and that is with nick marshall caught.sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on the show: first kvitova, now pliskova, another czech is bounced at wimbledon. tears on the tour de france. marcel kittel is overwhelmed after his second stage victory. and joe root says he's in "dreamworld" after making an unbeaten 184 on his first day as england captain. hi there, wherever you are around the world, welcome to sport today. two favourites out of wimbledon in two days! third seed karolina pliskova was knocked—out by magdalena rybarikova. that's the fifth straight year, the czech has gone out in the second round. pliskova said "probably it's something in the air here" at the all england club. austin halewood watched the action. with pedro kvitova out of the women's draw, karolina pliskova

i'm nick marshall—mccormack — see you soon. bye bye. hi, there.ss northern england and southern scotland yesterday. the wettest place in cumbria getting over a0 millimetres of rain. you can see how the rain band has been tracking away into the north sea. the rain was all courtesy of this weather front, that will still be with us today in northern england, where it will stay cloudy. to the south, low pressure in the bay of biscay. the winds will increasingly fall light, but will begin to back up and bring warm air from the near continent. notjust warm air, it will become hot and humid in southern england, where temperatures could hit 30. across the north of scotland a decent start to the day. most of the day will be dry, with plenty of sunshine. it's across southern scotland, northern ireland and northern england it will be a cloudy start and to the east of the pennines, that cloud will be thick enough for occasional spots of patchy, light rain and drizzle. it could be misty over the hills. further southwards, that's where we have lighter winds and

i'm nick marshall—mccormack. see you soon. bye bye. hello again.d weather coming up across england and wales. yesterday we had temperatures of 30 degrees in both heathrow and wisley in surrey, and we're going to see temperatures again getting to those kind of levels later in the afternoon. mind you, for some of us, there will also be some fairly big thunderstorms around over the next 2a hours. the first place that could see some storms is actually in the morning across southern counties of england, but these storms will have about two miles of dry air beneath them so there might not be a huge amount of rain despite the potential for lots of thunder and lightning first thing in the morning. away from those storms, may be a bit of murky weather around the coastline but essentially quite a bit of sunshine for wales, the midlands and northern counties of england with those temperatures rising quickly. partly cloudy for northern ireland and a disappointing start in scotland with a band of rain pushing eastwards, temperatures at 9am about 1k or 15 degree

hello, i'm nick marshall—mccormack, and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre.umber one. andy murray does it easy on wednesday at wimbledon. but two—times champion petra kvitova has been knocked out, saying she couldn't breathe and was feeling sick. and he's back in the yellow — chris froome takes the lead in the tour de france. hi, there, wherever you are around the world, welcome to sport today. the sun was hot and the strawberries ripe on day three at wimbledon. andy murray and rafael nadal picked apart their opponents with ease, whilejohanna konta came through an epic three—hour battle. but one of the favourites, petra kivitova, has been knocked out. austin halewood reports. if spectators felt shortchanged on day two centre court, they got their money's worth on wednesday when defending champion andy murray came up defending champion andy murray came up against unpredictable dustin brown and in a flash of drop shots, volleys a nd brown and in a flash of drop shots, volleys and lobs the german didn't disappoint. but the world number one then took control, tak

hello, i'm nick marshall—mccormack and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre.ennis, following his wimbledon loss to mischa zverev. you'd never catch this guy saying he's bored at the all england club — but roger federer did have an easy day at the office. and mark cavendish has pulled out of the tour de france after a crash on stage four. hi there, wherever you are around the world, welcome to sport today. some australian fans are calling for bernard tomic to be deported after saying he was bored playing at wimbledon. 1987 champion pat cash says tomic should go and work in a factory to understand what real work is like. martina navratiolva says tomic should go and find another sport. it's the controversy which has taken the focus off the on—court action, or lack thereof, in the case of roger federer and novak djokovic. here'sjohn watson to explain. day two of wimbledon. novak djokovic and roger federer, both in action. they did not perhaps get to work out they were expecting. those opponents retired injured in the second set. they were both leading at the time.

nick marshall—mccormack is at the bbc sport centre with more. more than three hours, quite a match. a bubble with this psychology she goes through but it paid off today, she had to fight and dig deep and came through. let me bring you up to date, the two time champion, petra kvitova losing to the 94th ranked player. kvitova winning the title in 2011 and 2014. she was playing her third event of the year after recovering from that knife attack at her home in december. she won in birmingham last month after winning in the french open. you spoke about konta, one of the matches of wimbledon so far, brilliant comeback to win against vekic. murray licking it —— making it look easy against brown. four in the players have reached round three in the singles at wimbledon for the first time in 20 years and it could be five if kyle edmund beats monfils. nadal is through after beating donald young in straight sets. more controversy today, when medvedev threw coins and the umpire's chair following his loss against a belgian qualifier after he had asked for someone to be replaced as the umpire. a b