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Updates from the Oval, 2.30pm BST/11.30pm AEST Match preview | Email Cameron with your thoughts Rightio, news from the middle is incoming. The captains and officials are gathering in the middle. I’ll let you know what’s happening, as soon as I know. And we have yet more content for your eyes with this review by Raf of the competition so far. It’s been incredible. We set out on a mission to break …

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Liv Apps thoroughly deserves the top award after an impressive campaign, with her Saracens coach, Alex Austerberry, also excelling 1. Liv Apps Thoroughly deserved PWR player of the season. The No 9 has been Saracens’ standout player in an impressive campaign and her playing relationship with her half-back partner Zoe Harrison has made the team tick. 2. Meg Jones The England captain steered Trailf…

Dutch coach to ‘reflect on future’ after shootout loss Mohamed Ouahbi says Morocco can be ‘unstoppable’ An embattled Ronald Koeman said he will consider his future as manager of the Netherlands after they were eliminated from the World Cup by Morocco. The Netherlands tumbled out on penalties after a 1-1 draw in the last-32 tie, the pill even more bitter to swallow because they had been leading at…

The police were pelted with bottles in The Hague but there were hugs between sets of fans in Amsterdam after a tense last-32 tie In the Netherlands the country’s World Cup last-32 tie against Morocco was always going to be about more than football. When the Atlas Lions dumped Ronald Koeman’s team out of the tournament in a penalty shooutout after an epic contest, joyous 6am celebrations were spar…

The Ecuador manager is a beautifully manicured buzz of energy with Bolivarian liberation in his heart. The tournament is all the better for him An underrated pleasure for spectators at every World Cup is observing the managers. If club football, an increasingly regimented domain of set pieces and systems, is all about structure, international soccer is much more a matter of style – and at this to…

Executive committee member says it was ‘very bad idea’ Caf says its aim is to make tournament world class A plan to expand the Africa Cup of Nations from 24 to 28 teams has been rejected, the Guardian has learned. The proposal had been made by the Confederation of African Football’s president, Patrice Motsepe, in February at a press conference in Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania. Had had it been agreed …

Updates from day two | Serena on her SW19 return Sabalenka overcomes wobble | Diary | Email Daniel Wotcha one and all and welcome to Wimbledon 2026 – day two! As you’d expect, we’ve a faintly daunting and thoroughly thrilling banquet of tennis awaiting us today, so let’s dig right in. Continue reading...

New French Open champion is trying to follow it up with SW19 glory, something only the very best have achieved They call it the toughest job in tennis. No, it’s not coaching Emma Raducanu or interviewing Corentin Moutet on live television. Since they stopped making rackets out of trees, only three women have done the Roland Garros-Wimbledon double in the same summer. You’re talking Martina Navrat…

The experience inside the grounds of SW19 is as far removed from outside world as ever, which is no bad thing There was a group of 10 demonstrators outside the main gates of the All England Club on Monday morning, protesting against Barclays’ sponsorship of the championship on the grounds that as well as providing its customers here with deckchairs and free strawberries and cream, as well as the …

Ancelotti says late win was Brazil’s ‘most complete game’ Hajime Moriyasu says Japan ‘have to improve’ Carlo Ancelotti was characteristically calm after Brazil’s 2-1 victory against Japan on Monday, insisting he had never doubted his team would get back into the game and warning they are getting better and better. “At half-time I told the players to be patient because sooner or later we would sco…

All England CEO requests ‘financial information’ from players Resentment rising over stalling tactics in long-running dispute The All England Club (AELTC) is questioning the players’ claim that they receive 22% of tournament revenues in prize money from the ATP and WTA tours as the row over their remuneration and welfare rumbles on. Sally Bolton, the AELTC chief executive, said on Monday that it …

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning , Archie Rhind-Tutt and Nicky Bandini as Germany leave the tournament in dramatic fashion in the last 32 Continue reading...

Figures spell out the highs and lows of a force of personality who could swung games in team’s favour He swept Nathan Smith for six on an acid-trip of an afternoon, his last on the field as a Test cricketer. He nearly shredded Will O’Rourke’s fingers with a straight drive and swung his way to 30 as an agent of chaos. But was it ever going to last much longer? In his finest moments, Ben Stokes wou…

39-year-old Djokovic survives challenge from Wu Teenagers Fonseca and Jódar both win in straight sets In his 21st Wimbledon and 116th match at the All England Club, the 39-year-old Novak Djokovic fought like a lion as he kicked off his quest for a men’s record-equalling eighth title with a 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 win against China’s Wu Yibing. The scoreline tells only half the story. Djokovic looked c…