tiles and wallet and this is sport today live in the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme, defending masters champion sergio garcia it's the water four times, leaving him second from bottom after the opening round. arsenal beat cska moscow. alexander lacks at stealing a double. roger federer returning to tennis for the first time after withdrawing from the australian open injanuary withdrawing from the australian open in january due to withdrawing from the australian open injanuary due to a hip injury. hello there. welcome to the programme, where we start with news from the opening round of the masters. the men's first golf major of the year. jordan spieth is the leader after the opening round on six under par, two shots clear after that saw him manage five consecutive birdies on the back nine before finishing with a bogey. the world numberfour leads.

elsewhere, the world number one dustinjohnson finished elsewhere, the world number one dustin johnson finished 1—over, elsewhere, the world number one dustinjohnson finished 1—over, as did the four—time world champion tiger woods, having missed the last two masters due back injury. tiger woods, having missed the last two masters due back injurym tiger woods, having missed the last two masters due back injury. it fell back great to be back at there again. i have only come at back out here in the last couple of used to have food. —— felt. it is great to come out and play and know that i had this golf course in front of me. —— years. the wind was kind of changing direction, i did not have a part, ultimately i played an even higher. if i clean up the parfives, i should be better. at the end of the day, the way this golf course is set up, they have it right where

they want it. it is easy to run away from it but it is also easy to lose it. you may well remember that an american golfer dislocated his ankle celebrating during the par three contest celebrating during the par three co ntest o n celebrating during the par three contest on wednesday, before popping back into place. but there was doubt about his dissertation because of that. it has been pretty crazy, to be in this position, when i woke this morning, nothing short of a miracle if you ask me. i can barely put any pressure on it, i am barely walking. but obviously, after the mri we had, there was no real damage, so at that point at about eight o'clock this morning, i knew that i was going to play. an awful day for the defending champion sergio garcia after the spaniard carted 13 on the par 5/15 hole after hitting 15 shots. in doing so, he

missed the highest single masters school in history and will certainly struggled to make the cut at nine over after the opening round. —— struggle. i know how that feels. arsenal have one foot in the europa league semifinals after a 4—0 win over cs ka league semifinals after a 4—0 win over cska moscow. richard conway was there. a comfortable win for arsenal in the end, 4—1 in the end, that will give them great confidence going into the second leg of this europa league quarter—final. —— 4—1. two for alexandre la gazette, ramsey in denied his hat—trick by the width of the post. diplomatic relations between russia and britain perhaps

pa rt between russia and britain perhaps part of the reason for low then attendance numbers. next the estate, arsenal will go into it with that 4-1 arsenal will go into it with that 4—1 advantage. they will now be confident of making the semifinals and hats going on to win this competition. it was a spectacular first half, played at a spectacular pace that as well, an uncomfortable one for me because they look dangerous as well, you know, and i would always hope that we could score but they could score as well. we played against a side who is technically very good at a tough time, i think. technically very good at a tough time, ithink. we technically very good at a tough time, i think. we scored some great goals in the first half and at half—time, we will 4—1 and it was tough not to concede any more. we know it is not over, and we have to go there with focus and try to win the game. elsewhere, the tournament

favourites atletico madrid beat sporting lisbon 2—0. the second legs of all those ties take place next thursday. liverpool have been charged by uefa following the behaviour of their fans prior to the first leg of their champions league quarter—final against manchester city. the city bus was attacked as it arrived at anfield for wednesday's match. no players were injured but two police officers were hurt and replacement bus had to be found for the return journey, hurt and replacement bus had to be found for the returnjourney, after they lost their much 3—0. fans have been accused of letting fireworks, crowd disturbances, and acts of damage. the case will be dealt with at the end of may. rafael nadal will return to competitive tennis action for the first time after retiring injured from the australian open. he

has been out of the game to a half months. he will play at philipp wollscheid in the second singles rubber. yeah, a tough one. he plays very well, so it will be a tough battle. i need to try play very well to try to be successful. i think i am playing well but always they competition chance, so that is it. —— philipp kohlschreiber. competition chance, so that is it. -- philipp kohlschreiber. angelique kerber has beaten naomi asarco from japan for the first time. she fought back to take it in a tie—break. she beat the indian wells champion early in the second set and went on to ta ke in the second set and went on to take the third 6—3, and with it the match. the number three seed from russia into a comfortable straight

sets victory over her romanian opponent. she was another win at indian wells recently. she remains on course to retain her title that she won in charleston last year. madison keys is also through to the last eight. she beat her italian opponent 6—4, 6—3. she will go on to face her fellow american. opponent 6—4, 6—3. she will go on to face herfellow american. there opponent 6—4, 6—3. she will go on to face her fellow american. there was no fairytale finish to the surfing career of the multiple world champion mick fanning after the australian finished second in his final professional competition at els beach. the three—time world champion earned 8.1 points on his first wave that was not enough to claim victory. he was beaten into second by a brazilian, it was his first championship tournament victory. in major league baseball

news, the minnesota twins came from 2-0 news, the minnesota twins came from 2—0 down to win 11—2 against the seattle mariners, on a on which a bowler eagle challenger tried to get the better of one of the players. with his team leading, he struck out the seattle mariners. they clawed their way to parity, and a final home on at the top of the ninth confirmed the win. five—time world darts champion eric bristow has died at the age of 60. the news was announced by the professional darts corporation, which said he had died on thursday following a heart attack. bristow, also known as the crafty cockney, was a world champion in1986, he crafty cockney, was a world champion in 1986, he also won world masters titles. don't forget, for all the

action on date two of the commonwealth games on the gold coast in queensland, you keep up—to—date if you head to our website. we have full commentary on that one. the 200 metre freestyle heats go off shortly. the south african champion looks to become the swimmer who has won the most in commonwealth games history. he has the overall mark of 18 in his sights. you just remember london 2012, don't you? his father had cancer issue is over the past you also, so many people are wishing him on to get to that mark. don't

forget that everything, you can go to that website and see that and everything else of course on the website. but an hourfor me everything else of course on the website. but an hour for me and the rest of this sport survey team, goodbye. —— for now. hello. thursday always was set to be one of the best days of this week and so it proved and our weather watchers were very much out in force, probably encouraged by the fact that it was such a glorious day all the way from scotland to the south coast and across the irish sea and into northern ireland, but that's really rather cruel to use that particular picture to bring you the message that it will be on friday another glorious day for many parts of the british isles because, i'm afraid to say, that belfast and indeed much of northern ireland, it won't be that way for you, and the seeds of the destruction of your glorious friday were there being sown on thursday with this veil of cloud moving

in from the atlantic and as we get into the first part of friday, well, the rain will already be there, and how, across northern ireland, and it may already be flirting with the western side of scotland as well. but at least underneath that veil of cloud, it won't be such a cold start to friday in the west as it will be in the east because your skies will be that bit clearer. and it's that time of the year where if the skies are clear, the heat will dribble away and you start off with a pretty cool start your day. there, the bigger picture, one of the benefits of having that low pressure out towards our west, is that on its eastern flank, we're sucking up all this mild air from the western part of the mediterranean and from iberia. so eventually, as you will see, our temperatures really will respond to that. but, i'm afraid, out towards the west, there is no disguising the fact that once the rain has set in, it will probably keep on coming across northern and western parts of scotland. certainly for the greater part of the day for northern ireland and for the western fringes of wales. here, the temperatures may

struggle, just about getting into double figures. but further towards the east, somebody is going to see 16 or 17 degrees somewhere across the south—eastern quarter. from friday into saturday, we'll push that initial pulse of rain away. but we've still got a linkage, actually, that frontal system bringing the prospect of yet more rain, somewhere across eastern and central parts of the british isles in the first part of the day. i think northern ireland, central and southern parts of scotland, maybe the western fringes of wales and the south—west, could get away with a dry day. there is some uncertainty, but i think one of the things that we can say about the weekend is that the temperatures for many of us, because of that essentially southerly flow, will stay in double figures and again, there isjust this prospect on sunday of a little bit of rain for some, but many could well stay dry. and, as i say, on the mild side. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america

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