Adversity brings out the best in terrific trio

For Serena Williams, it was a bad right elbow that led to some shaky serving and a dropped set.

Schiavone finally gets to the mountaintop

In a matchup of past French Open champions with similar, grind-it-out-at-the-baseline games, Francesca Schiavone knew she and Svetlana Kuznetsova would wind up playing for hours and hours.

Coric reminds me of me, says Djokovic

World No 1 Novak Djokovic gave teenage French Open trailblazer Boran Coric a ringing endorsement on Thursday by declaring: "He reminds me of me".

What they're saying

"You fight, you fight, and then you are reaching the mountain, but you go back and you are again down. Then you fight, you go up. It's tough. You are there and go (down) again. So you think about how are you going to get there ... you keep going for one meter more. You need just one meter more."

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Nadal and the probe

Cup votes led to crisis - Blatter

The worst corruption crisis in soccer history stems from the governing body's decision to award Russia and Qatar the next two World Cup tournaments, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Friday.

FIFA arrests spur Brazil to probe soccer corruption

Brazilian police began investigating allegations of corruption in its soccer industry on Thursday, prompted by the arrests of top officials at world soccer body FIFA in a US bribery probe.

Warner leaves prison in an ambulance

Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner left a Trinidad jail by ambulance on Thursday, a day after he was charged in a US corruption case that has led to the arrests of more than a dozen international soccer officials and businessmen.

A lesson to learn for China

FIFA official have been arrested for alleged corruption in the latest scandal to rock the soccer world. Could there be a lesson in this for China as it embarks along a long road of soccer reforms?

Wenger chasing record and much-needed silverware at Wembley

Arsene Wenger would love to silence his critics by making history when holder Arsenal takes on Tim Sherwood's Aston Villa in the FA Cup final on Saturday.

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Fossils are new clue in the human story

Jaw and teeth fossils found on the silty clay surface of Ethiopia's Afar region represent a previously unknown member of humankind's family tree that lived 3.3 to 3.5 million years ago alongside the famous human ancestor "Lucy", scientists say.