hello, this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: alexander zverev stuns world number one novak djokovic to win the season—ending atp finals. switzerland overturn a 2—0 deficit to thrash high—flying belgium 5—2 in the uefa nations league. and francesco molinari caps a fantastic season by winning the european tour's race to dubai. hello and thanks for joining us on sport today. alexander zverev recorded the biggest victory of his fledgling career after seeing off novak djokovic in straight sets to win the nitto atp finals in london. the world number one a heavy favourite to win what would have been a sixth finals title, but he was outclassed by 21—year—old zverev, 6—3, 6—4. austin halewood was watching the action. despite beating zverev earlier this

week, this was novak djokovic‘s turn to be outclassed. just like the first match, the opening set was too close to call. eight games went with serve, with the german more than holding his own. after dominating all week, djokovic and then lost his serve for the first time in the tournament. his opponent had his chance, and took it. game and first set, zverev. the world number one clearly rattled. two early breaks of serve followed in the second. as he lost his control, zverev showed his star quality. a brilliant match ended just as it again. djokovic fought to the last, but this was zverev‘s night, an outcome few would have predict that. —— predicted. for

zverev, this has been a long time coming. he might only be 21, but much has been expected of him since hejoined the men's much has been expected of him since he joined the men's tour. much has been expected of him since hejoined the men's tour. now, after the biggest win of his career, 2019 could be his time to shine at the slams. there was a tuly remarkable game in group 2a of uefa's nations league between switzerland and belgium in lucerne. a swiss side needing to win by twogoals to top the group, who last week lost to minnows qatar in a friendly, up against an eden hazard—led belgium, who of course finished third at this year's world cup. well, it was eden's brother thorgan who put the belge 2—0 up, after just 17 minutes, with his second of the night. but then an incredible turnaround, as the hosts scored five unanswered goals, benfica's haris seferovic grabbing a hat—trick. it finished 5—2 and means switzerland will head to the inaugural nations league semi—final showpiece in portugal next year. and joining them in portugal will be england, who also had to come

from behind to beat croatia 2—1. harry kane scored the winner, which ends a run of 7117 minutes without an england goal. we show that we can beat the big teams, you know, croatia and spain are two of the very best teams in the world. so that is our next step, beating the big nations home and away, and we have definitely done that. so that will give us huge belief going forward, and if we want to win competition is, we are going to win competition is, we are going to have to do that. on saturday we announced the nominations for this year's bbc african footballer of the year, and on sport today this week, we will find out a bit more about those vying for the award. medhi benatia has won two serie a titles and two bundesliga titles in the past four years, and was part of the moroccan team that pushed spain and portugal so close at the world cup. it is the first time the 31—year—old has been nominated for the bbc award. medhi benatia is nominated along with mohamed salah, sadio mane, kalidou koulibaly

and thomas partey, and you can vote for your favourite right now via the bbc sport website, that is bbc.com/sport and follow the link to the bbc african footballer of the year voting page. voting closes at 8:00pm gmt on sunday 2 december. francesco molinari has become the first italian to be crowned europe's top golfer. he took the race to dubai title after defending champion tommy fleetwood failed to win the season—ending dp world tour championship. molinari added another honour to his list of accolades this season, while team europe partner fleetwood, who needed to win the tournament to overhaul molinari, slipped out of contention with a third—round 7a. danny willett shot a four—under 68 in the final round to beat fellow englishman matt wallace and american patrick reed by two strokes. he gets his first tournament win since taking the masters in 2016. but the race to dubai title caps a fantastic year for molinari, who won his first major at the open

and became the first european player to seal a perfect five points in a ryder cup. just very happy and very proud, obviously. it's been an incredible year, an incredible season. i've achieved all i could ask for, and even more. you know, obviously you look at the names on the race to dubai trophy, and before that, and it is the top guys. george w bush was still president the last time charles howell iii won an event on the pga tour. that was back in 2007. no wonder he was a bit emotional at the rsm classic in georgia. he won it on the second hole of a playoff with patrick rodgers. the win means he will play in next year's masters for the first time since 2012. meanwhile, thailand's ariya jutanugarn clinched the yearlong race to the cme globe prize at the lpga finale in florida. her fifth—placed six—under—par 66 was enough to win the award for the season's best female golfer.

not only that, feast your eyes on the cool $1 million bonus prize she picked up in the process — a pretty hefty pay day for the world number one. lexi thompson, however, was the week's best golfer. she shot a final—round 70 to finish at 18—under, and take the lpga's season—ending cme group tour championship by four strokes over nelly korda. pakistan have regained control of the first test against new zealand in abu dhabi, and look well set for victory after day three. yasir shah and hasan ali the star performers, both bowlers helping themselves to five—wicket hauls. it was hasan who made his way through the top order, with three of the first four wickets, as new zealand slipped to 108—4 in their second innings. and despite momentarily steadying themselves, they collapsed from 220—1; to 249 all—out. that left pakistan a target of 176. 0peners imam—ul—haq and mohammad hafeez took them to 37 without loss at stumps,

so pakistan needing just 139 runs with ten wickets in hand. west indies have finished top of group a at the women's world twenty20, after beating england by four wickets in a closely fought contest. england struggled after being put into bat by the hosts, and collapsed to 50—6 at one stage. but, despite britney cooper's brilliant run—out, england managed to regain composure to post a competitive 115—8. sloppy fielding from the english saw west indies keep the scoreboard ticking. it went down to the final over, but the windies holding their nerve to win with three balls to spare and set up a meeting with australia in the last four. england, who finished second in the group, will face india. you can get all the latest sports news at our website. that is bbc.com/sport. but, from me and the rest

of the sport today team, goodbye. hello there. this is the week where winter makes something of a comeback. the weather is set to get quite a bit colder, probably the coldest day tuesday in the week ahead. now, we've had clear skies over recent hours. that's allowed temperatures to plummet away. northern scotland have already seen temperatures down as low as “11 in inverness, and also in braemar. but over the next two hours, cloud will be spreading in from the north sea across much of scotland, much of england, and into eastern areas of wales as well. that combined with a breeze should prevent a frost for many of us, but it will still be a chilly old start to the day. now, the big change with monday's weather compared with what we had over the weekend is there's going to be

much more cloud in the sky. there'll still be occasional brighter spells, but through the afternoon, the cloud will thicken with showers. they'll come along in shower streams. one of those could well target kent and essex, another one running into parts of norfolk and lincolnshire. now, running up the eastern coasts, you'll notice the showers get a little bit less widespread as we get towards south—east england. you should be quite unlucky to see showers here, there will be one or two knocking around. temperatures not as warm as the weekend. we're looking at highs typically into single figures, and the colder air will begin to move in as we head into tuesday. the cloud thickens, as well, so there'll be further showers around, perhaps a bit of wintriness mixed in too, particularly but not exclusively over the hills. temperatures — well, we're looking at perhaps five degrees in places. but factor in these strong winds, gusting to 40, maybe 50 mph around the coast, and it will feel colder than these numbers would suggest, not that five is a particularly warm day. that's pretty cold

for this time of year. but if you add the wind onto that, it will feel more like freezing in places. and there could be a bit snow of around tuesday night, perhaps around the hills of wales, also the brecon beacons as well. now, the middle part of the week sees this big blocking pattern set up in thejet stream. that means the warmth from the atlantic really won't be pushing in this week. instead, the winds will be coming in from a an east—south—easterly direction. so it's a slow recovery process with temperatures from tuesday into wednesday. you'll notice the winds coming from slightly more of an east—south—easterly direction, and that will push the cloud and showers further northwards into northern ireland and scotland. bits of white mixed in. yes, a bit of snow over the hills, the grampians could see some of that, maybe the tops of the northern pennines and the north york moors. another cold day, mind you — highs of between seven and eight degrees celsius for most. that's your weather. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. i'm reged ahmad. our top stories:

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