been some criticism of his selection for europe's ryder cup team, particularly given poland's adrian meronkwhich included may's italian open at the ryder cup course. but it's been a good time for lowry to find some form. solid first round at wentworth with a three under 69 five shots off the lead. denmark's marcus helligkilde leads the field at eight under his two shots ahead of the chasing pack, rather, which includes last year's us open winner, matt fitzpatrick. tennis now, an extraordinary meltdown from the usa's frances tiafoe handed the netherlands victory in their davis cup group tie in split. tiafoe, 5—2 down in the third set tie break against griekspoor, when the dutchman reviews a call which had called his serve long. hawk—eye overturns that call, handing griekspoor match point. tiafoe then begins a long argument with umpire richard hay and other officials before repeatedly smashing his racquet on the floor. hay, duly handing tiafoe a point penalty which meant griekspoor won the match and the netherlands established an unassailable 2—0 lead in the third match. now, when milly pickl

earlier this week polish player adrian meronk said he was "shocked, sad and angry" not to be named asuke donald, and he underlined his good form in today's irish open first round with a three under par 69 of the players that have been included rory mcilroy also made three under par — four shots off the lead held by india's shubhankar sharma. sharma's one shot clear of a group including englishmen ross fisher and jordan smith. finally, wbc world heavyweight champion tyson fury and former ufc champ francis ngannou have been promoting their fight next month in saudi arabia. ngannou says he's been waiting to meet fury in the ring for three years. they'll fight under boxing rules on october 28th in riyadh. the pair squared up to each other at a news conference in london. let's not forget only trade six weeks. i'm doing 12 weeks for frances anggadi i need to be on my because there is more on the line now that a boxing fight. if i lose number one contender, he lost to a champion, whatever, but if i lose to eliminate kite on the be able to show my face in public. the building ridicule, people

golf now, and questions continue as to why adrian meronk wasn't picked for europe's ryder cup team afternd round 68 for a share of the lead at the bmw pga championship at wentworth. meronk missed out on a wild card pick, with shane lowry chosen instead, but the pole is in a three—way tie at the top of the leaderboard at 9—under. england's aran rai isjust one shot behind after he carded a second round 67. tennis, and andy murray fought back tears at the end of his davis cup tie as he put great britain one—up against switzerland in manchester. murray beat leandro riedi 7—6, 6—4, 6—4 in the opening singles game of the day, and then revealed he was missing his grandmother's funeral in order to play the match. he was clearly emotional as he dedicated the win to her. it's my grand's funeral today. and, yeah, i'm sorry to my family is that i'm not... sorry. that i'm not able to be there, but, yeah, that one's for you. an emotional andy murray there anything at the latest on the davis cup on the bbc sport website and the apple. that is all from us and we will be back later on. gavin, thank you v

been some criticism of his selection for europe's ryder cup team, particularly given poland's adrian meronkluding may's italian open at the ryder cup course. but it's been a good time for lowry to find some form, a solid first round at wentworth, with a three 3—under five shots off the lead. despite a double—bogey at 17, sweden's ludvig aaberg who was also given a wild card spot on the european team, still managed to card a li—under 68. denmark's marcus helligkilde leads the field at 8—under, he's two shots ahead of the chasing pack. sepp kuss has retained his overall lead after stage 18 of the vuelta a espana. reigning champion remco evenepoel rode to victory, finishing almost five minutes clear of the next rider in northern spain. kuss, though, doing what he needed to do, supported by hisjumbo visma team mates premoz roglitch and yonas vingergaur. the american finished ahead of them in tenth place to maintain his eight—second overall lead. and that's all the sport for now. 63 projects have been chosen to share £145 million of government funding to help support england's most endangered sp

earlier this week, polish player adrian meronk said he was "shocked, sad and angry" not to be named asshmen ross fisher and jordan smith. britain's ethan vernon remains in second place after stage 5 of the tour of britain. the stage began and finished in felixstowe and was won by the belgian wout van aert after a late burst. he's the overall leader, with vernon three seconds off the pace. the race finishes in caerphilly on sunday. and that's all the sport for now. from me, marc edwards, and the rest of the team, bye—bye. hello. we've waited until september for it, but provisionally, today has been the warmest day of the year so far, with temperatures getting quite close to 33 celsius. it continues a long run of hot days, in fact, the longest run of september days with temperatures above 30 degrees on record. and it looks set to continue at least for another couple of days. but there were exceptions. this was edinburgh earlier on this afternoon with a lot of cloud overhead and we will continue to see a fair amount of cloud and indeed some mist and murk across eastern scotland and easter