Venus Williams won the last nine games in a dominant display as she crushed Israeli Shahar Peer 6-3, 6-0 to reach the final of the WTA Madrid Masters on Saturday, her fourth final from six events in 2010.

Pakistan coach Waqar Younis said he still “couldn’t believe it” after the defending champions lost a thrilling World Twenty20 semifinal to Australia in a game they’d all but won.

Sara McGlashan saw New Zealand into the final of the women’s World Twenty20 against arch-rivals Australia as her superb innings of 84 set up a 56-run over the West Indies here on Friday.

Australia captain Michael Clarke wasted little time in upping the pressure on England’s Kevin Pietersen ahead of the World Twenty20 final between cricket’s oldest rivals here on Sunday.

Didier Drogba’s second-half free-kick ensured Premier League champions Chelsea completed a domestic double for the first time in the club’s history by beating Portsmouth 1-0 in the FA Cup final on Saturday.

Mark Webber produced an astonishing flying lap in the closing seconds of Saturday’s hotly-contested qualifying session to maintain Red Bull’s supremacy in speed this season and take pole position for Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix.

A nine-year-old Dutch boy, the sole survivor of the Libyan plane crash, returned to the Netherlands on Saturday, three days after the disaster killed his parents, brother and 100 others, the Dutch tourism federation said.

England footballer David Beckham and Australian football chief Frank Lowy handed in their nations’ bids to host football’s World Cup in 2018 or 2022 to Fifa here on Friday.

Venus Williams reinforced her pending move back to the world number two ranking with a 6-3, 6-3 defeat of Samantha Stosur to reach the semifinals of the Madrid Masters on Friday.

Australia may have been the team to beat at the World Twenty20 but England captain Paul Collingwood is confident his side can stay with them should their old rivals reach the final.