Victories for Aliaksandra Sasnovich and Aryna Sabalenka sent Belarus through to their first Fed Cup final as they recorded a surprise 3-2 win over Switzerland in Minsk.

;In the World Group play-offs, France beat Spain 4-0 at the Halle André Vacheresse in Roanne, while Germany

Top seed Feng Tianwei of Singapore secured the women's singles title at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Korea Open as she overcame Japan's Kasumi Ishikawa in six games in Incheon.

expectant home crowd with a 11-9, 8-11, 12-10, 7-11, 12-10 victory.Shan Xiaona and Petrissa Solja of Germany

More than 150 athletes competed at the 20th edition of the Yury Potapov Memorial sambo tournament, which was hosted by Russky Island off the Russian city of Vladivostok.

A-category tournament.Other countries represented this year were Armenia, Belarus, Finland, France, Germany

Switzerland’s Martin Rios and Jenny Perret claimed two wins on the first day of the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship at the ATB Centre in Lethbridge, taking the outright lead in Group E.

D.Also beginning Group D with wins were hosts Canada, 10-4 against Turkey, Czech Republic, 7-5 against Germany

Jamaica’s Olympic 100 and 200 metres champion Elaine Thompson brought home the baton with ease to earn the 4x200m title at the third International Association of Athletics Federations World Relays at the Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau in an event record of 1min 29.04sec on a night when her compatriots in the men’s 4x100m, the world and Olympic champions, crashed out in the heats.

baton in the final leg and extended it by another second to finish well clear of the surprise package, Germany

fourth and fifth - will be joined in London by the top three in the B final - Trinidad and Tobago, Germany

Athletes from China claimed three of the four events on the opening day of the last International Swimming Federation (FINA) Diving World Series leg of the 2017 season in Canada.

they scored 477.84 overall in the men’s 10m synchronised event.Sascha Klein and Patrick Hausding of Germany

Ukraine suffered an opening day defeat at the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship Division I in front of a home crowd in Kyiv.

sides who finish last in the groups in the main World Championships, which are due to take place in Germany

In the German city of Stuttgart on Wednesday (April 26), a certain high-profile Russian tennis player will return to competitive action after serving a 15-month drugs ban.

“Now in Germany, next in Spain, but so far she hasn't been invited to play at Slams in Paris and London

Teams will be looking to qualify for next year’s International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championships when the Division I competition starts in Kyiv tomorrow.

sides who finish last in the groups in the main World Championships, which are due to take place in Germany

Vital qualification points for next year's Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang will be on offer during the upcoming World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, which begins at the ATB Centre in Lethbridge tomorrow.

and Wales feature in Group B.Group D is comprised of hosts Canada, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany

German motor oil firm Liqui Moly have been unveiled as an official sponsor for the 2017 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championships.

brand will feature at the event taking place between May 5 and 21 at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany

Sandy Brondello has been appointed head coach of the Australian women's basketball team as they seek an elusive first Olympic gold medal at Tokyo 2020. 

 Brondello was a member of the teams that won bronze medals in Germany in 1998 and China in 2002

An appeal from Ukrainian biathlete Olga Abramova against a one-year suspension imposed by the International Biathlon Union (IBU) for a failed drugs test has been partially upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

revealed she had failed for meldonium.She tested positive at an IBU World Cup event in Ruhpolding in Germany

New York.Those named were Julieta Boschiazzo of Argentina, Miha Trošt of Slovenia, Annika Saunus of Germany

Finland (FIN) France (FRA) Georgia (GEO) Germany