Monday Morning Sport: Sarsfields & Eadestown Advance To SFC Quarter Finals.

Moorefield manager Ger Brennan has emerged as one of the favourites to take over as Monaghan senior football manager.

GAA

Sarsfields and Eadestown both booked their places in the quarter finals of the Senior Football Championship over the weekend, following wins over Moorefield and St Laurence's respectively.

Sarsfields will now play Naas while Eadestown will play Clane.

In the Intermediate Championship, Sallins and Ballyteague advanced to the quarter finals proper and will now face Allenwood and Leixlip respectively.

Elsewhere over the weekend, in the Junior Football Championship, there were wins for Cappagh, Rheban, Athgarvan, Kill and Straffan while Grangenolvin and Rathcoffey drew.

In the Senior Hurling Championship quarter final, Clane beat Confey by two points.

Meanwhile, Moorefield manager Ger Brennan has emerged as one of the favourites to take over as Monaghan senior football manager.

The two-time All-Ireland winner with Dublin has reportedly been interviewed with a view to succeeding Seamus McEnaney.

GOLF

Rory McIlroy says his latest triumph in the Fed Ex Cup is an 'incredibly proud moment'.

The four-time major champion won the Tour Championship by a shot on 21-under-par in Atlanta last night.

McIlroy came from six shots behind to finish one stroke clear of Scottie Scheffler and Sungjae Im with a final round of four-under 66.

The Down man is the first player to win the Fed Ex Cup three times.

SOCCER

Naas' Andy Lyons' goal in extra-time helped Shamrock Rovers beat Drogheda United in the FAI Cup last night.

The Hoops were 2-1 winners at Head in the Game Park to progress to the quarter-finals.

The draw for the last eight takes place tomorrow.

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There are three games in the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division tonight.

Second-placed Dundalk go to Sligo Rovers, while Bohemians host St Pat's in a Dublin derby.

Shelbourne welcome Derry City to Tolka Park, with all three games underway from 7.45.

TENNIS

Serena Williams embarks on her final Grand Slam campaign tonight.

The 23-time major winner meets Danka Kovinic in the first round at the US Open.

Williams - who will play in the doubles with her sister Venus - has signalled her intention to retire after the event.

In the men's draw, defending champion Daniil Medvedev will begin the defence of his title against American Stefan Kozlov at 5-o'clock this evening Irish time.

FORMULA ONE

Max Verstappen took a big step towards retaining the Formula One title after winning the Belgian Grand Prix yesterday.

He finished ahead of Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez to stretch his championship lead to 93 points.

Ferrari's Carlos Sainz kept Britain's George Russell off the podium to take third place.

Lewis Hamilton failed to finish the race after a collision with Fernando Alonso on the first lap.

EQUESTRIAN

Castledermot native Mikey Pender continued the form that saw him claim a host of wins at last week’s Dublin Horse Show.

On Saturday, he won the first five-star Grand Prix of his career in the Longines Global Champions Tour Grand Prix of Valkenswaard in The Netherlands.

Pender and The Irish Sport Horse HHS Calais beat-off a top class international field to take the winners prize of €100,000

RACING

There's a seven race card at Roscommon from 20-past-4 this afternoon.

While the first of seven races at Downpatrick goes to post at 10-to-2.