The most complete agenda for top sport events around the world. October 6-12, 2020.

GLOBAL SPORTS AGENDA

Week Preview

This could be the most important week in basketball, as the WNBA Championship (Seattle Storm leads Las Vegas Aces 2-0) will conclude their best-of-five Finals, and the NBA could see their best-of-seven Final come to an end as well, unless they need to go to seven games. Los Ángeles Lakers leads the series over Miami Heat, 2-1.

Australian Horse Racing has an important week
with five Grade I’s, with Verry Elleegant (AUS) fresh from winning the Turnbull Stakes looking to take the Caulfield Cup, and Montefilia coming off taking the Flight Stakes looking to win the Champion Stakes Cup.

Spectacular Emmanuel “Vaquero” Navarrete (MEX) 
will have his first official Featherweight fight straight for the World Title against natural Featherweight Rubén Villa (MEX/USA).

Motorcycling sees the season finale for the Superbike family of World Championships. Jonathan Rea (NIR) or Scott Redding (ENG) will win the Superbike World Championship. The Australian Supercars Championship will have its season finale at the famed Bathurst 1000

Major League Baseball’s Divisional Series 
are taking place. Tampa Bay Rays face a tough opponent in the New York Yankees, who have DJ Le Mahieu (USA), first player in the modern era to be Champion bat in both the American and National Leagues, as well as Home Run Champion, Luke Voit (USA).

Mountain Bike will have its World Championship 
after two exciting World Cups in Czechia, which saw Henrique Avancini (BRA) take both the Short course and Olympic distance wins in Round 2, while Evie Richards (ENG) took both short track wins and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (FRA) took a win, two seconds and a third in four races.

Australia’s Women’s ODI Cricket
 team remains number 1 in the world and if they were to beat New Zealand on their Game 3, they would tie the record of most consecutive wins in history, Australia’s 21.Novak Djokovic (SRB) and Rafael Nadal (ESP) are still alive at Roland Garros but the top 3 seeded female players are out: Simona Halep (ROU) was defeated by Iga Świątek, #48 in the world. She faces Martina Trevisan (ITA) in Quarterfinals. The Italian comes from the Qualifying tournament and defeated #5 seeded, Kiki Bertens (NED). #2 Karolína Plíšková (CZE) was eliminated in the second round by Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) -who is also out- and #3 Elina Svitolina (UKR) was eliminated by Qualifier Nadia Podoroska (ARG). It is possible that two players come from the Qualifiers to face each other in semifinals.

American Football:
NFL Regular Season

Association Football:
FIFA International Match Days

Athletics:
Virtual Bank of America Chicago Marathon

Aussie Rules Football:
AFL Playoffs

Auto sport:
24H Series Europe (Pergusa, Italy)
BOSS GP (Mugello, Italy x2)
British Touring Car Championship (Croft, England)
European Le Mans Series (Monza, Italy)
FIA Formula 1 Eifel Grand Prix (Nürburgring, Germany)
FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies (Rallye du Maroc)
FIA World Rallycross Championship (Montalegre, Portugal)
FIA World Touring Car Cup (Slovakiaring, Slovakia x3)
Formula DRIFT Japan (Okayama, Japan)
GT World Challenge powered by AWS (Catalunya, Spain x3)
IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (Charlotte, USA)
Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (Zolder, Belgium x2)
NASCAR Cup (Charlotte, USA)
Supercars Championship Bathurst 1000 (Australia)
Turismo Carretera (San Nicolás, Argentina)
USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget Series (Wayne County Speedway, Tri-State Speedway, USA)
World of Outlaws Sprint Cars (Port Royal Speedway, USA x2)

Baseball
Major League Baseball Divisional Games
Nippon League Regular Season
KBO Regular Season

Basketball:
NBA Finals
WNBA Finals

Billiards:
World Snooker Tour English Open 

Boxing:
vacant World Boxing Organisation World Feather Title – Emanuel Navarrete (MEX) vs Rubén Villa (MEX/USA)
interim World Boxing Association World Light Heavy Title – Dominic Boesel (GER) vs Robin Krasniqi (GER)

Chess:
20th IPCA World Individual Chess Championship 2020

Cricket:
Womens’ ODI – Australia vs New Zealand 3

Darts:
PDC BoyleSports World Grand Prix

eSports:
Arena of Valor (Garena Challenger Series Summer 2020, RoV Pro League 2020 Winter, Arena of Glory Winter 2020)
Hearthstone Gold Team Championship Season
SMITE Pro League/2020 Season/Phase 2
Starcraft II Gold Series Team Championship 2020 Fall Season
Global StarCraft II League Season 3
Quake Pro League Season 2: Stage 1
World Cyber Games 2020 Connected Group Stage
League of Legends World Championship Group stage
Warcraft King of Battles: KB International Championship
Overwatch League Grand Final

Golf:
LPGA KPMG Women’s PGA Championship
PGA Tour Las Vegas

Horse Racing
Caulfield Guineas, Thousand Guineas, Toorak Handicap, Spring Champion Stakes, Caulfield Stakes, (Australia)
Clásico Mil Guineas Maria Luisa Solari Falabella, Clásico Dos Mil Guineas (Chile)
Darley Dewhurst Stakes, Bet365 Fillies’ Mile (England)
Raffles Cup (Singapore)
Karadeniz, Ankara Kalesi (Turkey)
Queen Elizabeth Challenge Cup Stakes, Champagne Stakes, Flower Bowl Stakes, Frizette Stakes (USA)

Motorcycling:
FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship (Rallye du Maroc)
FIM MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3 World Championship, MotoE World Cup (Circuit Bugatti, France)
FIM Motocross World Championship (intu Xanadú, Spain)
FIM Superbike, Supersport, Supersport 300 World Championship (Estoril, Portugal x2)
FIM Trial-E Cup (Tolmezzo, Italy)
FIM Trial World Championships (TrialGP / Trial2 / Trial125) (Tolmezzo, Italy)
Hixpania Hard Enduro (Spain)

Mountain Bike:
UCI Mountain Bike World Championship

Pigeon Racing:
Hoosier Classic Million Dollar Race

Polo:
WPT Tortugas Open

Road Cycling:
UCI World Tour Giro D’Italia

Simracing:
eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series
GPVWC
SRO E-Sport GT Series Asia
The Race IndyPRO Championship (x2)

Tennis:
Roland Garros

Wheelchair Tennis:
Roland Garros