The week in sport – in pictures

Alizé Cornet plays a backhand during her doubles match with Monica Niculescu against Julia Görges and Flavia Pennetta in the 2012 ASB Classic in Auckland. Görges and Pennetta won the match 4-6, 7-5, 10-8 Photograph: Hannah Johnston/Getty Images

A biathlete shoots during heavy rain at a training session ahead of the Biathlon World Cup in Oberhof Photograph: Jens Meyer/AP

One of the 16 participants rides a five-metre high wave at the Punta Galea EVE Challenge in the Basque town of Getxo in northern Spain Photograph: RAFA RIVAS/AFP/Getty Images

Germany's Maximilian Mechler soars during the third stage of the Four Hills ski jumping tournament in Innsbruck Photograph: Matthias Schrader/AP

You get an idea of the steepness of the jump in the reflection in Anders Bardal's goggles. You can also see the Alps mountain "Nordkette" Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images

Andy Hamilton enters the arena ahead of the PDC World Darts Championship final at the Ally Pally; unfortunately he lost 7-3 to Adrian Lewis Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images

A look of complete concentration or complete fear on the face of a college football fan at the 2012 Fiesta Bowl between the Stanford Cardinals and the Oklahoma State Cowboys Photograph: Rick Scuteri/Reuters

There's no point shouting "Can we have our ball back, mister?" when you play water polo by the sea ... You have to take a dip in the ocean and get the ball yourself, as Australia's Rob Maitland found out when they took on the USA at Bondi Icebergs on Bondi Beach Photograph: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images

Ricky Ponting dives across the crease and brings up his century during day two of the second Test match between Australia and India Photograph: Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Lindsey Vonn clears a gate during the first run of the FIS alpine women's slalom competition on Sljeme mountain above Zagreb Photograph: Hrvoje Polan/AFP/Getty Images

Somewhere underneath that pile of Michigan Wolverines is kicker Brendan Gibbons, who slammed home a 37-yard game-winning field goal during overtime against the Virginia Tech Hokies to win the Allstate Sugar Bowl Photograph: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images

Alexandr Dolgopolov emerges from the shadows ready to play a backhand return to Igor Andreev during their second-round encounter at the Brisbane International. Dolgopolov won an enthralling three-setter 6-7, 7-6, 6-2 Photograph: Jason O'Brien/Action Images