ahead of the europa league final against arsenal. and guilio ciccone overcomes the rain to take victory in stage 16 of the giro d'ltalia, as richard carapaz retains the race leader's pinkjersey. hello and welcome to the programme, where we start with tennis news from day three at the french open, in paris. after monday saw former australian open champion, caroline wozniacki, eliminated, it didn't get any easier for the big names at roland garros on tuesday. defending women's champion, simona halep, scraped through, as austin halewood reports. she may have been to the final three times before in paris but simona halep found it tough against australian, tomljanovic. after winning the opening set she lost her

rhythm and lost the second. but she wa nted rhythm and lost the second. but she wanted the decider. she set up the next match with lynette. magda linette. i am happy i can win the match and i can play the second round here. the tough day for the big names continue. naomi osaka also avoiding a premature and to her bed for a third consecutive grand slam title. after losing the first set without winning a game, the japanese a 21—year—old won a second set tiebreaker against a 21—year—old won a second set tiebrea ker against slovakian opponent. today was weird because it usually the nerves go away but it kinda stayed the entire match and i felt it was fight of willpower and i

managed to win anything in. she will face victoria azarenka after she knocked out the 2017 champion. another player managed to hold serve until the ninth game and the illiteracy and even had to matchpoint saved before taking it in a tie—break. —— belarus player.m is my first win in quite a while so obviously before the match i had some nerves and it also showed during the game but i am happy to step over that barrier and be able to play in my next round. in the men's draw, alexander zverev came through a frustrating first round match. the 22—year—old won the opening two sets before australian, millman, levelled the match. he

showed his medal to break in the last. police in spain have made a number of arrests as part of an investigation into football match—fixing. they say 11 people are expected to be arrested in total and at least three matches are being investigated across the country's top three divisions. a spokesman for la liga said the police action followed a complaint it had made over a match in may 2018. gennaro gattuso is stepping down as milan head coach after they failed to qualify for the champions league. the former italy international has been in the job for 18 months and had a contract until 2021, but despite a final day victory in serie a, they finished in fifth place, behind their city rivals inter. it was however milan's best league performance in six years. elsewehere, neymar limped out of training with a knee injury as his side prepare to host next month's copa america. it's not been a good 48 hours for the 27 year—old, who lost the brazil captaincy

to paris saint germain teammate dani alves before this latest incident saw him leave the training session early in rio dejaneiro. jurgen klopp says he's taking the best team he's ever managed into the champions league final in madrid on saturday. his liverpool side face tottenham and, after losing to real madrid last year, klopp's confident of winning a final for the first time since he took charge. i have never been part of the final with a better team than this, that's true but in a different time, for different reasons, we were good as well. i am not so surprised because the boys are, we call it, mixed potential with attitude in the best way. staying with football and ahead of the europa league final on wednesday there's been some drama in the chelsea camp. maurizio sarri stormed out of their final training session in azerbaijan ahead

of the match with arsenal. it was initially believed to be connected to an incident where his players gonzalo higuian and david luiz were involved in a row, after a challenge in what was their last training session in the stadium, ahead of the game in baku. chelsea have since denied that. the club claiming it was because they couldn't practice set pieces because the whole training session was open to the media. meanwhile n'golo kante is a major doubt to feature for chelsea. sarri rated his chances of playing as 50/50 ahead of the training session in which the frenchman managed just 25 minutes on his own away from the main squad. kante finished in deep discussion with the chelsea team doctor. here's what sarri had to say about his star midfielder ahead of training. we have only three midfielders for three positions. so we are in trouble. the only defensive midfielder that we have, for us, kante is really very important. we are trying to recover him. we will try tomorrow morning.

i hope to recover him because i know very well that without n'golo for us is a problem. meanwhile arsenal also trained at the stadium on tuesday. but the controversy over the dificulties fans have had getting to baku continues. while the organising committee says the distance wasn't an issue as 4,000 or 5,000 have travelled, arsenal head coach unai emery says he sympathises because many more would have wanted to make the journey. i must respect this decision. yes, i prefer i must respect this decision. yes, i p refer to i must respect this decision. yes, i prefer to play with our supporters here that a lot of supporters can come here from arsenal and chelsea, from london but it is difficult for this flight from london but it is difficult for this flight but tomorrow they are going to be a lot of supporters, first in england and secondly in all

of the world because as manchester you have a lot of supporters around the world. scotland's women beat jamaica 3—2 in glasgow in their last warm—up game before next month's football world cup in france. substitute defender sophie howard scored the winner in the 67th minute. the friendly at hampden park was watched by a record home crowd of 18500 fans. now to cycling where giulio ciccone won the toughest stage so far of the giro d'italia on tuesday, while richard carapaz remained in the overall lead. at the end of a gruelling and dangerous mountain leg in stage 16, the 24—year—old italian ciccone, who rides for trek—segafredo, beat astana's jan hirt in a sprint finish to prevail in wet and freezing conditions in brescia, while overall leader carapaz saw his lead extended to one minute and 47 seconds, as 2016 winner vincenzo nibali leapfrogged primoz roglic into second. onto cricket, and with the world cup due to start on thursday, west indies shai hope hit a century as his side made a21 in theirfinal warm—up game against new zealand in bristol.

the wicketkeeper was part of an onslaught after his side were sent in by the black caps who in response came up well short of their target despite a century from hope's opposite behind the stumps tom blundell, and the west indies captain is expecting more high scoring throughout the tournament. the conditions are very, very good for batting. also at the captain's press c0 nfe re nce we for batting. also at the captain's press conference we were told that you can see some scores press conference we were told that you can see some scores coming press conference we were told that you can see some scores coming down but, having said that, if you bowl well you can limit the scoring to 300. 350 is prime. whoever bowls best and backs it up with some good batting wins. —— backs it up. meanwhile in cardiff, india cruised to a 95 run victory over bangladesh. rahul and dhoni both picked up centuries for the two time world cup

winners while yadav and chahal claimed three wickets apiece as they bowled bangladesh out in the final over. we saw in the morning, there was a bit of movement and of the first innings when we batted for the first 20-30, that innings when we batted for the first 20—30, that wicked had a little bit in itfor 20—30, that wicked had a little bit in it for the fast bowlers so i think it is good and that we could played beautifully. finally, gymnasts love showing off, especially when they can combine it with other sports. here's britain's 2018 commonwealth games gold medallist dom cunningham with an unbelievable basketball trick shot. he posted this video on instagram and even his celebrations are pretty impressive. not bad. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. but from me tulsen tollett and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye.

hello. it looks like being a very warm start to the weekend across some parts of the uk, but right now we are in a spell of cooler weather, there has been a bit of rain, there's another chance of rain on the way during wednesday. an atlantic weather system pushes outbreaks of rain eastwards is the day goes on. here it comes. ahead of that, with clearing skies, it'll be a fairly chilly start to wednesday with a of dry weather around, and a few showers rushing through the northern isles. single figures for most, and cold enough across parts of northern england, especially in scotland. in the coldest spots, a touch of frost. already that weather system coming in, outbreaks of rain feeding towards western england, into wales, northern ireland, and on towards southern scotland. feeding further east during the day, early sunshine across eastern england, cloud building, maybe a shower, not a huge amount of rain arriving until late afternoon or into the evening. in northern scotland, it will have the lion's share

of the sunshine. notice the wind switching direction, the breeze moving from a northerly more to a southerly, and that will bring in some warmer air, but on wednesday nowhere is particularly warm. heavy showers in the northern isles, and single figures for some of us. on the south—westerly breeze, some warmer air drawing in from the south—west, more humid on wednesday night into thursday morning. plenty of cloud and outbreaks of rain. chilly in northern scotland, and elsewhere temperatures starting the day on thursday into double figures, mild and muggy start to the day. we will draw in ever warmer air, particularly in parts of england and wales, on through the rest of the week into the start of the weekend. weather fronts never far away from scotland, northern ireland, north—west england and north wales at times, and on thursday plenty of cloud around, it feels humid, some patchy rain. some cloud breaking through central

and eastern areas of england, and this is where we will get to see some warm and sunny spells coming in. the temperatures peaking in the upper 20s in some areas. cloud and outbreaks of rain in scotland and northern ireland, but that will hold temperatures down. for some it will be into the midteens. the weather system will move south at some point, uncertainty over the timing, but at the moment it looks like the warmth of england and will peak on saturday, then it will turn cooler and feel less humid by sunday.

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