and a shock defeat for second seed stefanos tsitsipas in rotterdam against aljaz bedene. but defending champion gael monfils marches on. welcome along to the programme. three—time australian rugby union player of the year, israel folau, is set to return to action this weekend, for the first time in 10 months. the former wallaby was sacked last year by rugby australia and his state side, over homophobic comments he posted social media. folau's now back in the spotlight, after being the given the chance to return to rugby league, signing for the french based super league team, catalans dragons. and the man who's played for his country in both codes of rugby, set to make his debut on saturday against castleford tigers. our sports correspondent natalie pirks reports from perpignan. his athletic ability is not up for debate but his personal views sparked a huge run around free speech and discrimination. the deeply religious israe lfolau will attempt to resurrect a career left in tatters. the smile is back and his new manager believes everyone reserves a shot at redemption. fro

and a shock defeat for second seed stefanos tsitsipas in rotterdam against aljaz bedene. player of the year, israel folau, is set to return to action this weekend, for the first time in 10 months. the former wallaby was sacked last year by rugby australia and his state side, over homophobic comments he posted social media. folau's now back in the spotlight, after being the given the chance to return to rugby league, signing for the french based super league team, catalans dragons. and the man who's played for his country in both codes of rugby, set to make his debut on saturday against castleford tigers. 0ur sports correspondent natalie pirks reports from perpignan. his athletic ability is not up for debate but his personal

who made his debut on the main atp tour in his event three years ago — will now play slovenia's aljaz bedeneelix auger—aliassime is through to the last 16 after beating germany's jan—lennard struff in three sets. the canadian took the decider 6—3, and he'll now face grigor dimitrov for a place in the quarter—finals. the number five seed, the numberfive seed, fabio fognini is out beaten in straight sets. after a poor and to last year, the russian sealed his place in the second round where he will place dan evans from britain. another russian is through to. you can get all the latest sports news at our website, that's bbc.com/sport. but from me, and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello there. there really is an awful lot of weather getting thrown our way over the next few days. eventually we'll get into something milder and wetter from the atlantic. right now it's cold air and a cold wind driving across the uk and that's putting in all these shower clouds answer more to come, and that's pushing in all these shower clouds answer more to come, mainly for the northern half of the uk w

who made his debut on the main atp tour in his event three years ago — will now play slovenia's aljaz bedenethe last 16 after beating germany's jan—lennard struff in three sets. the canadian took the decider 6—3, and he'll now face grigor dimitrov for a place in the quarter—finals. the number 5 seed fabio fognini is out. he was beaten in straight sets by karen khachanov. the russian — who's ranked 17 in the world after a poor end to last year — enjoyed a comfortable 6—3, 6—3 victory to seal his place in the second round where he'll face dan evans of great britain. another russian through to the last 16 is andrey rublev. the number 7 seed beat georgia's nikoloz basilashvili in straight sets — 6—2, 6—3, the score. he'll now face alexander bublik from kazakhstan. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. but from me, and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello there. there really is an awful lot of weather getting thrown our way over the next few days. eventually we'll get into something milder and wetter from the atlantic. right now it's cold air an

in the second and the decider, though, winning those 6—3 6—1, which sets up a last 16 tie with aljaz bedeneeed daniil medvedev up against canadian vasek pospisil. the russian is almost 100 places above his opponent in the world rankings, but isn't taking anything for granted. i was wanted to win more tournaments, in the future as a challenger before but now it is a peer to pairs of grand slams, ijust a peer to pairs of grand slams, i just know that a peer to pairs of grand slams, ijust know that if i permit myself, some of the days when i'm going to text my coach and say, i don't want to just today, let's postpone the practice tomorrow. which i can do because tennis is an individual sport. i know it's not going to make a good impact on my result and that is why i'm here, time if! on my result and that is why i'm here, time if i know it was myself. there's a big match up in the nba on wednesday with the denver nuggets playing host to the los angeles lakers at pepsi center. the la kers beat the phoenix suns on monday, giving them a 16—5 record over their last 21 games. little wonder they're t