# Rams [Derby County] have scored 10 points in last 4 games. They are 7th in the points table and are just at the gate of promotion playoff bracket.

# Tractor Boys [Ipswich Town] couldn't play Pompey [Portsmouth] because their midweek game was postponed.

# Tractor Boys haven't won a road game this year.

# Katie Boulter has been good on service aspect of the game in Ostrava Open tennis tournament. She won 70 percent first serve points, 53 percent second serve points, and held 7 of 8 service games against Katie Volynets in the semifinal.

# Tamara Korpatsch hasn't dropped a set to reach the final.

# Boulter and Korpatsch will face each other for the first time.

# Emma Raducanu is going to play her first WTA tournament final in five seasons. She has been a Grand Slam champ in US Open. It is a cool comeback story for the young and talented British player.

# Sorana Cirstea is going to play her last tournament and also the last match in Cluj-Napoca. She has been a legend of Romanian tennis.

# Cirstea played super well against Ukrainian player Daria Snigur in the semifinal.

# Raducanu fought all the way against super in-form Ukrainian tennis player Oleksandra Olinykova.

# Saints [Southampton] are 14th in the points table of English Championship. They have a couple of wins and a draw in last three games.

# Saints obviously need to do more to join the playoff race.

# Hornets [Watford] held Hull City to a stalemate [0-0] in the midweek game.

# Hornets are eighth in the points table. They have changed their coach after failing to win last five games.

# Tasmania Jackjumpers hold the sixth and last playoff spot in Australian NBL. Illawara Hawks won against Adelaide 36ers [100-99] and will try to earn a winning double this weekend.

# Hawks are the defending champs.

# Hawks have not been good against Breakers in the recent H2H games. They have to try to change a trend today.

# Canaries [Norwich City] have 33 points and Riversiders [Blackburn Rovers] have 32 points. These teams are direct rivals in the salvation race of English Championship.

# Riversiders won against Blades [Sheffield Wednesday] in midweek game.

# Canaries had won three games in a row before they lost to Middlesbrough [0-1] last week.

# Red Devils [Manchester United] are locked in a neck-to-neck fight with Chelsea FC for the fourth and last Champions League spot in English Premier League points table.

# Red Devils have beaten Arsenal, Manchester City, and Fulham to reach the fourth place.

# Tottenham Hotspur have a shorthanded squad. They haven't won in last five games.

# Tottenham are at the 14th spot of points table.

# Dynamo Dresden have earned a short purple patch of form for them. They have scored seven points in last three games. As a team fighting to stay in Bundesliga II, it is imperative for them get positive results.

# Schalke are top placeholder but have lost two of last four games and are winless in this stretch. They have to improve their form.

# SC Paderborn are fourth in Bundesliga II points table. They have lost two of last three games and have to regain good run of form to reach the playoff bracket.

# FC Nuremberg have scored 7 points in last 4 Bundesliga II games.

# These teams have a rivalry with each other and the game should be an intense one.

# Second placeholder SV Elversberg are going to host seventh placeholder Hertha Berlin at Waldstadion Kaiserlinde in an interesting Bundesliga II game. Elversberg defeated Kaiserslautern [3-1] to bolster their playoff pursuit and Hertha were held to scored draw by SV Darmstadt.

# Elversberg have scored points in every home game this season.