World Sports News - Wednesday 8 June 2022 by Chili Radio

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Football - Australia beat the United Arab Emirates 2-1 to set up a World Cup play-off with Peru next Monday for a place in Qatar 2022. In the Nations League matches played last night  Harry Kane's late penalty earned England a 1-1 draw in Germany as he became only the second man to score 50 goals for his country. Italy beat Hungary 2-1 to move to the top of their group. There were also wins for Finland, Bosnia, Luxembourg and Turkey who beat Lithuania 6-0.

 

Golf - Two-time major champion Dustin Johnson has resigned his membership of the PGA Tour in order to play in the Saudi-funded LIV Golf Invitational Series. The former world number one will play in all eight events which starts tomorrow at the Centurion Club near London UK and Tiger Woods has confirmed he will not play at next week's US Open, but still plans to compete at the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews Scotland next month.  Quoting on Twitter the 46 year old said that his  body needs more time to get stronger for major championship golf. The US Open begins on 16 June in Brookline, Massachusetts.

 

Tennis -  Alexander Zverev has had surgery on torn ligaments in his right ankle following his French Open semi-final retirement last week. He said all three of the lateral ligaments in his right ankle were damaged. The German world number three was taken off court in a wheelchair after a nasty fall in the match against Rafael Nadal.

 

 

 

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