
Agassi to return next week
WASHINGTON: Former World number one Andre Agassi is set to return, in the Washington ATP Tournament next week, after a two-month absence with a wrist injury.8220;Andre feels great and is ready for action.8221; said Phil Agassi, Andre8217;s brother and manager.
27-year-old Agassi, who has fallen to number 30 in the latest World Rankings and has missed all the three Grand Slams so far this season, including Wimbledon.8220;Andre could have played at Wimbledon but he didn8217;t want to take a risk.quot;, Phil said.
Juninho beaten in street brawl
LONDON: Brazilian Football star Juninho was beaten up in a street brawl over a girl, it was reported . The diminutive star, who is quitting Middlesborough to play for Spanish club Atletico Madrid for 20 million dollars, was left with a cut below his right eye.
The incident took place early on Monday outside the player8217;s home at Ingleby Barwick, in Northeast England, said the Sun. Juninho, 24, was punched several times in the attack, as was his father, when he tried to help himIt sounded like Juninho had been seeing one of their girlfriends,8217; the paper said.A police spokesman confirmed the report but said,there would be no further inveatigations.