Arsenal to play City in Beijing on London opening day

  Arsenal and Manchester City will play a match in Beijing's 'Bird's Nest' Olympic Stadium on the day that London welcomes the world for this year's summer Games.

   The Premier League rivals said their first teams would play a one-off match for the inaugural 'China Cup' on July 27 with a local kick-off time of 2000 (1200 GMT), six-and-a-half hours before the London opening ceremony begins.

"It is...fitting that two English clubs are playing each other on the opening day of the London 2012 Olympics, in the stadium which hosted the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games," Arsenal's chief executive Ivan Gazidis said in a statement.

   It will be the second year in a row that the Gunners have travelled to China in the off-season, with Arsenal playing matches in Malaysia and China last year.

   League leaders City played in China in 2006, when they visited Shanghai under former boss Stuart Pearce with a team that included Chinese international defender Sun Jihai, but this will be the Abu Dhabi-owned club's first appearance in Beijing.

   The stadium, built for the 2008 Olympics, hosted the Italian Super Cup between AC Milan and city rivals Inter in front of more than 70,000 local fans last August.

   "We enjoy huge support in Asia and by playing a match in Beijing we will once again be bringing the club close to our loyal fans in China," Gazidis said.

   Wang Shuyan, president of promoters Beijing Winoly International Sports Culture Co, said the match was part of the company's strategic growth plan to bring top clubs and leagues to China.

   "Our focus is on elite, authentic football. Arsenal v Manchester City will undoubtedly be the highest quality EPL match ever in China," he said.

Bernabeu cheer as Roberto Carlos during the honor

  Real fans received a very welcoming former Brazilian star Roberto Carlos during the team honored in the heartland of the Royal Santiago Bernabeu.

  And Carlos received an honorary award from club president Florentino Perez Royal.

  The team left-back Carlos Angie Makhachkala Russian Currently, the honorary first strike in a match at home to Real Madrid and Levante in the twenty-third round of La Liga Spanish.

  The crowd applauded warmly for Carlos, which is one of the best to play at left-back in the world also took in repeating his name to three minutes.

  He played for Real Madrid Roberto Carlos (1996-2007) during which he was crowned La Liga title four times and the Spanish Super Cup three times and the Champions League three times and the European Super Cup once and the Intercontinental Cup twice.

  The Roberto Carlos has recently announced his intention to retire from football at the end of the season and full-time administrative work in his new club.

  The Brazilian defender, who played most of his career for Real Madrid in Spain and Inter Milan in Italy went to the Russian league in a surprise move coming from the Corinthians, and expressed his conviction to live in the city of Makhachkala, capital of the Russian republic of Dagestan.

German Kerber crowned the title of the Paris Tennis: The first title Bmserta .. It's incredible victory

  Langley Kerber surprised German rival French Marion Bartoli and won by 7-6, 5-7, 6-3 in the final of the Paris Open to win their first crown in tournaments on the WTA Tour on Sunday.

  Bartoli was seeded second in the championship and seventh in the world is looking to win the first title on home soil and seemed to win Kerber on Russian Maria Sharapova in the quarter paved the way for it to achieve this.

  But Kerber elevated their level again on hard courts for providing an Excellence shut up the masses of confidence in Paris.

  Kerber said to reporters "It's incredible victory. It's the first title in my career .. I do not know what to say. Was a difficult game and struggled at each point. It was a fantastic week."

  The German player wins ninth seed in the tournament and 27 globally in the twentieth edition of the tournament.

  Bartoli said, "the two parties make a huge effort. Would be difficult to recover physically and mentally."

Croatia defeated Japan 3-2 in Davis Cup

  Croatia beat Japan 3-2 in their meeting for the first round competitions World Group Davis Cup tennis teams for men on Sunday.

  In the reverse singles on Sunday, which Aqamta beat Croatian Ivo Karlovic on Soida Japanese atmosphere with three straight sets by 7-6, 6-1, 6-4 in order to overcome Japan's Nishikori to Croatian Ivan Dodij 7-5, 7-6, 6-3.

  It was yesterday, has seen the author of the winning duo Dodij and Karlovic on Tatsuma Ito and Yoshi Sugita 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in the doubles match.

  He had earlier won the Karlovic Nishikori 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 before defeating the Japanese Soida Dodij opponent 6-7, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-5 on Friday.