Author: Sports News UK
Sky Sports has agreed a new deal to extend its live coverage of the US Open.The three-year contract extension, which is set to be announced when the singles from Flushing Meadows begin next week, will keep the US Open live on Sky until 2030.Under the terms of the new deal, Sky will broadcast more than 12 hours of live tennis each day across the extended three-week tournament, including the new mixed doubles event, which is taking place this week.Sky has had exclusive live UK rights to the US Open since 2023 when the broadcaster secured a five-year deal to replace…
Elsa/Getty Images Rey Fenix is still the AAA World Cruiserweight Champion after an explosive match against “WWE NXT’s” EK Prosper. Fenix and Prosper faced off on Tuesday’s episode of “NXT,” just one week after the latter bested three other men to earn a AAA Cruiserweight Title shot. The challenger immediately sought to surprise the defending champion with a backslide, but was denied when Fenix countered it into an arm drag. The action continued with Fenix landing a chop to Prosper’s chest, then a kick to the face. Prosper responded with…
Bella Mir has missed out on a UFC contract after suffering one of the biggest shocks in MMA history by losing to Alex Apodaca.Highly-rated prospect Mir, who is the daughter of former UFC heavyweight champion Frank, went into the contest as an overwhelming favourite but was on the losing end of a unanimous decision.All three judges on Dana White’s Contender Series – a show where winners of fights are often rewarded with UFC contracts – scored the contest 29-28 in American Apodaca’s favour.Mir, 23, has said she wants to win a UFC championship, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu title, a Zuffa Boxing…
It was McGregor who opened the scoring on the night, a deflected shot and a 4-0 lead on aggregate. LASK had started well but that goal looked to all the world like a kick to their solar plexus. They had chances in Glasgow and they had chances in the opening minutes in Linz – and they were 4-0 down! How many punches can one team take before they lose their fight? Many, as it turned out.Celtic were obliging, of course. Painfully so. We trumpeted their classy goals and their adventurous play a week ago and wrongly assumed that they had…
Chris Jericho went after the role of Jinx in “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” didn’t get it and still managed to force his way into the show. The producers liked his audition enough to create a new scene and write Jericho into the series as himself. Jericho revealed the wild casting detour during an interview with The Wrestling Classic. He originally wanted to play Jinx, but losing the role didn’t end the conversation. “Yeah, it was great. I actually auditioned for the role of Jinx and, obviously, I didn’t get it. But with the audition, they really liked what I did,…
Britons Harriet Dart and Fran Jones both made winning starts to their bids to reach the US Open singles main draw.Dart, who has twice reached the US Open second round, came through 6-0 6-7 (1-7) 6-1 against Jordyn Hazelitt in the first round of qualifying in New York.She will face another American 16-year-old, Kristina Penickova, next.Jones, who qualified for the US Open for the first time last year, will face Germany’s Mona Barthel after winning 6-3 6-4 against Italy’s Nuria Brancaccio.But Jodie Burrage lost to Spain’s Guiomar Maristany 7-6 (7-1) 6-4, while Henry Searle was beaten 6-1 6-2 by American…
Kali Armstrong has made the upcoming title unification between the NXT Women’s North American Title and the WWE Women’s Speed Title now a Triple Threat at Heatwave. Armstrong faced the current NXT Women’s North American Champion, Zaria, on the Aug. 25 episode of NXT. By defeating her, Armstrong won her spot in the match. The third party being the Women’s Speed Champion Wren Sinclair. Armstrong won the match by countering an F-5 by Zaria into a pin. Elsewhere on this week’s NXT, a summit took place between all the champions and challengers for this weekend. The NXT Women’s Champion Kendal…
Enjoy it – and do what Serena Williams tells you to.That was how Carlos Alcaraz settled back into competitive action at the US Open, partnering the American great as she returned to her home slam after a four-year absence.The tournament’s revamped mixed doubles format has attracted criticism for favouring the allure of the sport’s top singles stars at the expense of established doubles players.But the crowds turned out and produced a terrific atmosphere for the tournament’s headline act, with about 15,000 people packed inside Arthur Ashe Stadium.All four doubles specialist pairings lost to a team of singles players on Tuesday,…
In the open air of the Raiffeisen Arena, with bedlam all around, there was nowhere to hide for Celtic or Martin O’Neill.The Scottish champions had endured one of the darkest nights in their European history. After going out to Kairat Almaty on penalties last year at this stage of the Champions League play-offs, that is saying something.Four goals up on aggregate against LASK, O’Neill’s Celtic somehow conspired to implode in a second half with little sign of a response on the way to a 5-4 aggregate loss following extra time.There was no hiding place, and the Celtic manager was frank…
Serena Williams’ US Open return lasted two matches and one afternoon Tuesday as she and Carlos Alcaraz followed a first-round win with a quarter-final defeat by Belinda Bencic and Flavio Cobolli in the headline attraction of the reimagined mixed doubles competition.Back inside Arthur Ashe Stadium 1,453 days after the defeat by Ajla Tomljanovic that had appeared to end her career, Williams emerged from the tunnel at half past three to the roars of more than 10,000 spectators. As the 44-year-old American and Alcaraz warmed up in matching purple-and-black Nike kits, public-address announcer Andy Taylor rattled off her accolades one by…