uzbekistan's denis istomin, who knocked novak djokovic out of the australian open last month, went up 7—6, and will play the winner of the match between grigor dimitrov and mischa zverev in the second round. at the alpine world skiing championships, switzerland's luca aernie is the men's alpine combined world champion, and no—one is more surprised by that than the man himself. aernie only just scraped into the slalom event, after finishing 30th in the downhill. if he had finished just 0.06 second slower, he would have missed the cut. but he produced a barnstorming run in the slalom to claim an unlikely gold ahead of the defending champion, marcel hirscher of austria, by 0.01 second. just to recap our top story, manchester city were 2—0 3121.5: if: a: l: 52,1117 '%;,zéjf,f" 3121.5: 5:1 255 551115555 '%.’.1'1.1.'5" —— pep 3121.5: 5: 1: 551115551: '%.’.1'1.':.:': —— pep guardiola's side 3121.5: 5: 255 551115551: ”255551515: —— pep guardiola's side to 11. but, from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. morning. well, it was a fairly miserable weekend, wasn't it? cold and bleak