) v Alexandra Dulgheru (ROU)
 
Starting at 4.00 pm
Eva Birnerova (CZE) v Polona Hercog (SLO)
Kristina Barrois (GER) v Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP)
 
[6] Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) v Renata Voracova (CZE)                   
Dinah Pfizenmaier (GER) v [8] Karolina Pliskova (CZE)                      
[1] Kristina Mladenovic / Katarzyna Piter (FRA / POL) v Corinna Dentoni / Anastasia Grymalska (ITA / ITA)
Mariana Duque-Marino (COL) v Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (CRO)

Budapest wta 2013 order of play for today

[8] Anna Tatishvili (GEO) v Reka-Luca Jani (HUN)
Andrea Hlavackova (CZE) v [2] Alize Cornet (FRA)
Timea Babos (HUN) v Aleksandra Krunic (SRB)                    
[1] Lucie Safarova (CZE) v Valeria Solovyeva (RUS)
 

Vanda Lukacs (HUN) v Petra Martic (CRO)
Michaela Honcova (SVK) v [6] Chanelle Scheepers (RSA)
Alexandra Cadantu (ROU) v Patricia Mayr-Achleitner (AUT)
 
Shahar Peer (ISR) v Xenia Knoll (SUI)
Yvonne Meusburger (AUT) v Alison Van Uytvanck (BEL)
Danka Kovinic (MNE) v Johanna Konta (GBR)

Bastad atp 2013 order of play for today

Jan Hajek (CZE) v Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)
Joao Souza (BRA) v [6] Viktor Troicki (SRB)
[8] Fernando Verdasco (ESP) v [WC] Andreas Vinciguerra (SWE)
Stefan Edberg (SWE) / Simon Aspelin (SWE) OR Anders Jarryd (SWE) / Mikael Pernfors (SWE) v Jonas Bjorkman (SWE) / Thomas Johansson (SWE) OR Magnus Gustafsson (SWE) / Mats Wilander (SWE)

Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) v Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR)
Albert Ramos (ESP) v [Q] Julian Reister (GER)
[Q] Diego Sebastian Schwartzman (ARG) v Thiemo de Bakker (NED)
Martin Alund (ARG) / Joao Souza (BRA) v [WC] Isak Arvidsson (SWE) / Micke Kontinen (FIN)

Filippo Volandri (ITA) v [PR] Jurgen Zopp (EST)
[LL] Marius Copil (ROU) v Blaz Kavcic (SLO)
[Q] Henri Laaksonen (SUI) v [Q] Antonio Veic (CRO)
Marius Copil (ROU) / Horia Tecau (ROU) v Jan Hajek (CZE) / Filip Polasek (SVK)

Mikhail Elgin (RUS) / Philipp Marx (GER) v Carlos Berlocq (ARG) / Albert Ramos (ESP)

Stuttgart atp 2013 order of play for today

7] Lukas Rosol (CZE) v Thomaz Bellucci (BRA)
Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) v Gael Monfils (FRA)

[WC/6] Florian Mayer (GER) v [Q] Andreas Beck (GER)
[Q] Nils Langer (GER) v [WC] Robin Kern (GER)


[Q] Daniel Munoz-De La Nava (ESP) v Nikolay Davydenko (RUS)
Leonardo Mayer (ARG) v Pablo Andujar (ESP)
[Q] Alexander Ward (GBR) v [5] Fabio Fognini (ITA)
Marcel Granollers (ESP) v Ernests Gulbis (LAT)
Tomasz Bednarek (POL) / Mateusz Kowalczyk (POL) v [2] Andre Begemann (GER) / Martin Emmrich (GER)

Victor Hanescu (ROU) v Dmitry Tursunov (RUS)
Andreas Siljestrom (SWE) / Igor Zelenay (SVK) v [3] Jamie Murray (GBR) / John Peers (AUS)
Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) / Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) v Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) / Martin Klizan (SVK)
Florin Mergea (ROU) / Lukas Rosol (CZE) v Oliver Marach (AUT) / Gael Monfils (FRA)

For the newport atp 2013 matches for today....
Sam Querry is the top player playing today

Denis Kudla (USA) v Vasek Pospisil (CAN)
[5]. Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) v Ivo Karlovic (CRO)
[Q]. Adrien Bossel (SUI) v [8] Rajeev Ram (USA)
[Q] Alex Kuznetsov (USA) v [7] Kenny De Schepper (FRA)
Ruben Bemelmans (BEL) / Michal Przysiezny (POL) v. [WC] Prakash Amritraj (IND) / Sam Querrey (USA)

COURT 2

[3] Igor Sijsling (NED) v Matteo Viola (ITA)
[WC] Prakash Amritraj (IND) v Flavio Cipolla (ITA)
[Q] Jan Hernych (CZE) v [Q] Ante Pavic (CRO)
Michael Russell (USA) v Illya Marchenko (UKR)

The U.S open is scheduled to start on 26th of august, but there will be a lot of atp and wta tournaments....this week, there is Bastad, Sttugart, Newport, Budapest, and palermo tournament....
Will update where different top players are competing..

At 4 hours 43 minutes Novak Djokovic v Juan Martin DelPotro match was the longest men's semifinal in Wimbledon history beating Ivan Lendi v Boris Becker '89 4hrs 1min.

Novak Djokovic through to wimbledon 2013 final i, what a fight from the argentine del-potro in a 5-set game...great game, best match

Del potro takes 4th set...great game from del-potro ,....IMO, this is the match of the tournament

The last time DelPotro won a five-set match was v James Blake at AustralianOpen 2010. He's lost his last four five-setters. Wimbledon...4-4 in 4th set

Djokovic takes the 3rd set 7-6

And we've got a tie-break in the 3rd set....What a match....

Before this semi-final match between Del-Potro and Djokovic...Both of them haven't lost a set, now they are a set a piece.... 7-5 for djokovic and 6-4 for del-potro....Del potro's forehand and backhand is immense

This is a giant stride fro teens and africans all over the world. Considering the fact that she's female makes this so so wonderful and awesome... #kudos to her

LMAO..... Are you kidding me?

Isco, new Real Madrid player http:///KiBW4L1f7V

Stoke sign Marc Muniesa from Barcelona on free transfer: Stoke have signed defender Marc Munies... http:///gRDASosDDh

Moroccan international Younes Belhanda has completed a five-year deal to move to Ukrainian side Dynamo Kyiv - http:///9gL9hyD1bE

The women semi-finals is set

Lisicki vs Aga Radwanska
Bartoli vs Flipkens

Bartoli defeats Sloane Stephens 6-4 7-5 to reach her third grand slam sem-final....
Flipkens won 4-6 6-3 6-4 against kvitova

Arsenal have completed the signing of French striker Yaya Sanogo http:///Xhw7EWSKmj

Paulinho confirms move to Tottenham, Brazil midfielder signs for £17m http:///WUvI5etrIJ


Hamburg have signed Switzerland defender Johan Djourou on loan from Arsenal. http:///iN6kaEekOg

Novak Djokovic is through to next round which is the quater-finals and he's gonna face tomas berdych