Sports Wrap (Other Sports)

Cricket:

Australia is on course for a one day clean sweep in its 7 match series against England after winning game 5. England set Australia 300 from their 50 overs. It was one of England's highest scores against Australia in the one day arena, but with Ponting in imperious form (126 off 109 balls) and Clarke maintaining his consistent summer form (52 runs) Australia's one day train was hard to stop.

Australia's cause was helped by by some very poor English fielding, and some solid hitting from Ponting. The 6th one day match will begin tomorrow night at Trent Bridge.

Tennis:

In case you missed it, Roger Federer missed the chance of winning his 6th straight US Open title when he was defeated by young Argentinean Juan Martin Del Potro in five sets.

The match was unusual in that it was a rare occasion to see Federer lose his temper when swearing at the chair umpire. At another stage throughout the match both players did not know what decision the chair umpire had made and stood looking at each other with their arms up in bewilderment.

It clearly shows that when Federer is rattled, and that is a very rare occasion, the opposition has a chance. Del Potro took his chance and hopefully he can continue his good form into the Australian Open in January 2010.

In the women's final, you would have had to have been out of media range to have missed the coverage relating to Serena Williams' profanity ridden abuse at a lines-woman after she had been foot faulted in the final against Kim Clijsters. The result of that abuse was that Clijsters won the final and completed a remarkable come back after leaving the WTA Tour to have her first child 18 months ago.