Manny Pacquiao gets back in the ring after a 12-month absence to challenge WBA welterweight champion Lucas Martin Matthysse this weekend and can claim a 12th major world title. The 39-year-old should still have enough left to overcome a limited Argentinian opponent in Kuala Lumpur.
India beat England 2-1 in the Twenty20 format and look fair value at odds against to again come out on top in the upcoming ODI series. The top two teams in the ICC rankings will meet in Nottingham, London and Leeds over the next week, on what are expected to be batting-friendly pitches.
Fans of low scoring should be in for a treat this week as the PGA Tour moves on to Illinois for the John Deere Classic, which has seen an average winning score of 20 under par for the last six years. Bryson DeChambeau was 18 under par in winning his first PGA Tour title last year.
What is usually known as The Greenbrier Classic has been renamed A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier, but the quest to find a PGA Tour winner remains the same. The 2016 edition of the tournament was cancelled following devastating flooding throughout West Virginia with Xander Schauffele winning in 2017.
Ballyliffin may have staged a European Tour event before, but that will be of little help in picking the winner of the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open this week. Spain’s Jon Rahm has returned to defend the title he won at Portstewart last year, while former champion and world number eight Rory McIlroy is also in the field.
If you are heading to Wimbledon this summer you’ll have plenty of choices to make: there are plenty of courts available but you can only be in one at a time. To make your decisions easier we’ve analysed every match from the 2017 tournament – singles and doubles – to identify which Wimbledon courts are likely to provide what you’re looking for.
Tennis punters are always on the look-out for value bets, so we’re highlighting three Wimbledon 2018 dark horses fancied to fare better than their odds suggest. We’ve picked out lively longshots for the men’s and women’s singles events, as well as a rising star to follow in the early rounds.
Marc Marquez will be desperate to win the Dutch MotoGP race if only to stop the charge of fellow Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo. Marquez continues to head the standings on his Repsol Honda but the back-to-back wins of compatriot Lorenzo on the factory Ducati will have made him take notice.
Despite being played immediately after the US Open the Travelers Championship has attracted a strong field and offers up a traditional dilemma, Phil Casey writes. Five of the world’s top 10 – and number 11 Patrick Reed – have made the short trip to TPC River Highlands to find out, including US Open champion Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy and defending champion Jordan Spieth.
After last week’s major madness in the US Open, where Brooks Koepka gave us a highly profitable winner for the second year running, it’s back to business as usual in the BMW International Open, Phil Casey writes. Henrik Stenson was the winner here in 2016 just a few weeks before lifting the Claret Jug at Royal Troon and although the former Open champion has not made the trip after a tie for sixth at Shinnecock Hills, runner-up Tommy Fleetwood has.
We’ve picked out our rugby internationals betting tips as Europe’s finest again prepare to take on the southern hemisphere superpowers and are chasing an 11/2 handicap treble. Westpac Stadium in Wellington, AAMI Park in Melbourne and Toyota Stadium in Bloemfontein are the venues this week.
Jorge Lorenzo would love nothing more than to make it two MotoGP wins in a row in Barcelona. The Spaniard put 18 months of struggles at Ducati behind him to win the Italian GP at Mugello and then promptly announced he would be racing for Honda next season.
Rafael Nadal’s Roland Garros record makes him hard to oppose in our French Open 2018 betting tips when taking on Dominic Thiem in this year’s final. The Spaniard is going for title number 11 at this grand slam event and has incredibly lost just twice in 87 matches on his beloved Paris courts.
Another week, another gimmick on the European Tour, but given the soporific pace of play these days the Shot Clock Masters is a gimmick worth supporting. While a shot clock was in play on one hole during Golf Sixes, this week’s event at Diamond Country Club near Vienna is the first in professional golf to use one on every shot.