Sam Kerr's play continued to reap rewards for Chelsea this weekend, during a week where the Tokyo 2020 Olympian made significant additions to her trophy cabinet.
Football
A double for Sam in Chelsea’s last game of the Women’s Super League (WSL) season has delivered the club their third consecutive WSL title. While Rebecca McConnell's white-hot start to the 2022 World Cup season is the talk of the mountain biking world.
Trailing 2-1 to Manchester United with the title up for grabs, Sam scored twice in the second half to propel Chelsea to be named best on ground in an eventual 4-2 victory.
The Matildas captain scored 20 goals this season, six more than anyone in the WSL, to earn the Golden Boot for a second time.
Only days prior Sam was bestowed the honour of being named the best player in England, taking home a prize from the English Football Writers’ Player of the Year awards night.
Elsewhere on the last day of the WSL season Steph Catley scored in Arsenal’s 2-0 win over West Ham.
Cycling
After Rebecca McConnell won a World Cup event for the first-time last month in Brazil, she's gone back-to-back in taking out the Albstadt World Cup in Germany.
The three-time Olympian did it through winning the rare double of the cross-country short circuit (XCC) on Friday and the cross-country Olympic (XCO) on Sunday.
Her sensational start to the 2022 World Cup season has earned a handy lead in the individual cross-country standings.
Athletics
Georgia Griffith’s return to the Tokyo Olympic Stadium was an exciting one, as she took out the 1500m at the Golden Grand Prix.
After an injury-effected run up to Tokyo 2020, Georgia showed what she can do with a solid preparation.
While Rose Davies over in California became the fourth fastest Australian over 10,000m, qualifying for the Commonwealth Games and World Athletics Championships.
Tennis
The depth of Australian representation in the men’s top 130 singles players is at historic levels, as not since 1999 has there been nine Aussie men ranked in the top 130 in this part of the season.
They include Alex de Minaur (no.22), James Duckworth (no.71), Nick Kyrgios (no.75), John Millman (no.85), Jordan Thompson (no.87), Thanasi Kokkinakis (no.92), Alexei Popyrin (no.105), Aleksandar Vukic (no.128) and Christopher O’Connell (no.129).
Alex most recently competed on clay at the Madrid Open, advancing to the round of 32 before getting knocked out by world no.13 Jannik Sinner (ITA).
Australia’s top ranked female Ajla Tomljanovic starts at the Italian Open against Camila Giorgi (ITA) on Tuesday 10 May.
Beach Volleyball
Tokyo 2020 silver medallists Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar gave Brazilians Barbara Seixas and Carol Salgado all they could handle, losing 2-1 in the semi-finals (21-17, 17-21, 11-15) to the eventual winners of the Doha World Beach Pro Tour event.
Badminton
Matches are underway at the World Team Women's Championships in Bangkok, Thailand.
Australia is taking on China, Chinese Taipei and Spain across Sunday 8 May, Monday 9 May and Tuesday 10 May at 10pm AEST each night.
