:00:08. > :00:11.Mel Hello. Welcome to the BBC Sport Centre. Plenty coming up for you
:00:12. > :00:14.over the next 15 minutes including the latest sports news and features.
:00:15. > :00:32.This is Saturday Sportsday. It is going to be another busy
:00:33. > :00:36.weekend. Two football matches are already under way. Chelsea are Hull
:00:37. > :00:40.and Sheffield Wednesday are playing Leeds in the championship. I will
:00:41. > :00:44.update you on those scores. The Australian Open starts on Monday and
:00:45. > :00:49.I will hear from Andy Murray in just a moment as he talks about his back
:00:50. > :00:54.surgery and his hopes in Melbourne. There has been nothing but Olympic
:00:55. > :00:58.heartache for Shanaze Reade, so to prepare for Rio 2016, she is making
:00:59. > :01:10.a completely clean break and heading to America. She will tell us her
:01:11. > :01:12.story. With Olympic gold medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill announcing she is
:01:13. > :01:14.pregnant, we will ask Paula Radcliffe about juggling motherhood
:01:15. > :01:18.and an athletics career. England's cricketers are back in action
:01:19. > :01:21.tonight. The one-day series starts against Australia but the fallout
:01:22. > :01:26.from the Ashes whitewash continues. Alastair Cook has said he cannot
:01:27. > :01:29.give Kevin Pietersen any guarantees about his international future. When
:01:30. > :01:34.asked if he wanted Kevin Pietersen to help his side regain the Ashes in
:01:35. > :01:38.2015, Alastair Cook would not be drawn. Kevin Pietersen had taken to
:01:39. > :01:41.social media to express his strong desire to be part of the England
:01:42. > :01:45.setup. A mixed day for England's women
:01:46. > :02:04.cricketers in third. They bowled Australia out for 207 overnight,
:02:05. > :02:07.leaving Australia with a lead of just six runs but it has been a
:02:08. > :02:08.terrible start to the second innings.
:02:09. > :02:10.England are 18 43. Ulster remain unbeaten in the Heineken Cup after
:02:11. > :02:13.winning over Montpellier last night. They missed out on a bonus point
:02:14. > :02:15.that would have seen them qualifying for the last eight. There is a full
:02:16. > :02:18.programme of fixtures in the competition to date with details on
:02:19. > :02:23.the BBC Sport website. In tennis, Andy Murray has always done well but
:02:24. > :02:27.never in Australia. He is playing someone ranked outside
:02:28. > :02:31.the top 100 but his path to the final could see him getting past
:02:32. > :02:35.Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, and he has had precious little match
:02:36. > :02:40.practice following back surgery in September. What can we expect from
:02:41. > :02:45.the fourth seed this time round? We report from Melbourne.
:02:46. > :02:55.Andy Murray has suffered a lot of misfortune in Melbourne. Three times
:02:56. > :03:01.finalist, never a winner. I can cry like Roger and it is just a shame I
:03:02. > :03:04.cannot play like him. Banishing memories of past failures is never
:03:05. > :03:10.easy and it is difficult to what history repeat itself every year.
:03:11. > :03:14.Another net call in Australia leads to celebrations on the other side of
:03:15. > :03:19.the net. What more can Andy Murray do? I like the conditions, I like
:03:20. > :03:23.the people, the stadium is great. They take really good care of the
:03:24. > :03:28.players and it is a really well-run tournament so I always enjoy coming
:03:29. > :03:33.back. One day I can win here. There is an argument to say that Andy
:03:34. > :03:36.Murray's secret to winning was being a loser first. All those grand slam
:03:37. > :03:41.final defeats, including three in Melbourne, helped him learn how to
:03:42. > :03:47.win the big matches, but also win over the British public. The 2013
:03:48. > :03:53.BBC Sports Personality Of The Year is Andy Murray. It is going to be
:03:54. > :04:00.difficult for 2014 to live up to the highs of last year. The waiting is
:04:01. > :04:04.over! The Wimbledon champion is playing down his chances of reaching
:04:05. > :04:09.another final in Australia after only returning to action two weeks
:04:10. > :04:13.ago following back surgery. I am not looking at that this year right now.
:04:14. > :04:18.My back feels much, much better. It is the rest of the body that hurts a
:04:19. > :04:23.little bit from not playing matches. That is a positive for me. That is
:04:24. > :04:29.going to calm expectations. Expectations can change during an
:04:30. > :04:33.event. Expectations can certainly change. He said he would not come to
:04:34. > :04:38.Australia if he did not think he had a chance of winning so don't rule
:04:39. > :04:40.out anything just yet. Britain's Heather Watson will join
:04:41. > :04:45.Laura Robson in the main draw after coming through qualifying today.
:04:46. > :04:49.Both play on Monday. Now to Jessica Ennis-Hill's terrific
:04:50. > :04:52.news that she is expecting her first child. She will miss the
:04:53. > :04:56.Commonwealth Games this summer but the World Championship games next
:04:57. > :05:04.year or her next target with the Rio Olympics in 2016 coming afterwards,
:05:05. > :05:07.to defend her gold medal in the heptathlon in London. How difficult
:05:08. > :05:12.will it be to come back and compete at the very highest level again?
:05:13. > :05:15.Paula Radcliffe did it and I spoke to her earlier. You plan to have
:05:16. > :05:19.children because it is something that you want in your life. It is a
:05:20. > :05:23.longer period of time away from sport than it would be from a
:05:24. > :05:27.standard career, but coming back afterwards, I did not find it a
:05:28. > :05:43.problem. Your body remembers it. You are ready to attack the training and
:05:44. > :05:45.you are happy in your life so you can perform better as well. UK back
:05:46. > :05:48.into performing and training very quickly after your first. Yes and
:05:49. > :05:51.obviously she have to give time for her body to recover, as we all do. I
:05:52. > :05:53.probably rushed into it a bit too quickly. I took it more gradually
:05:54. > :05:56.the second time. You have a tough nine months with the pregnancy and
:05:57. > :05:58.then the birth process so you have to give yourself time to recover.
:05:59. > :06:02.Jessica has shown that she is determined and I have no doubts that
:06:03. > :06:09.she can come back stronger than ever. Is it a question of training
:06:10. > :06:12.through pregnancy and taking things easily afterwards? Depends on the
:06:13. > :06:17.pregnancy. From the moment you no you are pregnant, the baby comes
:06:18. > :06:22.first. I was lucky in my pregnancy. I was able to keep running during my
:06:23. > :06:26.second pregnancy and for the first eight months of the first one but
:06:27. > :06:32.you do have to listen to your body. If you can't, it will not do you any
:06:33. > :06:36.harm. One of the American athletes could not run for six months of her
:06:37. > :06:41.pregnancy and she came back strongly, too. You are in Edinburgh
:06:42. > :06:45.for the cross-country event. It should be a terrific day of
:06:46. > :06:49.cross-country running. It is an event that is celebrating its 25th
:06:50. > :06:53.anniversary this year. It has always been synonymous with kicking off the
:06:54. > :06:59.cross-country year to a good start. And having special performances for
:07:00. > :07:08.people to build on all year. There are some excellent athletes in
:07:09. > :07:11.there. Bekele will be there. This event has always been synonymous
:07:12. > :07:15.with cross-country running and kicking of the year to a good start.
:07:16. > :07:19.It used to be just after Christmas and now it is in the New Year and it
:07:20. > :07:24.gives you a chance to test where you are at and where you need to build
:07:25. > :07:28.up to, whether it is for the rest of the season or for spring marathon,
:07:29. > :07:32.which Bekele has announced he will do. Then it is the springboard into
:07:33. > :07:37.the summer, the Commonwealth Games and the European Championships. You
:07:38. > :07:44.can see more of Paula Radcliffe and the rest of the BBC sports team in
:07:45. > :07:50.Edinburgh in 1:15pm. For Jessica Ennis-Hill, 2012 was a
:07:51. > :07:56.professional success but for Shanaze Reade it was a massive
:07:57. > :08:09.disappointment. She finished six in the BMX final just four years after
:08:10. > :08:18.missing out in 2008. Shanaze Reade has now moved to America and is
:08:19. > :08:24.competing in Nevada this weekend. It is a mental scar. You never get rid
:08:25. > :08:29.of it and it is always there. The Olympic Games has made me feel in
:08:30. > :08:32.such a negative way about myself. For some people, to make the final
:08:33. > :08:41.is a brilliant achievement but for me it was not a phenomenal success.
:08:42. > :08:46.You felt ashamed. And people in your home town, everyone was backing me,
:08:47. > :08:51.and for a long time I was worried about going into the town centre. It
:08:52. > :08:55.is stupid but I felt like a disgrace. Going through the pressure
:08:56. > :09:00.and anxiety is not one for anybody. I am a bubbly person, and going, and
:09:01. > :09:04.I am like the tortoise. I can go back into my shell and be completely
:09:05. > :09:09.different. After Beijing I did not come out of my room for weeks on
:09:10. > :09:14.end. I lost loads of weight and then after London I never really spoke
:09:15. > :09:18.about it. I just cracked on as if it did not happen and now it is
:09:19. > :09:23.catching up with me. It was the whole of the Olympics. Sometimes you
:09:24. > :09:28.don't know who you are and what drove you to be so successful. It is
:09:29. > :09:32.the sort of thing that athletes are always afraid to talk about,
:09:33. > :09:36.depression. I will be the first to say that I have had helped and
:09:37. > :09:41.things can get tough. It is all for the love of the sport and that is
:09:42. > :09:46.what you do. I don't mind putting myself through that stress if it
:09:47. > :09:54.will pay off in 2016 at the Olympic Games. Everything I am doing is for
:09:55. > :09:58.those Games. You know sometimes you have a new lease of life and things
:09:59. > :10:03.are looking really good and there is excitement about going out there and
:10:04. > :10:07.bringing my dogs out there and waking up and opening my curtains
:10:08. > :10:11.and the sun shining and going to the tracks. I always wanted to go to
:10:12. > :10:15.America because the top girls race out there week in and week out. I
:10:16. > :10:20.had not had that bars for a while. Being able to go that race BMX, the
:10:21. > :10:24.thing I loved doing, week in and week out, I can't wait to attack it
:10:25. > :10:47.with everything I have got. I can't wait to sit down at the end of the
:10:48. > :10:49.year when it has all gone well. I am really excited to do that. We
:10:50. > :10:52.wish her well. The Winter Olympics are fast approaching with Great
:10:53. > :10:54.Britain tipped to have their best winter Games next month in Sochi.
:10:55. > :10:56.There are great hopes in the skeleton with more than one medal
:10:57. > :10:59.chance. Lizzy Yarnold claimed silver in San Moritz today, meaning she has
:11:00. > :11:01.finished on the podium in all six races this season, leaving her on
:11:02. > :11:04.course to get the overall title. Shelley Rudman got bronze.
:11:05. > :11:07.Tin-Tin Ho was given a table tennis that when she was just five years
:11:08. > :11:12.old and she hopes to be in the GB team in Rio 2016. She is 15 and she
:11:13. > :11:18.has won three British junior titles. Ollie Williams went to meet her and
:11:19. > :11:22.her ping-pong loving family. I started properly when I was five.
:11:23. > :11:30.When I was three I used to stand on a chat. I used to play for fun and I
:11:31. > :11:33.did not think much about it. Great Britain is not known for table
:11:34. > :11:38.tennis players but this is a big year for a girl who wants to change
:11:39. > :11:45.that. The name Tin-Tin Ho does not come from comic books but from her
:11:46. > :11:51.dad's obsession with table tennis. I am her father and my name is
:11:52. > :12:03.Charles. I love table tennis. This is quite embarrassing! My father is
:12:04. > :12:09.obsessed with Tin-Tin. I took the initials from the words table
:12:10. > :12:17.tennis. And that is by my brother is called Ping as well. It gets
:12:18. > :12:29.interesting when you play Ping Pond. I avoided being called Pong!
:12:30. > :12:33.She will have to qualify and play the top players before she can even
:12:34. > :12:39.get into the Olympic Games, and that is a big hurdle. You never know. The
:12:40. > :12:49.team will be named by May and Tin-Tin has two years to find her
:12:50. > :12:55.way to the Rio Games. From Tin-Tin and Ping to Kong, the
:12:56. > :12:58.Bullet, Chuck and Double Dekker. It has to be the darts, semi finals day
:12:59. > :13:03.at the World Championships. Colin is at the Lakeside.
:13:04. > :13:08.A breathless set of quarterfinals. We know this semifinal line-up for
:13:09. > :13:19.the 2014 World Cup championship. The man to beat is still Stephen. Robbie
:13:20. > :13:25.Green is big and bullish as well and you don't want to miss that one from
:13:26. > :13:29.2:45pm on BBC One. After that, Jan Dekker against Alan Norris, which
:13:30. > :13:33.not many people predicted. I predict that it will be very close.
:13:34. > :13:39.Just time to bring you up to date with the early kick-offs in the
:13:40. > :13:43.football. Hull against Chelsea, goalless at the KC Stadium with
:13:44. > :13:47.Fernando Torres making his 200th Premier League appearance. Sheffield
:13:48. > :13:52.Wednesday leading 1-0 at half-time at Hillsborough. All of us here,
:13:53. > :13:58.have a great weekend, whichever sport you are watching. -- from all
:13:59. > :14:00.of us here.