castleford tigers have moved ten points clear at the top of the superleague super eights.r tries in a 23—4 win over salford red devils. elsewhere, there were wins for hull and wigan. 0nto cricket and yorkshire diamonds made a winning start to the women's super league, convincingly beating lancashire thunder. all rounder alice davidson richards hit a quickfire 22 not out with the bat, helping yorkshire to 162—4 from their 20 overs. and she then took three wickets with the ball as lancashire fell 28 runs short of their target. one other story. roger federer is a step closer to replacing andy murray as world number one. the swiss 36 year old is through to the semi finals of the montreal masters, after a straight sets win over roberto bautista agut. with murray still out of action due to a rib injury, the wimbledon champion federer is closing in at the top of the atp world rankings. that's all from sportsday. more sport in the morning on bbc news. goodbye for now. good evening. we've made it to the end of the week and what a week it was. very changeable and salty in places, bu

it's the first time castleford, who lead by ten points at the top of the table have been beaten at home chase has been suspended from all training and playing activity after testing positive for cocaine. it's been revealed that chase failed a drugs test following their defeat against wakefield last month. a widnes statement reads: "the club fully respects this suspension and are currently reviewing this matter." leigh halfpenny has signed a three—year deal with scarlets in a deal partly funded by the welsh rugby union. the wales and british and irish lions full—back was out of contract after spending three seasons with toulon. the highly—rated filly winter won the feature race, the nassau stakes, at glorious goodwood. the odds—on favourite was ridden to victory by ryan moore, making it winter's fourth group one win of the season. golf — and there are some big names near the top of the leaderboard in the first round of the women's british open at kingsbarns — notably michelle wie the american shot nine birdies in a brilliant eight under par round of 64, that's her lowest round in a major

in the super league, castleford beat wakefield 45—20 to win the league leaders shield.y. they did it with four games to spare. everton are in a strong position to reach the europa league group stage after a 2—0 first—leg win over hajduk split last night. but the match was overshadowed by crowd trouble. the croatian side's supporters surged towards the goodison park pitch, and threw objects, including seats, as play was stopped in the 33rd minute. moments earlier, michael keane had scored his first goal for the club, while idrissa gueye completed the victory. jo konta's us open preparations are going to plan, as she's into the quarter—finals of the cincinatti 0pen. she beat dominika cibulkova in straight sets and will now face second seed simona halep for a place in the last four. and she can be fairly confident, having beaten halep in the quarter—finals of wimbledon last month. double track world champion and olympic silver—medallist becky james has retired from cycling. the welsh athlete, who's 25, says she intends to start a baking business. james won silver in the ki

castleford have moved ten points clear at the top of super league, with five games remaining.he sport, and iamso you are up—to—date on the sport, and i am so excited, because tonight mo farah is back on the track. so i hope you have been practising your mo—bots? something like that, isn't it? i don't think we will beat you at that one. very good, very, very good. the british athletics team are back in action on day nine of the world athletics championships. here are some of the moments you might not want to miss. there are six gold medals up for grabs today. the british women's four x 100—metre relay team hope to repeat their bronze medal success at last yea r‘s repeat their bronze medal success at last year's 0lympics. they will be chasing jamaica, who are looking for their third straight title. the final takes place at 9:30 p.m.. katarina johnson—thompson is up again in the women's high jump final. it is a chance for her to make amends after coming seventh in the same event in the heptathlon. it is one of the night's star events. mo farah goes for the double gold in the fina