two time grand slam champion announces her retirement. all roads in the nfl leads to new orleans with super bowl 59 taking centre stage this sunday. and as premier league clubs spend m60 million in the winter transfer window — mikel arteta says he's disappointed arsenal welcome along to the programme. let's start with the news that former tennis world number one simona halep has announced her retirement following country of romania.

lucia bronzetti. but was struggling with injuries. in romania halep said:

she then won at wimbledon in 2019, not entirely surprising given that she is a 33 years of age and has really struggled for fitness over the last 12 months. i think the fact that she was playing on home soil for what turned out to be the final time was perhaps

when she failed to make australian open qualifier to the tour after her doping suspension was cut from for 4 years to nine months last march, she has only been able ——tour level match in all of that time so i think she relates at the age of 33 that time was up. you alluded to it that, her career had great highs for four years. it was something that halep always denied

but before that there were many, many highs as well. of her life and those were her words. superbowl 59 takes place on sunday in new orleans. three times in a row? are looking to win the championship game for only the second time. and our reporter nesta mcgregor is soaking it all in.

there is a reason the 3—piece has never been completed. why is this the year for it to happen? i think you have to go out there and be the best you can be. underlined. are you ready? we will see sunday. we're not complacent. and toughest opponent yet. it has never been done i before but the reality is, the eagles have the better- defence, the two dynamic wide receivers and when you compare that with the running back, -

it is their game to lose. much faith do you have in that man behind you? when it comes to crunch time, he will deliver it. these are the brightest lights in the world, you just have to go and play. you just have to go and play. it is the biggest game it is the biggest game of your life but, hey, i of your life but, hey, i we're just playing football. we're just playing football. and the buildup will continue. staying in the usa, and luka doncic said he was as shocked as anyone by the blockbuster trade over the weekend that brought him the weekend that brought him to the los angeles lakers to the los angeles lakers from the dallas mavericks. from the dallas mavericks. but the 25—year—old slovenian is also excited to join forces with lebronjames in a move with lebronjames in a move that could shape the franchise that could shape the franchise for years to come. for years to come.

it isjust like a dream come true. i always look up to him. there are so many things i can learn from him and i am just excited just to learn everything and now i get to play with him so it is an amazing feeling. i am excited to be at start this newjourney and obviously at some point i knew this was going happen but i always take the high road. i had my amazing moments in dallas with all my teammates, coaches and most importantly the fans. they always supported me and it was an amazing journey. six nations rugby now and wales don't have long to lick their wounds after losing their opener in paris last friday. a record 43—0 defeat to the french. that made it 13 test defeats in a row for the welsh, another record. they are away again on saturday, in rome to play

italy, who beat them in cardiff in last year's championship. any loss is going to hurt, obviously. people say it is one of the biggest losses we had but at the end of the day we have to move onto thing and try to get that win. every game is big but obviously everyone kept referring to this losing streak but we but we know we have to win now and set us up for the six nations and finish up in a better position then we did last year. arsenal manager mikel arteta says he's disappointed by the club's failure to make any signings during the winter transfer window. arsenal were expected to bring in an attacker after gabrieljesus suffered a season—ending acl injury last month, while bukayo saka is yet to return from a hamstring issue. we'll hear from football finance expert kieran maguire on why the club stuggled to make any signings, but first here's the arsenal boss. we had clear intentions

which is always if there is a window open to explore the opportunity to improve our squad, two players impacted but we have not achieved that and we're disappointed in that sense but as well are very aware that we only want to bring certain kind of players and we have to be very disciplined with that as well and i think that we were. as far as the market they would be looking at, there are relatively few players. we have the extension of the champions league in terms of the matches taking place at clubs

to the semi—finals. a 29th—minute goal from striker deniz undav was enough for a 1—0 home win over augsburg on tuesday to progress to the last four of the sport centre, goodbye.

hello. there are a few changes weather wise now as we head through the rest of the week. lighten further, we can expect to see some overnight frosts and some patches of mist and fog develop too. but how did this happen? well, here goes tuesday's rain clearing away to allow high of the week. to be replaced by colder conditions marked in blue here. so a chilly start to wednesday morning. into the afternoon. it's still decent for the time of year.

so underneath clear skies, temperatures will drop away like a stone. still rather blustery, here it's a mild start to the day, but elsewhere those they'll slowly lift and clear through the morning, but a lot of sunshine around, dry and fine. by the end of the day will start to draw in more there will be plenty of added wind chill, but we're set to stay in that colder air as we head so here's the outlook

for our capital cities. into monday too. app, of course. bye for now.

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