U.S. top seed Venus Williams advanced to the second round of the WTA tournament at Quebec City on Tuesday with a 7-5, 6-3 triumph over Canada's Francoise Abanda.

Former Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has left a Swiss hospital and will continue his treatment at home after a devastating ski accident in December, his family said Tuesday.

In a surprise announcement, a spokeswoman for the family of the retired German racing star said he was being moved from a top-notch hospital in the Swiss city of Lausanne to his home in nearby Gland.

Tennis fans emerged into Japan's early morning sunshine dejected but proud on Tuesday after Kei Nishikori's bid to become the first Asian man to win a grand slam singles title came to a shuddering halt in New York.

Nishikori's crushing 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 defeat by Croatian Marin Cilic in the U.S. Open final ended at breakfast time in Japan.

The Oscar Pistorius trial, which live television broadcasts have turned into a blend of international soap-opera and tragic TV reality show, will finally reach judgment day this week.

Viewers around the world will learn whether the star South African sprinter known as the "Blade Runner" is guilty or not guilty of murdering his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013.

He is schooled in ancient Cambodian martial arts, but Tok Sophon hopes to turn his pugilism skills into wealth and international glory in the modern cage-fighting arena -- a transition some fighters fear will wipe out their craft.

Heavy thuds fill the room as Sophon aims ferocious kicks into pads held by his coach, one of a growing number of Cambodians learning mixed martial arts (MMA) -- a combat sport where competitors use anything from kickboxing to wrestling to take down their opponent.

Marin Cilic hailed his maiden Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open as a "miracle", 12 months after the towering Croatian was forced to watch the tournament from home, seething over a controversial doping ban.

The 25-year-old Cilic eased past Japan's Kei Nishikori 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 in his first major final after 27 previous Grand Slam appearances and wasted no time in summoning up the appropriate adjective.

From the start of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, the United States and Spain have been on a collision course from two different sides of the bracket.

Slovenia get their chance to derail the American express in the quarter-finals while extra motivated France face off again with Spain.

A couple of months before Serena Williams capped her dominant run to a third consecutive U.S. Open championship and 18th major singles title Sunday night, she sat down with coach Patrick Mouratoglou to decipher why the season had been such a struggle by her standards.

At the time, Williams was coming off a third-round loss at Wimbledon, which followed a second-round loss at the French Open, which followed a fourth-round loss at the Australian Open — and, when Grand Slam success defines a legacy, that simply wouldn't do. The quest to match Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova at 18 was weighing on her.

Two months after winning the World Cup, Germany opened its 2016 European Championship campaign with a 2-1 victory over Scotland on Sunday, while Portugal and Greece both slumped to defeats in their qualifying matches.

Thomas Mueller scored both Germany's goals — a difficult backward header in the 18th minute and a close-range effort in the 70th — just four minutes after Ikechi Anya had grabbed a deserved equalizer for Scotland.

Dick Advocaat's first match in charge of Serbia ended with a 1-1 draw against Euro 2016 host France in a friendly on Sunday.

France took the lead in the 13th minute through Paul Pogba but had to settle for a draw after Manchester City defender Aleksandar Kolarov equalized in the 80th.