World Sport Briefs

Football
 Brazilian striker Ronaldo scored his first goal for Corinthians on Sunday having played for the first time in more than a year last week following a serious knee injury.
 The 32-year-old World Cup winner, and three-time FIFA World Player of the Year, came on after an hour in the 1-1 draw against Sao Paulo in a derby match.

Football
Brazilian striker Ronaldo scored his first goal for Corinthians on Sunday having played for the first time in more than a year last week following a serious knee injury.
The 32-year-old World Cup winner, and three-time FIFA World Player of the Year, came on after an hour in the 1-1 draw against Sao Paulo in a derby match.
Ronaldo headed home in the second minute of injury time for the equaliser to send the Corinthian supporters into frenzied celebrations.

Tennis
Novak Djokovic is just two places behind Rafael Nadal in the world rankings, but on Sunday it felt like a chasm.
World number three Djokovic slumped to a 6-4, 6-4, 6-1 defeat to Nadal as defending champions Spain romped into the Davis Cup quarter-finals with a 4-1 first round win over Serbia.Djokovic admitted he was in awe of the Spaniard who showed no ill-effects from the knee injury which had kept him off the circuit for a month before the Benidorm claycourt tie.

Golf
South Korea’s Yang Yong-eun held on to win the 5.6 million-dollar Honda Classic on Sunday to claim his first USPGA Tour triumph and book a place in the Masters.
Yang two-putted from 50 feet for par at the par-five 18th to seal the one-shot victory over American John Rollins.

Swimming
British swimming star Rebecca Adlington has urged officials to retain the 800 metres women’s freestyle for the 2012 London Olympics after reports that the race might be axed from the Games schedule.
Adlington, who won gold in both the 400m and 800m freestyle at last year’s Beijing Olympics is looking forward to doubling up again in front of her home fans in three years’ time.

Horseracing
Top chaser Kauto Star is poised to become the first horse in the race’s 85-year history to regain the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
Successful in 2007, he was beaten into second place behind stablemate Denman last year but is 15-8 favourite to recapture his crown on Friday, the final day of the Cheltenham Festival which starts today.
Denman, Kauto Star and Neptune Collonges were the first three home in the Gold Cup 12 months ago, all trained by Paul Nicholls, but while the second and third in that race have thrived, the winner remains under a cloud.

Tennis
Andy Roddick delivered the winning point in dominant style Sunday as the United States wrapped up a 4-1 Davis Cup victory over Switzerland in their World Group first-round tie. The victory sends the 32-time champion Americans into a quarter-final against 2005 champions Croatia in July – the weekend after Wimbledon – with the Europeans holding a 2-0 record in the series.
With the US taking a 2-1 lead into the final day of action, Roddick hammered out a 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 victory over Stanislas Wawrinka in Sunday’s first reverse singles match to secure the victory.
– Nampa-AFP, Reuters