outbreak. all tournaments on the men's atp tour and challenger tours have been cancelled until the 27th of april. the wta is yet to make its decision, but it's expected there will be no tennis on the women's tour either for a similar period of time. well, it's very neat in many ways what the atp have done because they have declared this six—week suspension of the main atp tour and the challenger tour as well. the miami masters is off, the monte—carlo masters is also off, as is the tournament in barcelona. the next could be the ones in april. golf — and japan's hideki matsuyama leads after the first round of the players championship at sawgrass in florida. the world number 21 from japan — who hasn't won on the pga tour for 2.5 years opened

up with a 9—under—par round of 63. he leads by two shots from a group of three players on 7—under—par and they include this man, kim si—woo from south korea, who laid claim to the shot of the day with an eagle at the par five 11th. meanwhile, the defending champion and world number one rory mcilroy carded a level par round of 72. he's nine shots off the lead. but thursday's opening round was the only one that will have any fans in attendance. the pga tour has announced that the rest of the tournament — from friday through to sunday — will be played behind closed doors because of coronavirus. and that'll be the case for the next four weeks. at this point in time, pga tour events across all tou rers at this point in time, pga tour events across all tourers will proceed as scheduled but will do so without fans —— tours was that this data about the players championship

tomorrow and continues to be texas open. sport is insignificant in comparison to what we're dealing and so insulated and in the moment the moment and you think well, this is such a major golf tournament. you know, we need to play and this needs to be the environment, this is our work environment and this is what we practice and play for, but we are talking about a global a major global problem. and at the end of the day, professional sport, it means nothing, it means nothing in the lens of making the world safe again. football continues to be disrupted — especially in europe. uefa have confirmed that next tuesday's champions league games have been postponed. manchester city versus real madrid, and juventus against lyon are the games that'll have to be rearranged. meanwhile, two of thursday's europa league games were played behind closed doors — including manchester united's game at linz in austria. just the one goal in the first half, scored by odion ighalo —

that was the on—loan striker‘s fourth goal in his last five games. but the floodgates opened after the break — with goals from danieljames and juan mata putting united further ahead before mason greenwood and andreas pereira both scored in stoppage—time to complete a 5—0 win and make next week's second leg a formality. well, the boys were fantastic. i think they deserve a lot of credit and praise for the way they went about thejob. and praise for the way they went about the job. loads of quality in oui’ about the job. loads of quality in our finishing, about the job. loads of quality in ourfinishing, so about the job. loads of quality in our finishing, so fantastic goals. people should be proud. but i have to praise the boys again. i think the mentality was fantastic, unbelievable, really, to be so focused and do such a professional, high qualityjob. elsewhere, the games at inter milan and sevilla were both postponed. in the other matches that went ahead, there were wins for basel,

istanbul, bayer leverkusen and shakhtar donetsk. while in the night's other game, olympiakos and wolves drew 1—1 in athens. the greek league leaders played most of that game with only ten men after ruben semedo was shown a straight red in the 29th minute. it was olympiakos who then scored first — youssef el—arabi putting them ahead early in the second half. but pedro neto salvaged a draw for the visitors by equalising after 67 minutes. and that could be a potentially vital away goal for wolves. world cup winner megan rapinoe has said us soccer has done "irreparable" damage to their relationship with the women's national team. 28 women players have a filed a lawsuit over equal pay — and in submissions made by lawyers for us soccer, the sport's governing body in the country claimed that male players require a "higher level of skill based on speed and strength" than their female counterparts. the us women's team made their feelings known ahead of wednesday's game against japan when the players turned their tops inside out during the warm—up

and the national anthem to hide their badges — but showed the four stars which represent their world cup success. rapinoe was among the scorers as the world champions beat japan 3—1 to claim the shebelieves cup. after the match, she let rip at the federation. it's unbelievable. to be honest. i mean, obviously we felt we have been discriminated based on our agenda before, that is why we brought the suit was up but such blatant sexism and misogyny is unbelievable. the argument, in my view, went for a does not went from revenue, revenue,, revenue, to you negotiated for it, and now you are inherently lesser than your male counterparts. it's just indefensible, honestly. lesser than your male counterparts. it'sjust indefensible, honestly. i think it's an irreparable damage for the federation who is charged with the federation who is charged with the growth of soccer. every man and woman, every boy and girl for the

entire country in this world, that sort of language and sentiment is absolutely unacceptable. germany's max schachmann continues to lead the paris—nice heading into friday's stage six. italy's niccolo bonifazio took the fifth stage in a sprint finish which is the longest of any stage at 227 km, the 26—year—old holding off ivan garcia cortina and peter sagan. the race is being held without fans in attendance to comply with the french ban on gatherings of more than 1,000 people in response to the coronavirus outbreak. that is about all we have got time for. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye for now. hello there.

march continues to show its many faces. there was a good deal of sunshine around, many places remain dry but it didn't feel quite cold. that's because the milder air we had during the middle part of the week has now sunk down towards the near continent. we are on the cold side of the jet. as we head continent. we are on the cold side of thejet. as we head into next week, elicit the jet stream will meander to the north of the uk which will allow high pressure to have a great influence on our weather. in fa ct, great influence on our weather. in fact, many of us will get a taste of that through friday. 0riginal helping to settle things down. largely fine and dry, the chance of an isolated shower but many faces enjoying some springlike sunshine. always a little pressure down the north sea coast and we will start to see rain edge its way down into parts of south—west england and wales later on the day. it is very similarto wales later on the day. it is very similar to thursday's values but without the nagging windage should feel more pleasant. then we are up

and running into the weekend. but once again, low pressure will be in the driving seat. there is some rain in the forecast as we head through the weekend and the winds will pick up the weekend and the winds will pick up but it's not a complete washout. so we start saturday with this area of rain, some with winners over the hills of scotland and it gradually does clear out towards the east. the winds will pick up as the day goes on but there should be some dry, bright, even sunny intervals to be had. more rain, though, starts to move into parts of northern ireland, north—west england and wales in scotla nd north—west england and wales in scotland before the end of the day. temperatures varying a little better than friday's values. saturday and into sunday, well, here is our area of low pressure and another weather front will come our way. it looks like this one will be a little more active. it will push its way to parts of south—west england, up to wales, up through the midlands and up wales, up through the midlands and up into yorkshire. and it mayjust linger. it may take quite a while before it starts to work its way down towards the south and east.

loud ahead of it. behind it, we should start to see it brighten up, a few wintry showers across scotland. and then into next week, and as they say, high pressure starting to have a greater influence on our weather. you can see the isobars opening up but low pressure still close by for this area of rain, it will try to move in later in the day and the winds will pick up, too. elsewhere, though, it is a fine day. lengthy spells of sunshine on offer, lighter winds and temperatures starting to do a little better, there may be a bit more cloud towards the far south and east. as we head into tuesday, we still have low pressure close by and it will try to send a weather front oui’ it will try to send a weather front our way, but it bumps into the area of high pressure and will probably wea ken of high pressure and will probably weaken as it does so. quite a bit of cloud associated with it, outbreaks of patchy rain, too. the far north of patchy rain, too. the far north of scotla nd of patchy rain, too. the far north of scotland perhaps invested any sunshine but temperature—wise we could see highs of 17 celsius

towards the far south and east. later on into next week, it looks like high pressure will once again started to build after low pressure sta rts started to build after low pressure starts to have a bit more of an influence during the middle part of the week. so i think after an u nsettled the week. so i think after an unsettled start for many it will turn in little more unsettled before high pressure once again starts to moving towards the end of next week. bye for now.

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