ALEX Walker came close to pulling off one of the shocks of this year’s Junior Wimbledon yesterday in her second round singles clash against the girls’ number 10 seed Camila Silva of Chile.
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THE domestic football season is now just a memory, but there is plenty of action for punters to get their teeth into today as 14 World Cup qualifiers are played out across Europe.
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A GOSFORTH student new to the nearly 300-year-old sport of real tennis faces the biggest challenge of his sporting career when he takes on world champion Rob Fahey in Jesmond Dene tonight.
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OLIVER Townend clinched a lifelong ambition this week by winning the Badminton Horse Trials riding homebred 12-year-old grey gelding Flint Curtis.
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NEWCASTLE Diamonds go into tonight’s match at Berwick Bandits without Richard Juul at the team manager’s control panel for the first time in 2009 following this week’s switch which sees George English back at the helm, writes LAWRENCE HEPPELL.
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WHITLEY Bay and Tynemouth Ladies can retain their place in the Women’s National Hockey League Conference North by avoiding defeat in Sevenoaks on Saturday.
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GLOUCESTER Lodge Farm’s Easter-staged South Essex Insurance Broker BHS Cross Country qualifiers paid off handsomely for double qualifier Jemma Henderson who took both the Novice and Pairs Championship, riding Tonto.
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NEWCASTLE-BASED British Eventing and British Dressage rider Katy Sillem notched up two BD Elementary 42 63.75% and 49 66.33% test wins at Todburn over the weekend on Country Tip Top.
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FOOTBALL fans can look forward to a terrific weekend of action as the fight to avoid relegation continues and three of the “Big Four” sides are in FA Cup semi-final action.
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NEWCASTLE and Glasgow fought a tight battle from the off at the Newcastle Stadium last night, but the Diamonds emerged with their first official win of the year.
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NEWCASTLE Diamonds had been warned prior to yesterday afternoon’s clash at the Glasgow Tigers that a vast improvement had to be seen – or they would suffer the consequences.
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NEWCASTLE Diamonds literally hit the skids from the off at Edinburgh Monarchs last night, taking only two heat wins all night in a generally sorry display.
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DURHAM University are the champions of the Women’s National Hockey League Conference North, guaranteeing them as one of two North East teams whose season will go into extra-time.
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