Zambian striker Barbra Banda scored the only goal as Orlando beat the Washington Spirit 1-0 in the championship game. The Orlando Pride have claimed their first title of the National Women’s Soccer League Championship in the United States after beating the Washington Spirit 1-0, thanks to a goal from in-form Zambian striker Barbra Banda. Banda, who scored the second-most goals …
SAO PAULO — Brazilian soccer star Marta, the six-time women’s world player of the year, plans to retire from the national team after this year. The 38-year-old Marta has told CNN Brasil that she hopes to play in the Olympics in Paris but said that would be her last major tournament for the national team. “If I go to the …
Coco Gauff has reached the Australian Open semifinals for the first time, needing a gritty three-set win over unseeded Marta Kostyuk to advance to the last four. Prior to facing Kostyuk, reigning US Open champion Gauff had only registered four hours and 48 minutes in match time at Melbourne Park and had not dropped a set. The former world number …
MERIBEL, France — Two days after Federica Brignone won the gold medal in the combined to open the skiing world championships, Italian teammate Marta Bassino added another in the super-G by edging Mikaela Shiffrin. Bassino earned her second gold medal at the world championships after sharing victory with Austrian skier Katharina Liensberger in the parallel event at her home worlds …
American title favourites Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff had convincing third-round wins on Friday at the Australian Open. “I thought I just didn’t give away a lot of free points,” said Pegula, who will meet Barbora Krejcikova, the 2021 French Open champion, in the next round. Krejcikova was the first player to advance to the fourth round after a 6-2, …
Two-time Grand Slam winner Victoria Azarenka, who’s reached three finals at the US Open, eased into Round 3 at the Flushing Meadows on Thursday, with a straight sets victory over Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk. The 88-minute win was in stark contrast to Azarenka’s Round 1 victory against American teenager Ashlyn Krueger, played on Tuesday. In a second quarter of the women’s …