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to sportsday — i meant mark edwards from the bbc sport centre. unstopable alcaraz. . .. who sees off holge rune for a place in the ons jabeur avenges her defeat in last years final as shes sess off rybakina for a place in the last four the ashes are alive its all square in the series..... hello and thanks for joining us on sportsday. only one place to start and that's at wimbledon where that mouthwatering potential final between novak djokovic and carlos alcaraz is one step closer.

the wimbledon semi—finals for the first time beating danish sixth seed holger rune. year's final after seeing off defending champion elena rybakina in the last eight. chetan pathak rounds up the day's action the talk before these championships was of a carlos alcaraz, novak djokovic final. we are now a step closer towards that happening after the world, number one and top seed beat holger rune in straight sets. this was the first quarterfinal between two players under the age of 21, in the open era at wimbledon. rune�*s long matches at these championships, though, ultimately caught up with him as the sixth seed went out. overpowered in the end by alcaraz. up next, on friday for the spanish

the 27—year—old american has lit up these championships. the world number 43 coming from nowhere to reach the last eight he took medvedev, the third seed, to five sets and at one stage had the momentum with him. but the russian, who's finally made the breakthrough on grass, is into his first wimbledon thursday will see the women's semi—finals and ons jabeur is there after she beat the defending champion elena rybakina in three sets, avenging last year's defeat to her in the final. rybakina did take the narrow first set, but jabeur didn't relent and after last year's disappointment, now looks well placed to get her hands on the title she wants more than any other. final, though, she'll have to beat the second seed and australian open of her career so far. she's into her third grand slam semifinal of the year after a straight sets win over america's madison keys, who'd

heading into this one, including winning the eastbourne title. but this was a step too far. are the two semi—finals to come on thursday. whatever happens next, come the weekend for the sixth time in a row. there'll be a new wimbledon women's singles champion. what a series this women's ashes contest is turning out to be. a seemingly unbeatable australia who'd won 41 of their last 42 completed odis have lost to england by two wickets in bristol. records sent tumbling as this was england's highest ever successful run chase in the format. captain heather knight finished unbeaten on 75 as the hosts reached their target of 264 with 11 balls remaining. it is england's first odi victory over the world champions since 2017 and it means the points—based series is beautifully poised at 6—6 with two odis to play. ben croucher was in bristol for us.

the disruptors. that's what heather knight wanted england to be, to keep this women's ashes series alive. they have got australia worried all right, and disrupted a few thousand heart rates in a nail biting finale here in bristol. australia, won the toss batted first. their innings was a tale of stunning catches, dropped catches and a belligerent bet. the runs flowed, but wickets fell regularly to sophie ecclestone with a stunner to remove phoebe litchfield early, plenty of easier chances went down to beth mooney was one of those dropped on 19, but she carried australia to 263, and set england more than they'd ever chased to win a one day against them. we've got a ragged australia in reply. extras aplenty. england raced out of the traps and were always well ahead of the run rate. but then australia, who had won 15 one—days in a row, started taking wicket after wicket and took english hopes with them

until kate cross, combined with captain heather knight to see england to a famous win. what does this all mean? well, with two games to go, this series is level and england still can't afford to lose either of them. but from the position they were in, they have turned this series on its head. i think this whole series, we haven't been at our best. i think even in the t20s we were probably playing at 80%. at our best again. but to get over the line and especially in pressure moments like that, where previously maybe we would have crumbled a little bit, we really held strong and we looked really calm out there, which has been something that we've been focusing on. so yeah, it's really exciting that we haven't played our best cricket yet and we're still it's now 6—6. it's alto play for, really. i think you can look at a number of different things

in that game as you do when you're on the losing side of it. you know, could we have got 20 more runs for sure? could we have bowled a little bit better? absolutely. but, you know, at the end of the day, we ended up getting pretty close and it would have been really nice to snatch that one at the end when, you know, they were under the pump a bit eight down. elsewhere in the mens game, india are well on top after the opening day of the first test against west indies in dominica. the home side won the toss, chose to bat first — and were skittled out forjust 150. ashwin and jadeja were the pick of the indian bowlers — taking eight wickets between them. the tourists closed the day on 80 for nought in reply. this is the first of two tests matches — and they'll be followed by three one—dayers and five t20 internationals. now the uk based football anti discrimination charity kick it out have called for fans, clubs and governing bodies to continue to challenge all forms of discrimination in football. this as their latest report revealed 1,007 incidents of discriminatory behavior last season — a 65% rise, across the grassroots and 92 clubs of the english professional game, and on social media. the report also found that racism remains the most commonly reported form

of discrimination, accounting for 49.3%. other insights included that reports of online abuse rose from 7a to 281 — up by 279%. reports of sexist behaviour or misogyny rose from 16 to 80 — so up by 400%. but, kick it out do recognise the increases could be a result of greater awareness and willingness for fans to report discrimination. a short while ago i spoke to the kick it out chief executive tony burnett for what he thinks can and should be done we're part of society. football is a part of society, obviously, so there's not a huge amount we can do to change society, but we can get our act together in football. and what that looks like is firstly making encouraging more people to report discrimination. it's an early trend, but we want to see even more people reporting discrimination. the second thing we want to see is the football authorities coming together to drive solutions in this space. and one of the things that we're still banging the drum for is that there are 92 clubs and lots and lots of football governing bodies, none of whom share the data around discrimination

transparently. so we call it on football to use this as a stepping stone to share the data right across the game so we can understand the extent of the problem and then put serious solutions in place to tackle it. we've collected over 1000 complaints in a single season. that number, by the way, is just the tip of the iceberg. we know for a fact that approximately one in four people who experience or see discrimination actually report it. so you can take our stats, multiply that by the numbers that the 92 clubs are collecting and you realise the extent of the problem. we're talking thousands of incidents of discrimination here that we're not getting access to to understand what's going on. golf — and world number one scottie scheffler says players still don't have any "clarity" on the proposed merger between the established pga and european tours on the one hand — and the saudi—backed rival liv golf on the other. the shock merger announced last month came after a year of unprecedented disruption in the men's game. pga tour commissioner jay monahan returns to work next week after what's been described as a "medical situation" — and he may find he has to regain the trust of many of the top players...

he has to regain the trust i he has to regain the trustjust think that i he has to regain the trust just think that yesterday didn't i just think that yesterday we didn't learn a whole lot again, as a player on tour, we still don't have a bunch of clarity as to what is going on, which is worrisome. they keep saying it's a player run organisation and we don't have the information we need. i don't even know how to comment, i had to watch parties today and didn't learn anything for so i don't know what to say. the guy who was supposed to be there _ the guy who was supposed to be there for— the guy who was supposed to be there for us wasn't, obviously had _ there for us wasn't, obviously had some _ there for us wasn't, obviously had some has issues. i'm glad we got — had some has issues. i'm glad we got the memo and he's feeling _ we got the memo and he's feeling better but, yeah, i would _ feeling better but, yeah, i would say he has a lot of tough places — would say he has a lot of tough places the answer on his return and i_ places the answer on his return and i don't _ places the answer on his return and i don't trust people easily~ _ and i don't trust people easily. he had my trust and he has a — easily. he had my trust and he has a lot— easily. he had my trust and he has a lot less of it now was up i don't — has a lot less of it now was up i don't stand alone when i say idon't stand alone when i say that— i don't stand alone when i say that and. _ i don't stand alone when i say that and, yeah, you just have to answer—

that and, yeah, you just have to answer a lots of hard questions when he comes back. belgian cyclist jasper philipsen won today's 11th stage of the tour de france — whilejonas vingegaard retained the leader's yellow jersey. in rainy conditions in central france, philipsen won a sprint for the line at moulins — to claim his fourth stage victory in this year's race. it's a feat last achieved by mark cavendish two years ago. philipsen�*s win means he extends his lead safely in the pack — and he's 17 seconds clear you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.co.uk/sport. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc hello. if you thought summer had already taken a bit this is the area of low

pressure that's developing. before that arrives, and as one area of low pressure spell on thursday. still a few showers around to start the day in the north and the west. temperatures like they were on wednesday morning. to bubble up once more. thing is, with thursday, there'll be fewer showers around. scotland, slow moving here. large rainfall totals for some, but equally, showers by and large. many will spend the day, well, at least the bulk of it, dry. though, we'll start to see cloud gather towards the southwest. feel a touch warmer with winds that little bit lighter. now, into the evening, rain at times, northern ireland, elsewhere, some clear skies into friday morning. but already the change is towards the southwest. it's going to make it feel like autumn at times through friday and into the weekend. strongest of the winds, though, for friday, mainly towards the southwest

of the uk. we could see gales around hills and coasts and some pretty some of it should become heavy and thundery. in scotland working its way north, but far north of outbreaks of rain, though, spread to much of england, wales, northern ireland, maybe not too much and whilst temperatures high teens low 20s, the strengthening wind will start to make it feel a little bit cooler. and that cooler story continues into the weekend. an unseasonably windy spell through the weekend too. not what you want to see this stage injuly. low pressure by saturday, will be to the north it where we've got some of the strongest of the winds, approaches, widespread gales, strong winds more widely lightest winds through parts of scotland, but that heavy thundery downpours quite widely across much of the uk.

strong winds, making it feel rather cool as well, despite seeing temperatures again, high teens and low 20s. winds strengthen for scotland on sunday.

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