Sport: 24 hours in pictures

Atlético Madrid's Florent Sinama Pongolle, centre, jumps for a long ball with Panathinaikos' Kostas Katsouranis, right, and Gilberto Silva during their Champions League play-off Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

The ball flies past Atlético goalkeeper Sergio Asenjo and hits the roof of the net but Atletico went on to win the match 3-2 Photograph: Yiorgos Karahalis/Reuters

Haifa's fans have plenty to cheer about following their team's 2-1 victory away to Red Bull Salzburg in the Champions League play-off first leg Photograph: Kerstin Joensson/AP

Minnesota Twins' Denard Span, left, collides with Texas Rangers catcher Ivan Rodriguez, who is unable to hold on to the ball, while home plate umpire Ron Kulpa looks on. Span scored on an Orlando Cabrera single to right in the 5-4 Twins win Photograph: Tony Gutierrez/AP

Victoria Azarenka serves to Kim Clijsters during their Rogers Cup second-round match, but the ninth seed ended up losing to Clijsters 5-7, 6-4, 1-6 Photograph: Mark Blinch/Reuters

Serena Williams does the splits as she celebrates a point during her 6-3, 6-2 Rogers Cup victory over Yaroslava Shvedova Photograph: Mark Blinch/Reuters

Spanish matador Enrique Ponce gives a capote pass to his first El Ventorrillo fighting bull, during a corrida at the Vista Alegre bullring in Bilbao Photograph: Rafa Rivas/AFP/Getty Images

England players stretch during a warm-up in a training session ahead of the final Ashes Test at The Oval Photograph: Tom Jenkins

A lone Sri Lankan cricket fan shields himself from the rain as he waits for the start of the third day of the first Test between Sri Lanka and New Zealand. The Kiwis are currently on 156 for three and are chasing Sri Lanka's first-innings total of 452 Photograph: Eranga Jayawardena/AP

Sesenta, ridden by Gary Carrol, nudges out Changingoftheguard to win the totesport Ebor during the Ebor Festival at York Photograph: Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images