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Players meet for end of year championship Sabalenka apologizes to Svitolina after outburst Head-to-head Until this week, Andreeva and Svitolina had an even head-to-head record with one win each: Continue reading...

Brazil legend plays first half for Serie C club at age 46 ‘Is this my last one? I don’t know,’ Ronaldinho says Ronaldinho played 45 minutes on his return to professional football in Italy. The 46-year-old Brazil great announced in June that he had signed for the Serie C side Ravenna, 11 years after he appeared to have brought his illustrious career to a close with Fluminense. Five months later, h…

Arsenal and London City Lionesses played out an entertaining 1-1 draw but the result did little to bolster European qualification hopes for Renée Slegers’s side as the visitors’ goalkeeper Mary Earps produced a fine display to thwart the north London side. Frida Maanum finished off a superb team move for Arsenal to open the scoring early on but her goal was quickly cancelled out by a terrific fin…

There is little the track’s bosses could have done to prevent the chaos on and off the track this weekend Even after two days of racing afflicted by dozens of non-runners due to the fast ground, the elements still had not quite finished with Cheltenham on Sunday, when the third day of the track’s November meeting went ahead only after a late inspection – to assess standing water on the course aft…

Updates from 7.45pm (GMT) kick-off in Madrid Get in touch: email Daniel and follow us on BlueSky The scandal of England’s World Cup semi-final capitulation is already enshrined in the extensive annals of mythological failure; failure so gloriously tepid and inept it’s barely failure at all, rather a perfectly pitched lyrical paean to the sacred, desperate art of getting in your own way as wimpish…

Chessum, Atkinson and full-back Furbank back from injury England expect backlash after New Zealand defeat in Wales England have welcomed back the cavalry for the crunch clash against the All Blacks on Saturday with George Furbank, Ollie Chessum and Seb Atkinson all returning to the squad from injury. Steve Borthwick’s side are braced for a backlash after New Zealand’s first defeat against Wales i…

My friend Caryl Oliver’s huge contribution to fencing spanned more than five decades, several continents and almost every aspect of the sport. Caryl, who has died aged 73 of cancer, believed passionately in the ability of fencing to bring people together. She first picked up a foil at the age of 12 (women and girls were only allowed to wield the lightweight weapon in those days), having been told…

Scotland 15-12 Australia Fagerson and Dempsey touch down in Murrayfiield After the pyrotechnics in Paris on Friday and a wondrous Welsh win in Cardiff on Saturday, this was a much more prosaic affair. Not that the stakes were low: both teams badly needed a win, and Gregor Townsend’s side claimed one by dealing with the quintessentially Scottish conditions better than their opponents. Scotland cou…

Updates from Sunday’s matches in US and Europe Get in touch: email Graham and follow us on BlueSky Patriots 3-21 Lions 15:00, 3rd quarter The players are back out on the field with the Lions taking over on offense. Continue reading...

Secures top-two finish at DP World Tour Championship McIlroy finishes on -10 as Tyrell Hatton wins event Rory McIlroy edged out Eugenio Chacarra to claim a record-equalling eighth Race to Dubai title with a second-place finish at the DP World Tour Championship, where Tyrrell Hatton sealed a five-shot victory. Spaniard Chacarra had held a slender 533.93-point lead over Masters champion McIlroy goi…

As he passes Kenny Dalglish’s appearance total, it is important to remember that it is the left-back’s journey that sets him apart Andy Robertson may not be Scotland’s greatest player, but he is indisputably their finest captain. It counts as sacrilege, even to generations who have watched Kenny Dalglish only on YouTube, to reputationally place Robertson above the Liverpool hero on the basis of a…

As much as the sandpaper soap opera continued to deal in alternative facts on Sunday, recollections of this second one-day international are unlikely to differ. For Tom Banton and Gus Atkinson, architects of an emphatic 135-run victory for England that levelled the series, it was unquestionably a match to remember. Banton was sublime after England were asked to bat first, unfurling a crisp 121 fr…

Seismic victory in Cardiff was cathartic and though Steve Tandy urges caution, maybe the ‘Welsh problem’ can be fixed So that’s that fixed then. Wales are back, and all is right with the world. Suddenly the dysfunction at the union, the financial plight, the disputes, the emptying stadiums, the defeats – oh, the defeats – feel a very long way away. The All Blacks have been beaten. Seventy-three y…

Dana White’s company squeezes fighters, bullies journalists and toadies up to Trump. But it has also given neglected Olympians a path to money and fame that didn’t exist before it If you don’t like what is being said, change the conversation. Amid the wreckage of an epic midterm beatdown, the diminished president of the United States spent part of last week channeling another Donald when he publi…

Australia 32-12 New Zealand Reece Walsh stars in dominant win for Kangaroos Australia’s dominance of the Rugby League World Cup continued with a fourth successive title, as the Kangaroos proved far too strong for New Zealand in a one-sided final in Brisbane. No nation has beaten the Australians in a Rugby League World Cup since the Kiwis in the 2003 final. The expectation pre-match was that the t…