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Andrew Richardson helped her win slam as an 18-year-old Partnership to start at Strasbourg in French Open buildup Emma Raducanu has rehired Andrew Richardson, the coach who helped guide her to her sensational US Open triumph in 2021, on a formal basis as she prepares to return to competition next week in Strasbourg in the buildup to the French Open. Richardson will accompany Raducanu at the WTA 5…

Updates from the latest round of Championship matches Get The Spin newsletter | And mail Tanya or post BTL The ECB has announced a new T20 hall of fame before the Blast, er, blasts off, a week today. The garlanded four are: Ravi Bopara, Charlotte Edwards, James Vince and Danni Wyatt-Hodge 1 Durham 91 Continue reading...

Athletes have always been targets for criminals hoping to profit from their wealth. But a new wave of dangers has cropped up in recent years With exorbitant ticket, travel and hotel prices making fans desperate to find an affordable way of attending this summer’s World Cup, it’s no surprise that security firms and law enforcement agencies are warning that fans are at significant risk of becoming …

⚽ All the latest heading into a busy weekend ⚽ Ten things to look out for | Mail Dominic What a week it’s been in football. We’ve got the playoff ‘spygate’ scandal , some genuinely superb on-field playoff drama in the EFL, and the small matter of the closest Premier League title race in years going on as well, by the way. Last night Bolton booked their spot in the League One playoff final after b…

Bruno Fernandes, Declan Rice, Erling Haaland, David Raya and Rayan Cherki are the leading contenders By WhoScored There is a version of this season in which Bruno Fernandes left Manchester United in the summer. “The club wanted me to leave,” he said in December. Thankfully for United fans, he stayed, navigated the tactical ambiguity of playing for Ruben Amorim and led the team back into the Champ…

Wreathed with more than 150 years of hopes, dreams and drama, the FA Cup reflects sporting heritage and mystique Footballing physiques have changed a great deal over the decades, but when Chelsea meet Manchester City on Saturday there’s one outline we’ll all recognise. While the average shape has got leaner and more toned, this body has stayed comfortable in its old-school proportions. A modest w…

The 35-year-old will break the Bears’ top-flight appearance record against Northampton – and still hasn’t scored a try Bristol’s Jake Woolmore has been pursuing a couple of personal goals for a while. Beneath the Friday night lights in Northampton he is about to tick off one of them by breaking the Bears’ top-flight appearance record. If he is also able to mark this special occasion by surrenderi…

US grandmaster scored biggest success of his career at the Grand Chess Tour Rapid & Blitz and is close to world top 10 Hans Niemann, the controversial US grandmaster whose game with Magnus Carlsen at the 2022 Sinquefield Cup led to cheating allegations , a $100m lawsuit, an out of court settlement, the Netflix documentary Untold: Chess Mates , and a forthcoming book, scored the most important suc…

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New season will kick off on 9 September League arranges record nine international games The 2026 NFL season will kick off with a Super Bowl rematch . Mike Macdonald, Sam Darnold and the Seattle Seahawks will face off against Mike Vrabel, Drake Maye and the New England Patriots after raising their championship banner on 9 September in the first of the season’s 272 games . The Seahawks dominated th…

American world No 1 among those shooting 3-under 67s Rory McIlroy finishes on four-over after four straight bogeys It was gridlock on the opening day of the US PGA, where the leaderboard was backed up like Philly traffic. By the time it was all over, seven men were tied in the lead on three-under par, and another 42 were within three shots of them. Altogether a third of the field was within easy …

Guardiola can claim 17th City trophy, Arteta weighs up another Arsenal reshuffle and Brentford’s European dreams could edge closer A measure of Pep Guardiola’s greatness is to be found in Saturday’s FA Cup final being a 24th visit to Wembley leading Manchester City. As this born winner could depart in the close season, the meeting with Chelsea may be a third-last outing in charge, in which he see…

In this exclusive book extract, Rob Draper and Jonathan Northcroft reveal the remarkable process which led to Thomas Tuchel’s appointment as England manager In 2024, when the Football Association was tasked with finding Gareth Southgate’s successor, Mark Bullingham hired two external data companies who built a profile of what successful international managers looked like then tailored it to mesh …

Northampton and Bath were well beaten over the weekend: will Leicester or Exeter force themselves into the top two? There are small but significant moments in every league campaign. Until the weekend it was widely assumed that Northampton and Bath, the two frontrunners in the English Prem, were all but nailed on for home semi-finals and, by extension, would almost certainly meet in the grand fina…