Lin Wen Tang celebrates after winning the Hong Kong Open golf tournament. Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP
Chinese Taipei’s Lin Wen-tang bounced back from a final-hole blunder to edge a thrilling play-off and win the Hong Kong Open — his first victory on the European Tour. The Asian Tour regular missed a birdie putt from six feet on [...]

Drogba throws an object back at Burnley fans. Photograph: Scott Heavey/Action Images
The Metropolitan police and the Football Association are both to investigate last night’s incident at Stamford Bridge when the Chelsea striker Didier Drogba threw an object back at Burnley fans during their Carling Cup tie. Drogba gestured at the visiting supporters and threw what [...]

Andy Murray celebrates his quarter-final victory over Juan Martin Del Potro at Flushing Meadows. Photograph: Scott Heavey/Action Images
Andy Murray reached his first grand slam semi-final here at the US Open with a 7-6, 7-6, 4-6, 7-5 victory over Juan Martn del Potro that ultimately owed everything to the Scot’s superior tactical ability and technique, although [...]

Mikael Lundberg on his way to his second Russian Open victory. Photograph: Ian Walton/Getty Images
Mikael Lundberg became the Russian Open champion for the second time in four years as he held off the field with a final round of 68 in Moscow.
Although the challenge of Englishman Jamie Moul faltered in the final round Jose Manuel [...]

Will Ireland’s Padraig Harrington get to drink from the Claret Jug for another year. Photograph: Gerry Penny/EPA
3pm: Number of minutes spent doing this online commentary: 60. Number of emails received in that hour: 0. It’s almost as if people are watching it on television. How quaint.
2.55pm: English amateur Chris Wood (+9) sends a [...]

This morning’s leaders - KJ Choi and Greg Norman. Photographs: Gerry Penny & John Walton/EPA/PA
2.54pm: Staying with the leaders, Choi finds the bunker but sets himself up for par by brilliantly chipping close. Meanwhile, Norman thrashes out of the thick stuff and then smashes a ball to the right face of the green. He two [...]

Ducks: nice weather for them. Photograph: Theo Heimann/AFP/Getty Images
2.57pm: America’s Anthony Kim has birdied the third, so he’s the sole leader as it stands. Who he? He’s the man who’s won two of the last five tournaments he’s played, that’s who he is. He’s the man who’s fifth in the PGA money stakes this season, [...]

Expect plenty of the above this afternoon. Photograph: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters
Second set: Federer 0-1* Nadal The last player to win the French without dropping a set was Borg. Don’t bet against it happening again. That’s another love game for Nadal, who slides to his right to intercept a decent Federer approach at 40-0 and makes the [...]

Sharapova wasn’t at her best against Rodina. Photograph: Christophe Karamba/EPA
The abrupt and startling retirement of Belgium’s Justine Henin, aged just 25 and the French Open champion for the past three years, did not come as a major surprise to Maria Sharapova, who has taken over from Henin as the world’s No1 and is the top [...]

Ivanovic got over a nervous start to advance. Photograph: Phillipe Perusseau/EPA
Second seed Ana Ivanovic was forced to dig deep before reaching the second round of the French Open with a 6-2, 7-5 victory over Sweden’s Sofia Arvidsson.
Last year’s defeated finalist soon established her dominance in the opening set, but was made to pay for some [...]