Swimming Australia revealed Wednesday that it had lost a major sponsor just days after its president quit over inappropriate remarks to a female team consultant.

Energy Australia confirmed to Agence France Presse that it had pulled out of its five-year sponsorship deal, but refused to comment on the reasons for its decision.

France winger Franck Ribery told German daily Bild on Wednesday that he has "never been happier" at current club Bayern Munich but says he is no rush to pen a two-year contract extension that has already been agreed.

"We have already discussed everything, and when I say yes I mean yes!" Ribery said on being asked when he would sign the new deal, which would tie him to the Bundesliga champions until 2017.

South Korea needed an equalizer in the seventh minute of injury time to earn a 1-1 draw with 10-man Lebanon in a 2014 World Cup qualifier on Tuesday.

Hassan Maatouk put the hosts ahead in the 12th minute after some poor defending allowed the forward to collect the ball before firing low and hard past goalkeeper Jung Sung-ryong.

Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has been named chief coach of Chinese Super League side Guangzhou R&F, the club said Tuesday.

Eriksson, who stepped down as technical director of United Arab Emirates side Al Nasr on Sunday, joins Guangzhou on an 18-month deal, a club official said, without giving details of the Swede's salary.

South Africa's Paralympic hero Oscar Pistorius arrived at court for the first time since being freed on bail in February over the Valentine's Day killing of his model girlfriend.

Sporting a grey suit and blue shirt and tie, and looking tense, the sprinter known as the "Blade Runner" walked through the main front entrance and headed straight to a courtroom packed with media and his family.

Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta believes that the club's new-signing Neymar and World Player of the Year Lionel Messi will bring the best out of one another next season.

Neymar will be presented to the media for the first time on Monday since agreeing his move to the Catalans last month and Iniesta doesn't think there is any need to worry that a partnership between the 21-year-old and Messi will not work.

Asian champions Japan face hot regional rivals Australia on Tuesday needing just a point to become the first country to qualify for next year's World Cup alongside hosts Brazil.

In a rematch of the 2011 Asian Cup final won by Japan, the Blue Samurai are strongly tipped to book their ticket after totting up 13 points in six games to sit six clear in Group B.

Seven-time champion Rafael Nadal looks to celebrate his 27th birthday on Monday by reaching the French Open quarter-finals, while world number one Novak Djokovic faces up to a ghost of the past.

Nadal, bidding to be the first man to win the same Grand Slam title eight times, plays Kei Nishikori who is trying to become just the second Japanese man to reach the last eight after Jiro Satoh, who made the quarter-finals in 1931 and 1933.

Departing Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho has thanked the club's fans for their support during his three years in charge of the Spanish giants.

Mourinho, who will leave Real at the end of the season, will oversee his final match later on Saturday when Madrid host Osasuna at the Santiago Bernabeu.

Rafael Nadal hopes to use his anger over French Open scheduling to fire him into the last 16 on Saturday while world number one Novak Djokovic takes on Grigor Dimitrov in a mouth-watering clash.

Defending champion Nadal, bidding to become the first man to win the same Grand Slam title eight times, faces colorful Italian 27th seed Fabio Fognini who he beat in straight sets in Rome two weeks ago.