Europe stay in control despite US fightback

MOTHER-TO-BE Patricia Meunier-Lebouc and Suzann Pettersen, the baby of the team, kept Europe in front after day one of the Solheim Cup match in Sweden yesterday.

Meunier-Lebouc, four months pregnant and 22-year-old Pettersen stood firm in the face of a United States fightback to leave the Europeans ahead by a point, four and a half to three and a half.

Three points down from the morning foursomes delayed by an hour and 40 minutes because of early morning fog holders America came alive in the fourballs.