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Updates from the fifth day’s play at Roland Garros Mensik: playing in Paris heat ‘insane’ | Mail Daniel Salut à tout le monde et bienvenue à Roland-Garros 2026 – cinquième jour! Et oh là là, quel tennis nous attend! We begin today with a raft of compelling contests. Naomi Osaka takes on Donna Vekic and Iva Jovic meets Emma Navrro, with Flavio Cobolli, Learner Tien and Zach Svajda also in action. …

The title could be coming to Madison Square Garden for the first time since 1973. But fans won’t thank the man writing the checks The most stunning part about the Knicks snapping their 27-year NBA finals drought isn’t the 22½-point average margin of victory they posted over an 11-game playoff winning streak, or New Yorkers somehow resisting the urge to tear the city apart in celebration, or even …

Former England defender on why he walked out on Arsenal, their chances in the Champions League final and Tuchel wielding the axe “They’ve got a wonderful group of players and a great manager in Mikel Arteta but having come so close three times on the bounce I felt these guys needed it,” Sol Campbell says of Arsenal winning the Premier League for the first time in 22 years since, in 2004, he was t…

Club ready to resist offers for trio amid mounting interest Bournemouth hope to agree new contract with Alex Scott Bournemouth are determined to resist any summer offers for Eli Junior Kroupi, Rayan and Alex Scott with mounting interest in the trio. The club are confident Scott will sign a new long-term contract despite interest from Premier League rivals and Europe’s biggest clubs are monitoring…

After finally getting his chance to manage his country, Sergej Barbarez has conjured the passion and energy that could make his team an interesting watch This article is part of the Guardian’s 2026 World Cup Experts’ Network , a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 48 countries who qualified. theguardian.com is running previews from three countries each day in the run…

The 27-year-old is enjoying his moment in the sun at the French Open after a shock win over Daniil Medvedev but with an eye on more grand slam success Adam Walton’s phone has hardly stopped pinging in the past 24 hours after the 27-year-old Australian produced a huge shock at the French Open with a stunning victory over Daniil Medvedev in the first round. It was just his fourth win at grand slam …

World No 2 is stunned by Ukraine’s Yuliia Starodubtseva Britain’s Jones lost 6-0, 7-6 (3) to 27th seed Bouzkova Even by Fran Jones’s high standards – she describes herself as a “mentality monster”, rightly so given all the trials she has overcome – her chances of any sort of recovery seemed painfully remote. She had lost 10 of her first 11 games to find herself trailing 0-6, 1-4 while being outpl…

Somerset and Surrey made fast starts in the hectic opening weekend that gave us 17 games and three league tables By the 99.94 Cricket Blog This article is from The 99.94 Cricket Blog Continue reading...

After being denied their rightful place in this season’s Europa League, Crystal Palace finally have their revenge. In Oliver Glasner’s final match in charge, it was fitting that Jean-Philippe Mateta should score what turned out to be the winning goal after his January move to Milan was scuppered by a failed medical. It has been that kind of season in south London. Having rescued them from the bri…

Fifteen-year-old hits 12 sixes in 29-ball knock Jofra Archer wickets help Royals past Sunrisers The teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi smashed a staggering 12 sixes to lead Rajasthan Royals to a 47-run drubbing of Sunrisers Hyderabad in Wednesday’s Indian Premier League eliminator. The 15-year-old Sooryavanshi, who won the regular season’s orange cap for the most runs scored (680), de…

Tributes pour in from across skateboarding world Johnson was Thrasher’s 2007 skater of the year Marc Johnson, the influential professional skateboarder whose inventive street style and Bay Area roots helped define modern street skating, has died at the age of 49. Johnson’s death was announced in a statement attributed to longtime friend and fellow professional skateboarder Louie Barletta and shar…

Faster and smarter in deed and thought, Bordeaux ruthlessly demonstrated why Top 14 supremacy looks set to continue Nothing in sport lasts for ever. Dynasties come and go and even the best fade to grey eventually. That, at least, is the theory. The stark truth in European club rugby is that France’s dominance grows stronger by the year. It is now six years since another nation won the Champions C…

Our cartoonist reflects on the Gunners ending their 22-year existential crisis to become English champions again Buy a Squires cartoon | David’s favourite works of 2025 And his latest book, Chaos in the Box: get it now Continue reading...

We picked Liverpool as champions, Chelsea as challengers and tipped Brentford and Sunderland to go down. Oh dear What we predicted: Mikel Arteta vowed this would be a “big summer” after finishing as runners-up in the Premier League for a third season in succession and the new sporting director, Andrea Berta, has delivered on a number of signings in his first transfer window. The question now for …

Benafsha Hashimi fled the Taliban to Australia in 2021 and is determined to fight for the ICC to follow Fifa’s lead and recognise Afghanistan’s exiled players as the national side Benafsha Hashimi’s calling is cricket. She was contracted by the Afghanistan Cricket Board when a women’s national side was in development, just before the return of the Taliban in 2021. She subsequently fled as an 18-y…