tv Sport Today BBC News May 29, 2017 1:45am-2:01am BST
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live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme. petra kvitova makes a welcome return to tennis at the french open in paris. sebastian vettel celebrates extending his lead in the formula one world championship after victory in monaco. and tom domoulin claims the 100th giro d'italia, the first time a dutchman has won this race. hello, and welcome to the programme, where we start with the tennis news that, in paris, women's world number one angelique kerber has become the first top seed to have ever been knocked out of the french open in the opening round. but it was a happier return to the court for petra kvitova as patrick gearey reports. it has never taken petra kvitova so much to reach the first round. five months ago everything was in doubt. a knife attack at her home left with tendon damage on her left hand, her playing hand. she has to rely on skill and stealth rather than stealth. she only stepped onto a practice court earlier this month so has
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to rely on skill and stealth rather than strength. that comes from the stands where her family sit. this is the eighth time she has made it to the second round of the french open. none will compare to this. it was a nice and really heart—warming welcome. my team was there, my family were there, everyone who helped me through the difficult time. i am happy with the game, of course, but it was not really about the game today. next on court, angelique kerber, officially the world's best, but in reality, farfrom it. such is her lack of form, her defeat to ekaterina makarova was a strange surprise. of course i'm disappointed that the rest of the season was not so good. at the end, maybe, maybe it is good for me. but i don't know, now i will go back home and i will do maybe a few days rest, a few more days, i don't know. in the men's draw, the sixth seed
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from austria dominic thiem lostjust six games on the way to thrashing australia's bernard tomic in straight sets. thiem is a contender for the title and he's the only player to defeat nine—time french open champion rafael nadal on clay this season it was very hot out there, so i'm happy that i won in three sets. he was a tough opponent, and it was a very close first set, i guess. i was also a little bit nervous. and because of this circumstance, i'm happy with my performance. bulgarian iith seed grigor dimitrov coasted past france's stephane robert
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in straight sets. dimitrov had previously lost his last four matches at the french open. every slam, i always have high expectations and i like playing the best of five sets. i think i have the stamina and endurance to go all the stamina and endurance to go all the way, but right now, i'm trying to lower my expectations since i haven't done that well since i've played this year, so i'm trying to ta ke played this year, so i'm trying to take it one match at a time and i will stay humble and compete. francesco totti brought his 25—season career at serie a giants roma to an end on sunday with a substitute appearance in his side's late 3—2 win over genoa. the ao—year—old who won the scudetto on just the one occasion scored 307 goals in 786 games for his hometown club and now looks likely to move upstairs and remain within the set up at the stadio olimpico unless the lure of the mls
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tempts him to continue playing. juventus, who won on saturday, had already wrapped up their sixth consecutive title and that win for roma confirms second place, a point ahead of napoli who also scored a final day victory when they were 4—2 winners away to sampdoria. while crotone who were eight points adrift of safety at the start of april, completed the great escape when they beat lazio 3—1 to avoid relegation on the final day of the season. sebastian vettel has extended his lead in the formula one drivers‘ championship after winning the monaco grand prix for ferrari for the first time in 16 years. and with nearest rival lewis hamilton coming homejust seventh in his mercedes, vettel‘s advantage is now 25 points. tom clarkson has more. this monaco grand prix weekend was about as bad as it could get the lewis hamilton. he came here hoping to qualified on pole position and equal the total of his hero, ayrton senna. as it was, he had to watch
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from afar as ferrari dominated. ferrari have lewis hamilton and mercedes on the run. qualifying 13 made winning monaco ‘s twisty streets almost impossible for hamilton. upfront starting from pole for the first time in nine years, ahead of team—mate sebastian vettel. as ferrari's number one driver it was no surprise that all ended up in the lead after the first round of pit stops. hamilton chose to stay out longer, moving up the order as others change their tyres. at one point he was the fastest man on the track, but could only finish seventh. it was a stark contrast tojenson button, covering for fernando alonso who was racing indy 500. he is one—off return to action ended prematurely. verline will have a scan and he helps to race again. ferrari led every lap with ferrari winning theirfirst race in the principality since 2001. with the germans lead now 25 points,
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hamilton has plenty of catching up to do. while it is not game over for hamilton, he needs to bounce back strongly. mercedes have a good record around the circuit, and hamilton literally needs his third victory of the season that if he is to stop sebastian vettel cruising to a fifth world title. here is why sebastian vettel is cruising, thanks to neverfinishing outside the sebastian vettel is cruising, thanks to never finishing outside the top two. many suggest the manner of his victory shows he has been favoured by ferrari, but sebastian vettel is just relieved to win another race. it was really tricky with the cold tyres and we were all struggling. it was really difficult, but after a couple of laps i was able to control the gap and it was a fantasticjob that the team has done, so great
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thanks to them in a fantastic weekend for ferrari. dutchman tom dumoulin has claimed the 100th edition of the giro d'italia overhauling all of his main rivals with a stunning ride in the final stage time trial. he's the first from the country to win the race and it's also his first grand tour victory. sitting in fourth place in the overall standings before the final 29.3 kilometres into milan, dumoulin was second fastest in the time trial with the three ahead at the start of the stage finishing much further back. his final margin of victory was 31 seconds over nairo quintana and a0 ahead of last year's champion vincenzo nibali who completed the podium. it is really crazy. this is... i cannot describe it with words. it's incredible. it was such a nerve—racking day. i was super nervous from the beginning of the day and i needed to stay calm, and i
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almost couldn't. but i did it. i had good legs and ijust went almost couldn't. but i did it. i had good legs and i just went for almost couldn't. but i did it. i had good legs and ijust went for it. sweden's alex noren has won the european golf tour's pga championship with a blistering course record 62 in the final round at wentworth. he overturned a seven shot deficit to win his fifth european tour title in 11 months, finishing off with an eagle on the 18th to end up on 11 under par winning by two shots to pick up the first prize of more than $1 million. on the pga tour, jon rahm had this putt on the final hole to force a play off in the dean & deluca invitational in texas. the spaniard fired just wide meaning kevin kisner held on to par the last and beat rahm along with two others a shot further back that included jordan spieth. on the lpga tour shanshan feng of china was a one stroke winner at the volvik championship in michigan. the 27 year old bogeyed two of the last three holes but despite this set a tournament record for a 72—hole score to claim her seventh overall lpga victory. sir ben ainslie‘s land rover bar
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lost both of their races on sunday on day two of the america's cup qualifiers in bermuda as the race to challenge for the auld mug in the world's oldest sporting contest continues. after an opening day that brought one win and one loss the british team were beaten by defending champions oracle team usa and emirates team new zealand. sunday's results leave britain second in the standings, level on three points with third—placed new zealand and two points behind the usa team. sweden are fourth on two points, with france and japan both on one. japanese driver takuma sato has won the 101st running of the indianapolis 500 in a race that saw two time formula one champion fernando alonso drop out
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with 21 laps remaining due to engine failure. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. but from me tulsen tollett and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye this is the shape of things to come rather than what we saw for many during the course of sunday, which was a decent and update the many and weather watchers were out in force, but it did cloud up across southern parts through the afternoon and into the evening. that came as we began to see the first signs of very humid air piling its way out of the channel and into the southern parts of the british isles and then later in the day the first signs of thunderstorms brewing up through france and some of those will have worked their way into the southern half of britain. very muggy fare and something fresher in the northern
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parts of scotland where it will start drying on monday that it will not last all day because there is a general progression of cloud and rain from the north and northern ireland ever further north such that by the middle part of the day we will see some brightness just about holding on and then down across the moray firth, further south, murky fair drizzly rain for many and maybe the odd moderate burst across the western side of scotland into law ireland and it will be there to be had across parts of the northern england and into wales. somewhat drier conditions further south but a very close feeling here. if you get a bit of brightness temperatures will rocket through the afternoon but it may, in its own right, spawn showers across east anglia but on the eastern side of wales and the west midlands we might see some really violent thunderstorms and with a bit of sunshine you can maybe
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add four or 5 degrees to some of the temperatures and over towards the london area. through the evening we will find a migration of the thunderstorms and that could be further east and all the while there is the danger of something coming out of france and the cloud and rain is there to be had all the while across the north of scotland, even as we start tuesday. for a time you we re as we start tuesday. for a time you were betwixt and between the weather systems but still a lot of cloud hanging on across the north of scotla nd hanging on across the north of scotland and pretty murky conditions. as we go into the day. we will push the weather front through northern ireland and that will bring rain into scotland and it will bring rain into scotland and it will arc its way through the north of england and into wales but it will take an age before it gets into the far south—eastern corner and once that is away, pressure will build and wednesday looks like a glorious day with some very pleasant spring sunshine. take care. goodbye. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers
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in north america and around the globe. my name is gavin grey. our top stories: a warning from merkel — the german chancellor says europe can no longer rely on the united states and britain. a second day of chaos for thousands of passengers with british airways. as computer failures continue. another brazilian leader under political pressure — thousands rally on the copacabana beach, to accuse president temer of massive corruption. no cannes do? joaquin phoenix walks off with a best actor prize at the film festival but has to apologise for his footwear.
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