coming up on this programme: the end of the road — david ferrer bids farewell as rafael nadal continues his bid for a fourth successive barcelona open title. while in the netherlands, psv eindhoven win again to draw level withajax, with just two games remaining in the eredivisie. amd atalanta will play lazio in the coppa italia final after a 5—4 aggregate win over fiorentina. hello and welcometo the programme where we start with the tennis news that rafael nadal is through to the quarter finals of the barcelona open where he'll face jan lennard struff. that's after a straight sets win overfellow spaniard david ferrer who's retiring next month. nadal, who dropped a set in his second round win over leonardo mayer, managed to beat his great rival, ferrer, in straight sets, 6—3 6—3, as he looks to make it four titles in a row at this event and he paid tribute

to his friend afterwards. i have been watching all day, happy of course for the victory but very sad to say goodbye to a good friend and one... one friend who we went through all these things during our career. at the moment, i really hope that he is very happy with his decision and he is able to do whatever he wants. kei nishikori is a two—time former winner and he sealed his place in the quarter—finals with a straight sets win over felix auger—aliassime on thursday. the japanese fourth seed won 6—1, 6—3, and will face spanish lucky loser roberto carballes baena in the last eight. on the wta tour, the top seed and world number one naomi osaka is through to the quarter—finals of the stuttgart grand prix. in her first clay court match of the season, she beat shay su way

from taiwan in straight sets — a win that guarantees she'll still be world number one when the new rankings are published on monday, osaka now plays croatia's donna vekic in the last eight. osaka could meet former finalist victoria azarenka in the semi—finals. that's after the belrarussian knocked out defending champion karolina pliskova in three sets. azarenka, who's currently ranked 61 in the world, needed over two hours for a 4—6, 6—3, 6—4 win setting up a quarter—final against estonian annette kontaveit. also through to the last eight is two—time champion angelique kerber who beat her german compatriot and long—time friend andrea petkovic 6—2, 6—4. kerber will take on sixth seed kiki bertens for a spot in the semi—finals. on to football and 3rd—placed real madrid shared a goalless draw with neighbours getafe in spain on thursday. the result means that getafe remain 4th as they bid try and qualify for the champions league for the first time. elsewhere, villarreal eased their relegation fears

with a i—nil win at real sociedad that takes them up to 14th in the table. and munir el haddadi scored twice as sevilla thrashed the bottom side rayo vallecano 5—0. sevilla are now level on points with 4th—placed getafe. rayo remain 7 points from safety, with four games to play. in the netherlands, psv eindhoven won 3—0 at villem tvay, to move level on points with eredivisie leaders ajax. it was donyell malen who scored the opening goal of the game after half an hour, and that was the first of two goals in a five—minute spell for the regining champions. mid—way through the second—half, steven bergwijn added the third for psv, to keep alive their hopes of retaining their title. they now have 80 points — the same as ajax — and both sides have two games to play. in italy, atalanta are through to the final of the coppa italia. they beat fiorentina 2—1 in the second leg of their semi final, to reach the final for the first time in 23 years. the teams were level at 3—3 from the first leg, and the return match was only three

minutes old when luis muriel put fiorentina ahead in the tie. 10 minutes later, atalanta equalised with a penalty — josip ilicic the scorer, and the home side were ahead on away goals. it was papu gomez who scored the goal that secured a 2—1 victory on the night, and a 5—4 win on aggregate. atalanta, who won the cup, for the only time, back in 1963, will play lazio in next month's final. voting is now open for this year's bbc women's footballer of the year award. the award is in its fifth year and we're hearing from all five nominees over the course of the week. today is the turn of one of the world's best defenders — saki kumagai. she won the world cup with japan back in 2011 and the asian cup last year when she also won the european champions league for the third year in a row with her french club olympique lyonnais.

translation: without football life is less interesting and too serious. you always have to love, it is life. i take pleasure from football. my name is saki kumagai. i play football for olympique lyonnais in japan. commentator: saki kumagai pushers. . translation: of course, becoming asian champion with the japan and european champion with olympique lyonnais, my club, they we re olympique lyonnais, my club, they were big tournaments for me and they we re were big tournaments for me and they were the best moments for me last

year. for me, when i was little, now it is better, butjapanese year. for me, when i was little, now it is better, but japanese woman's football was not professional and also we could not imagine a japanese woman leaving to play football abroad. she played in the usa and i a lwa ys abroad. she played in the usa and i always watched on tv and, of course, i wanted to be like her. saki. it is life and it is my passion. without foot life is less interesting and too serious. —— football. i take pleasure from football. football is joy, pleasure from football. football is joy, it is my life.

you can find details of all the nominees for this year's award and cast your vote for the winner on our website — head to bbc.com/womens football the vote closes on thursday the 2nd of may at 8 hours gmt. this sunday, mo farah will try to win his first london marathon. but instead of preparing quietly for the big race, he has become embroiled in a row with the former distance runner, haile gebrasalasi. farah alleged he'd been robbed, at a hotel owned by the ethiopian, an allegation which led to an exchange of insults, as our sports editor dan roan reports. he's one of britain's greatest ever olympians, but for two days now, sir mo farah has been embroiled in a bitter war of words with another legendary distance runner. farah competed against haile gebrselassie and has been training at the hotel he owns in addis ababa. today, the ethiopian great claimed farah assaulted a coach and his wife here at his hotel's gym. he had a fight with two athlete,

with a husband and a wife. he beat both of them up. that was the action of a criminal. farah's camp deny this, insisting he acted in self—defence, the alleged victim spoke publicly for the first time. translation: when a brawl erupted, mo kicked me around my neck. it was a minor hit. this caused a disturbance inside the gym. police came to the scene, but it was resolved with mediation, but he never touched my wife. this all comes after farah went public over his anger at the way the hotel dealt with a robbery, he says he suffered there last month. someone at the hotel came into my bag, opened my bag, took my money, took my nice watch my wife bought me as a present. just to be honest, it's haile who owns the hotel. when you stay for three

months in that hotel, it's very disappointing to know someone who has that hotel and has that kind of support could do nothing. gebrselassie hit back by accusing farah of not paying his heavily—discounted hotel bill, and revealed a message on his phone, apparently from farah, warning him he would go public with the dispute. he told me he was going to attack me directly. "i'm going to spoil, i'm going to destroy your name, destroy your hotel" he says. farah denies all the claims and must now focus on sunday's london marathon. but with the origins of the row still unclear, the tension between two of athletics‘ biggest names is set to continue. dan roan, bbc news. at the world snooker championship, australia's neil robertson holds a 5 frames to 3 lead in his second round match with shaun murphy. the englishman fought back in the best of 25 frame affair against robertson, to trail by two overnight. murphy was on course for a maximum 1—4—7 in the final frame of the session but missed the last red — the break ending on 112.

one game in the nba taking place, the spurs against the nuggets. the spurs leading heading towards half—time. but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello there. after the warm easter weather that we saw last weekend, it's been turning gradually cooler and also more unsettled over the past couple of days. and that unsettled theme continues for the next few days too. this amazing picture was taken as the sun set on thursday evening in salford. you can see the big shower clouds that we had, the heavy downpours. a similar picture on friday. there will be some sunshine around, equally some heavy showers in the forecast too. and things will start to feel cold over the next few days. you can see the blue colours, that is a colder air mass filtering in in from the north—west.

the warm weather that has been with us is now pushing further east across europe. so for friday morning we have got some clear skies for many eastern areas to start off the day. more cloud already in the west, with some showery rain for northern ireland, wales, the south—west of england through the morning. that should then push its way eastwards into south—west scotland, northern england too, before the next bands of showers arrive from the west later in the afternoon. so temperatures for the likes of belfast and cardiff, only around 11—12, but we could still see 17 degrees 01’ so across eastern parts of england. but some heavy showers almost anywhere on and off through the day. into friday evening and saturday, that's when things turn particularly stormy. storm hannah moving its way in from the atlantic. that's going to be quite a troublemaker, i think, bringing a wet and a particularly windy start to saturday, wherever you are. so let's take a look at storm hannah. it's moving its way in from the atlantic through friday night and into the early hours of saturday. so this developing area of low pressure has got a lot of isobars associated with it, particularly on the southern edge. so it will be across ireland that we see the very strong winds, but they're also going to push into

wales and the south—west of england. widespread gales likely here on saturday, with winds gusting around 60, even 70 mph. so notjust the strength of the wind, but also some really heavy showery rain for many areas through the day on saturday. the heaviest of the showers and the strongest of the winds pushing eastwards through the day across central and eastern parts of england. should dry up for northern ireland, north—west scotland, and the south—west of england later in the day. but it will feel cold, with temperatures generally around 10—12 degrees on saturday. when you add on the windchill it is going to feel pretty chilly and we could well see some disruption due to the strength of the wind. as that area of low pressure then clears to the east into sunday we see a smaller ridge of high pressure building in. so sunday the quieter day of the weekend. not wall—to—wall sunshine, i think, quite a lot of cloud around still. perhaps one or two showers just lingering in the east, and then more showery rain moving on from the west later in the day. not as cold, though, as saturday, with top temperatures for most of us around about 13 or 1a degrees. bye for now.

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