semifinals. a dish best served cold. ons jabeur avenges her defeat in last year's final as she sess off rybakina for a place in the last four. the ashes are alive. england women inflict a third defeat on the bounce for australia and it's 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. that's after the spanish superstar moved into the wimbledon semifinals for the first time, beating danish sixth seed holger rune. on the women's side,

ons jabeur avenged her defeat in last 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 for a carlos alcaraz and novak djokovic final. we are 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 this championship though ultimately caught up with him as the sixth seed went out overpowered by alcaraz. next on friday for the spanish player in the semifinals will be daniil medvedev who ended chris eubanks�* fairytale run at wimbledon. the 27—year—old american has lit up these championships, the world number 43 coming from nowhere to reach the last eight on his wimbledon debut, taking medvedev, the third seed, to five sets and at one

stage had momentum with him but the russian who has finally made the breakthrough on grass is into his first wimbledon semifinal. before that, thursday will see the women's semifinals and ons jabeur is there after she beat defending champion elena rybakina in three sets, avenging last year's defeat to her in the final, rybakina taking the narrow first set but jabeur didn't relent. after last yea r�*s disappointment she now looks well—placed to get her hands on the title she wants more than any other. if she is to reach another wimbledon final though she will have to beat the second seed, australian open champion aryna sabalenka, who is having the strongest year of her career so far, into her third grand slam semifinal of the after straight sets win over american madison keys who'd won nine matches in a row on grass heading into this one, including winning the eastbourne title, but this was a step too far. so sabalenka againstjabeur

and svitolina against vondrousova, two semifinals to come on thursday. whatever happens next, come the weekend for the sixth time in a row, there will be a new wimbledon women's singles champion. cricket now. 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 the women's ashes series alive. they have got australia worried

all right, and disrupted a few thousand heart rates in a nailbiting finale here in bristol. australia won the toss, batted first, their innings a tale of stunning catches, dropped catches and a belligerent beth, the runs flowed, wickets fell regularly as well with sophie ecclestone having a stunner to remove phoebe litchfield early. plenty of easier chances went down to beth mooney, 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—dayer against them. we have a ragged australian in reply, extras aplenty, england race down to the traps and were always well ahead of the run rate, but then australia, who'd won 15 one—dayers 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 is this all mean? with two games to go the series is level and england

still can't afford to lose either of them, but from the position they are in they have turned this series on its head. the whole series we have not been our best, even in the t20 we probably played 80% and like you said today we weren't 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 looked really calm out there which has been something we've been focusing on. cricket yet and we still it's now six all and it's all to play for, really. i think you could look at a number of things in that game as you do when you're on the losing side of it, could we have got plenty more runs? for sure. could we have bowled better? absolutely. at the end of the day we got pretty close and it would have been really nice to snatch

that one at the end when they were under the pump about, eight down. elsewhere in the men's 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 test 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 forfans, 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

up by 279%. reports of sexist behaviour or misogyny rose 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 are a part of society football is a part of society, so there is not a huge amount we can do to change society but we can get our act together in football. that looks like including more people to report discrimination, it's an early trend, but we want to see even more people report discrimination. the second thing is the football authorities coming together to drive solutions in this space and one thing we're still banging the drum for is there a 92 clubs, lots of football governing bodies, none of whom share the data around discrimination transparently, so we call on football to use this as a stepping stone to share the data across the game so we can understand the extent of the problem and what serious

solutions we can put in place to tackle it. we've collected over 1,000 complaints in a single season, that number is the tip of the iceberg. we know for a fact that approximately one in four people who experience or see discrimination report it, so you can take our starts, multiply that by the number that the 92 clubs are now collecting, so we're talking thousands of incidents of discrimination here that we not getting access to to understand 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. i just think that yesterday we didn't learn a whole lot again.

as a player on tour we don't have much clarity as to what's going on and that's a bit worrisome. they keep saying it's the player—run organisation and we don't have information we need to, i don't even know how to comment, i watched the party yesterday and didn't learn anything. i really don't know what to say. the guy who was supposed to be there for us wasn't. he obviously had some health issues, so i'm glad we got the memo, that he said he is feeling much better, but yes, i'd say he has a lot of tough questions to answer in his return and yes, i don't trust people easily. he had my trust and he has a lot less of it now, so i don't stand alone when i say that and yes, he'lljust have to has a lot of really hard questions when he comes back. belgian cyclist jasper philipsen won today's 11th stage of the tour de france on wednesday 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 11th 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 in the sprinter�*s green jersey. meanwhile, the defending champion vingegaard finished safely in the pack and he's 17 seconds clear of the two—time former winner tadej pogacar. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye. hello. if you thought summer had already taken a bit of a back—seat, just wait till friday and into the weekend. this is the area of low pressure that's developing. it will be responsible for some big changes. before that arrives, and as one area of low pressure pulls away into scandinavia, into a slightly quieter 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. but low pressure still close enough by for the shower clouds to bubble up once more. thing is, with thursday, there'll be fewer showers around. the heaviest of the showers, some will be across scotland, slow moving here. large rainfall totals for some, but equally, some will stay dry. northern ireland, england and wales, fewer 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 south—west. feel a touch warmer with winds that little bit lighter. now, into the evening, rain at times, northern ireland, north wales, spreading its way into central southern scotland. elsewhere, some clear skies into friday morning. temperatures 9—13 celsius again. but already the change is towards the south—west. this is the area of low pressure. 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 south—west of the uk. we could see gales around hills and coasts and some pretty rough seas developing too. it's here where we start with the rain on friday, some of it should become heavy and thundery.

dry start elsewhere, a bit of patchy rain in scotland working its way north, but far north of scotland stays dry throughout. outbreaks of rain, though, spread to much of england, wales, northern ireland, maybe not too much east anglia south—east until late in the day. and while 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 of ireland, wrapped around it, rain, but it's wrapped around it where we've got some of the strongest of the winds, far north of scotland and towards the south west approaches, widespread gales, strong winds more widely on saturday than they will have been on friday. lightest winds through parts of scotland, but that rain will be persistent in the far north. heavy thundery downpours quite widely across much of the uk. they could give some large rainfall totals. strong winds, making it feel rather cool as well, despite seeing temperatures again, high teens and low 20s. winds strengthen for scotland on sunday. elsewhere, sunshine and blustery showers yet again.

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