24 January 2007 (Wednesday)
- Tennis – 2007 Australian Open:
- Men's singles – quarter finals:
- Fernando González def Rafael Nadal 6–2 6–4 6–3
- Tommy Haas def Nikolay Davydenko 6–3 2–6 1–6 6–1 7–5
- Women's singles – quarter finals:
- Maria Sharapova def Anna Chakvetadze 7–6(5) 7–5
- Kim Clijsters def Martina Hingis 3–6 6–4 6–3
- Men's singles – quarter finals:
- Cricket:
- West Indies in India, second ODI in Cuttack:
- India 189 (48.2 overs; Dinesh Karthik 63) beat West Indies 169 (48.2 overs; Shivnarine Chanderpaul 67) by 20 runs. India lead the 4-match series 2:0.
- ICC Tri-series in Mombasa, Kenya:
- Canada 213/9 (50 overs; Abdool Samad 50) beat Kenya 144 (35.1 overs; Ravi Shah 48) by 69 runs.
- West Indies in India, second ODI in Cuttack:
- Football (soccer):
- 2007 ASEAN Football Championship, semifinal, first leg:
- Vietnam 0 Thailand 2.
- 2007 Gulf Cup of Nations in United Arab Emirates:
- Bahrain 2 Qatar 1.
- Saudi Arabia 1 Iraq 0. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain qualify to the semifinals.
- 2007 ASEAN Football Championship, semifinal, first leg:
- Team handball – Men's World Championship in Germany:
- Group M I:
- Germany 35 Slovenia 29.
- Iceland 36 Tunisia 30.
- France 31 Poland 22.
- Group M II:
- Hungary 28 Czech Republic 25.
- Spain 33 Russia 29.
- Croatia 28 Denmark 26.
- Presidents Cup:
- Ukraine 33 Kuwait 23.
- Norway 27 Egypt 18.
- Greenland 34 Australia 25.
- Angola 33 Qatar 27.
- Group M I:
- Basketball:
- Euroleague
- Benetton Treviso punches its ticket to the Top 16 phase, thrashing Pau-Orthez 87–66 at home. (Euroleague)
- Men's US college basketball
- (1) Florida 70, Mississippi State 67
- (2) Wisconsin 71, Michigan 58
- (4) North Carolina 88, Wake Forest 60
- (5) Ohio State 59, Northwestern 50
- Texas Tech 70, (6) Texas A&M 68
- (8) Kansas 82, Baylor 56
- (9) Pittsburgh 67, Cincinnati 51
- Vanderbilt 64, (21) LSU 53
- Euroleague
- Ice hockey:
- The Western Conference beat the Eastern Conference 12–9 in the 2007 NHL All-Star Game in Dallas, Texas.
- Figure skating – European Championships in Warsaw, Poland:
- Aljona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy win the gold medal in the pairs event, breaking the sequence of 11 straight wins for Russia. Maria Petrova and Alexei Tikhonov win the silver medal, their 6th medal in a row, and Dorota Siudek and Mariusz Siudek delight the home crowd with their bronze.
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