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Surrey takes Women's T20 Blast as Grace Harris's 63 helps win title over Bears and sister Laura
Grace Harris has won a battle of the siblings, as her Surrey side beat the Warwickshire team of her sister, Laura, in the final of the Women's T20 Blast competition in England. The Australian pair both produced big-hitting knocks for their respective teams, but it was Grace's unbeaten 63 off 33 balls that helped Surrey become the inaugural women's champions, as they chased down a target of 154 in the 17th over. Grace Harris was the dominant performer in the final, with a brilliant innings that was 32 runs more than anyone else in the match. The Queenslander came out to bat in the seventh over, with her team behind the run-rate at 3-42. But the right-hander proceeded to flay the attack to all parts of the ground, changing the momentum of the game. She hit seven fours and two big sixes as none of the bowlers could slow her down. Do you have a story idea about women in sport? Email us abcsport5050@ Harris saw her team home with help from Sophia Dunkley (23 off 13) and Kira Chathli (16 off 9) — the latter scoring the winning runs with a clip off her legs for four. Earlier, the Warwickshire Bears had got off to a rough start, losing both openers with the first two overs. When Laura Harris came to the crease in the 11th over, the Bears had recovered to be 5-83 before immediately losing Amu Surenkumar to make it 6-83. But Harris produced a brilliant cameo of 25 off 11 balls, including three four and two sixes. She was caught off the bowling of Danielle Gregory at the start of the 15th over, by which time Warwickshire were 8-115. They finished the innings with 9-153 off their full 20 overs. "I was a bit nervous … you want her [Laura] to do well but you still want to win," Grace Harris told after the match. "I'm happy she got out when she did, I was a bit nervous — it could have been a 180 chase if she hung on there and she had a few damaging innings from that position earlier in the comp. "It's fantastic that we made sure we stayed with that run chase regardless of wickets lost [and] our bowlers did really well to set up that game."
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England's Euro 2025 win seals Sarina Wiegman's status as all-time great coach
England has done it again. Sarina Wiegman has done it again. The Lionesses celebrated yet more history by winning back-to-back European Championship titles, beating Spain, the team that denied them a World title in Sydney in 2023, on penalties in Basel. Their bespectacled Dutch master danced a jig of delight on the sidelines when Chloe Kelly smashed home the winning spot kick, a third-straight Euro crown instilling the same joy as the first. After all, the 55-year-old had delivered another master stroke, putting her among the greatest coaches in the sport's history. The bare facts are astonishing. Weigman has coached internationally in five major tournaments: Euro 2017 and the 2019 World Cup with her native Netherlands, then the 2022 and 2025 Euros and the 2023 World Cup with England. She has reached the final in all five of those tournaments. No coach, male or female, has ever achieved that. In winning Euro 2025, she has been victorious at the last three European Championships with two different countries — the only coach, male or female, to win the Euros with two different nations. "I thought two [Euros titles] was good but she's doing well with three," Leah Williamson told the BBC. Wiegman now has a win rate in major tournaments up over 90 per cent, with just three career losses. It's no wonder Football Association chief executive Mark Bullingham told the BBC this week that she is "not for sale at any price". "The most obvious difference [between the two sides] — Sarina," former England player Toni Duggan said on the BBC. "That woman and what she has done for English football is … to win three European Championships back-to-back, one with the Netherlands and two with England, is incredible. "She has this team fighting for each other, whether they play 1 minute, 90 minutes, it doesn't matter. This team just do it for each other and I love following them." Another former England star, Karen Bardsley, agreed. "It just goes to show that with self-belief and leadership, you can do anything when you have the right people around you and the right environment." Wiegman is clearly the right person. It's cheap and easy to say that this degree of constant success is as alien to English football fans as failure is to the Australian women's cricket team. But that makes it no less true. "I thought we deserved it more but in the end it is not about who deserves it," Spain captain Irene Paredes told TVE. "It is about having that bit of luck and England had that throughout the whole tournament. "We thought we could overcome that but we weren't able to." Luck? One woman's luck is another woman's inability to say it's done, an inability to give up that Wiegman has instilled in this squad from day dot. During the three knockout matches in this tournament, England only led for a fraction over 4 minutes in total. That encompasses games against Sweden, Italy and then Spain in the final — all of which went to extra time, the first time that has happened in a major women's football tournament. To put it another way, England were in front for just over 1 per cent of the 360 minutes of game time in those matches. Luck? Or belief? "I don't watch movies back so often but I will probably look [at this tournament] and see some things back," Wiegman told the BBC. "In the training sessions, everything around the team was very calm, just the games were chaotic. "That was hard work for everyone but afterwards it was all very calm. "This tournament, every single game has challenged us." Calmness in the face of challenges is what sets Wiegman apart. This could — perhaps even should — have been the tournament when things unravelled for England. Before the side left for Switzerland, veteran keeper Mary Earps and attacking midfielder Fran Kirby both immediately retired from international football. Defender Millie Bright — who captained England at the 2023 World Cup — then withdrew on mental health grounds. Three key players to England's success were gone in the blink of an eye. A defeat to France in the first game — just England's second defeat in a major tournament under Wiegman — underlined, perhaps, the issues. It didn't matter. Wiegman is always loath to change her starting XI, opting so often to keep the faith with her starting side. However, she responded to the abhorrent criticism of Jess Carter by taking her out of the spotlight, a decision Carter backed as the right one. "Sarina told me before training that she was going to play me [in the final] and I was like, 'Are you sure?'" Carter said. "That's how I felt after the job Esme [Morgan] did, but the faith that Sarina showed in me and how she believed I could go out there today meant a lot." That pattern continued with her replacements. At the 2022 Euros, Alessia Russo and Ella Toone were the designated super subs. In Switzerland, that role fell to Kelly and 19-year-old Michelle Agyemang. Every player has their stories, but Agyemang's may be the most extraordinary. Four years ago, the piano-playing Southend High schoolgirl was a ball girl at Wembley for Sarina Weigman's third game in charge and was yet to make a senior appearance for Arsenal. She went on to score two goals in this tournament, both of which helped rescue England from desperate situations in the knockout stages. Kelly's story, too, is remarkable. In the wilderness at Manchester City, resorting to public pleas to leave the club at the turn of the year, Kelly managed to orchestrate a loan switch to Arsenal and she has gone on to excel. "What she [Wiegman] has done for me individually … she gave me hope when I probably didn't have any," Kelly said. "She gave me the chance to represent my country again, and representing England is never a given. "What she has done for this country and the Netherlands too is incredible. What she has done for the women's game, she has taken it to a whole new level." Wiegman, bashful, played down her role. "Every player has their own story. Every story is incredible. Her [Kelly's] story is out in the open and I'm so happy for her," she said. "She loves those moments. That is her super strength, taking penalties but also doing that at the most important moment with the most consequence of being successful or not." Penalties may be Kelly's superpower. Instilling belief in her players is Wiegman's. Goalkeeper Hannah Hampton too, under enormous pressure to fill the boots of Earps, did so with three magical saves in the final shootout. "All I can really say is thank you to Sarina [Wiegman] for all the belief and faith that she's had in me," Hampton said. "She knew what I was capable of and she really put that in me to really go and showcase what I can do." Every decision that Wiegman has made, every choice, has been spot on. "She's just an amazing woman," Williamson said. "She stands by us on and off the pitch. But when she makes a decision, and it's a sign of a good coach, I never question it. "If she tells me to jump, I say how high? I think that's a sign of somebody well-respected." Wiegman is contracted to England until after the World Cup in 2027. The only thing missing from her trophy cabinet is a World Cup, perhaps the only thing standing between Wiegman and true sporting immortality. But even without that trinket, her legacy deserves to stand on its own two feet. "I hope it will push the women's game even more," Wiegman said. "The level [of the football] went up again, the intensity of the games went through the roof. "I hope that will boost the women's game everywhere and not only in England. I don't know what to expect now in England. I think it will just boost again."
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English golfer Lottie Woad wins Women's Scottish Open after turning pro at 21
Lottie Woad has started her professional golfing career in spectacular fashion, with a three-stroke victory at the Women's Scottish Open. The English star made her professional debut this week after securing her LPGA Tour card following a T3 finish at the Evian Championship, which was won by Australian Grace Kim. Woad also won the 2025 Women's Irish Open, but her amateur status meant she could not claim the prize money for either event, which adds up to $US603,100 ($917,714). The Women's Scottish Open win means she starts her pro career with a cheque for more than $450,000, and will ensure she is in the media spotlight at the year's final major title, the Women's Open at Royal Porthcawl, this week. She went into the final day at Dundonald Links with a two-shot lead, having been at the top of the leaderboard at the 36-hole and 54-hole marks. The 21-year-old started strong, with back-to-back birdies on the second and third holes, before nine pars on the trot, but Woad then rolled in birdies on 13 and 14. A third bogey of the week happened on 16 for the former world-number-one amateur, but she finished in style with a birdie on 18 to win with a score of 21 under par. Woad became the first player to win on their professional debut on the Ladies European Tour (LET) since Singapore's Shannon Tan at the 2024 Magical Kenya Ladies Open and the first on the LPGA Tour since Rose Zhang at the 2023 Americas Open. She also became the first English winner of the Women's Scottish Open since Trish Johnson back in 2014. The two-time LET winner continued: "It's great to win here. Links golf is really fun, I don't get to play it too often. It's my first time since the Women's Open last year, so I wasn't sure how it would go. Korea's Hyo Joo Kim finished in outright second place on 18 under par after a final round of 68 (4 under) at Dundonald Links. The 2025 Korea Championship winner began the day with a birdie on the first before rolling in three birdies in a row on the fifth, sixth, and seventh, and she dropped a shot on the eighth. However, back-to-back birdies on 10 and 11 put her level with England's Woad on 19 under par, and another birdie on 14 drew her level with the Englishwoman once again, but bogeys on 15 and 16 put an end to her title challenge. Spain's Julia Lopez Ramirez equalled the round of the week with a 65 (7 under) on the final day to finish in a tie for third place alongside Korea's Sei Young Kim on 14 under par. Lopez Ramirez had eight birdies and one bogey on her scorecard to secure one of the three spots for next week's Women's Open. World number one Nelly Korda finished in solo fifth place on 13 under, with Denmark's Nanna Koerstz Madsen in sixth on 11 under. South Africa's Paula Reto clinched the second Women's Open spot with her seventh-place finish after a final round of 71 (2 under) in Scotland. Australians Cassie Porter, Minjee Lee and Karis Davidson all finished with a four-round total of 5 under 283, to tie for 21st place. China's Mary Liu secured the third spot in the final major tournament of the year after rounds of 76-67-68-70 to finish in outright 15th place. Solheim Cup winner Gemma Dryburgh finished as leading Scot and was presented with the Jock MacVicar trophy at Dundonald Links. Next up for the LET is the Women's Open which will take place at Royal Porthcawl between July 31 and August 3. EBU/ABC
