D Monday, November 2, 2009 METROSPORT 21 today SoCCER Coca-Cola Championship Sheff Utd v Newcastle............... 7.45 League of Ireland First division Finn Harps v Shelbourne........... 8.00 CRICKEt Fourth one day International: India v Australia (Mohali) HoRSE RaCING Kempton, Plumpton, Whampton tENNIS (all week) atP davidoff Swiss Indoors (Basel) atP Valencia open (Spain) tomoRRow SoCCER (7.45 unless stated) UEFa Champions League Group a Bayern Munich v Bordeaux.............. Maccabi Haifa v Juventus ................ Group B Besiktas v Wolfsburg........................ Man Utd v CSKA Moscow ............... Group C AC Milan v Real Madrid.................... Marseille v FC Zurich........................ Group d Apoel Nicosia v FC Porto ................. Atletico Madrid v Chelsea ................ Coca-Cola Championship QPR v Crystal Palace ................ 8.00 Setanta Cup Group 2 Glentoran v Coleraine....................... CRICKEt First one day International: Pakistan v New Zealand (Abu Dhabi) HoRSE RaCING Catterick, Exeter, Kempton wEdNESday SoCCER (7.45 unless stated) UEFa Champions League Group E Fiorentina v Debrecen ...................... Lyon v Liverpool ............................... Group F Dynamo Kiev v Inter Milan................ Rubin Kazan v Barcelona .......... 5.30 Group G Sevilla v VfB Stuttgart....................... Unirea Urziceni v Rangers................ Group H Arsenal v AZ ..................................... Standard Liege v Olympiacos .......... Barclays Premier League West Ham v Aston Villa .................... HoRSE RaCING Chepstow, Kempton, Nottingham, Warwick, Fairyhouse tENNIS (all week) wta tourn of Champions (Bali) tHURSday SoCCER (7.45 unless stated) UEFa Europa League Group C Hamburg v Celtic....................... 6.00 Group E Roma v Fulham ......................... 6.00 Group I Everton v Benfica ...................... 8.05 CRICKEt Fifth one day International: India v Australia (Hyderabad) GoLF (until Sunday) wGC - HSBC Champions (Sheshan International GC, Shanghai, China) HoRSE RaCING Haydock, Towcester, Lingfield, Great Leighs, Thurles FRIday SoCCER (7.45 unless stated) Coca-Cola Championship Derby v Coventry.............................. League of Ireland Premier division Bray v Bohemians ............................ Dundalk v Derry City......................... Galway Utd v Cork ........................... Sligo v Drogheda Utd....................... St Patricks v Shamrock Rovers........ CRICKEt Second one day International: Pakistan v New Zealand (Abu Dhabi) HoRSE RaCING Fontwell, Hexham, Wolverhampton, Southwell, Down Royal SatURday SoCCER (3.00 unless stated) Barclays Premier League Aston Villa v Bolton .......................... Blackburn v Portsmouth................... Man City v Burnley ........................... Tottenham v Sunderland .................. Wolverhampton v Arsenal.......... 5.30 Coca-Cola League Championship Blackpool v Scunthorpe................... Crystal Palace v Middlesbrough....... Leicester v West Brom ..................... Newcastle v Peterborough............... Nottm Forest v Bristol City............... Plymouth v Doncaster...................... Reading v Ipswich ............................ Sheff Wed v QPR.............................. Swansea v Cardiff ................... 12.45 Watford v Preston............................. Clydesdale Bank Premier League Aberdeen v St Johnstone................. Hamilton v Motherwell...................... Hearts v Hibernian................... 12.30 Kilmarnock v Dundee Utd ................ Rangers v St Mirren.......................... League of Ireland First division Finn Harps v Monaghan Utd ..... 7.45 Kildare County v Shelbourne.... 7.45 Longford Town v Limerick FC.... 7.45 Sporting Fingal v Athlone Town. 7.45 UCD v Waterford Utd ................ 7.45 Wexford Youths v Mervue Utd... 7.45 HoRSE RaCING Doncaster, Kelso, Sandown Park, Wincanton, Down Royal, Dundalk RUGBy UNIoN International matches: England v Australia (2.30), Wales v New Zealand (5.15) tENNIS (until Sunday) Fed Cup world Group Final: Italy v United States (Italy) SUNday SoCCER (3.00 unless stated) Barclays Premier League Chelsea v Man Utd.................... 4.00 Hull v Stoke ............................... 1.30 West Ham v Everton......................... Wigan v Fulham................................ Clydesdale Bank Premier League Falkirk v Celtic......................... 12.45 CRICKEt Sixth one day International: India v Australia (Guwahati) HoRSE RaCING Hereford, Market Rasen, Ffos Las, Limerick, Navan motoR CyCLING motoGP (Ricardo Tormo Valencia) this weeks fixtures GoLF VoLVo woRLd matCH PLay CHamPIoNSHIP (Finca Cortesin GC, Casares) Final (Par: 72, Seeded positions in brackets): (10) Ross Fisher (Eng) bt (9) Anthony Kim (USA) 4 & 3. third place play-off: (12) Robert Allenby (Aus) bt (11) Angel Cabrera (Arg) at 19th hole. motoR RaCING FIa FoRmULa 1 aBU dHaBI GRaNd PRIx (Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, UAE) Race (55 Laps): 1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull 1hr34mins 3.414secs, 2 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull 1:34:21.271, 3 Jenson Button (Gbr) Brawn GP 1:34:21.881, 4 Rubens Barrichello (Bra) Brawn GP 1:34:26.149, 5 Nick Heidfeld (Ger) BMW Sauber 1:34:29.667, 6 Kamui Kobayashi (Jpn) Toyota 1:34:32.757, 7 Jarno Trulli (Ita) Toyota 1:34:37.780, 8 Sebastien Buemi (Swi) Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:34:44.708, 9 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Williams 1:34:49.355, 10 Robert Kubica (Pol) BMW Sauber 1:34:51.594, 11 Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) McLaren 1:34:56.212, 12 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari 1:34:57.731, 13 Kazuki Nakajima (Jpn) Williams 1:35:03.253, 14 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Renault 1:35:13.014, 15 Vitantonio Liuzzi (Ita) Force India 1:35:37.814, 16 Giancarlo Fisichella (Ita) Ferrari at 1 Lap, 17 Adrian Sutil (Ger) Force India at 1 Lap, 18 Romain Grosjean (Fra) Renault at 1 Lap. Not Classifed: 19 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren 20 Laps completed, 20 Jaime Alguersuari (Spa) Scuderia Toro Rosso 18 Laps completed. world Championship Standings: 1 Jenson Button (Gbr) Brawn GP 95pts, 2 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull 84, 3 Rubens Barrichello (Bra) Brawn GP 77, 4 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull 69.5, 5 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren 49, 6 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari 48, 7 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Williams 34.5, 8 Jarno Trulli (Ita) Toyota 32.5, 9 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Renault 26, 10 Timo Glock (Ger) Toyota 24, 11 Felipe Massa (Bra) Ferrari 22, 12 Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) McLaren 22, 13 Nick Heidfeld (Ger) BMW Sauber 19, 14 Robert Kubica (Pol) BMW Sauber 17, 15 Giancarlo Fisichella (Ita) Ferrari 8, 16 Sebastien Buemi (Swi) Scuderia Toro Rosso 6, 17 Adrian Sutil (Ger) Force India 5, 18 Kamui Kobayashi (Jpn) Toyota 3, 19 Sebastien Bourdais (Fra) Scuderia Toro Rosso 2, 20 Kazuki Nakajima (Jpn) Williams 0, 21 Nelson Piquet Jr (Bra) Renault 0, 22 Vitantonio Liuzzi (Ita) Force India 0, 23 Romain Grosjean (Fra) Renault 0, 24 Jaime Alguersuari (Spa) Scuderia Toro Rosso 0, 25 Luca Badoer (Ita) Ferrari 0. manufacturers: 1 Brawn GP 172pts, 2 Red Bull 153.5, 3 McLaren 71, 4 Ferrari 70, 5 Toyota 59.5, 6 BMW Sauber 36, 7 Williams 34.5, 8 Renault 26, 9 Force India 13, 10 Scuderia Toro Rosso 8. RUGBy UNIoN INtERNatIoNaL matCH New Zealand .. 32 Australia......... 19 CELtIC LEaGUE Friday Connacht........ 16 Scarlets.......... 10 Ospreys ............ 9 Glasgow........... 9 Saturday Leinster........... 23 Cardiff Blues .... 6 Munster .......... 24 Ulster.............. 10 Yesterday Edinburgh ......... 8 N-G Dragons.... 9 P w d L F a Pts Leinster 7 5 0 2 145 84 22 Glasgow 7 4 1 2 140 110 19 Edinburgh 7 4 0 3 149 115 19 Ulster 7 4 0 3 140 123 19 Munster 7 4 0 3 113 110 19 Ospreys 7 3 1 3 124 105 17 Newport-G Ds 7 4 0 3 105 111 17 Scarlets 7 2 0 5 116 140 11 Cardiff Blues 7 2 0 5 100 135 10 Connacht 7 2 0 5 95 194 9 tENNIS atP BaNK aUStRIa tENNIS tRoPHy (Vienna) Final: (7) Jurgen Melzer (Aut) bt (1) Marin Cilic (Cro) 6-4 6-3. atP GRaNd PRIx dE tENNIS dE LyoN (France) Final: (3) Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) bt Michael Llodra (Fra) 7-5 6-3. atP St. PEtERSBURG oPEN (Russia) Final: Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukr) bt (8) Horacio Zeballos (Arg) 2-6 7-6 (10-8) 7-6 (9-7). wta SoNy ERICSSoN CHamPIoNSHIPS (Doha, Qatar) Final: (2) Serena Williams (USA) bt (7) Venus Williams (USA) 6-2 7-6 (7-4). results round-up SPORT Digest Going deep: Rodriguez TENNIS: Serena Williams underlined her dominance of womens tennis yesterday at the Khalifa Stadium, completing her year in style with a 6-2, 7-6 defeat of sister Venus at the WTA Championships. The two Americans faced each other for the 22nd time but defending champion Venus never got close to breaking the Serena serve, which leaked just seven points in the match. Its nice to finally win a tournament other than a grand slam, said the 11- times major champion who last won a title outside of the big four in April 2008. I know Venus didnt feel so good today but she just got everything back and it was frustrating. I served really well but you have to serve well against Venus. atHLEtICS: meb Keflezighi became the first american to win the New york City marathon since 1982 when he took the mens title in two hours 9 minutes and 15 seconds yesterday. Ethiopias former world and olympic 10,000metres champion derartu tulu won the womens event through the citys five boroughs in 2:28.52. Race favourite and world record holder Paula Radcliffe finished fourth after setting much of the early pace. Keflezighi, whose previous best finish in a major marathon was second in New york in 2004, broke away from Kenyan Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot with just a few miles to go to take a surprise win. BASEBALL: Alex Rodriguez ended his World Series slump in emphatic fashion to lead the New York Yankees to an 8-5 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday. Rodriguez belted a controversial two-run homer and reached base four times as the Yankees took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series ahead of last nights Game Four. Third-baseman Rodriguez had entered the game without a hit in the first two games. Its obviously nice to get it out of the way, said the 34-year-old after scoring his first-ever World Series hit. New York trailed 3-0 in the fourth inning before Rodriguezs blast, which bounced back into play and was only ruled a homer after TV replays. Serena serves to perfection to beat Venus New York win is a home run for Keflezighi A-Rod inspires Yanks to lead in World Series formula one aBU dHaBI GRaNd PRIx Vettel storms desert to win in Abu DhabiBy adam Hay-NICHoLLS Champagne moment: world champion Button celebrates with race winner Vettel SebaStian Vettel made Formula One history yesterday with victory in the sports first day-night race at the season-ending abu Dhabi Grand Prix. the 22-year-old Germans triumph at the 900millionYas Marina circuit was his fourth of the season, and fifth of his career. the win guaranteed Vettel second place in the drivers standings behind new world champion Jenson button. the brawn GP star was forced to settle for third behind Red bulls fourth one-two of the year, despite a desperate duel with Mark Webber on the final lap. it was expected to be a breeze for lewis Hamilton, who started from pole after domi- nating qualifying, fell behind Vettel in the first round of pit stops and was forced to retire with a problem with his right-rear brake on lap 20. Hamilton, who had described his car on Saturday as the best it had been all season, said: there was a problem with the brakes and i couldnt stop the car. i was locking, locking, locking and it was harder than ever to drive it. its a shame as it felt so good these last couple of days, but we havent had many brake problems this year so there you go. From that moment on, the race belonged to Vettel and Red bull. the priority was to secure second place and we succeeded, said Vettel. to do it with a win is the best. as for button, he at least finished on the podium for only the second time since his victory in turkey in June after his own duel with Japanese driver Kamui Kobayashi. Standing in for the injured timo Glock for the second successive race, the toyota driver forced button into a mistake to pass the brawn driver on lap 18. Kobayashis challenge faded but he finished a fine sixth behind the leading trio, Rubens barrichello in his brawn and nick Heidfeld in the bMW Sauber. toyotas Jarno trulli was seventh, behind Kobayashi, with toro Rossos Sebastien buemi claiming the final point. Picture: Getty index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html