1 Jun 2010

8am sports heads

5:54 pm on 1 June 2010

The Australian tennis player Samantha Stosur has ended Justine Henin's bid for a 5th French Open tennis title, overcoming nerves to beat the popular Belgian and qualify for the quarter-finals.

Stosur, a semi-finalist last year, will next meet top seed Serena Williams.

The men's quarter-final has been completed with Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic joined in the last eight by the 29 year old Austrian Jurgen Melzer and another Spaniard Nicolas Almagro.

The Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic have slipped to third in the trans-Tasman netball standings after a 55-54 loss to the Queensland Firebirds in Rotorua.

The West Coast Fever overpowered the bottom placed Central Pulse 63-45 in Perth.