cecchinato , who only won his first atp title at the hungarian open this year tore into the former worldemed to run out of steam losing the next set 6—1 but as djokovic looked to level the match the italian won an incredible 4th set tie—break 11—9 on his fourth match point. the battle between two of tennis‘s newest stars was set to be the tie of the day — but 3 five setters last week had clearly taken their toll on world number three alexander zverev — and he dropped away in straight sets — so dominic thiem goes through to face checkinato. and it'll be a repeat of last year's us open final in the womens draw as american sloane stephens beat daria kasatkina — so she's through to the semi finals, where she'll play her compatriot madison keys whom she beat to win the title at flushing meadows. let's quickly round up the rest of today's sports news for you: ellie simmonds is back on the british para—swimming team after her spell out of the sport following her success at the rio paralympics. simmonds is part of the gb team for the european championships in dublin in august. she isjoined by fe

wimbledon preparations with a 6—3, 6—4 defeat of slovenia's aljaz bedene to reach the second round of the atpe at the event in order to remain world number one and assure himself of the top seeding at wimbledon starting in a fortnight‘s time. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. but from me toolsen toolet and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello again. well, it was another warm, muggy, humid day across much of england and wales and, although it started off pretty cloudy, we did get the cloud breaking up across eastern parts of england and it was a fine end to the day in cromer, in norfolk. as far as the temperature contrasts go, again, the warmest day was across eastern england — 26 degrees — the high 70s in terms of fahrenheit — compared with the cooler air we had across the north—west of the uk. the air coming from very different areas. the cool stuff coming from greenland, washing across scotland and, to a degree, northern ireland. the air from the subtropics into england and wales and that's why it felt humid. we have this bulge in the

guy: what is the gap between signaling the end to the atp program and hiking rates?bit of uncertainty. it could be closed for six months or nine months. the ecb cod signaln end to coulddecember and rates rise in the second half of next year. chances mario the aghi is ing to want to keep his options open, in case there is a flare up in italy again? it is quite likely mario draghi will keep his options open. understandable given the delicate situation in italy and the slow down in data. keep buyingot assets at the rate it has been,s doing ok. the soft touch is a bit more anticipated, but the underlying demand is decent. side, the ecb is hitting its limits in terms of how many assets it keeps buying. the more important decisions will be very politically sensitive. draghi likes to keep his options he would nwant to e an increasn volatility and higher risk premium. at the same time, he will have to put an end to qe sooner rather than later. 118 allow the euro at him to be more hawkish? help the ecb move towards the exit. the euro is back to the level it was the start of t

program by telling you about the federal reserve's decision to raise interest rates today and we look atp tonight with a what higher rates could mean for your budget and to do that, we are joined by our personal finance correspondence, sharon epperson. so where do we see the first line impact on our budget here? >> when you look at what you're paying in the interest on various products, let's start with credit cards. you're going to see a significant imalct. st the same amount of impact we're seeing in terms of the fundse've seen in the fed rate. look at what's happened to credit cards. look at what happened to auto loans. auto loans not as great an increase because we aren't seeing that tied to the short-term that funds rate and then of course, the bill that you really need to pay yourself to your month for savings, that's not really at all. >> why does it always work that way? what shoul people do right now because if the fed may have twot more interest hikes in their pocket, what should they do now? >> we look adthe average c right now near 17% at a record and it's going to continue to

when he starts to play practise sets against other atp players.what his prospects are in the long—term. the football now, and the preparations for the world cup. today, all of the players were made available to speak to the media and at the centre of it was at raheem sterling, garnering most attention after a tattoo of a gun on his leg was done in memory to his father. the net to front—page headlines last week. you see a gun on someone's leg you will automatically think what the hell are you doing. i have had that since august, september so now there have been pictures of it before so it's a case of 0k, why at this moment in time does it get reported about? but yes, it's something that started at the preseason and once the season gets started you forget about it and move on to football and it strictly football until you have the time to finish so i don't really take it personally. people say dup like you've been picked on? i don't think so at all. i could see their reasons and i'm happy to be able to represent england. what not manchester united h

first masters 1000 quarterfinal in madrid, he won doubles title in estoril and he reached his first atpor the grass. the only surface so far in which he has not shown is what he is truly capable of. this wasn't my day. yet, fish oil, had my chances, he had his, hejust got fish oil, had my chances, he had his, he just got them today —— for sure, i had my chances. it is over 110w. sure, i had my chances. it is over now. just sort of reflect a bit and go again the grass court season. elsewhere serena williams continued this comeback, in herfirst grand slam since having her baby she beat julia georges and looks forward to the next tie against her old rival maria sharapova. maria sharapova beat karolina pliskova in straight sets. in the men's tour top seed rafael nadal had a comfortable straight sets win over richard gasquet to reach the fourth round, he has been ten times french champion and he made a ball by‘s day by warming down with him before leaving the court. lovely stuff. but young boys has a decent back and! wales begin their summer tour of north and south america with a 22—20 win o

responds when he sta rts is hoped that it responds when he starts to play practice sets against other atpght give a better indication of his prospects in the long term. couple of quarterfinal scores to bring you up to date with from roland garros. garbine mugaruza is 3—0 against maria sharapova, whilst world number one simona halep is 4—2 down against angelique kerber. and the cheltenham gold cup winning horse denman has died aged 18, having been put down due to failing health. he was known as the tank and enjoyed a famous race rivalry with stablemate kauto star, who he beat to claim the 2008 gold cup. trainer paul nicholls called denman a "superb" and "magic horse". trainer paul nicholls called denman a "superb" and "magic horse". that's all the sport for now. i will have more on that in the next art. the prime minister of norway is in london to meet the prime minister and discuss brexit and security. norway is a member of the european economic area. this group includes eu members and non—eu members like norway, iceland and liechtenstein. becoming a member would automatically give the uk

he won a title, a doubles title can and he also reached his first atp singles final in marrakesh.e so far on which admin has not shown us what he's truly capable of. so, not a great day for edmund, but spain's rafa nadal‘s charge for a record 11th french open title continues. the top seed in the men's draw is comfortably through to the fourth round, the last 16, after a straight sets win over home favourite richard gasquet. nick parrott watched this one. richard gasquet is french, but rafael nadal is more at home at roland garros. the king of clay can boast ten titles in paris and of never having lost to his opponent. their 16th meeting was only going to go one way. the home fans had to wait until the fourth game to see their man win his first point. such was the dominance of the spaniard. and they heartily cheered everyone that followed. gasquet eventually making a contest of the opening set. but he could only delay the inevitable. 31 places separate these two in the world rankings, but the gulf in class looked even wider. it was all wrapped up afterjust under two hours, and it w

one very important inflection point in commercial intelligence was the release of the atp one reporthere the second chinese peoples bureau, unit -- the unit that was infiltrating and stealing ip from the united states over a series of years, was finally exposed. not by the government, though. it was exposed by commercial intelligence and played a very important part in geo-political policy. so this inflection is really important because we also have to think about this as a new int, the commercial sensor. what are the rules and responsibilities of an organization when they are part of that common operating picture? the front lines are no longer in traditional battle field front lines. the front lines of nation state activity could very well be imbedded in a company that has a breach on the other side of the world where normal government authorities would not allow the ex filtration of that information. how do we proceed in the new world? how can commercial intelligence serve? so there are three main ways that it can serve. one, that it's shareable. one, that it is international and t

in the men's tournament, lukas lacko is through to his first atp world tour final for nearly six—and—a—halfght sets, and will play germany's mischa zverev in the final. well after all the drama of the last 15 days it was time to take a breather at the world cup today. the knockout matches start tomorrow, but fifa held a news conference as they always do after the group stages. on the agenda was var, the video assistant refreee system. and fifa say its success rate is over 99% — when it's been used. let's hear from the referees committee chairman pierluigi collina there were some incidents that suddenly disappeared. i mean we had some holding at certain moment but the following matches the disappeared almost disappeared or if they continued they were punished by a proper technical decision inside the penalty area, penalty kick. because of

reached his first masters 1000 quarterfinal in madrid, he won a doubles title and reached his first atpso faron for the grass, the one surface so far on which edmund hasn't shown us what he is truly capable of. in by, what he is truly capable of. in rugby, wales began their summer tour of north and south america with a win over south africa in washington, dc. ryan elias scoring this try to give wales the win. 22—20 it's finished. they had to south america to face argentina next weekend. warrington wolves are to the semifinals of the challenge cup after beating wigan warriors 23—0. it's their first win over wigan in the competition since 1936. st helens play hull fc live on bbc two at 3pm. justin rose have the chance to become golf‘s world number one if he wins the memorial tournament. he w011 he wins the memorial tournament. he won last week's ft. worth invitational and will become world number one with victory here. he made six birdies and is one ahead of tiger woods. four birdies and an eagle in a ii—under par round of 68. he was the leader at one point, finished with a couple of boge

sure that they are tackling the safety issues when they can and also working to make us be better atping t keep our staff safe. so, i just want to thank all of you for that. and i also want to read who the person who submitted this, submitted you as a group, said, because it's really great, and much better than what i can probably say. but i also want to start by saying mary carbaras, thank you so much for being the chair and really taking leadership and cat, thank you so much for being the chair now and continuing the leadership. it's really been helpful to have you two step up. but right now i'm going to talk about all of you. so, the daas safety committee, employee led group focussed on employees from field safety, workplace violence and disaster issues, to make a few. with representation from all daas programs, volunteers meet monthly and work on relevant issues to work on unicatn. emplees co-chair the meetings, create their own agenda and action items, regular presence at the daas leadership meetings. staff interest and a variety of safety topics, addressing training and safety issu

if i am trying to understand the gap between any , ithe atp and raising rates have had conflicting reportsut on this subject. abouts have been talking tbw short ong a gap the a -- how does it to be play into that story? is it six months, a year? the market will try and figure out what is happening. what will be fed be doing in 2019, 2020? ark: what ever ecb does pull ill be playing vanilla -- w not be playing vanilla. ecb give thethe ack into app. they will give the criteria to say, if it doesn't go smoothly, we will give a criteria for ending the app. cranfield, joining us from our markets team. if you want to join the debate, go on your live bloomberg. up next, the nato secretary general will be talkg to us about security. a lot going on at the moment. about thelk to them trade impact. this is bloomberg. ♪ to bloomberg back "bkets european open -- loombergt marktes; european europen." "bloomberg markets: european open." hasfailure to push trade been a source of frustration for global leaders against donald trump. it is we have the former eecretary general of nato -- w have the former sec

corps.marine is looking atps that as well. newcancian: people look at systems. analysts have indicated that is too narrow way of thinking of it, but it is an important component, new weapons, new systems coming into the fleet. i was wondering if analysts might wa to comment on what is geckoto be in the future -- future? i will start with the capabilities we have as we start to build out in 20 -- if you look at the marine corps concept, a lot of this is on the marine corps side. that is the priority. that is where we see the having all domains. we try to maneuver in all the. we see lots of advantages in that area. the funding increase, how do we operate in a degraded area? along with the organizational change, our big organizational change was standing up as gen. talk, in those information groups. that we have changed the maneuver significantly with that operating concept. when it comes down to our canon, , looking aty everything from a midterm, near-term, and long-term perspective to -- per perspective -- perspective. going out and procuring something that is av

is how the hip will respond when he starts to up his intensity, playing practice sets against other atpr winner was beaten by the unseeded italian marco chechinatto. djokovic seemed to struggle with a shoulder issue during the match and wouldn't confirm that he'd play at wimbledon afterwards. sergio ramos, the man who has upset most liverpool fans in the last couple of weeks, is continuing to do so. the real madrid captain was blamed for injuring mo salah's shoulder in the champions league final, and has had his say now... he is saying that salah fell on the opposite arm so ramos couldn't have caused the injury. ramos added that the egyptian could have played if he gotan the egyptian could have played if he got an injection in the second half. and then on causing loris karius's concussion... and boxer floyd mayweather was the highest earning athlete on the planet last year, but there are no women in the top 100 of the forbes rankings. mayweather, who's fittingly nicknamed ‘money‘, made £205 million from his mega fight with conor mcgregor. serena williams was on last year's list but took

this was to win a record ending 11th title at the french opendal is going to keep the top spot in the atpkings ahead of roger federer. >> kind of cool because i think this was 11 or something they went back i did see a little bit of the coverage they did a quick show of every match he's won at the french open the picture of who he beat and they did it really quickly everybody who's any good he has beaten. >> decimated at the french open. >> in that 11 -- >> plays well on clay. >>> in other news, i saw this, too. it was so boring because it was a walk in the cake for dustin johnson at the saint jude classic which is great it's very intimately involved with the medical center and the kids are there this is trying to finish up. he had a four shot lead. this is on 18 and decided, why not. >> my gosh. >> i want to get this over with and it was just so cool. >> wonderful. >> he won the u.s. open a couple years ago. that's this week. >> wow. >> in south hampton and as a warmup to this week's u.s. open. >> that was a little bit of a strut. >> really cool seriously, he looked -- i don't want to sa

thing is how the hip response when he starts to up his intensity, plays practice shots against other atpch open, former champion garbine muguruza has outplayed maria sharapova. 6—2, 6—1, over injustan hour. simona halep, world number one, isa hour. simona halep, world number one, is a set down to angelique kerber. the winner of that one will face muguruza in the last four. i will see soon. not if! see face muguruza in the last four. i will see soon. not if i see you first! the prime minister of norway is in london to meet the prime minister and discuss brexit and security. norway is a member of the european economic area. this group includes eu members and non—eu members like norway, iceland and liechtenstein. becoming a member would automatically give the uk full access to the single market but would also bind it to eu rules. erna solberg has been talking to my colleague christian fraser, he started by asking her if she was warming to the idea of britainjoining the european economic area. if britain would want to participate in the eea, of course i don't think we should say no, but i ha