Sports round-up

Tennis: Roger Federer was a double winner at the ATP World Tour Awards to take his career tally to 22. The ever-popular 30-year-old was named fans’ favourite for the ninth successive season while he picked up the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award, voted for by his fellow players, for the seventh time in eight years.

Olympics: Canada’s Olympic Committee will begin paying coaches of Olympians who reach podiums starting with next year’s London Olympics. Coaches of Olympic medal winners will be paid $10,000 for gold, $7,500 for silver and $5,000 for bronze per sport discipline. That is half as much as the committee’s athlete excellence fund pays to medal-winning athletes.

Rugby League: New Zealand hooker Issac Luke has admitted he deliberately tried to break the leg of his cousin Rangi Chase, the England half-back, during the Four Nations Series. Luke was given a two-match ban for twisting the leg of Castleford’s New Zealand-born playmaker during the Kiwis’ 28-6 defeat by England. Luke made the stunning admission that it was Chase’s decision to switch allegiance that pushed him over the edge. “I just saw red,” he said.

London 2012: Sikh athletes and spectators will be able to wear ceremonial daggers around the London 2012 Olympic sites, organisers said. Security will be tight at all Games venues, however, Sikhs will be allowed to take in a sheathed kirpan (ceremonial sword) as long as it is worn beneath their clothing.

Badminton: Olympic champion Lin Dan crushed Chen Jin 21-12, 21-19 in an all-Chinese men’s singles final at the Hong Kong Open yesterday, drawing an emphatic line under a recent indifferent spell. Victory over 2010 world champion Chen in the $250,000 event was just the second Super Series title of the year for third-ranked “Super Dan”, the sport’s most decorated player.