Tiger Woods Ties Jack Nicholas with 73 Titles
LU STOUT: Welcome back. It's almost become one of sport's golden rules never write off Tiger Woods. And the golfer's latest victory has come at a crucial time. Let's join Alex Thomas in London. He's got more -- Alex.</s>ALEX THOMAS, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Kristie, Tiger Woods hasn't been a major winner since 2008, but many joked he could -- he won the U.S. Open on one leg, lifting the title at Torrey Pines despite a severe knee injury. Now he has shown a timely return to form less than two weeks before the start of this year's U.S. Open. Let's got an incredible shot at the 16 highlighted the two stroke victory at the memorial tournament in Ohio. Heading towards water, Tiger chipped in with a full swing flop shot through thick rough before to his upper cut celebration as the crowd roared. Look at the replay, tournament host Jack Nicholas described this as the most unbelievably gutsy shot he'd ever seen. And it certainly evoked memories of Wood's chip-in at another 16th hole back at the 2006 Masters. Well, Woods carted his 7th and final birdie of the day at the 18th, closing out at 5 under par, a round of 67. A tournament finish against South Africa's Rory Sabbatini and Argentina's Andres Romero. You saw him speaking to Nicholas at the end. And Woods is now level with the Golden Bear on 73 career titles. Only slamming Sam Sneed has won more. It was Tiger's second tournament title for the season. After his victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. And the 14-time major winner is not a hot, hot contender for next week's U.S. Open. Now there's some blockbuster matches on day nine at the French Open tennis championships. Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray, Maria Sharapova and Li Na all were in action. Sharapova on court as we speak. And the women's singles is wide open after world number one Victoria Azarenka was dumped out of the tournament by Dominika Cibulkova, the 15th seed. Azarenka beaten 6-2, 7-6 admitting it was just a bad performance was how she described it. The men's world number one almost suffered the same fate, but Novak Djokovic recovered from two sets to love down before squeezing past the number 22 seed Andreas Seppi. Now Rio Ferdinand's agent has called the decision to leave the player out of England's football squad for Euro 2012 disgraceful. He was reacting to the news that a little known Liverpool player had been called up to replace Gary Cahill. Cahill will miss the tournament in Poland and Ukraine after breaking his jaw in the warm-up match against Belgium on Saturday. England boss Roy Hodgson picked Martin Kelly to replace the Chelsea defender. And Ferdinand's agent said "to treat a player that has captained and served his country 81 times in this manner is nothing short of disgraceful, a total lack of respect from Hodgson and the FA as far as I'm concerned." Well, Euro 2012 kicks off on Friday. And CNN's team is flying out there as I speak. We'll be previewing the tournament every day this week. Pedro Pinto has been speaking with UEFA president Michel Platini already. And this is what the Frenchman had to say about the vast distances some fans will need to travel to get to games in Poland and Ukraine.</s>MICHEL PLATINI, UEFA PRESIDENT: We are prepared to help the fans to reach Poland and Ukraine. We have many facilities. And we (inaudible) facilities that the fans have to come. They wanted the Poland and Ukraine have to make an effort for the fans. But we tell the fans that when we (inaudible) expensive to go, but then on (inaudible) we be Poland and Ukraine it will be a fantastic atmosphere.</s>THOMAS: And Platini and Pedro discuss much more. You can hear the whole of the interview on World Sport at 6:00 this evening Central European Time. Now it was supposed to be the star-studded team with too much Heat for the Celtics, but Miami have lost to Boston again in the NBA's Eastern Conference finals making the series 2-2. It was another all around team effort from the Celtics, although Rajon Rando had another double-double with 15 points and assists. Boston did throw away an 18 point lead at one stage as the Heat scorched back into contention. Chances of a remakrable comeback, though, was hit by LeBron James being fouled out of the game for the first time since 2008. So it came down to a buzzer-beating three attempt from Dwayne Wade. He missed. And Boston hung on for a 93-91 win. Miami fans surely hoping Chris Bosh will be back from injury some time soon. That's all the sport for now, Kristie. Back to you in Hong Kong.</s>LU STOUT: All right. Alex Thomas there. Thank you. Now in honor of her 60 years as British monarch 1,000 boats have sailed the River Thames. Now what's next for the queen? We have the latest on the diamond jubilee celebrations worldwide. Stay with us.