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hello there, we are moving into the second week at the wimbledon championships and the women's world number one had to dig very deep to make sure that she's still there. deep to make sure that iga swaitek lost the first set and then saved 2 match points against the swiss olympic champion belinda bencic before winning the decider. the pole has won four grand slam titles, but she's now into the wimbledon quarterfinals for the first time. this match is going to give me motivation and i'm happy that it was really tight and i could still play my game. these are important moments for sure. you have to kind of take all the positive stuff for matches like that. positive stuff for matches like that. next up for swiatek in the last 8 is the ukrainian elina svitolina. she beat the belarrussian victoria azarenka in their fourth round match. svitolina maintained her stand of not shaking hands with players from russia
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or belarus because of the war in her country. azarenka was also booed by a large section of the crowd after her defeat, something she felt was unfair. she doesn't want to shake hands with russian, belarusian people. i respected her decision, what should i have done? stadium waited? there is no think that i could do that would have been right. ijust did what i thought was respectful towards her decision. in the men draw, the seven time champion novak djokovic will have to come back on monday to finish his fourth round match against polands hubert hurkaz the serb was two sets up when play had to be stopped because of the iipm cut—off time. waiting for the winner in the quarterfinals is the russian andrey rublev. he took the first two sets agaianst alexander bublik but it went the distance on centre court, rublev taking the fifth set 6—4. he was asked about the
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possibility of facing djokovic if it's novak, novak is one of the best players on grass. the player who last couple of years almost doesn't ever lose on grass. in my case nothing to say and if it's... willard played a couple times, really tough matches. he built me some matches i beat him a of matches. he isa is a perfect player for grass. so rublev through to the second week, so much to look forward to on mondaychetan pathak to on monday, chetan pathak is at the all england club. monday z�*s glass set of players trying to reach the quarterfinals of the singles and the play on centre court is and the play on centre court is an absolute cracker. first up we will see women's defending
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champion and third scene alayna rebecca no breeze past britain's katie bolter in the last round rebecca was struggling with a virus going into the championship but looks to have recovered well from bad. stand between her and a place in the semifinals will build brazil's whose had a breakthrough year at the grand slams having reached the semifinals at roland garris last month. then onto centre steps own jibber, last month. then onto centre steps ownjibber, lassie last month. then onto centre steps own jibber, lassie years beat final as who's take into three sets by the former us champion in the last round. she will be playing, who's playing some of her best grass court tennis. a former two—time champion here having won her last title back in 2014. thank get your popcorn ready for carlos alcaraz, the men's top seed and world number one who's taken the force satisfies nicholas jerry taken the force satisfies nicholasjerry in the last round and admits he still getting to grips with playing
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on grass. he trying to reach last eight here for the first time it was only his second championship. he plays matteo, who's form was nowhere going into wimbledon and yet he won the last round and is looked formidable, barry tinie, a form of finalise here at wimbledon should be a tough test for alcaraz. you're up to date with tennis. you're up to date with tennis. england's cricketers have kept the ashes alive with victory over australia in the third test. it was a nervy chase for the home side, they lost 7 wickets along the way but they reached their target of 251 and now trail australia 2—1 in the series with 2 to play. our sports correspondent joe wilson was at headingley today. this was day's journey towards victory that must have felt like a lifetime for england fans, who believed, hoped and doubted that their team were going to win over and over again. england in pursuit of 251 to win the second match were pegged back and again
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by australia, in particular by mitchell starc. just when it seemed like they were going to do it, when harry brook made 75, taking england to 21 runs from their target, he was out. it took mark wood came to the crease and nervously walloped a six to make england believe again. chris woakes was the man playing a supporting role, all the way until it was his turn to hit the winning runs and headingley erupted. when england's men really need a victory, they tend to come here. for this series as a whole, to keep the ashes alive, well, it is very important. it now stands at 2—1. both teams now have over a week to rest and think before the fourth test begins. it is going to be good, for our dressing room and the aussies as well. it has been a very quick turnaround and they have been three very hard—fought games. everyone can do with the break. we know what we need to do. we need to win the next two
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games, it is pretty simple. i would have liked a few more on the board. depending 250 on a pretty good wicket was always going to be hard. we bowled really well at times and a couple of good innings by them. harry brooke put a good partnership together. another great game, kept flipping and flopping. so much top level sport this week in the uk. max verstappen has stretched his lead in the formula one drivers championship to 99 points. the world champion won the british grand prix but there was still plenty to cheer for the home crowd as lando norris and lewis hamilton also made it onto the podium at silverstoneadam cottier reports. two british drivers and the podium positions at silverstone for the first time since 1999. lewis hamilton and noris drilled the crowd under grey skies. —— louis hamilton. nora
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started second on the grid but a pulsating taking over max or stopping on the first corner. the chairs of the british support was short—lived with first step in using his drs system to affect on lap five to retake the lead. later in the race a problem with magna sins lead to the safety car being deployed in a frantic last 14 laps or noris having to hold off hamilton who had moved up behind him from seventh. he succeeded to equal his best ever resulting in formula 1 with his mclaren team—mates coming forth. there winning was for stefan and the dutch with two red ball winner appears is excessive for third world tumble after successive grand prix victory. denmark's yonas vingegaur is still wearing the leaders yellow jersey at the tour de france, but the defending champion's lead has been cut to 18 seconds by tadej pogacar. stage nine was one for the climbers, as drew savage reports.
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it was a day to remember for michael woods, the canadian writer who's won stages at the gerald italia but never before at the tour de france will be taught the final climb to perfection. it's 35 years since the race first finished on top of the extinct volcano in france but hopes of winning the yellow jersey are still very much alive. he got away from the current leading on the final climb but the day and hungin final climb but the day and hung in there and delivered his losses to seven seconds. he said he'll be glad to have mondays rest day. mark cavendish has said goodbye to his team—mates after a broken collarbone ruled him out of the rest of this year's tour. he says that he is going to retire from the sport at the end of the year but his astana team, have offered him the chance
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to ride the tour next year... and possibly break the outright record for stage victories... he currently shares the record of 34 with eddie merckx. dutch rider annameek van vleuten has won the women's giro d'italia for the fourth time. the final stage was won by chiara consonni of italy. but van vleuten finished safely in the main bunch to confirm overall victory, which means she now holds all three grand tour titles — after winning won the first week—long tour de france femmes last year, and the vuelta a espana earlier this year. a quick reminder of our top story, beyond that first wimbledon quarterfinal for that novak talk of x is going to going to have to come back on monday to finish his fourth round match against her cats you can get the very latest on the bbc sport website. for me
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and the rest of the sportsday team, goodbye. —— novak djokovic. hello there. the weekend was quite a mixed bag. we saw some pretty heavy, thundery downpours across more western parts of the country. further east, it was a bit drier, with some spells of sunshine. but temperatures were coming down through the weekend, and that's the theme as we move through this upcoming week. low pressure in charge. it will feel cool for the time of year. showers or longer spells of rain and winds will be a feature, particularly towards the end of the week — all down to low pressure. monday, not a bad start for many areas, but we've got a new set of weather fronts slowly pushing into south—west england, wales, with stronger winds here for the morning. that will continue to journey its way northwards into the midlands, northern england, as well. some of this rain could be heavy and thundery. elsewhere, after a fine start, it's going to be one of sunshine and showers, though i think the far
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south—east of england and in towards east anglia should tend to remain drier, with lengthy sunny spells. winds will be a feature, then, across the south—west. those are mean wind speeds. lighter further north. temperatures ranging from high teens, low 20s in the north, maybe 23 or 24 degrees in the south—east. that rain continues to move northwards across the country during monday night. we see another batch of rain pushing into south—west england, wales, the midlands and this will continue to drift towards the east in the early hours of tuesday. again, some of this could be heavy and thundery. to the south of it, quite a warm and muggy night. to the north of it, a little bit fresher where we'll have clear spells and showers. for tuesday, then, our area of low pressure starts to drift northwards to the north—east of the uk and that will bring plenty of showers to the country, pretty much from the word go across the north. this area of rain will take its time to clear the south and east of england through the tuesday morning. eventually, it will do and then all areasjoin in sunshine and showers. most of these will be affecting scotland, northern ireland,
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northern and western parts of england and wales. again, the high teens in the north, a little bit fresher across the south—east. then beyond tuesday through wednesday, thursday, that area of low pressure moves to the north, it allows west, north—westerly winds to move down across the country again with plenty of showers. further low pressure systems will be moving into western areas by the end of the week and into next week. so a very unsettled rest of the week to come with showers or longer spells of rain, some sunnier moments, as well, but it will feel quite cool, particularly when winds pick up at times too.
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