Meeting the French players in the lift as he checked out of his hotel the morning after England's quarter-final defeat scarcely helped. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Schalke seldom looked like the side that had put seven goals past Internazionale over the two legs of their quarter-final and the defender Christoph Metzelder summed it up: Against Inter everything we tried worked. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Harry Redknapp lamented a dream occasion that turned sour, a night when "everything went wrong", in particular the sending-off of Peter Crouch in the 15th minute as Tottenham Hotspur crashed to a 4-0 defeat at Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-final first leg. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Serena Williams celebrates her quarter-final win over Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Wozniacki was forced to play her quarter-final against Petkovic in the unfamiliar surroundings of Court 13 because of the problems on the Louis Armstrong Stadium during Andy Roddick's match against David Ferrer, when water seeped up through the warped court surface. ❋ Unknown (2011)
His quarter-final opponent tomorrow afternoon will be Ding Junhui, who led Mark Williams 5-2 and rode out a late rally to prevail 6-4, making a fine 75 from 0-48 in the concluding frame. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Whether we'd have gone beyond the quarter-final or not, it certainly tainted the experience. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Relations are more neighbourly now, stadium:mk offering 22,000 seats, 7,000 more than the requirement for a Heineken Cup quarter-final. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Chelsea might point out that they were wronged in the Champions League quarter-final first leg at Stamford Bridge, when Ramires was denied a late penalty. ❋ Unknown (2011)
His service returns in the quarter-final were at times devastating. ❋ Simon Barnes (2011)
Scarlets fly-half Priestland injured his shoulder during the quarter-final victory over Ireland in Wellington last weekend, forcing him off three minutes from time. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Pat McCabe has recovered quickly from a shoulder injury and will start at inside centre in a Wallabies team that will be unchanged from the quarter-final, if Beale is fit. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Grant demanded "respect" for the manner in which his team had progressed in the Carling Cup – they inflicted Manchester United's only defeat of the season in the quarter-final by a 4-0 scoreline – and he also highlighted the many difficulties that he had encountered, chief among them injuries, which have exposed the thinness of his squad. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Beale is recovering from a left hamstring strain that has twice forced him off the field during the tournament, most recently in Australia's quarter-final victory over South Africa. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Twelve years have passed for Ulster and 11 for Northampton since they were Heineken Cup winners, but this is a quarter-final that should be approached respectfully. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The Bath coach Steve Meehan has given his criticised fly-half Butch James his full support ahead of Saturday's Heineken Cup quarter-final at Leicester ❋ Unknown (2011)
Looking back 11 months, in the light of Chelsea's quarter-final first-leg defeat to Manchester United in Europe on Wednesday night, the phrase "without changes" jars. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Leicester were playing Leinster yesterday in the European Cup quarter-final at the Aviva Stadium. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A loser of two finals here and three semis, all of them close, he also lost a 2008 quarter-final to Shaun Murphy from five up with six to play. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Johnson's contract expires on 31 December and, though he led England to a Six Nations victory in the spring, the World Cup campaign in New Zealand was a disaster on and off the pitch, the quarter-final defeat by France last Saturday following a series of embarrassing disciplinary incidents. ❋ Unknown (2011)
