Reuters Sports Schedule at 0600 GMT on Wednesday, May 20
Reuters sports schedule at 0600 GMT on Wednesday: - - - - SOCCER Juve meet Lazio in Cup final as they bid for double ROME - Juventus hope to complete the second leg of a league, cup and Champions League treble when they face Lazio in the Coppa Italia final in Rome. (SOCCER-ITALY/COPPA, (PIX), expect by 2100 GMT/5 PM ET, 400 words) - - Premier League Arsenal v Sunderland (1845) Lots at stake as Arsenal host lowly Sunderland LONDON - Arsenal can seal third place and a spot in the Champions League group stage with a win over a struggling Sunderland side who need a point to guarantee their Premier League survival with one match remaining. (SOCCER-ENGLAND/ (PIX), expect by 2045 GMT/4:45 PM ET, 400 words) - - Asian Champions League, round of 16, first leg FC Seoul host Gamba Osaka, Guangzhou visit Seongnam SEOUL - South Korean sides FC Seoul and Seongnam play host to Japan's Gamba Osaka and Guangzhou Evergrande of China in the first legs of their AFC Champions League last 16 matchups. (SOCCER-ASIAN/CHAMPIONS-EAST expect by 1400 GMT/10 AM ET, by Peter Rutherford, 400 words) - - Libertadores Cup quarter-finals, first leg Copy on merit - - - - MOTOR RACING Monaco Formula One Grand Prix preview Hamilton out to deny team mate Rosberg a Monaco hat-trick MONACO - Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton hopes to be third time lucky on Sunday and deny Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg a hat-trick of Monaco wins. (MOTOR RACING-PRIX/PREVIEW, pix, by Alan Baldwin, expect by 1100 GMT/7 AM ET, 400 words) We will also move a drivers' form sheet and statistics for the sixth race of the season. - - - - RUGBY England's Lancaster names World Cup 'training squad' LONDON - England coach Stuart Lancaster names his rugby World Cup training squad, the last realistic chance for any "bolter" to stake a claim for a place in the tournament on home soil. (RUGBY UNION-WORLD/ENGLAND, expect by 11:30 GMT/7:30 AM ET, by Mitch Phillips, 400 words) - - - - GOLF European Tour: BMW PGA Championship (to 24) McIlroy discusses plans for tour's flagship event VIRGINIA WATER, England - World number one Rory McIlroy, European Ryder Cup team mates Justin Rose and Graeme McDowell and triple major winner Padraig Harrington hold news conferences on the eve of the European Tour's flagship event. (GOLF-EUROPEAN/, expect by 1200 GMT/8 AM ET, by Tony Jimenez, 400 words) - - PGA Tour: Crowne Plaza International (to 24) Spieth back in PGA Tour action at Colonial Masters champion and local favourite Jordan Spieth, the world number two, returns to PGA Tour action for this week's Crowne Plaza Invitational in Fort Worth, Texas after surprisingly missing the cut at the Players Championship earlier this month. We preview the prestigious event at Colonial Country Club which was won five times by golfing great and Fort Worth resident Ben Hogan. (GOLF-PGA/ (PREVIEW, PIX), expect by 2200 GMT/6 PM ET, 400 words) - - - - CYCLING Giro d'Italia, Stage 10 (to 31) Contador leads by three seconds heading into stage 11 Overall leader Spaniard Alberto Contador of Tinkoff-Saxo has a three second advantage over Astana's Italian rider Fabio Aru going into the 11th stage over 153km from Forli to Imola. (CYCLING-GIRO/, expect by 1600 GMT/12 PM ET, 300 words) - - - - TENNIS ATP: Nice Open, France (to 24) Geneva Open, Geneva (to 24) WTA: Strasbourg International, France (to 24) Copy on merit - - - - (Asia desk editor: Greg Stutchbury)
