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■formula one

Glock receives all-clear

Timo Glock was due to test for Toyota in Spain yesterday after being given the all-clear following his big crash in Sunday’s German Grand Prix, the Formula One team said. The 26-year-old German, who was to join the team in Jerez, spent Sunday night in hospital in Ludwigshafen for precautionary checks and returned home on Monday before further medical tests. “Those tests have confirmed Timo suffered no injuries or concussion,” Toyota said in a statement. “Therefore he has been given the all-clear to return to the cockpit on Thursday before he competes in the Hungarian Grand Prix.” Glock said he felt fine and the accident had looked worse on television than in real life. “It was a really hard impact and my back hurt immediately after I got out of the car but now it is fine,” he said.



■tennis

Youngster wired for sound

An eight-year-old girl was ejected from a junior tournament in Christchurch New Zealand when officials discovered she was wearing a radio earpiece to receive instructions from her father. Tournament referee Rob Wilkinson said officials became suspicious because the match involving Ukranian-born Anastasiya Korzh featured a “heightened number of questioned calls.” Officials found the earpiece hidden under the girl’s headband, linked by a cord to a receiver under her shirt, The Press newspaper reported yesterday. Korzh’s father said the earpiece was only being used to help the girl keep score in the under-10 tournament. She was playing in her first tournament.



■tennis

Teen pulls off upset

Croatian teenager Petra Martic upset former champion Klara Zakopalova 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (3) on Wednesday to reach the Slovenia Open quarter-finals in her second WTA Tour event. The victory by 17-year-old Martic, ranked 237th, was her first over a top-100 player. Zakopalova won the inaugural Portoroz title in 2005. Martic broke into the top 300 only on Monday, a day after winning a satellite event, the Zagreb Ladies Open. She then beat Angelique Kerber of Germany in the first round for her maiden win on the main tour. In other second-round matches, third-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark rolled past wild card Karolina Sprem of Croatia 6-1, 6-1, fourth-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain topped Julia Vakulenko of Ukraine 6-4, 6-4, and Vera Dushevina of Russia beat Katie O’Brien of Britain 6-3, 6-2.



■Soccer

Players accused of theft

Israeli team Bnei Sakhnin flew into Spain behind schedule yesterday, ahead of Saturday’s Intertoto Cup clash against Deportivo Coruna. The visitors should have arrived in Madrid late on Wednesday night but did not arrive until yesterday morning — because of accusations of shoplifting at Tel Aviv airport. According to the digital version of Marca, no less than seven of the club’s players were accused at the airport of stealing luxury perfumes, allegedly worth around 4,000 euros (US$6,301). The Israeli police were called in and statements taken from the accused players, all of which delayed the flight by several hours. The Israeli side lost the first leg 1-2, with youngsters Angel Lafita and Riki scoring for a Deportivo side that was animated by the return from injury of former Spain World Cup playmaker Juan Carlos Valeron. Deportivo, who finished ninth in La Liga last season, are keen to reach the UEFA Cup via Intertoto, after being absent from Europe for three years.


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