European Tour Golf, today, features the
finals of the DP World Tour Championship
final-round play from Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai. This season finale has a
purse of $8 million, plus bonuses for top Race To Dubai finishers. The competition is running right down to the
wire. Englishman Justin Rose is pleased,
as he sits atop the leaderboard going into today's finishing round, and he
currently stands at second worldwide. Rose is
at 15-under par and he heads a bunched leader-board by one from Spain's Jon Rahm
and South African Dylan Frittelli, but crucially, enjoys a two-shot advantage
over Englishman Tommy Fleetwood.
In
London, in International Tennis, Swiss Roger Federer has been shocked by Belgian
David Goffin in semi-finals of the ATP World Tour Finals. Goffin
came from a set down to defeat the world Number 2 and book a place in
Sunday's final in London. Federer, who had been aiming to win the event for a
seventh time, was quickly into his stride in front of a packed house at
London’s O2 Arena, winning the first set with ease and the chances of a
comeback from the Belgian appeared remote, but he began his domination in the
second set, with Federer unable to find the inspiration to come back. He had never beaten Federer in six previous
encounters and there was nothing about the opening exchanges that hinted that
it would be a case of lucky number seven.
The 26 year old will face Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in Sunday's
final. Although Dimitrov had lost his
first set against American Jack Sock, he came back for a win in the last two
sets and qualified for the final.
In Bundesliga Soccer Schalke 04 takes on Hamburg at home at the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen,
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This
weekend is Round 12 of the Bundesliga season.
Schalke 04 team is coming off from a 1-0 road win over Freiburg in last
round while HSV managed to secure their third victory of the season by beating
Stuttgart on home soil thus regaining the fans’ support that was shaken during
their recent eight-game winless streak. These
two have 13 German Championships between them, so they are generally top teams,
but Hamburg has been suffering rough
times. Schalke is currently midst a 6
game undefeated streak. They are
currently ranked at Number 4 with 20
points earned, same as the third-ranked Borussia Dortmund. Last week Hamburg was in a spot in the
standings which could later result in relegation, but instead, with last week's
win, they have left that spot. Although
Schalke are favorites, last season they lost one game to Hamburg and the other
result in a draw.
In the United States, various college
basketball classics are underway, and on Sunday night football, the Philadelphia
Eagles visit the Dallas Cowboys
