In our weekly feature on the ins and outs in women's sport, England right-back Lucy Bronze is in the running for top Uefa award while the new Netball Superleague will feature an additional Season Opener round of fixtures.
A week in the world of women's sport
Cricket
The Western Storm have, well, stormed to the top of the Kia Super League after making it six wins from six matches.
The table-toppers beat Lancashire Thunder by five wickets with one ball to spare.
Harmanpreet Kaur propped up the Thunder's innings as the hosts made 160 for eight with England quick Anya Shrubsole doing most of the damage with the ball as she took three for 36.
Smriti Mandhana then smashed a 43-ball 72 to lead the Storm home with five wickets to spare.
The win puts the Storm eight points clear of the second-placed Southern Vipers, who beat the Surrey Stars by 89 runs.
After the Vipers were asked to bat first, England batter Danni Wyatt took the Stars' attack apart as she hit an unbeaten 110 off just 60 balls with seven sixes and nine fours to push her side to 178 for five.
The Surrey-based squad were never really in it as they were dismissed for 89 in 16.4 overs with West Indies all-rounder Stefanie Taylor taking three for 11.
Loughborough Lightning are three points adrift of the Vipers in third place after they beat the Yorkshire Diamonds by six wickets.
After bowling the Diamonds out for 129, the Lightning chased down the target in 19.1 overs with South African Mignon du Preez, who hit 70 during her side's win over the Stars earlier in the week, again holding the fort with an unbeaten 38.
Football
The draw for the last 32 of the Uefa Women's Champions League has been done and Women's Super League champions Arsenal will take on Italian Serie A runners-up Fiorentina in the two-legged affair.
England's other representative, Manchester City, will face Swiss side Lugano.
Defending champions Lyon travel to Russian to take on Ryazan-VDV while last year's runners-up Barcelona and Juventus will line-up in a mouth-watering tie.
The first legs will take place on September 11-12 while the return fixtures will be September 25-26.
England right-back Lucy Bronze is in the running for Uefa's Player of the Year awards for the 2018-19 season. The Lyon defender has been shortlisted along with her club team-mates Ada Hegerberg and Amandine Henry.
Golf
The team that will represent Europe at the 2019 Solheim Cup is now official with captain Catriona Matthew naming Bronte Law, Jodi Ewart Shadoff, Celine Boutier and Suzann Pettersen as her captain's picks.
They will join Carlota Ciganda, Anne van Dam, Caroline Hedwall, Charley Hull, Georgia Hall, Azahara Munoz, Caroline Masson and Anna Nordqvist at Gleneagle in September.
"Bronte and Celine’s excellent recent form speaks for itself in terms of why I selected them, and I think they are both going to have fantastic Solheim Cup debuts," Matthew said.
"I chose Jodi and Suzann for their vast experience, their recent good form and because I know exactly what they bring to the European team room. With our only other rookie being Anne Van Dam, who has also had an excellent year, I feel the experience of our team will be a great advantage to us along with the home crowd support."
The United States Solheim Cup team will be announced on August 25.
Netball
The 2020 Netball Superleague campaign will feature an additional Season Opener that see the season increase to 19 games per team during the league phase.
The Season Opener will take place at the Arena Birmingham on Saturday 22 February 2020 and fixtures were determined by the teams' positions during the previous campaign with champions Manchester Thunder facing second-placed Wasps Netball and Team Bath taking on Loughborough Lightning.
The rest of the fixtures will see Saracens Mavericks up against Severn Stars, Celtic Dragons facing Surrey Storm and Strathclyde Sirens playing London Pulse.
"A re-run of last year’s Grand Final will be the highlight of the day but fans of all the clubs will be excited to see their favourites in action. The season itself should be our best yet, as the sport goes from strength-to-strength," Mark Evans, Independent Chair of the Vitality Netball Superleague, said.
Not everyone is happy though with Loughborough Lightning head coach Sara Bayman describing it as "senseless".
"It distorts the whole league," Bayman is quoted as saying by BBC Sport. "They [Superleague] want to make the league more competitive and get more tight games, but teams didn't want it pushed through.
"Squads change a lot over the close season and Lightning tend to start slowly. The top four was separated by one win last season, so this could have a big impact come the end of the 2020 season.
"It's senseless."
Rugby
World No 1 New Zealand Women locked horns with their Australia counterparts at Eden Park over the weekend and the hosts dished out another thrashing as they won 37-8.
After beating the Wallaroos 47-10 in Perth the previous week, there was no letting up from the Black Ferns as they ran in five tries with Ruahei Demant, Eloise Blackwell, Carla Hohepa, Charmaine McMenamin and Charmaine Smith crossing the tryline for the hosts.
Tennis
Madison Keys was the big winner in Cincinnati, Naomi Osaka got injured and Ashleigh Barty wasted an opportunity to return to the top of the world rankings.
American Keys beat Svetlana Kuznetsova from Russia 7-5, 7-6 (7-5) in the final to win her second WTA Tour title of the season and the fifth of her career.
"It's obviously the biggest title I have ever won, and, I mean, it was a tough draw from the very start. I played some really, really great players from Round 1 until today. I definitely think I played some of my best tennis consistently this week."
Keys will return to the world top 10 on the back of the title while Osaka keeps the No 1 ranking despite exiting in the quarter-finals.
Two-time Grand Slam winner Osaka looked set to lose top spot after she was forced to retire with a leg injury in the last eight, but Barty's faulire to reach the final means she hangs onto the No 1 ranking, but she is under an injury cloud ahead of the defence of her US Open title.
By Shahida Jacobs, editor of Tennis365.com
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