Rain delays Wimbledon start
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The start of the 121st Wimbledon tennis championships was delayed on Monday because of rain.
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The first two matches in the ICC Champions Trophy failed to get underway as scheduled on Friday because of rain. Both the United States against New Zealand at The Oval and England
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A lightning storm has delayed the start of the Davis Cup World Group qualifying playoff between Austria and Great Britain in Portschach, Austria on clay.
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Believe it or not, Wimbledon organizers have been somewhat lucky so far. There's been plenty of rain through the tournament's first 1 1/2 weeks, including Thursday, but the four men's fourth-round matches that had to be completed to hold out any hope of holding the final on schedule did get done.
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England are clear favourites to beat Zimbabwe but rain delays the start at Edgbaston.
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Wimbledon this ain&#39;t. When it rains in SW19, herds of well-drilled young men rush forward with tarpaulins to protect the hallowed turf.
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Sport: Already-delayed schedule further disrupted following yet more inclement London weather.
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VALDERRAMA, Spain : Play was delayed for 80 minutes in the third round of the Volvo Masters here when a thunderstorm moved into the area.
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The weather put a damper on the 411,000-dollar ATP tournament here Tuesday, with top-seeded American James Blake among those who had their matches disrupted by rain.
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Wimbledon resumes this morning with the resumption of several matches that began yesterday. Second-seed Rafael Nadal wasn't able to finish his match with Robin Soderling as rain shut things down with the score 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (7), 4-6, 2-0 in favor of Nadal. Fourth seed Nicolas Djokovic, sixth seed Nikolay Davydenko and number-16 Lleyton Hewitt were leading their matches when play was stopped.
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Rivals Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic joined forces to blast Wimbledon officials over their handling of the rain delays which ensured they finally made it into the last 16 on Wednesday, four days later than scheduled.
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Rain has delayed the start of the fourth and final Test of the Border-Gavaskar series between India and Australia at Mumbai&#39;s Wankhede Stadium.
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Tim Henman resumes his rain-delayed match against Feliciano Lopez at Wimbledon on Thursday.
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Roger Federer&#039;s bid for a fourth successive Wimbledon title got off to a whirlwind start only to be stalled by the fickle London weather.
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Amelie Mauresmo and Rafael Nadal are in action at Wimbledon on Saturday, but rain delays the start of play.
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Roger Federer's progress to the French Open second round is halted by rain as the weather decimates the schedule again.
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Heavy rain forced officials to postpone Friday&#39;s opening singles of the Davis Cup World Group playoff between Austria and Britain.