Elspeth Burnside

Lin Dan will take on Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen in today’s men’s singles final at the Total BWF World Championships at Glasgow’s Emirates Arena.

DUNCAN SCOTT and Craig McNally were both in record-breaking form on the final day of the Scottish Short Course Championships at the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh.

FOR a teenager just a year out of school, collecting two silver medals at an Olympic Games must surely be regarded as a giddy achievement.

Duncan Scott, the double Olympic relay medallist, was in impressive form on the opening day of the Scottish National Short Course Championships, claiming two titles at the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh.

ROSS Murdoch’s competitive swansong before the Olympic Games in Rio next month could hardly have gone better. The 22-year-old claimed a hat-trick of breaststroke titles yesterday at the Scottish Championships at the Tollcross Inter- national Swimming Centre in Glasgow.

IT was a drama-packed final day at the Solheim Cop at St Leon-Rot in Germany with a fired up USA team shrugging off a controversial moment to stage an unexpected victory.

Catriona Matthew ended yesterday’s play in style at the Solheim Cup. The Scot’s last blow was to hole a 12-foot birdie putt at the short 15th as Europe desperately clung on to a lead at St Leon-Rot in Germany.

Catriona Matthew’s Solheim Cup adventure continued at St Leon-Rot in Germany yesterday as she claimed a point and helped propel Europe towards a history making third victory in a row.

CATRIONA MATTHEW is the veteran of the Solheim Cup which starts at St Leon-Rot in Germany tomorrow. Making her eighth appearance – a record for a Scot – she has even been affectionately dubbed ‘Granny’ by Carin Koch, the team captain.

New Zealand’s Lydia Ko is rewriting golfing history. Yesterday in France, she became the youngest winner of a women’s major with an astonishing final round of 63 at the Evian Championship.