Kosovo, Italy, Czech Republic, and Bosnia and Herzegovina have advanced to the World Cup playoff finals after securing victories in their respective semi-final matches. Thrilling encounters saw underdog triumphs and penalty shootout drama.
Portugal qualified for the 2026 World Cup on Sunday with a 9-1 hammering of Armenia that included hat-tricks from both Bruno Fernandes and Joao Neves.
Francisco Moura's second-half strike earned hosts Porto a 1-1 draw against 10-man AS Roma in the first leg of their Europa League knockout round play-off on Thursday.
United climbed to fourth in the standings on 15 points going into the last round of matches, in a strong position to reach the knockout phase along with Spurs who are sixth with 14 points.
A round-up of Saturday's action in the Nations League.
American wildcards of Carly Gullickson and Travis Parrott stunned defending champions Cara Black and Leander Paes 6-2, 6-4 to win the US Open's mixed doubles championship on Thursday. Yuki Bhambri though stormed into the boys' singles quarter-finals, beating local lad Jack Sock 6-4, 6-3 in the third round.
US-based Prakash Amritraj downed Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov 7-6(3), 6-1 to sail into the singles second round of the Israel Open, while Rohan Bopanna and his American partner Travis Parrott beat Nicolas Almagro (Spain) and Sebastian Prieto (Argentina) 6-4, 5-7, 10-8 to move into the doubles second round at the BMW Open in Munchen, Germany.
Leander Paes and Cara Black's hopes of retaining the US Open mixed doubles crown were dashed by Carly Gullickson and Travis Parrott on the Arthur Ashe court at Flushing Meadows on Friday. The unseeded US pair came up with their best showing over the past two weeks to upset the defending champions 6-2, 6-4 in the final and claim the title.
Sania Mirza's campaign in the US Open ended on Sunday, as she and her partner Daniel Nestor were knocked out in the second round of the mixed doubles event.
Leander Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy stormed into men's doubles quarter-finals after edging past Travic Parrott and Philip Polasek in straight sets at Wimbledon on Monday. The ninth seeded Indo-Czech duo beat the American-Slovakian team 7-6 (2), 7-6 (6), 6-4 in two hours and 14 minutes in the third round.
Rohan Bopanna and Eric Butorac claimed the doubles title in Los Angeles with a 7-6, 7-6 win over Travis Parrott and Dusan Vemic.
His goal completed a comeback after Cristiano Ronaldo put Juventus 2-1 in front.
Bhupathi and Woodbridge defeated Graydon Olivier and Travis Parrott to enter the pre-quarterfinals of the Nasdaq-100 Open.
The Indo-Croatian pair beat the third seeded American duo of Eric Butorac and Travis Parrott at the China Open.
The dou beat Korea's Hyung-Taik Lee and Yeu-Tzuoo Wang of Taiwan in straight sets.
But Leander Paes and Nenad Zimonjic failed to make it to the second round in the Nasdaq Open tennis tournament.
Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi entered the third round of the men's doubles at Wimbledon while Paes and partner David Rikl lost their second round match.
Manchester City to beat second-tier Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 and reach the FA Cup quarter-finals but Jose Mourinho's problems piled up as his Tottenham Hotspur side were bundled out in a penalty shootout by Norwich City.
Saudi Aramco had right from the beginning resisted the price tag Reliance had put for the 20 per cent stake in O2C business, which comprises the company's twin refineries at Jamnagar in Gujarat, petrochemical plants and 51 per cent in fuel retailing venture.
