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tv   Sport Today  BBC News  May 20, 2019 1:45am-2:01am BST

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and rafa nadal passes his toughest test before the french open, with victory over world number one novak djokovic in rome. welcome to the programme. brooks koepka successfully defended his pga championship title on sunday, finishing two shots clear of dustin johnson on eight—under—par, despite carding a four—over—par final round 7a, in testing conditions at bethpage black course. paul frostick was watching. it was supposed to be a comfortable march to victory for brooks koepka but there was still room for drama during sunday's final round. the man chasing him was justin during sunday's final round. the man chasing him wasjustin dunstan, the 7/ advantage at the beginning of play suddenly looked in danger. he
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made four consecutive bogeys from the 11th as bethpage reared its head in windy conditions. he was helped byjohnson falling away later in his round. he bogeyed the 16th and 17th holes affording the luxury for some breathing room. he finished the tournament at eight under par johnson had to settle for second place on six under. capture is the first repeat winner of the pga championship since 2007. one of the greatest players, leaders and role models, a man who "defines the essence of the club" — those, are some of the tributes given to manchester city's vincent kompany. the club captain has announced he is leaving the etihad stadium to become player/manager at the club where he started his career — anderlecht — in his native belgium. kompany bows out after helping city to win an unprecedented domestic treble in english men's football. our correspondent
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katie gornall reports. at the heart of this thriving city, there is always been a cost solid company. yesterday's fa cup is the 10th and final honour at his time at manchester city. finishing with all three domestic travis was not it is the best thing in the world to me. to have such a high standard for such a long period of time, i'm not talking one year, i'm talking to you is running, what it him, what a privilege. the morning of dissipating the trouble, he told the world he would be leaving. in a statement he said... hejoined world he would be leaving. in a statement he said... he joined the clu b statement he said... he joined the club in 2008, a week before the ta keover club in 2008, a week before the takeover which would transform city. in 2012 he became the first city player to lift a top division trophy “11111 player to lift a top division trophy in 44 years. perhaps a company moment which will live longest in memories have an inside his final
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two weeks in the club. it won the game and put kompany to premier league folklore. vincent kompany has enjoyed a great premier league career but it extends far beyond the petrol stopping his time he set up a charity to help the homeless and is donating all the proceeds from this testimonial. everyone loves them, everyone respects. the perfect captain. the biggest contribution any player has ever made to the club. his next step will be to reap trace his first footballing steps. his go back to his foot bowling club in belgium, they will miss part of his modern soul but kompany says, it is not goodbye, it is see you later. juventus lifted the italian serie a trophy on sunday after their final home game of the season — a 1—1 draw with atalanta, who go third — their hopes of qualifying for the champions league for the first time in their hands. max allegri bidded farewell to the club — the former ac milan boss said this week he is to leave, despite leading them to five
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straight serie a titles and two champions league finals. juventus comfortably wrapped up the italian title this year — an eighth straight scudetto. england have won the fifth and final one day international against pakistan, in the north of england by 5a runs. the tourists were chasing 352 for a consolation victory, having already lost the series, but were always struggling in their run chase, after slumping to 6 for three. england captain eoin morgan and joe root put on 117 for the third wicket as they finished on 351—9. pakistan captain sarfraz ahmed made 97 as he and babar azam put on 146 for the fourth wicket — but their departure saw them crumble. they lose the series 4—0 and have now suffered 10 consecutive 0di defeats for the first time in 31 years. rafael nadal won a record 34th atp masters 1000 title, with a 6-0, 4-6, 6-1 victory over novak djokovic in the italian 0pen final. the spaniard, who had shared
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the record of 33 masters titles with the serbian world number one, warmed up for the defence of his french open crown by securing his ninth rome title. imran sidat was watching. with the french open less than a week away, nadal were still looking for his first title of the air. standing on his way was his long—term arrival, djokovic. the serbian has had to deal with a tough schedule and rome and it looked to be catching up with him as nadal and storming out of the box to keep the early initiative. the spaniard tramped in the capital eight times previously and it was looking ominous for djokovic as he lost the first set 2—1. right of djokovic at your peril. it came up with a sense of purpose at the start of the second. with a set in the balance, the serb showed his fighting spirit to ta ke the serb showed his fighting spirit to take the match to a decider. it
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was the first set nadal had dropped in the entire tournament. the bay have that if your grandson titles between the butt on the surface, nadal is king. an eligible break in the third and the spanish fans could sense victory. he wrapped up the winter claims of death title on clay and on this form, who would bet against him renting supreme once ain? fresh from that defeat by rafael nadal in the italian 0pen final on sunday, world number one novak djokovic said that the spaniard is overwhelming favourite for the forthcoming french 0pen. number one favourite without a doubt, and then everyone else. it's going to be a really good tournament. as you mentioned, they are playing some really good tennis, he could beat anyone. especially on clay. 0n
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he could beat anyone. especially on clay. on a given day, best—of—5, with the days one day between matches, think players will have enough time to really be at her best. fourth seed karolina pliskova of the czech republic won her second wta title of 2019 with victory in the women's italian 0pen — beating johanna konta of great britain 6—3, 6-4. pliskova broke in the second game and, although the unseeded konta made life difficult and managed a break point late on, the czech made only five unforced errors to take the first set 6—3. the second set went with serve before pliskova had the opportunity to establish a 11—3 lead. despite saving three break points, konta was unable to fend off the czech a fourth time. fernando alonso has failed to qualify for the indianapolis 500 after a humiliating return to the usa's biggest race for the mclaren team. reigning motogp champion marc marquez has won the french grand prix at le mans to extend his lead at the top of the standings. the honda rider, who started
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from pole position, battled with pramac racing's jack miller in the early stages of the race but he soon took an outright lead and extended his advantage at the front, finishing nearly two seconds ahead of his title rival, ducati's andrea dovisiozo, in second. it's a third victory in the last four races for marquez and means he is now eight points ahead of the italian in the table. the civilian run the ninth stage, a 94.8 individual time trial, the results i'm surge from 12th place more than five minutes back to take the spot behind conti who retained the spot behind conti who retained the pinkjersey. in the nhl, this year's western conference final had been a back—and—forth battle between the sanjose sharks and the st louis blues, until sunday's game 5, when the blues became the first team to win back—to—back games in the series. vladimir tarasenko scored on a penalty shot, and jaden schwartz added the first of his three goals during a dominant second period that took st louis to the
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brink of theirfirst trip to the stanley cup final in nearly a half—century — sending the blues to a 5—0 victory. goaltenderjordan binnington stopped all 21 shots he faced to earn his first career playoff shutout. few matches will be postponed at wimbledon due to the weather. so the new roof court unveiled, the second roof of wimbledon cost $90 million and took three is to complete. it only takes ten minutes to close with another 24 the air—conditioning to fully acclimatise to the stadium for indoor play. the roof is needed for sunday celebration event. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. but from me gavin ramjaun and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye.
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hello there. the weather is not looking too bad over the next few days. a mixture of dry spells and a few passing showers but the temperatures are going to be doing reasonably well over the next few days, pushing into the low 20s in the next four spots. we will look at what happened yesterday weatherwise and we had plenty of showers around, stretching from dorset across the midlands and into lincolnshire is where we had the heaviest downpours caused by the winds bashing together, forced to rise, making these big showers that were heavy and slow—moving in nature. the rain coming down so heavily in warwickshire that it was bouncing off the roads on the pavements. why am i telling you about this? we will see similar things setting up later on today, i will explain more in the moment but over the next few hours, a lot of cloud around, fog patches, lincolnshire, north—east england, northeast scotland. still a few showers in the north—west but it's not going to be a cold start to the day.
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temperatures 8—12. as we go through monday morning, the weather again and will slowly brighten up with some sunny intervals breaking out, probably the best of these across wales and south—west england. these convergence zones, one of them affecting eastern scotland, this is where you are most likely to catch a shower, slow—moving, heavy, thundery as well. a few showers for northern ireland and wales. there ireland and wales. will be slow—moving, heavy ant thundery. there will be slow—moving, heavy and thundery. a few showers for northern ireland and wales. aside from the show as the winds are light for the sunshine comes through, it should feel reasonably pleasant. king at the picture into tuesday, pressure sta rts the picture into tuesday, pressure starts to build across western parts of the country at the same term we have a weather front across the nile does rack far north of scotland. threatening a bit of made —— ran into the northern isles. we could see a few showers popping up
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particular cross eastern areas of england but more of us should enjoy more in the way of dry weather across the western parts of the uk. into wednesday, pressure builds further but most of us it's a dry day with sunshine, the exception is across northern scotland boy have cloudy weather outbreaks of rent setting in and that iran accompanied by northerly winds. quite a cool day, coming dane in aberdeen, sunshine further south, fairly present with temperatures into the low 20s. as we get to the end of the week, low pressure will be moving m, week, low pressure will be moving in, a greater chance of seeing randy by friday. —— brain.
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