tv Sportsday BBC News July 4, 2023 2:45am-3:00am BST
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hello there and welcome to sportsday. i am gavin ramjaun. wimbledon is underway, business as usual for defending men's champ novak djokovic, and a couple of big names exiting from the women's draw. elena rybakina back to defend her women's title on tuesday. we look ahead to day two of the championships. the most expensive italian footballer sandro tonali leaves serie a to join the premier league's newcastle united. welcome to the programme.
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we start at sw19 where novak djokovic overcame a rain delay to beat pedro cachin in three sets. the defending champion was a break up in the first before the weather intervened. there was then a delay for 80 minutes, despite the roof being closed. djokovic even helping ground staff to dry the damp grass at one stage, and when it eventually resumed he was able take control of the match as cachin was completely outclassed. 6—3, 6—3, 7—6, djokovic aiming to secure his eighth wimbledon title, matching roger federer�*s record for a male player and will now play australia's jordan thompson, ranked 70th in the world. it is a feeling like no other tournament in the world, walking out on the centre court of wimbledon as the defending champion. i know i can always play better but at the same time after a long clay—court season
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coming into wimbledon without any preparation tournament lead up event, it's expected that i'm still probably not on my 100% of the level of my tennis, so hopefully as a tournament progresses i raise my level as well. perhaps the biggest shock of the first round so far came in the women's event with 7th seed coco gauff crashing out. she was beaten in three sets by fellow american sofia kenin, her earliest exit at the tournament. kenin, the 2020 australian open champion, won 6—4, 4—6, 6—2. gauff famously beat venus williams in the first round back in 2019 when she was just 15. williams had to fight back from injury after slipping in the opening set, but in the end lost to elina svitolina, the ukrainian winning in straight sets, 6—4, 6—3. it was a record 24th appearance for williams at the championships. grass is inherently going to be slippery and you'll fall at some point. it was just bad luck for me and i started the match perfectly. i was literally killing it and then i got killed
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by the grass! yes... it's not not fun right now. i felt like i was in great form coming into this tournament and great form in the match. it's all very shocking at the moment. this is sport. i'm hitting the ball well and hopefully i canjust figure out what's happening with me and move forward. the top seed, iga swiatek, set her intentions with a win over zhu lin. swiatek dominated from the outset, winning 6—1, 6—3 and she looks to go beyond the fourth round for the first time at wimbledon. a mixed day for the british players on home soil with a tough test for liam broady in round two after he beat constant lestienne. fourth seed casper ruud is his second—round opponent. a win too forjan choinski over dusan lajovic. harriet dart lost to diane parry early on after taking the first set on a tie—break, losing in three.
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katie swan beaten in straight sets by olympic champion belinda bencic but better news forjodie burrage who beat caty mcnally to win her first match at wimbledon. up next for her, 11th seed daria kasatkina. you can find all the results on our website. on tuesday the women's defending champion elena rybakina kicks off the action on centre court. with the men's defending champion novak djokovic safely through to the second round, tuesday sees the women's champion elena rybakina begin the defence of her title and goes into the championships with great uncertainty. she was forced to pull out of the french open with a virus and it does not appear as though she is fully recovered. american shelby rogers, now 30, will be her opponent. women's tennis has a big three challenging iga swiatek
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for the world number one spot — aryna sabalenka last year with a ban on russian and belarusian players, sabalenka is back saying last year when do what to watch wimbledon from her television made her cry. she faces hungary's panna udvardy who she has never played. ons jabeur, last year's beaten finalist hoping to make the history as the first north african and arab winner to win a grand slam. she will begin her championships against poland's magdalena frech. there are perhaps a few serious challenges to novak djokovic this year but carlos alcaraz is definitely one and he appears in wimbledon off the back of the impressive win at the queen's club in london, only his third grasscourt tournament where he won the title and starts his championships here against the 36—year—old frenchman jeremy chardy, and also on centre court on day 2 we see the two—time former champion andy murray in an all—british match against the wildcard ryan peniston. away from wimbledon, mark cavendish will have to wait at least another day at least to topple the record for stage wins at the tour de france. he finished behind jasper philipsen in stage three�*s time
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trial as the race moved from the basque country and into france with a sprint finish. drew savage reports. after the hills of the basque country, stage three favoured the sprinters. mark cavendish doesn't like to talk about breaking records. he says he just wants to win one more stage in his last season. meanwhile for adam yates in the yellow jersey and everyone in the battle to win it overall, this was the day stay in the peloton, save your legs and make it to the finish, which was complex and twisty. position can be vital in a bunch sprint and mathieu van der poel and jasper philipsen, the perfect lead out. having been launched into the lead, the belgian held it to the line. cavendish cut from further back. he reached the highest speed of anyone in the sprint and finished a decent sixth and will hope to do better on stage four but philipsen will take some beating. drew savage, bbc news. the italy midfielder sandro tonali has moved to newcastle united in the premier league from ac milan. the 23—year—old is the first summer signing for eddie howe
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as the side prepare for champions league football this season. hejoins a five—year deal for a reported £55 million fee which makes him the most expensive italian footballer of all time. tottenham have reached a verbal agreement to sign manor solomon who was on loan at fulham last season from shakhtar donetsk, after exercising a rule allowing ukraine—based players to suspend their contracts following russia's invasion of the country last year. steven gerrard's return to management will be with saudi arabian club al—ettifaq. the former liverpool captain has been out of work since being sacked by aston villa last october. he'd been previously reluctant to join the club but the agreement has now been reached. the fallout continues over the controversial dismissal ofjonny bairstow after england's defeat in the second ashes test against australia at lord's. he wandered out of his crease before the ball was dead. australian wicket—keeper alex carey stumping in with a quick throw, causing consternation among players, the crowd and fans.
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england captain ben stokes saying it was not in the spirit of the game, a sentiment the british prime minister rishi sunak agreed with. the former england captain nick compton told us about its significance. i think there is the laws and rules of the game which we play within, but i think the spirit of the game sits slightly above that. as a player, i think the more you play, the deeper you get into understanding the spirit of the game and i think how people treat each other in the heat of sporting competition is very important. that spirit is very much dependent on your upbringing, dependent on also what country you are from, but at the heart of it, it is a feeling. it is a strong feeling that comes down to morality and i guess your integrity, and the captain of the team is responsible
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for that position. from the two camps�* point of view, is it a varying definition of what the spirit is? australia seems to be win at all costs, really. yes, i believe in playing hard but fair, so i have no issues with the toughness and with the approach of trying to win at all costs, but there is also a way to win and i feel that where it has been hard for me to kind of see both sides is i don't feeljohnny was trying to gain an unfair advantage in the game and that was cut short. i don't thinkjohnny was getting any advantage from the dismissal, whereas the examples that australia have used a try to counter orjustify the decision for me don't add up. nick compton. the netherlands have kept their hopes of qualifying with cricket world cup alive after a comfortable win over oman. vikram singh made 110, his first one—day cricket
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century as the dutch made 362—7 from a 48 overs in a rain—affected match. aayan khan gave oman hope with a brilliant century but it was enough. the netherlands 1—74 runs much trying to make the cricket world cup final for the first time since 2011. you can get your sports news from the bbc sport app or our website. but for me and the rest of the team, thanks for watching and we will see you again soon. hello there. weather conditions are remaining on the unsettled side for the time of year, all thanks to low pressure. we could see some pretty wet weather across the south and the south—east of the country through tuesday. probably the best of the sunshine a bit further northwards. but even here, for much of the rest of the country away from the south,
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there'll be plenty of showers around, too. now we've got two weather fronts around. this one's a weakening one in the north. this one is a developing one. and this is going to bring some wet weather to southern britain through this morning. and the rain will pep up, become heavier, in fact, as we head through the morning across the south and the south—east, maybe some thundery bursts in there. this weather front across scotland and northern ireland will be weakening as it moves southwards, and on either side, it'll be sunshine and showers. these sorts of temperatures are below par for the time of year, but depending on how much sunshine we get in the south does depend on the temperatures. at the moment, it looks like it could be quite wet. temperatures around the mid—teens for the southeast. so we could see some significant disruptions to play at wimbledon with this rain, which will tend to last through the afternoon, perhaps into the evening, turning heavier as it develops into an area of low pressure. it does look like the low countries will bear the brunt of that. elsewhere, it's clear spells and a few showers to start wednesday. so there's that area of low pressure heading towards denmark, deepening as it does so. for us, we're in between weather systems on wednesday,
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so not a bad day, i think. there will be plenty of sunshine from the word go, but then showers could develop anywhere. most of them will be across scotland and northern ireland, closer to this area of low pressure, and some of them could be heavy, maybe thundery for western scotland. temperature—wise, maybe a degree or so up because the winds will be lighter and maybe some more sunshine around, so up to 21 degrees. and then for thursday, this area of low pressure starts to push towards the west of the country. higher pressure begins to build towards the near continent. so i think thursday, not a bad—looking day. we start to switch our winds up from the south. that will be drawing up some warm airfrom france and iberia. so, with more sunshine around, winds coming up from the south, we could see higher temperatures, 22 or 23 degrees there. this is the pressure set—up for the end of the week, friday and the weekend. a deep low out to the west. this weather front will bring some thundery rain to the west of the country. but for england and wales, we'll be drawing up a southerly wind. so it could be quite warm on friday, with some sunshine in the south, but with low pressure nearby,
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live from washington. this is bbc news israel launches one of its biggest military operations in years. gun battles rage and tensions flare in the west bank city ofjenin. one of the eight pro—democracy activists targeted by the hong kong police speaks to bbc news and tensions appear to be easing in france as mayors hold rallies calling for an end to the violence
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