In our weekly feature on the ins and outs in women's sport, England will host New Zealand, Jamaica and South Africa early next year while Sheffield United provide a big shock in the Women's Continental League Cup opening weekend.
A week in the world of women's sport
Cricket The inaugural The Hundred tournament is taking shape as seven of the eight teams have confirmed their coaches after the Birmingham-based outfit announced Australian Ben Sawyer as their head coach.
Sawyer is currently the assistant coach of the Australian Women's team and also coached the Sydney Sixers to two Women's Big Bash League titles.
"Speaking to players around the world, The Hundred is a competition that they're all talking about and want to get involved in," he said.
"I'm very excited to be appointed as head coach of the Birmingham Women's team and I'm looking forward to assembling a team that can combine global superstars with a lot of the local talent here in the West Midlands that has performed so well in the recent county women's T20."
Only the Manchester-based squad are still to announce their head coach for the new tournament.
Birmingham: Ben Sawyer
Cardiff: Matthew Mott
Leeds: Danielle Hazell
London (Lord's): Lisa Keightley
London (The Oval): Lydia Greenway
Nottingham: Salliann Briggs
Southampton: Charlotte Edwards
The 100-ball The Hundred tournament will kick off in July 2020 and will run over a five-week period with 11 venues set to host women's standalone matches.
Golf Nelly Korda bounced back from her Solheim Cup heartache to capture the Lacoste Ladies Open de France, which is her maiden Ladies European Tour title.
Just a week after the United States suffered a dramatic defeat to the Europe at Gleneagles, Korda returned to winning ways at Golf du Medoc near Bordeaux as she secured an eight-shot victory.
The American carded a final round four-under 67 for a total of 15-under-par.
"I was consistent and hit a lot of fairways and greens, so I gave myself a lot of opportunities and my putting was quite good," she said.
"I played really well last week and unfortunately we didn’t get the win, but I’ve been playing really solidly. I played a KLPGA event a couple of weeks before Solheim and I finished second there, so I’m playing really solid and hopefully I can do it again."
Football The Women's Continental League Cup took centre stage in England over the weekend and Sheffield United provided the biggest upset as they stunned Liverpool with a 3-2 win.
The Championship outfit twice came from behind with Jade Pennock providing a 94th minute winner against the Reds.
Ashley Hodson gave the WSL side the lead, but Katie Wilkinson drew Sheffield level before Niamh Charles restored their lead only for Maddy Cusack get another equaliser for the Blades.
Pennock then completed the comeback with the winner in stoppage time.
Elsewhere, defending champions Manchester City started with a brutal 5-0 win over Leicester with Caroline Weir and Pauline Bremer getting a brace each.
Last season's runners-up Arsenal also hit five against the London City Lionesses with striker Beth Mead taking the match ball home after claiming a hat-trick.
Chelsea were 2-0 winners over West Ham, Everton went down 1-0 against Birmingham City while Reading beat Tottenham 4-0.
Away from the domestic scene and England will face Portugal and Brazil in two friendlies in early October.
Phil Neville's side will take on South American giants Brazil in Middlesbrough on October 5 and three days later they will play Portugal in Setubal.
The FA has also announced that 70,000 tickets have been sold for the friendly against Germany at Wembley on November 9 while 20,000 have been snapped up for the Brazil clash.
Netball England will stage the inaugural Netball Nations Cup in January 2020 with world champions New Zealand, Jamaica and South Africa the other sides who will take part in the tournament.
"Competition is higher than ever and teams are out to prove themselves," England head coach Jess Thirlby said.
"We [England] will be gaining a valuable opportunity to face some of the world's best teams.
"It is also the first time we'll be taking netball to three different cities in one series."
The tournament will run from January 19-26 with London, Birmingham and Nottingham hosting matches.
Tennis Osaka wins in Osaka has a really nice feel to it for a headline and luckily that is exactly how it panned out as two-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka won her first-ever title on home soil.
The 21-year-old saw off the challenge of Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, beating the Russian 6-2, 6-3 to win her second trophy of the 2019 season.
Osaka, whose only other previous title this year came at the Australian Open, finished runner-up in the previous two editions in Osaka.
"It is really special for me to win here (in Osaka). This is the city where I was born. I think that gave me a lot of power to play constantly match after match," the Japanese player said.
She added: "I just wanted to win this really bad.
"I think what I learned from this tournament is just to focus every point, and just to have really positive energy."
By Shahida Jacobs, editor of Tennis365.com
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