Brit Simon Bedford has taken snooker fans by surprise by winning the second Vienna Snooker Open. The English underdog beat top seed Jamie Jones from Wales 5:2 to take the EUR 10,000 first prize. Northern Ireland’s Gerard Green came third while the four Austrians in the tournament, Sebastian Hainzl, Bernhard Müllner, Hans Nirnberger and Zi […]
Austrians are in football fever despite not qualifying for the Euro 2012 tournament in Poland and Ukraine, a new study has shown. The research by a Linz market research institute shows that 47 per cent of Austrians are interested in the football – that figure is only 10 per cent less than in 2008 when […]
Marcel Koller has taken a stand on his predecessor’s policies. The coach of the Austrian football national team said about Dietmar Constantini’s decision to nominate 47 players in 23 matches: “Constantini had to create change in the team. You have to search and try out things if it is your intention to give young players […]
A number of Austria’s emerging golfing stars will be heading for Scotland next month to challenge for honours in Europe’s premier junior tournament. Clemens Bauer-Mitterlehner (12) from Vienna will be one of those joining hundreds of young golfers from around the globe at the U.S. Kids Golf European Championship. The tournament, now in its fifth […]
An Austrian man was left in a serious condition after a Bavarian curling game got out of hand during a tournament in Liebenfels, Austria. Police are investigating allegations that the curler aged 43 who was not named for legal reasons had been heckling his rivals when he was reportedly pushed by an opposing player – […]
Patricia Mayr-Achleitner dropped out of the WTA Tour tournament of Copenhagen, Denmark, in the round of the best 16. The 25-year-old Tyrolean lost against France’s Alize Cornet in three sets (2-6, 6-2, 5-7). Mayr-Achleitner reached the 220,000-US-dollar (167,400-Euro) tournament’s round of the best 16 by defeating Swedish ace Sofia Arvidsson (7-5, 5-7, 6-1).
Serbia have won the EuroVolley 2011. The volleyball national team are European champions for a second time after their triumph in 2001. Serbia beat Italy 3-1 in yesterday’s (Sun) final of the tournament in Vienna’s Stadthalle. Igor Kolakovic the manager of the Serbian national team, said: “No one believed in us, not even our own […]
Robin Haase celebrated his first Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tour title at the weekend. It took the 24-year-old Dutchman exactly two hours to beat Spaniard Albert Montanes in three sets (6-4, 4-6, 6-1) in the final of the 450,000-US dollar tournament in Kitzbühel, Tyrol, on Saturday. Haase defeated Brazilian Joao Souza in the semi […]
Tamira Paszek’s first Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) tour semi final in 10 months turned out to be a three-hour thriller at the weekend. The Austrian tennis star lost against Shahar Peer who headed the field of the 220,000-US dollar hard court event in Washington, DC, United States. The Israeli won in three sets (6-3, 6-7 […]
The winning streak of Austria tennis sensation Tamira Paszek has come to an end. The 20-year-old from Vorarlberg lost against Belarusian ace Victoria Azarenka in straight sets (3-6, 1-6) in the quarter final of the ATP Grand Slam event at Wimbledon, London, Great Britain, yesterday evening (Tues). Paszek stood no chance against Azarenka, 21, in […]