Category: Sports

World No 1’s spellbinding effort dismantled by Alcaraz in the fifth set to conjure theatre in Paris and a rivalry for the ages By the end, it felt cruel to want more. Look at the state of these men: bedraggled and dishevelled, dragged into a place of wildness and madness,...

Aston Villa and Manchester United must shift surplus players while Sunderland and Leeds seek extra squad depth Recruitment was cast as the main reason for the club’s disappointment last season. Mikel Merino playing as an auxiliary centre-forward after Kai Havertz had broken down made that apparent. This will be a...

Organisation’s former president has no regrets over what was lowest grossing film in US history when released a decade ago There are movies that bomb at the box office. And then there is the Fifa biopic United Passions, starring Tim Roth, Sam Neill and Gérard Depardieu, which was hit with...

Player hid behind umpire’s chair during incident Queen’s Club next on agenda for 2021 US Open winner British No 2 Emma Raducanu admitted she was “wary” when going out following her ordeal with a stalker at the Dubai Championships earlier this year. The 22-year-old hid behind the umpire’s chair in...

Tottenham chair was not blinded by silverware and decided finishing fourth-bottom of the Premier League was not enough In football, there is always a lot of light and noise. There is always a lot of emotion. That is both its appeal and why it is so difficult for those in...

Biles calls Gaines ‘sick’ in response to softball post Gymnast defends trans girl targeted after title win Gaines calls Biles’ stance on inclusion ‘disappointing’ Seven-time Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles has publicly condemned former competitive swimmer Riley Gaines for her repeated attacks on transgender athletes, calling Gaines “sick” and a...

Given these sides’ catastrophic meeting in Belgrade almost 11 years ago, the real measure of success was its smooth completion Inside Arena Kombëtare, more than 20,000 supporters caught their breaths and trained every last squint of focus on Rey Manaj. Outside, the legions who had flooded into Tirana all day...

French Open final between top two in the world is further proof of their dominance Towards the final stretch of the big three’s unprecedented period of dominance, as it became clear Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic would vacate their thrones, the future of men’s tennis was clouded in...

Third ODI: WI 106-8, Eng 109-1; England won by 9 wkts Captain hits unbeaten half-century in rain-affected game England’s head coach, Charlotte Edwards, praised her players for being “ruthless and clinical” after they completed a 6-0 clean sweep against West Indies, winning Saturday’s rain-reduced third one-day international at Taunton by...

Leicester 21-16 Sale Radwan’s first-half double gives hosts breathing room And so it is the two grand old clubs of English rugby. Leicester will face off against Bath in the Premiership final at Twickenham next Saturday – and the rest of us will have to check which century we are...