a little earlier i was joined by dan wolken, a sports writer for usa today. was trending on twitter. why are fans so excited? tennis has had a lot of these young prodigies over the years, but it's actually been quite a while since we've had someone this young to make it into a grand slam tournament. the game of tennis has gotten so much more physical. the window of the prime years for men and women has really moved into the mid—20s, late 20s. so for the teenagers it's really difficult to get there being in professional tennis, so for this young lady to break ——their footing in professional tennis, so for this young lady to break through at wimbledon, she was ranked 300—and—something in the world and had to qualify to get in. grass, very unusual surface, and she just seemed like such a young lovely woman, great family, bright smile, she's really captivated notjust the american tennis fans, but american sports fans in general who are on the fringes of the sport really, manyjumped on the bandwagon today. there is obviously — she's very talented and done so well

dan wolken with usa today, thank you very much. netherlands. such has been the success of this year's tournament, that fifa is suggesting the next world cup in 2023 should be expanded to 32 teams. fifa also wants significant progress to be made in equalising prize money between the men's and the women's game. we have already more than doubled the prize money for the women's world cup this year, going from 15 to 50 million, i think and i'm very optimistic about that and i'm... moving ahead for the next world cup, we will double it for the next world cup, i'm very confident that we can achieve the necessary figures in order to do that. a statue of the american first lady, melania trump, has been unveiled outside her slovenian hometown. commissioned by american artist brad downey and carved from a treetrunk by a local sculptor, the statue has prompted very mixed reviews, with critics suggesting that the figure looks like a scarecrow. downey said he wanted to highlight melania trump's immigrant status while being married to a president