Serena Williams will return to tennis in Abu Dhabi next week, almost four months after giving birth.

The Dunamis Sports Academy will on Saturday and Sunday, December 23 to 24, this year, organise trial games to select talented footballers for both local and internal football teams.

The trial games, dubbed: “X’Mass Soccer hunt”, which will be organised at the Ngleshie Amanfro SHS premises from 8am each day is targeting footballers aged between 8 to 23 years.

An initiative to help encourage peaceful coexistence among schoolchildren has been launched at St Peters Mission School in Ashaley Botwe near Madina.

Dubbed: “GFP sports for peace club,” is a programme which seeks to use sports as an entry point to engage with the younger generation through carefully facilitated sport-based games that provide a vehicle for integrated education and behaviour change.

Kotoko coach Steven Polack says his team is well prepared and ready to avenge the 1-3 defeat they suffered at the hands of Accra Hearts of Oak in the first leg of the Ghana@60 anniversary match when the two sides clash in the reverse fixture in Kumasi on Sunday.

He told the Graphic Sports yesterday via a telephone conversation just before the team’s training that they were prepared and ready for the encounter with their arch-rivals and had revenge on their minds.

Super featherweight contender, Rafael Mensah, has sealed a deal with Don King Promotions towards an upcoming world title fight.

A contractual agreement reached between Landmark Promotions, managers of Mensah and Don King Promotions stipulates that the Bukom boxer faces off with Puerto Rican, Jose Luis Martinez Machado, between January 27 and March 2018.

Isaac Dogboe, one of Ghana's brightest boxers, has intensified his training ahead of his mega WBO Interim Super Bantamweight title fight against Cesar Juarez at the Bukom Boxing Arena on January 6.

Dogboe, who will be seeking to establish his invincibility in the ring to 18 wins, needs to beat Mexico’s Juarez to realise his dream of becoming a world champion.

More than one year after he parted ways with Accra Hearts of Oak under controversial circumstances, Japanese trainer Kenichi Yatsuhashi is back in Ghana football as head coach of Premier League side, Inter Allies.

The US-trained coach is hoping to help make the team a force to be reckoned with in the 2017/2018 league season.

His love for table tennis is without question. He doesn’t mind staying hungry and using all his money to support his darling club, Tesano Spinners, sponsor players or donate to any table tennis activity. Indeed, during the course of the 2017 Stanbic Bank/Graphic Sports National Table Tennis League, Charles Richard Tachie-Menson spent a fortune to cater for the needs of his players to ensure they won both male and female titles.

Accra Great Olympics coach, Godwin Attram, has advised Black Starlets skipper, Eric Ayiah, to remain focused, despite not making the final shortlist for the CAF Youth Player of the Year award.

Coach Attram says the young striker’s omission from the final three shortlist must be a motivational factor in his young career.

After three years of hibernation, a former Accra Great Olympics coach, Ken Augustt, is ready to take up a coaching role on the local scene next year.

The experienced coach told the Graphic Sports in an interview yesterday that he was ready to deploy his managerial acumen to address the slow pace of the game in the country and also inject some fresh ideas into Ghana football.

Young Ghanaian striker, Kwame Nsor, has cautioned young players not to dream of making big money if they do not play for any of the top four clubs in Portugal.

There are over 20 Ghanaian players in Portugal now and the number keeps increasing in each transfer window as the European country suits African footballers.

Former Accra Hearts of Oak assistant coach, Yaw Preko, is on the verge of sealing a deal with International Allies FC after the Tema-based club requested him to assist them to stage a successful campaign in the Ghana Premier League next season.

According to the Technical Director of the club, Mr Willie Klutse, Preko is currently assisting his friend and former boss at Hearts of Oak Kenichi Yatsuhashi, at Inter Allies' training.

The management of Aduana Stars has offered the club’s former playmaker, Yahaya Mohammed, a new contract to assist them in their domestic and continental assignments after he parted ways with Tanzanian side, Azam FC.

Earlier this week, the former OGC Nice midfielder was linked with a move to giants, Accra Hearts of Oak, with media reports suggesting that he had completed the deal after a series of negotiations with the Phobians.

Bechem United are prepared to go the full legal haul to ensure justice after they were slapped with a GH¢105,000 fine by the Disciplinary Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) for stopping StarTimes from telecasting their Premier League match against Great Olympics in Bechem a couple of months ago.

According to the chairman of Bechem United, Kingsley Osei Bonsu, popularly known as Lord Zico, the club’s lawyer, Larbi Amoah, was studying the ruling after which they would file an appeal before next Tuesday.

Swansea City have sacked manager Paul Clement with the club bottom of the Premier League, having won just three league games this season.