Sports Update April

We have an excellent month of sport coming up in April and the quarter finals of the Champions League are high on the list of events. The first legs of the two-leg ties take place on the 8th and 9th of the month with the deciding matches a week later. Highlights include

Arsenal facing Real Madrid and Aston Villa taking on PSG, who now look a serious threat having dispatched Liverpool in the last 16.

The first golfing major of the season, The Masters, gets underway on Thursday the 10th and this great tournament is a must watch for golf fans the world over. World number one Scottie Scheffler has not quite found the form so far this season which made him the best golfer on the planet last year, and by some distance. Rory McIlroy however, has been in sparkling form so far this year with wins at Pebble Beach and the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass. His game looks in fine shape and hopefully the Masters hoodoo that he has been saddled with over the last few years will be broken. He will certainly be a popular winner amongst golf fans. Ludvig Aberg, Collin Morikawa and Will Zalatoris also have their games in fine shape and look likely to contest for the Green Jacket.

The F1 season is in full swing and there are three races taking place in April. The first heat takes place in Japan on the 6th, that’s followed by the Bahrain race on the 13th and finally the whole circus moves to Saudi Arabia on the 20th. Judging by the results of the first two races in Australia and China, the promise of one of the most exciting F1 seasons in years looks like coming to fruition.

The biggest horse race in the British season, the Grand National, is being run at Aintree on Saturday the 5th and millions of people across the country will be having their once-a-year bet or organising sweepstakes in work or at home.

Last but by no means least we have the World Snooker

Championship, taking place at its usual venue of the Crucible

Theatre in Sheffield from the 19th of the month right through until the 5th of May. Ronnie O’Sullivan, the record equaling 7-time winner, has been behaving strangely recently and has pulled out of most of the season’s tournaments so far. Let’s hope that he makes an appearance at this years championship because it will be a poorer tournament without him.

That’s about it for April. It looks like a great month of sport is in store.