whether novak djokovic would win 3 roger federer equalling eight wimbledon men's singles title and a 24th grand slam title overall, to bring him level with margaret court. of course he went into this final as the heavy favourite, his 35th at a grand slam against carlos alcaraz, a man only playing in his second majorfinal and the first on centre court. the first set but novak djokovic�*s way, he'd never lost a match at wimbledon where he had won the opening set but that he has never played carlos alcaraz who has steadied his nerves, harnessed the adrenaline and took the next two sets. just as he made the 16 year age difference show, djokovic at 36, preset like he so often does and one ——won the fourth set with a momentum now with him. and so to the showdown.

a winner takes all deciding set, carlos alcaraz cramped and lost to djokovic at the french open last month but no nerves. no anxiety here as the 20—year—old from spain kept his focus to win the match at the first time of asking. so after 20 years of federer, djokovic, nadal and murray the names of the wimbledon trophy, the world number one carlos alcaraz adds his. the youngest winner since boris becker in 1985, novak djokovic�*s pursuit of more historic numbers will have to wait for now. with marketa vondrousova of the czech republic beating ons jabeur on saturday's women's final we have new wimbledon winners on both the saturday and sunday, and after all the rain and high winds and disruptive weather during these championships, these finals have suddenly made it feel worthwhile. the five set on sunday in particular between djokovic and alcaraz left everyone

watching on centre court and on henman hill to the right of me wanting more. we already looking forward to next year's championships. it's a dream come true for me. as i said before, of course it is great to win, but even if i would have lost, i would be really proud of myself in this amazing ground, making history in this beautiful tournament, playing a final against a legend at our sport. for me, it is incredible. i have to still be very grateful because i won many, many tight and close matches in the past year. to name a few, 2019 against roger in the final where i was a matchpoint down, maybe i should have lost a couple finals that i want so i think this is even steven!

the women's doubles final took place after that match and it was won by barbora strycova and hsieh su—wei after they beat storm hunter and elise mertens 7—5 6—4. it's the second time the pair have won the title, emulating their 2019 success, although they were unseeded this time due to them only returning to the tour this april. strycova has been away from the game for 1.5 years after having a baby. onto cricket, and they gave it a very good go, but england's women now can't win the ashes. they lost their penultimate match, which means the holders australia have an unassailable lead in the multi—format series. the aussies won byjust three runs in southampton after setting england what would have been a record—breaking run chase of 283, elyse perry top scoring on 91. in reply, england went for it — tammy beaumont making 60 and then nat sciver—brunt hitting 111 off 99 balls, but they fell just short. the points—based, multi—format

series, which is now 8—6 in australia's favour, concludes at taunton on tuesday. with just a few days until the open golf championship, rory mcilroy has won the key warm—up event, the scottish open. but it was a dramatic victory, because after leading the tournament going into the final round, mcilroy looked like he'd blown it, with local favourite robert macintyre ahead until mcilroy birdied the last two holes to steal the win by a shot on 15 under par — perfect preparation for the open which starts on thursday at hoylake. i am going to have to reset. it's always a bit harder after i win to get this out of your head and next week is a new week and i start afresh. i am going to do it enjoy this tonight. i am going to play whatever, five, 600 events in my career and if i can win10% of them that's a really good return. we lose a lot more than we win in this game and every time you do win you have to enjoy them.

he surely has to come with confidence. there was already in his history reason for confidence given his one open victory came at hoylake back in 2014 but now with this victory behind him and the knowledge that when he won his last ma'or which was also in 2014 at the pga championship, he won the week before so he knows it is possible to go back to back for titles. having said that, this stokes expectation and rory mcilroy has gone into many a major with very high expectations, both internally and externally, and as we know he has not one won one for nine years. so how does he deal with that expectation how does he deal with all the attention that he is now generated with this victory? i think that's one of the key questions for open week at hoyla ke. with just one week to go in the tour de france, defending championjonas

vingegaard still has a 10—second lead over rival tadej pogacar. this is how the top eight looks, britain's adam yates has moved up to fourth as he looks to claim his first grand tour podium place. stage 15 was won by wout poels by more than two minutes. it was the dutchman's first tour de france stage victory. vingegaard and pogarcer crossed the line together after a brief battle on the final climb. the race resumes on tuesday after a rest day. ireland's rugby union team will have to do without their captain jonny sexton for all their world cup warm—up matches after he was banned for misconduct. the fly half was given a three—game ban for "confrontational and aggressive behaviour" towards match officials following his leinster side's european cup final defeat back in may. it means sexton can't play in the fixtures against italy, england and samoa, but he will be available for ireland's world cup opener against romania on nine september. sexton is planning to retire after this world cup.

britain's wheelchair racer, hannah cockroft, has won a 14th world title, continuing her dominance in the 800m. she clocked 1:51:57 — a para athletics world championships record. but it was still over six seconds slower than her own world record time. great britain are fifth in the medal table with eight golds so far in paris. china leads with 1a golds. well these championships are a bit of a warm—up for the paris paralympics which take place in the same city in 13 months' time. and although the crowds have been better there than at the last worlds in dubai, the president of the international paralympic committee admits there's work to do to advance the paralympic movement in france. i think we need a lot of promotion here in the lead up to the games. i remember every single host of the games and lit up we needed to do a lot of promotion, events that the test events,

promoting ticket sales, even for london, still the benchmark, if you compare the awareness prior to the games and awareness after the games it was a monumental change and this is what we are to see here but we want to start from a different position, so we doing a lot with broadcasters here, with the media but also with the french parliament committee and organising committee. did you think the crowds would be bigger? you mention london 2012 but also 2017 with a world athletics selling out crowds. and there have been crowds here but not sellouts. no, but london 2017 was five years after that games and if we had the same world championships year, five years from the paralympic games in france next year, i assume we have a similar crowd as we had in london 2017. so far this is let's say the second biggest championship from the crowd perspective, only after london 2017,

but better than dubai two years ago, four years ago, sorry, better than doha in 2015 so it's a different event, we don't have the same local organisers that have the same finances to support a long—term promotional strategy, so we are happy where we are but also conscious that we need to do more to do more to promote that games next year, a different strategy and environment. andrew parsons speaking to a reporter in chile thumb. that's it for sportsday. there's much more on our website. goodbye. hello. our spell of fairly unsettled sort of mid—july weather continues. temperatures not doing great for the time of year, but we will have some sunshine around over the next couple of days. showers as we head through the week at times,

temperatures a little below average for some of us. but the driest weather will be found towards the south—east because we're closer to high pressure sitting across europe at the moment. but low pressure across scandinavia drifts its way northeast with fewer isobars on the map on monday, certainly compared to what we've seen through the weekend. so not as breezy first thing monday morning. few showers from the word go for western parts of england and wales as they drift eastwards. could be the odd thunderstorm, the odd sharp one in the east during the afternoon. scotland will see the cloud breaking up to leave sunny spells and a few scattered showers. and just the odd shower for northern ireland, too. temperatures somewhere between about 1a to 22 degrees north to south. and most of those showers do tend to ease away later in the afternoon from the west. so some late sunshine for many of us. overnight, though, the cloud increases from the west as this area of rain moves in to northern ireland, to wales, perhaps by the early hours of tuesday morning. ahead of that, quite a cool fresh night, particularly across parts of scotland. temperatures down into mid single figures in places. but through the day on tuesday, i think the weather will be dominated by this feature, slowly moving in from the atlantic, bringing that cloud and rain earlier on to parts of northern ireland and wales. but it'll drift into northern

and western england, southern scotland where it could be quite heavy through the day. to the north of that, sunny spells and a few scattered showers, but across south—east england and east anglia, it could well stay dry with some sunshine lasting through the day. so temperatures here up to about 2k degrees, whereas if you're stuck under the rain, typically about 16 or 17. now looking towards the middle part of the week in that area of low pressure clears to the east. could be a bit of rain in the south—east overnight into wednesday. wednesday, we're left with the airflow once again coming from west or north—westerly direction. not a particularly warm direction, but it should bring some sunshine and just a few showers. the showers for parts of eastern england and eastern scotland could be quite sharp. so perhaps the odd rumble of thunder, probably more likely to stay dry for the likes of wales, northern ireland, south west england too — temperatures 16 to 23. so up a little bit by this stage in the middle of the week and then towards the end of the week it's staying unsettled. further spells of rain. there will be some sunshine thursday into friday, but looking fairly unsettled as we head towards the weekend. not particularly warm for the middle ofjuly. bye for now.

live from washington. this is bbc news the global heatwave shows the global heatwave shows no signs of stopping no signs of stopping with parts of the us and europe poised to shatter all—time records. the death toll rises in south korea following deadly flooding across the country. plus, a few weeks ago he was still a teenager. now you can call carlos alcaraz a wimbledon champion. hello, i'm carl nasman. welcome to the programme. we begin in the us, which is seeing record temperatures, with nearly

a third of the country under heat advisories.