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Leo Romalho with an aggregate of 118 points and six V-bulls won the latest round of the Guyana National Rifle Association Record Shoot held Sunday last at the Timehri Rifle Ranges, Yarrowkabra, Linden Soesdyke Highway.

One of Guyana’s leading table tennis clubs the Titans Table Tennis Club, is set to roll out its 2019 junior summer camp from Monday until July 26. 

The Business School (TBS) will have to wait a bit longer for their first win in the Sir Garfield Sobers Schools Cricket Tournament in Barbados after crashing to three successive losses.

LONDON (Reuters) – Serena Williams no longer wants to obsess about elusive Grand Slam “number 24” and Simona Halep is desperate to win Wimbledon more than to stop the American reaching that milestone but there will be no place for either to hide in today’s final.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Even for the two players vying for the title of GOAT (Greatest of All Time) it was perhaps greedy to expect them to produce a blockbuster to compare with their previous duel at Wimbledon.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic held off a spirited challenge from Spanish outsider Roberto Bautista Agut yesterday to triumph in four sets and advance to a mouthwatering Wimbledon final against Roger Federer.

The Oklahoma City Thunder traded guard Russell Westbrook to the Houston Rockets for guard Chris Paul and a pair of first-round draft picks, multiple media outlets reported Thursday.

CHALON SUR SAONE, France, (Reuters) – Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen put his nightmare of a Tour de France start behind him when he won the seventh stage in a bunch sprint after a pancake-flat 230 km ride from Belfort yesterday.

LIVERPOOL, England, CMC – World number three Jamaica hardly broke a sweat as they opened their Netball World Cup campaign with an authoritative 85-29 victory over Fiji here yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A vintage display by Roger Federer took him past Rafael Nadal into the Wimbledon final in an eagerly-anticipated first grasscourt duel between the great rivals for 11 years today.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – AB de Villiers said he did not expect to be included in South Africa’s squad for the Cricket World Cup after telling captain Faf du Plessis that he was available, as he clarified his role in a selection drama that blew up in England.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – England snuffed out Australia’s title defence and stormed into the Cricket World Cup final with a comprehensive eight-wicket victory over the five-times champions in the second semi-final yesterday.

The most eagerly anticipated zone in the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Championship will commence today, as the Georgetown Zone kicks-off at the National Cultural Center Tarmac with eight elimination matches.

Guyana’s fittest man, Dillon Mahadeo, will be feeling fresh and confident when he competes at the ‘Olympics’ of Crossfit later this month compliments of DeSinco under the Degree brand.

Following its rescheduling due to an inundated playing area on July 7th, the Hamilton Green Inter-Ward 9-a-side Championship is slated to conclude at the Den Amstel Community Centre ground on Sunday.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has officially selected their 20-member squad for the impending CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Championship qualifiers on local shores, with 15 overseas based players forming the core of the team.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has officially withdrawn from the CONCACAF Men’s Olympic Qualifiers, citing financial reasons, and the entity will now focus its resources on the impending Nations League in September.

LONDON (Reuters) – Mixed doubles with Andy Murray was fun but Serena Williams got back to the serious business as she powered into her 11th Wimbledon final by overwhelming unseeded Czech Barbora Strycova in a brutal 6-1 6-2 victory on Centre Court yesterday.

LONDON (Reuters) – It has been a long wait but the most captivating modern rivalry in men’s tennis returns to the scene of its most dramatic episode today when Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal meet for a place in the Wimbledon final.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Interim West Indies head coach Floyd Reifer believes the gap between first class and international cricket needs to be narrowed, if players are to be properly prepared for the demands of senior team cricket.