Kathrin Zettel News

Nikolay Davydenko won the first big tournament of his career Sunday, running down just about every ball and using a consistent serve to beat U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro , 6-3, 6-4, to win the ATP World Tour Finals at London.

Czech Sarka Zahrobska retained her Aspen slalom crown on Sunday and took the second World Cup win of her career.

Reigning world champion Kathrin Hoelzl of Germany filled a hole in her resume Saturday, notching the first World Cup win of her career with a giant slalom triumph.

An icy slalom course that gave Lindsey Vonn and every other American so much trouble Sunday suited Sarka Zahrobska of the Czech Republic just fine.

Germany's Kathrin Hoelzl won the Aspen Winternational World Cup Giant Slalom at Aspen, Colorado; with Austrian Kathrin Zettel in second and Federica Brignone of Italyfinishing third in only her fourth World Cup Giant Slalom race.

Germany's Kathrin Hoelzl won a women's Alpine skiing World Cup giant slalom on Saturday, according to provisional results.

Eds: APNewsNow. 2nd run scheduled to start 3 p.m. EST. AP Photos ASPEN, Colo. Lindsey Vonn has failed to qualify for the second run of a World Cup giant slalom.

Maria Riesch of Germany won the opening women's World Cup slalom Saturday, edging Lindsey Vonn of the United States by 0.08 seconds.

Former slalom champion Marlies Schild will return to the World Cup circuit on Saturday, 13 months after breaking her left leg.

We're now less than 100 days away from the 2010 Winter Olympics , which begin in the Canadian city of Vancouver on 12 February.

By Thomas Hochwarter Star swimmer Mirna Jukic has been named Austrian Sportswoman of the Year in a ceremony in Vosendorf near Vienna last night .

That, pretty much, is the feeling of Canada's alpine ski team after a pair of World Cup season-opening giant slaloms in Solden, Austria, on the weekend.

Organizers in Europe plan to take skiing indoors next month, when Olympic slalom champion Benjamin Raich will face French rival Jean-Baptiste Grange and other challengers in a new European championship.

Lee stars in New South Wales title triumph HYDERABAD: New South Wales Blues stunned Trinidad & Tobago by 41 runs to win Friday night's Champions League Twenty20 final in Hyderabad.

Two-time World Cup overall champion Lindsey Vonn , kicked off the Olympic season in Austria Saturday matching her previous year's results in Soelden with a solid ninth place GS finish in the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup opener.

Tanja Poutiainen of Finland has won the opening race of the ski season, taking the giant slalom title on the Rettenbach glacier by just one one-hundreth of a second.

American Lindsey Vonn begins her quest for a third successive overall World Cup crown in Soelden on Saturday eager to quickly hit form with the Vancouver Olympics looming on the horizon.

This Saturday, October 24, marks the start of the 2010 Audi Alpine FIS Ski World Cup racing season as the women contest a Giant Slalom high above Solden, Austria on the Rettenbach Glacier where the men will also race a GS on Sunday.

In a Sept. 11 story about gender testing for Caster Semenya, The Associated Press incorrectly described the South African runners winning time in the 800-meter women's race at the world championships in Berlin on Aug.

It is a day to get dressed to the nines, listen to the Beatles, get married and to ponder whether this is the end of the world as we know it.