LONDON - RENAULT'S double Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso has had to delay his return from holidays in Kenya after being involved in a minor plane incident, the team said on Monday.
PERTH - FORMER world number one Lleyton Hewitt made a winning return from hip surgery on Monday but couldn't prevent Australia's narrow 2-1 defeat to Germany in the Hopman Cup mixed teams event.
HONG KONG - WIMBLEDON semi-finalist Zheng Jie said on Monday China could boast the top women's player in just five years' time as the game takes off in the world's most populous nation.
SOFIA (Bulgaria) - BULGARIA'S former world ice-dancing champion Maxim Staviski was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison on Monday for a deadly drink-driving accident in 2007.
