Croatia win third placeDavor Suker installed himself as the tournament's top marksman and led Croatia to third place in their first World Cup finals with a cool strike in a 2-1 win over the Netherlands. Suker's goal in the 36th minute proved to be the winners and hoisted his tally in France to six goals, one more than his nearest rivals and two more than Brazil's Ronaldo, who will play in today's final against hosts France.Paes in finalIndia's Leander Paes advanced to the first ATP singles final of his career on Saturday, defeating Italy's Laurence Tieleman 6-3, 6-4, at the Hall of Fame Championships. Paes will go for a $39,000 first prize at the $275,000 grass event on Sunday when he faces South Africa's Neville Godwin who upset top-seeded Australian Jason Stoltenberg 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (7/5) in the second semi-final.Passions riseFootball fever swept France today, hours ahead of the France-Brazil World Cup final. Thousands of French and Brazilian fans gathered along the champs Elysee waving a sea of flags, while hundreds more supporters joined forces at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. Cars blared their horns throughout the centre of the capital, French and Brazilian banners fluttering from the windows.Rained offThe first match of Sri Lanka's tour of England was abandoned without a ball being bowled today, because of rain. The Sri Lankans were due to play English county side Hampshire in a one-day match at Southampton but the game was called off shortly after an early lunch. The touring side's next fixture is a three-day game against Somerset at Taunton, starting on Tuesday. Kwatra makes cutIndia's Shivin Kwatra struck back to back 72's for an aggregate of 218 (74, 72, 72) and comfortably made the cut in the 31st Junior World Golf Championships at the Torrey Pines, San Diego.
