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tv   Sport Today  BBC News  June 24, 2019 1:45am-2:01am BST

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argentina labour to victory over qatar but book their place in the copa america quarter finals. hosts france are through to the last 8 of the women's world cup after overcoming brazil in extra time. hello and thanks for joining us on sport today. we start at the women's pga championship at hazeltine in minnesota and a real sporting fairytale. before this weekend, it's probably safe to say that not a huge amount of people had heard of hannah green. she's only been on the tour for two years and didn't have a wikipedia page until sunday. well, the 22—year—old has won her first major championship, the first by an australian in 13 years. the little—known aussie has never come close to winning an lpga title, let alone a major. having grabbed the overnight lead and started well with birdies at the second and 7th to take her to 11 under, there was a blip at the turn with 3 bogeys, but another birdie, then this pressure relieving shot out
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of the bunker, allowed her to putt for par on the 18th. green taking the the title by one shot from defending champion sung hyun park. a putt heard all the way down under and you can see just what it meant to golf‘s new star. i'm pretty much speechless. i was really nervous playing the last five holes and i'm just really happy that i made the putt because that's what i was struggling. to make the one on the last is really surreal. it is awesome. i mean, i've always wanted to win in front of an aussie crowd but i felt that even though i wasn't in australia, that was what it was like today. just to be winning a major is my first event, i am so over the moon. they've had to do it the hard way but argentina have booked their place in the quarter finals of the copa america courtesy
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of their 2—0 victory over qatar. following defeat to colombia and a draw with paraguay, it was a must win for lionel messi's side if they were to ensure qualification. and afterjust four minutes the guests at the tournament qatar gifted the first to inter‘s lautaro martinez. argentina laboured throughout the match but were thankful to man city striker sergio aguero doing what he does best in the 82nd minute. colombia continued their 100% record at the copa with a 1—0 win over paraguay. gustavo cuellar with the only goal of the game on the half hour mark. the 2001 champions into the quarter finals for the fourth time in a row. so this is how group b finished. colombia through as group leaders with argentina in second. —— senegal have got their africa cup of nations campaign off to a flyer with a 2—0 win over group c rivals tanzania in cairo goals from inter milan forward keita balde and krepin diatta of club brugge giving aliou cisse‘s side all 3 points. morocco also got themselves an opening game win but were indebted to a last minute own goal from namibia,
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while ryiad mahrez was on the scoresheet as algeria beat kenya. hosts france have made it through to the quarter—finals of the womens‘ world cup after beating brazil in le havre. after a goal—less first half, the french went ahead through valerie gauvin prodding in from close range. but, just after the hour mark the equaliser came from thaisa. no more goals meant extra—time. and in the 106th minute the game was won by amandine henry getting on the end of this cross and making it 2—1. they'll play the usa or spain who meet on monday. england beat cameroon 3—0 in valenciennes to book their place in the last 8. goals from steph houghton, this one from ellen white and a third from alex greenwood sending them through to face norway on thursday. the game though mightjust be remembered for cameroon‘s reaction to a disallowed goal. this effort from ajara nchout was ruled out by the referee for offside via var, with the cameroon players seemingly unwilling to restart the match. ashleigh barty will become the new world numberi when the rankings are published
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on monday thanks to her victory over julia goerges in the final of the nature valley classic in birmigham. the french open champion is the first australian woman to top the rankings since evonne goolagong—cawley in 1976. michael redford reports. this was a final that meant so much more thanjust this was a final that meant so much more than just a trophy for ashley barty. when in birmingham and she was the new world number one. to do that, she had to beat a familiar face. julia goerges is barty‘s doubles partner normally but this time they were at opposite ends of the court and it was party under control, winning the first set 6—34. any hopes of a similar sorted to success any hopes of a similar sorted to success in the second set were quickly dashed by yuli goerges as she raced into the lead. ——6— four. party won three successive games of her own and swung the momentum back in her favour. —— her own and swung the momentum back in herfavour. —— ash barty. barty
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then showed her brilliance, four successive points with no replies or who win the second set 7—5. trophy secured. as was the world number one ranking, the first australian woman to do that for 43 years. watch out, wimbledon, there is an aussie ace in the pack. nothing changes for us. absolutely nothing changes the stop we keep going about it and trying the best we can. you are certainly not going to win every single tennis match but you just have to put yourself in a good position and try to execute well on the day. another day another title for the greatest of all time. roger federer has won at halle for a record extending tenth time after beating david goffin in the final in germany. federer beat the belgian in straight sets — to become just the second man in the open era to win the same atp event 10 times. federer won 7—6, 6—1, and looks in ominous form for the grass court season, with wimbledon in just over a week's time. a great weekend for the golden oldies. 37—year—old feliciano lopez has
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become the first wildcard to win at queen's in london since pete sampras 20 years ago. the spaniard beat gilles simon in three sets and is now the oldest singles champion in the history of the event. lopez is ranked 113th in the world and had won just three singles matches this year going into the tournament. and what a day for lopez. notjust content with the singles title, he got straight back on court to take the doubles title as well partnered with britain's andy murray. it was murray's first tournament in six months since undergoing potentially career—ending hip surgery. they beat beat britain'sjoe salisbury and american rajeev ram. pakistan's hopes of making the semi finals of the cricket world cup are still alive after they beat south africa by 49 runs. —— cricket world cup. in the must—win meeting, the 1992 champions registered just their second victory from six games. south africa however are out of the tournament. david domb was watching the action.
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we finally returned home at this world cup and the last time they we re world cup and the last time they were hosting this tournament, pakistan were contesting the final 20 years ago against australia pulled they needed to avoid defeat this time to even stay in the hunt for a semi—final place. that is against the south africa team whose place in this competition is also in jeopardy and it looked as though again, they may fall short. in —— imran tahir must be finding his misfortune, his spin was calling ci’oss — my misfortune, his spin was calling cross — my problems. dismissed 444. pakistan were always in danger of pulling away but a target set of 309. it was made all the more difficult right from the start. hashim amla barely lasting two overs. while duo pfaff du plessis and vincent de kock steadied the ship, their attempts to pass 50,
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court. before one captain eliminates the other. pfaff du plessis innings, court by —— court. the final two games will be for pride for the proteas, a fifth tournament defeat this time by 49 runs. it is the first time since 2003 they failed to get out of the group. chips away at your confidence, edge await your ego, it gives a way of ——at you as a player. as much as i can say all the coach can say, the responsibility lies with every player to try and make sure he comes to the park and give everything. if confidence is an issue, you just sort it out yourself. lewis hamilton has ta ken a stranglehold in the formula one world title after cruising to victory in the french grand prix. he finished well ahead of his mercedez teammate valterri bottas, making it six wins in eight races.
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ferrari's charles leclerc took third, with sebastian vettel fifth. miriam walker—khan reports. another mercedes front row lockout with hamilton and valtteri bosses. the two mclarens ahead of sebastian vettel, this wasn't the start he would have hoped for. hamilton's however was clinical. it looked like it was his race to lose. and without a strong only continuing, rre would have to hope for some kind of mercedes ray serra. but it would ta ke mercedes ray serra. but it would take more than that to stop him as he continued to post fastest lap after fastest la p. — — he continued to post fastest lap after fastest lap. —— ferrari. sebastian vettel trailing behind. it ended with a new lap record. 18 seconds in front. valtteri bottas wasn't a threat but he helped it at bay. eventually, he got there. the mercedes domination continues and it looks like the title race could be as easy as this one. that is it for
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110w. as easy as this one. that is it for now. from me and the rest of the spotted 18, we will see you soon, goodbye. —— the rest of the sport today team. hello. more of a feel of summer in the weather this week but with some fairly humid weather over the next few days comes a real risk of severe thunderstorms. not everyone will see them but where you do, an increased risk of flash flooding around. later this week, the sunnier side of summer will return with most places dry, blue skies overhead, but highs to the temperatures will be later in the week, friday into saturday in particular. 0ut there at the moment, fairly humid air with us as this weather system works its way northwards. we've seen some thunder and lightning attached to this rain, pushing into parts of scotland for the morning. some of the rain here could be heavy and persistent with quite a south—easterly breeze to go with it. there could be minorflooding, as i said, and that could give some travel disruption. further south, big puddles left in the wake from the overnight storms. and look at that — temperatures starting the day
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at around 18 celsius in central london. the atmosphere for monday is finely balanced. we've got the rain pushing northwards across scotland, still with rumbles of thunder. we mightjust see one or two isolated, sporadic thunderstorms break out through the day but it's a worst—case scenario in that we see a larger storm blossom across central southern england and pushing northwards as we go through into the afternoon. if that happens, again, flash flooding, some gusty winds and frequent lightning is possible. away from it, when we see the sunshine come out, it will feel pretty warm, especially in the south. not as warm as the weekend across northern and western scotland. more cloud here, still some outbreaks of rain and a bit of a breeze. some heavy, thundery rain into the evening and eastern scotland but then another batch of storms out from france which could be more severe, particularly across parts of central, eastern england. a bit of uncertainty about where they will be but frequent lightning, risk of flash flooding and gusty winds to go with it and a fairly oppressive night across the country with humidity levels continuing to creep up. it will be a humid start to tuesday, could be some impacts from the storms across central—eastern england in particular. maybe some in northern
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england during the morning rush hour, too. they will gradually ease away and things gradually turn quieter as we go through tuesday. one or two isolated storms can't be ruled out but most are becoming dry. still a fair bit of cloud but when the sunshine breaks through, with increased humidity, temperatures 25—27 in the south—east corner, 22—23 in western parts of scotland. a ridge of high pressure builds in for wednesday, doing a few things, clearing away some of the cloud, a lot more sunshine around, dropping the humidity levels in the north, cooling things in eastern coasts. the chance of one or two storms towards that south—western corner but they will clear through as we go through towards the end of the week. high—pressure builds in and pushing to the east of us, we will be dragging our air in off western parts of europe where we could see some record—breaking heat over the next few days. for us, here we could see temperatures climb to 26 to 28 degrees in western scotland and above 30 celsius in the south.
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