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in a moment, it will be time for sportsday, but first, a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. we'll be asking a family doctor if vital nhs operations and treatments are rationed in england. as the swedish car—maker volvo announces plans to go electric, we'll be asking if this could be the end of the road for petrol and diesel vehicles. we'll be finding out how two giant pandas — the latest attraction at berlin zoo — could help to forge closer ties between germany and china. that's all ahead on bbc news. now on bbc news, it's time for sportsday. hello, and welcome to wimbledon sportsday.

i'm katherine downes. a blistering day at the all—england club, but andy murray keeps his cool on centre court to see off dustin brown in straight sets. a roar of relief from johanna konta, as she comes through a three—hour battle on centre court. and she has company in the third round, as an inspired heather watson dispatched the 18th seed, anastasia sevastova. and it's 30 years today since the most famous climb in wimbledon history. pat cash relives his finest hour. so off i went, and it looked like it was a sort of spur of the moment thing, but it wasn't really. it was something that i really wanted to do. to go and thank my father and the team, and you know, it was a very special moment for us all. and also coming up, find out how chris froome took the lead of this year's tour de france.

andy murray turned up the heat on centre court, and did away with germany's dustin brown in straight sets. a clinical performance from the defending champion, making just five unforced errors in the whole match. adam wilde was watching for us. at wimbledon these days, become less and hope, more in expectation. nobody draws the crowds quite like andy murray on centre court, and with that, comes a certain pressure. a moment of calm before that heat. in his way, dustin brown, few more recognisable, few with a tennis style more eye—catching. murray,

though, has the game to match. this was going to be entertaining. 0h, that was brilliant. please in this crowd is what money does best, and he would have two be at his best if you was when to stop too many more shots like this. 0h, you was when to stop too many more shots like this. oh, wow, that was awesome! the first set was won with awesome! the first set was won with a mighty ace, but the celebrations muted, at least for the moment. it took until the second set for the world number one to find the shots that have brought in such success. this is what they had all come to see. two sets down, but brown was farfrom done. here's one of see. two sets down, but brown was far from done. here's one of the game's great entertainers, but he is also very much more than that. the delight for those watching on clear to see. still, these are the occasions that bring out the champion in andy murray. an playable brilliance steered him to the brink of the win. and finally, brown's a

thematic touch —— enigmatic touch deserted him. centre court was royally entertained. once i got the break in the first set, i felt the momentum was with me. i saw the shots he was great to play a little bit quicker, and that allowed me to get to some of the drop volleys but also come up with some good passing shots, and i played well. andy murray strait of court there talking to that reporter, and we have got somebody straight off the court as well william smith. he dashed over from andy murray's box as well. —— lee smith. what did you make of that performance? -- lion —— lion smith. -- lion smith. brown's tennis did

not materialise, not anxious about how to adjust his game, and it was a co mforta ble how to adjust his game, and it was a comfortable win for andy murray. what can you tell is about andy murray's hep? i am watching the same as everyone else and seeing a guy sprinting, changing direction. —— andy murray's hip. the number of drop shots that is dustin brown it is today, there was no issue. that is today, there was no issue. that is how he walks anyway, don't worry about his wok. he is moving great, so two matches, all fine so far. his next opponent, fabio borini, knocked him out on the clay in rome. what do you think about him? —— fabiola fognini. it is andy's best surface, so it is a different story from when the played on clay. but they have had some big matches in rome, but it

will not be straightforward. fabio isa will not be straightforward. fabio is a shilbottle, he loves the big stage, but i think andy is in a really good place. —— fabio is a shilbottle. andy murray had to wait to get on court, and that's because the other british number 0ne, johanna konta, was locked in a three —our battle with croatia's donna vekic, one she needed all her grit and guts to get through. joe lynskey was watching for brits at wimbledon, prominence brings pressure. the last ladies home champion was a0 years ago, but konta's path to radzi would not be straightforward. donna vekic beat her on grassjust weeks straightforward. donna vekic beat her on grass just weeks ago in nottingham. she is on the 21, but she has the skills to be a superpower. konta was having to fight for our locality. a large

battle of wills going on out there between two determined opponents. konta found a way to seize the advantage. but the brit had the same winning possession when these two last met. the croatian‘s energy brought out the extraordinary. last met. the croatian‘s energy brought out the extraordinary] what poise! it forced this match to a deciding set. with so little between them, every service game, pressure. beyond three hours and beyond 12 games, every stride had to beyond 12 games, every stride had to be worth it. you censor millimetres are going to decide the outcome of this match. to force the opportunity, konta had to dig deep. break points were so rare, so take them. what a battle, what resilience. it is just

them. what a battle, what resilience. it isjust a nice feeling now not having to keep going out there. we were out there for a long time, and both of us baffled incredibly hard, so whoever was going to come out... river was going to draw the short straw was going to be hurting, and obviously, ifeel very fortunate to have come to that. to the third round for the first time, butjohanna konta has high hopes for here. they have waited a0 yea rs hopes for here. they have waited a0 years for a home champion, and they know never comes easy. you could see donna vekic absolutely beside herself. as leon hasjust pointed out, she is back on court playing in doubles tonight. pointed out, she is back on court playing in doubles tonightm pointed out, she is back on court playing in doubles tonight. it is a measure of how far she has come as a player. she is aware that the woman's draw is open. there is it was about ten names that can probably win it, and she is one of them, for sure. the expectation that is surrounding her now, the last

couple of years of developing her own coping mechanisms, this is where it counts. that is a big win today. a dangerous opponent will beat in the final at nottingham a couple of weeks ago. she has done really well to come through and tough battle, and it will help her to move forwards. a great when also for heather watson with a win against anastasija sevastova. i remember watching heather at the olympics, and she looked rudderless. she looks and she looked rudderless. she looks a completely different player now. she certainly does, hats off to her, she has rekindled the motivation. the two coaches working with just now have done terrificjob with her. she is not really defending any points for the rest of the year, saw

her ranking is just going to points for the rest of the year, saw her ranking isjust going to go one way. she made the final of a lower ranking event about four weeks ago, so she has in on grass for five weeks. she had a good week in eastbourne last week, making the semifinals, so she is any good place and looks terrific today. very aggressive on the court, signs of a player full of confidence. yours what she had to say after her win today. i felt very good after the beginning of the match. very on it, and more relaxed after i was my first match. i know how she plays, she is a great player, and i was expecting her to be playing her best. i was prepared for that, and she started to step up in the second set, which i knew she would. what i was able to keep my cool and just stick with her. she will definitely need to keep her cool against her next opponent, victoria azarenka,

the former world number one. backplane at wimbledon for the first time since having a baby in december, which is looking good. time since having a baby in december, which is looking goodlj saw her yesterday coming in with the pram, and she looks very happy. chipotle has a different perspective on things, but she has not lost our competitiveness. —— she probably has a different perspective. she has got the weapons, she has got the know—how, the experience to come back into a major tournament this fortnight. it will be a big match fortnight. it will be a big match for heather, a tough one, but the way heather is plain, she can challenge anyone. and all for brits coming through today. we need to talk about aljaz bedene, who beat his friend, damir dzumhur. he had to

wait for his chance and he kept his composure. today he is playing his good friend, and he came through really well. a lots more rallies, and he will now revert against what he played against in the first round, a huge server in gilles muller. but aljaz bedene is on a wave just now. muller. but aljaz bedene is on a wavejust now. ijust muller. but aljaz bedene is on a wave just now. ijust interview gilles muller minutes ago. he is a cool customer. leon, thank you for dashing overfrom cool customer. leon, thank you for dashing over from centre court. cool customer. leon, thank you for dashing overfrom centre court. we will let you enjoy some sunshine. thank you. it wouldn't be wimbledon without a bit of controversy, would it? we had injuries and bernard tomic‘s comments yesterday. today it's the turn of danil medvedev, the russian who beat stan wawrinka on monday, and who spoke to us on sportsday last night. he was involved in his second round match against belgium's ruben bemelmens, and was leading in the fifth set when he took exception to the call from the umpire, and demanded that she be replaced. it seemed to distract medvedev

so much so that he lost the set and the match. but he took things further afterwards, and began to throw coins at the umpire's chair, in protest at what he perceived as her mistakes throughout the match. there might be repercussions, though, for the russian afterwards. not quite sure what he was saying by throwing those not quite sure what he was saying by throwing those coins. kei nishikori has never been past the fourth round at wimbledon. the ninth seed is through, though, coming through a four—setter against sergei stakhovsky, a man who once knocked roger federer out here. venus williams knows what it takes to win here. she had to come from behind though, needing three sets to get past qiang wang of china now, 30 years ago today, this happened.

game, set, and match, cash. pat cash won the men's title, beating ivan lendl in 1987, and he's been sharing his memories of his greatest day. as i stood up to go out and serve for the match, inside my head was, basically, my ego, saying, "right, you are serving for "the wimbledon title. don't screw it up." and that was the worst thing you could possibly say to yourself but it was so bad that i actually laughed, and it relaxed me a little bit. game, set, and match, cash. the night before, i was relaxing and

visualising the match, and doing all the stuff that i usually did, and it came into my head and said, "yeah, tomorrow i am going to win, "i am going to climb up." there he goes, up to the box, to his family up there. what a wonderful moment for australia, and cash in particular, and the family. ball boys were lined up, the carpet was almost out, the table was set up, the trophy was just about on the table, and i went, "i can't go now, it's too late". but then i went, "well, if i don't go now, "when am i going to go?" so off i went, and it looked like it was a sort of spur of the moment thing, but it wasn't really. it was something that i really wanted to do. to go and thank my father and the team, and you know, it was a very special moment for us all. and to this day, i can't watch it on the tv. it is too emotional. my father is no longer with us, so... but people play it and replay it, but ijust can't watch it. there has his father, congratulating

his son, the new wimbledon champion. —— there is his father. people say, "it's crazy, you don't even know where the trophy is?" and i'm like, well, i'm embarrassed to say i don't, really. but, you know, it is not about a piece of tin with gold plate. it is about winning that title, and having your name on the board, not necessarily... i wouldn't say i don't care about the actual trophy, but it is about winning the title, not holding a piece of metal. pat cash reminiscing about winning the bundled on title, but he says he has not been reminiscing with even lend all. —— winning the wimbledon title. —— he has not been reminiscing with ivan lendl. no crashes or controversy on the fourth stage of the tour de

france as we saw yesterday, with mark cavendish's broken shoulder and peter sagan's expulsion. but there's a new leader, and afamiliarone, as ben croucher reports. the tour de france can be deceptive. the tour de france can be deceptive. the first claim to test this year's main contenders. —— the first climb. many of chris from's main rivals wilted —— chris froome. this gradient of up to 20% for a stunning summit victory, the real race was behind, as chris froome outsprinted all but dan martin to take second place. he overtook an exhausted greg thomas, who slips back to second. the last two men to don the yellow jersey here have gone on to win in paris, and this is the prettiest pictures for chris froome. england have beaten south africa at the women's cricket world cup by 68 runs,

thanks to a record—breaking partnership of 275 from tammy beaumont and sarah taylor in bristol. the hosts have overtaken south africa to move third in the group stage table, as hugh ferris reports. watching on, the potential stars of england's cricket future. south africa are an emerging force in the woman's game. their strength is their bowling, not that that was immediately obvious. sarah taylor was not far behind, rapidly becoming the story of the day. the writing was on the wall for south africa. they formed the highest partnership in world cup history. could south africa pull off the highest chase. england looks like they might let this slip through their fingers. south africa managed with the bat what they failed to do with the ball, apply pressure. england had it

under control, though. their third victory in a row, and their immediate future looks pretty positive. tomorrow sees the start ofjoe root‘s reign as england's test captain — the first test of the summer, against south africa, at lords. gary ballance returns to the side after being dropped for the winter tour of india. spinner liam dawson makes his home test debut. root will bat at four, and says he hasn't changed too much since taking the captaincy. i have always said, you have got such a great opportunity going out and representing england, and it is for such a short period of your life that you need to make sure you enjoy it. either we want to get that across to the players, every time they go out and play, you are under huge amounts of pressure. you do not need to put yourself under more, and whenever we can off—load that and have a bit of fun in the dressing room, that should happen. ithink have a bit of fun in the dressing room, that should happen. i think it is really good for the environment and for the guys. they naturally get on well with each other, so it is not something that is fake, i think it is really good for the atmosphere

in the changing room. arsenal have broken their transfer record to sign france striker, alexandre lacazette. the deal was completed just over an hour ago, with lacazette joining the gunners for a fee of £a6.5 million on a five year contract. that could go up to as much as £52 million. full—back liam williams is the british and irish lions only injury worry ahead of saturday's deceiding test against new zealand in auckland. the welshman is struggling with what the lions camp say is tightness in his leg. leigh halfpenny is the likely choice as cover. warren gatland will name his side at eight o clock tonight. new zealand have already announced their team. centre ngani laumape replaces the suspended sonny bill williams, who was sent off in the second test on saturday

back to wimbledon and the search is on via social media for a boy who thought he had grabbed a souvenir from the american after he won his match yesterday. sock threw a towel into the crowd where the boy — to the left here — grabbed it only for a man to take exception to this and wrestle the towel away. not exactly gentlemanly conduct, you might think... as did sock himself. but this afternoon the boy has contacted jack sock via instagram so he will receive his towel after all. and there's still plenty of fallout from bernard tomic‘s admittance that he wasn't injured when he called for the trainer during his defeat yesterday — leading to calls for him to have his prize money taken away from him after he said he was bored during the match.

well, today the western australia police force have weighed in to the debate, their new recruitment drive centering around a picture of tomic with the slogan bored of yourjob? wa police is anything but boring! one of the feel—good stories at this year's wimbledon has been the return of two—times champion petra kvitova after she sustained horrific injuries to her hand after being attacked by a knife at her home. kvitova has invited the surgeon who operated on her to wimbledon as her guest, and he's been speaking to the bbc‘s rishi persad. she is playing her second round match now against the american, madison brengle. she had a severe laceration of her tendons on all fingers, and to gain a good range of motion and to gain full function is very difficult. there are lots of possible convocations, even if you treated

well. you cannot be sure that she will come back, and she is now training for a match. two and a half months, and she is back, winning in birmingham. 0utstanding. months, and she is back, winning in birmingham. outstanding. did you have the discussion with petra kvitova that she may not be able to do what she once did before? at the beginning i told her that it was a severe injury, there is a very high risk that she will not pass and she will not come back. but we will do everything we can so that she will be able to come back. you said you have not seen herfor a month. was that a surprise that you are going to be here, berdych to have in england you would appear to support her? she told me that she would invite me for wimbledon, and that was three months after the injury, but i said, let's be realistic. first goal in the healing process and we will see. the fact first goal in the healing process. i said i

will answer her in the end, but i am happy that i am here. we understand that she cannot still close her racket hand, so it is amazing that she is playing at all. rafael nadal is in action, fresh from his astonishing tenth french open title last month. he is playing the american, donald young. and not going badly at all for rafael nadal, he sometimes struggles in the early stages of wimbledon, switching from play to grass. but it is 3—2, nadal a break—up in the first set, after andy murrayjohanna konta have both gone through on centre court. here is a plague of flying ants blowing into sw19. you can see them

landing on people's faces, struggling around on the grass. thousands of them, they have been everywhere. happily, the ants have drifted away on the summer breeze, and so must we. join as again at the same time tomorrow. goodbye. —— join as again. 0nce once the temperatures push towards 29 or 30 degrees, it makes the headlines. 0ur weather watchers are out there in the london area to ca ptu re out there in the london area to capture the heatwave. widely across the south, plenty of sunshine to be had, but across the north—east of england, lots of cloud. a real dip in the temperatures, and the first pa rt in the temperatures, and the first part of the day, that is the sort of scene that people were trying to see through their windows. the rain did ease overnight, so there will not be much left in that great bank of

cloud. towards the north—east, another area of cloud, and into the far south—east, it may be that we end the night, a sticky one at that, with the prospect of some thunderstorm activity. i do not expect to see swathes of water across carriageways in the south—east, but i would not rule out dampness in some areas. you may hear the odd rumble of thunder, but not torrential downpours at this stage. further north and west, a drier and finer prospect will stop do not be fooled by that, we will come to that ina fooled by that, we will come to that in a second. more rain across the west of scotland, as if it were needed. this rain is unwelcome in some parts, and then gradually working its way eastwards. the risk of showers moves ever further north through east anglia, and then there is the potential of some thunderstorms breaking out from eastern wales and to the north—east of england. all a long way from the

championships at wimbledon, those early showers should not be a problem for play. i should stress that it will not be that hot everywhere, although some of the ones will move into the north of england. thunderstorms will gradually slip away off into the nazi overnight, and then on friday, a lot of hot weather, with a fair amount of sunshine to start with. many areas will stay dry, and again, the highest temperatures will be across the south—eastern quarter. into saturday, another finger of cloud and rain moving through the borders and the north of england, too. the weekend, turning a bit fresher, dry for most, and there will be some showers. hello and welcome to 100 days. north korea launches its first intercontinental mobile missile. the global power now face a challenge.

after the successful test, president trump blasts beijing for not working to help the white house. in the next hour, the un security council cold an emergency meeting cold by america. it wants tougher action against korea. the new crisis comes as donald trump depart on his second international trip, first for poland and then tough talk that the g20 summit. also qatar comes on for more