manchester united's laurenjames is just one of a number of footballers who have revealed that they haveed online over the past few weeks. her brother reece, who plays for chelsea was also targetted. lauren's manager at united says more has to be done to protect players. it's hard for me to comprehend seen as a white person is actually being able to understand what she lives through every single day. what she's experience and she's grown up. it's disgusting. it's utterly disgusting. i think the government and the powers that be need to do so much more to govern these social media platforms. and we need to stand up, speak up and make it unacceptable that this happens. because when a player comes to me and says it's kind of walked back. that is gut wrenching for me. that she has to face. ijust cannot, i can't get my head around it. until the government, until instagram, twitter, until these people in high—profile positions do something about it, it's not going to change. we've had some big rugby league in the past couple of hours the effort is resignation. he survived a vote of no—confiden

women's manager casey stoney says she's disgusted by the online racist abuse the teenage player laurenjamesworld number one novak djokovic has a battle on his hands in the second round of the australian open. it's a really tight match and djokovic lost the second set to the american frances tiafoe, and the third set has gone to a tie—break. he hasjust won he has just won that. the american keeping him on his toes. but venus williams is struggling on court against sara errani. she twisted her ankle on the way to losing the first set by 6—1. she has heavy strapping on her opposite knee. it looked at one stage as if she would have to retire but she is still going. she hasn't won another game since. andy murray is, of course, missing the australian open, but he did make a winning return to the court yesterday. he beat germany's maxmillian marterer in three sets on the challenger tour in italy. it was his first match in four months. now, there could be some changes coming to formula one, in an attempt to raise excitement levels in the sport. bosses are thinking of scrapping the saturday qualifyi