hello there, i'm tulsen tollett and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: gary woodhouse leads the us pga championship, and this man — his compatriot, rickie fowler — by a stroke after the first round. four—time champion novak djokovic is knocked out of the toronto masters in the third round by greece's 19—year—old stefanos tsitsipas. and turkish delight in berlin, as 200m world champion ramil guliyev adds the european title to his collection. hello there and welcome to the programme, where we start in missouri at the us pga championship, with gary woodland the one stroke leader after the opening round at bellerive. the american carded a 6—under first round of 64 in the year's final major and leads compatriot rickie fowler by a stroke, who himself led for much of thursday. the 29—year—old slipped up just the once with a bogey on the 16th, but six birdies, including this delightful putt at the par four seventh have him in prime position, along with compatriot woodland. 2015 winnerjason day of australia

is two strokes further back on 3—under and could've done with a little bit more luck on the green, despite this one dropping. while four—time winner tiger woods had a horror start when he went out on the back nine, dropping three shots on his first two holes, as he looks to build on his recent form, although he left himself with plenty to do. but a solid back nine hole saw him finish level par and leave himself with a chance heading into the second round on friday. ijust hung in there. all i was trying to do was just grind away, he gathered and somehow try to get to maybe one over—par at the tournament. i ended up being two, it does trying to chip away at a couple of par—5, ijust hung in there. i was hitting the ball all right but i was hitting the ball all right but i was really putting well, i thought ifi

was really putting well, i thought if i could somehow get myself in the right sections, i would do all right. i managed to get myself in the right sections today. the day before the tournament started, australianjarrod lyle passed away after a long struggle with cancer. lyle was first diagnosed with leukemia as a teenager and suffered recurrences of the disease in 2012 and 2017. just last week, the 36—year—old chose not to seek any more treatment and his good friend rickie fowler wore bright yellow — much like lyle often wore — and paid tribute after his round. it has been a tough few weeks, especially talking with guys that we re especially talking with guys that were also close with jarrod in. i was lucky enough to be able to talk with him last friday. —— with jarrod in. it has been fun to be talking about him while we are out there playing, because he would probably be the one to kind of kick you in the bath if you are feeling sad or bad, he would give you a hard time and tell you the man up or something

along those lines, maybe not those same words. so it has been enjoyable celebrating his life and we will continue to do that. 0nto tennis news, and novak djokovic is out of the toronto masters after losing in three sets to 19—year—old stefanos tsitsipas. the rising greek star, who's ranked 27 in the world, followed up his shock win over dominic thiem in the second round by knocking out the wimbledon champion, to reach the quarter—finals of a masters series event for the first time in his career. tsitsipas took the deciding set 6—3 to seal his place in the last eight, where he'll face the number two seed and defending champion, alexander zverev. earlier, the numberfive seed grigor dimitrov was taken the distance by the unseeded american frances tiafoe, who's ranked 41 in the world. dimitrov came through after winning a deciding set tie—break to seal his place in the quarter—finals. and he now plays the wimbledon runner—up, kevin anderson. the number four seed

from south africa beat the bela russian qualifier ilya ivashka in straight sets. anderson finished the match off with an to win it 7—5, 6—3. there was an upset in the women's singles in montreal, where the number two seed caroline wozniacki is out. she was beaten in three sets by aryna sabalenka from belarus. but the number three seed, sloane stephens, is through to the quarter—finals. stephens — who's gearing up for the defence of her us open title later this month — beat spain's carla suarez—navarro in straight sets. stephens won 6—2, 7—5, and now plays anastasija sevastova. the number eight seed petra kvitova is out. the czech, who won the canadian 0pen title back in 2012, was beaten in straight sets by kiki bertens of the netherlands. the dutchwoman, who's ranked 18 in the world, won 6—3, 6—2 to claim her place in the quarter—finals — when she'll play the number 15 seed from australia,

ashleigh barty. it was day four of the european athletics championships in berlin on thursday with seven gold medals decided. turkey picked up their first gold of the championships and our reporter, ade adedoyin, was there to witness it. a number of world champions from london 2017 claimed gold in the german capital on thursday night. ramil guliyev of turkey one 200 metres in a new championship time of 19.76, that makes him the second fastest european champion in history. equally impressive was the norwegian who held on for victory in the 400 metres hurdle. his work is not donejust yet, the 400 metres hurdle. his work is not done just yet, he will race on the flat on friday. attempting to do the flat on friday. attempting to do the double, he will go head—to—head with smith resigned. that promises to bea with smith resigned. that promises to be a redhot race. —— smith of

britain. thomas roller, the 2016 european champion, also won gold in the championships. elsewhere, there were 14 gold medals up for grabs in glasgow, which included a victory for nicola spirig from switzerland in the women's triathlon, and a fourth gold for british swimmer adam peaty. you can find all the results on the bbc sports website or via the bbc sport app. football — and thursday was transfer deadline day for clubs in england. chelsea completed the signing of kepa arriza balaga from athletic bilbao for $93 million. that is a new world record fee for a goalkeeper. the 23—year—old basque, who made his debut for spain last year, signed a seven—year contract at stamford bridge. he replaces thibaut courtois, who's completed his move to the european champions, real madrid, for a fee of around $40 million. the croatian midfielder mateo kovacic has moved to chelsea on loan as part of the deal. courtois previously spent three years with real‘s city rivals, atletico madrid.

england cricketer ben stokes told a court he "stepped in" to defend two gay men before an alleged brawl. the durham all—rounder is one of two men accused of fighting outside a bristol nightclub on the 25th of september last year, and he gave evidence on the fourth day of the trial, asjohn kay reports. sorry. do you mind just loosening that right one on my wrist? handcuffed in the back of a police car. this was the moment ben stokes was arrested in september last year. it was shot on a police body camera, following the alleged incident in the clifton area of bristol. just yards from the vehicle, where the england cricketer was being detained, another man lay injured on the ground. right. the reason... i'll explain to you why you've been arrested as well. yeah. it's because there's a guy over there, who is covered in blood, and i've been told that you punched him. because he was... 0k... he was abusing my two friends for being gay. that's what i've been

told at the moment. that's why i arrested you on suspicion of assault. the footage was shown to the jury yesterday, as part of the prosecution case. today, ben stokes came to court to give his account of what happened. he denies the charge of affray. standing in the witness box, he was played video footage, shot by a witness on the night of the alleged incident. the 27—year—old cricketer said he had stepped in to defend two gay men. he denied mimicking them or making any homophobic comments himself. he insisted he was not drunk or enraged, and acted entirely in self defence. he told thejury he told the jury that injuries to his right hand, which have been shown to the court, were the result of injuries from cricket which occurred years earlier, and nothing to do with the assault on that night. the jury has also been shown this footage of injuries suffered by 28—year—old ryan ali. he's also charged with affray and denies the count.

ryan... this afternoon, a third man, ryan hale, was cleared. the court was told the former soldier felt he was an innocent bystander, who'd feared he was going to be killed. the judge said there was no case for him to answer and he was found not guilty of affray. i'm happy. that's all. i'm happy for myself. just got to see what happens now with the rest of the case, so, i won't comment until then. after giving evidence for three hours, the england all—rounder left court with his wife this evening. ben stokes is due to return tomorrow for a fifth day, as this trial continues. jon kay, bbc news, bristol crown court. rain prevented any play on the opening day of the second test between england and india at lord's. the match was due to start at 11am local time, but persistent rain and dark skies meant play was finally abandoned for the day just before 5pm. it's the first time in five years that a whole day's play has been lost in a test match played in england. the home side lead the series 1—0. that is all we have got time for.

you can get all the latest sports news at our website. but from me and the rest of the sport today team, till next time, goodbye. good morning. well, yesterday brought quite a change across the country. we had some welcome rain. nowhere near enough i know, but nevertheless i'm sure gardeners and growers out there are happy. we had over an inch of rain in suffolk, also some thundery downpours towards the end of the afternoon and into the evening. that area of low pressure which was responsible is drifting off into scandinavia, but something also that's interesting is behind that frontal system, it's introducing slightly fresher air in comparison to of late. that's allowing for a much more comfortable start to the day,

chilly in some places with low single figures. so a bit of a change to the story. we've not lost summer completely, some of that warmth is set to return, but for today, it's a fairly straightforward day of sunny spells and scattered showers. some of the showers will start to gather and become longer spells of rain, particularly in the south—east. looking at the afternoon, into the far north of scotland, showers should remain well scattered, a fresher feel to the afternoon, with highest values around 15—17 degrees. that's the low 605. a scattering of showers for northern ireland and northern england, some of those becoming frequent to the east of the pennines through the afternoon, and showers and longer spells of rain into the south—east. by the end of friday, most of those will have cleared away and then tempertaures are set to dip again, potentially into low single figures to start our weekend. but we will start the weekend on a positive note with a good deal of dry weather in the story, but a little more cloud starts to gather into the far south—west. you can see the first signs of this frontal system, which will bring some rain

as we go into the weekend. really, that rain just pushing in into cornwall, eventually moving into the dorset coast as we go into the afternoon, but for most of us it will be a dry, settled story. clouding over into the afternoon with temperatures up to around 16—22 degrees. with the sunshine in the south—east, that will feel reasonably pleasant. by sunday, it looks as though we will see some wetter weather across western areas. if anywhere is likely to stay dry, perhaps the east of scotland and the far south—east corner, and quite a humid feel with highs of around 24 or 25 degrees. that's the mid—705 fahrenheit. early part of next week through the northern half of the country continues with this fresher feel, but something a little bit brighter from tuesday onwards. further south, that little bit warmer, it looks as though that is where we are likely to see a little more in the way of sunshine, with highs of 25 degrees. welcome to bbc news.

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