jack draper is the championing _ present.12 months has helped his confidence enormously. i think after the us open that gave me a lot of belief in myself, and i'vejust gone strength to strength, and i'm feeling more and more comfortable and more and more confident in myself to play at this level and wind matches, so i feel incredibly proud of myself and very, very pumped with the wind here. top—seeded qinwen zheng has won the pan pacific open in tokyo and clinched her place at the wta's season ending finals next month. china's olympic gold champion served up 16 aces as she beat american sofia kenin 7—6, 6—3. it is the 22—year—old's third title of the year and first on hard court since winning at guangzhou last year. the wta finals begin in riyadh in saudi arabia next saturday. in rugby league, england held off a physical samoa side to claim a hard—fought victory in the opening match of their two—test series providing some degree of revenge for that famous defeat to the same side at the world cup semifinals two years ago. nick

jack draper is through to the quarterfinals of the vienna open. one beat italy's world number 42 luciano darderi in straight sets in austria. draper, who is trying to win a second atp title this year will play third seed grigor dimitrov next. katie boulter is into the last eight of the pan pacific open in tokyo. the british number one beat the japanese lucky loser kyoka okamura in straight sets. she'll face canada's bianca andreescu in herfirst quarterfinal on tour since eastbourne injune. that is all the sport for now. thank you. more now on news that the chancellor, rachel reeves, has confirmed the uk will change the way it measures its debt. jack draper is through to the quarterfinals of the vienna open. the british number one beat italy's world number 42 luciano darderi in straight sets in austria. draper, who is trying to win a second atp title this year will play third seed grigor dimitrov next. katie boulter is into the last eight of the pan pacific open in tokyo. the british number one beat the japanese lucky loser kyoka okamura in straigh

jack draper is through to the final of an atp 500 tournament for the first time in his career.tti, who was just above him in the atp rankings, draper coming through 6—2 6—4. drew savage reports. a year ago, jack draper was playing on the challenger circuit, rebuilding his career after injury. now he's enjoying life back in the spotlight. he gave lorenzo musetti the run—around in the first set. three breaks of serve to take it 6—2. this was 17th against 16th in the world rankings. a win for draper would take him above his italian opponent. he's everywhere, is the brit. at 4—2 down, musetti refused to give up, chasing every point, turning the match into a marathon. squaring the set. was draper flagging? but the british number one came through when it counted, his fifth break of the match turning it back in his direction. nearly wo hours on court had clearly taken their toll. but draper served his way into his first atp 500 final. magnificent for draper. and it'll be karen khachanov who stands between draper and his first atp 500 title after the russian beat the second seed, alex

overtake verstappen�*s championship lead of 47 points what a year its been for british number one jack drapere us open semi finalist is up to 15th in the world rankings after winning his first atp 500 title beating karen khachanov in the final of the vienna open. it looked like draper was going to have a comfortable victory after winning the first set and then led 4—love at the start of the second. khachanov responded though, taking the next five games in a row before draper came back to take the final set 7—5 and win the biggest trophy of his career so far. and that's all the sport for now. amid growing support for far—right political parties in france, some young french—africans are leaving europe for africa, in search of a better life. bbc africa eye has been taking a closer look at this reverse migration and the changing relationship between west africa and its diaspora. nour abida reports.? with travel plans under way, tonight is a chance for many to catch up with their entire family for one last time. he was born here in france, but he is part of the country's african diaspora with ties

to tennis, and the british number one, jack draper, has won his first atp 500 title, after beating karennna open. it looked like draper was going to have a comfortable victory, after winning the first set against his russian opponent 6—4, and he then led 4—love at the start of the second set. khachanov, though, responded, winning the next five games in a row, before draper came back to take the final set 7—5 and to win the biggest trophy of his career so far. and that title win also moves draper up to a career—high ranking of world number 15. sometimes, in tennis, you believe in yourself as a player, you believe in the work that you're doing, but until you actually do it, you don't really have that belief that you can really do it consistently. and i suppose, um, you know, with good results and with, um, confidence, you know, that goes such a long way. and so, um, hopefully, ican keep on building and becoming a better tennis player. and with that, hopefully, my results continue to get better as well. and the top—seeded qinwen zheng won the pan pacific open in tokyo, and she clinched her

britain's jack draper will play darderi in the last 16. draper got past kei nishikori — 7—6, 7—5.first set but failed to capitalise and the number seven—seed draper went onto seal the win in his first match since picking up an injury in tokyo last month. second seed alex de minaur is into the second round. the australian came from a set down to beat germany's jan—lennard struff and will face italy's flavio cobolli in the next round. frances tiafoe knocked out britain's cameron norrie. the american had been unhappy about being penalised for a time violation but came through 6—4, 7—6 and will play italy's matteo berrettini next. over the last few days — we've been highlighting all five of the nominees for the bbc women's footballer of the year. now, it's the turn of usa and portland thorns player sophia smith. she won olympic gold at paris 2024 and also lifted the concacaf gold cup earlier this year, having been awarded the nwsl golden boot in 2023. ijust remember seeing the ball hit the back of the net. i kind of blacked out a little bit. it was a lot of emotions. we did it, we are

now, in tennis, jack draper might be the british number one but jacob fearnley�*s season has been astonishingad no ranking at all. but after winning four atp challenger titles this season, he's rocketed into the top 100. that's the fourth fastest rise into the men's top 100 since the year 2000. so he'll be bumping into draper again, who he knows very well from their time together asjuniors. i remember a lot. i think we started travelling when i was maybe about 11. we went to winter cups, kind of european events together and, yeah, very, very fond memories, and he's a great guy and, i think like he said in the post, we kind of went our separate paths. he kind of went like this very quickly and i kind of chose the college route. but, you know, to see to see what he's been doing on the tour is very motivational for someone like me. i mean, i look up to him a lot. everyone does have their own paths, and i was maybe a little bit physically underdeveloped, cto go to college. and i think that was the best move for me and i was very patient. and i'm definitely kind of staying, trying to stay as much

first set on a tie—break, but then lost the next two, so machac will next face the seventh—seeded jack draperno dardari in straight sets. he raced past the italian world number 42 7—5, 6—1 in 76 minutes. draper is trying to win a second atp title this year. while world number nine daria kasatkina is through to the quarter—finals at the pan pacific open in tokyo. she won the ningbo open last weekend and came from a set down here to overcome the us�*s mccartney kessler in three sets, so she will face sofia kenin in the quarter—finals. katie boulter is also through. the british number one beat the japanese lucky loser kyoko nakamura in straight sets, so she will now face the canadian bianca andreescu in her first quarter—final on tour since eastbourne in june. olympic champion zheng qinwen will face the usa's leylah fernandez in the last eight — the top—seeded chinese player beat local favourite moyuka uchijima 7—5, 6—0. and finally, new york liberty paraded their wnba trophy around the streets of the city on thursday. thousands of fans lined the streets of manhattan to celebrate with the team.

overtake verstappen�*s championship lead of a7 points what a year its been for british number one jack draperen khachanov in the final of the vienna 0pen. it looked like draper was going to have a comfortable victory after winning the first set and then led a—love at the start of the second. khachanov responded though, taking the next five games in a row before draper came back to take the final set 7—5 and win the biggest trophy of his career so far. and that�*s all the sport for now. amid growing support for far—right political parties

jack draper is through to the quarterfinals of the vienna open. darderi in straight sets. draper, who is trying to win a second atp title this year, raced past italian world no 42 luciano darderi 7—5, 6—1 in 76 minutes. he could meet third seed grigor dimitrov in the quarter—finals tua tungavailoa has practiced for the first time since suffering another concussion in the nfl in september. the miami dolphins quarterback has met with numerous medical experts who specialize in brain and head injuries since being diagnosed with the third concussion of his career. the experts have deemed it safe for him to return to football and the dolphins are hoping for him to play on sunday against arizona. a couple of hours away from the first kickoffs in the european matches across europe. keep across them on the bbc sport website, but for now, that's it from me. ollie was mentioning head injuries in sport there. families of footballers who died from chronic traumatic encepholopathy have written an open letter to the uk government, saying it should be compulsory

fellow british number one jack draper is through to the quarter finals of the vienna 0pen., who's trying to win a second atp title this year, will play tomas machac next who upset third seed grigor dimitrov. anthonyjoshua will face either daniel dubois again, or fight tyson fury next. that's according to the heavyweight�*s promoter, eddie hearn. joshua lost to ibf world champion dubois at wembley stadium last month. fury, will fight unified champion 0leksandr usyk in december. it's a big night in the europa league with manchester united coming up against their old manager jose mourinho in 90 minutes' time. they've travelled to instanbul to play fenerbache. eric ten hag's side have only taken two points from their opening two europa league games, putting more pressure on the manager. mourinho has said fenerbahce will give united a battle and — while significant players are injured — ten hag has made it clear, the ones he does have are up to the challenge of taking on a mourinho side. we have enough players in the team that are so experience, our team is experienced. irate th

britain's number one jack draper has won his first atp 500 title after beating karen khachanov in thecoast to victory after winning the first set against his russian opponent 6—4 and he led 4—0 in the second. khachanov then responded winning the next five games but draper held on the take the final set 7—5 and win the biggest trophy of his career so far. top—seeded qinwen zheng won the pan pacific open in tokyo and clinched her place at the wta's season ending finals next month. the chinese player served up 16 aces as she beat american sofia kenin 7—6, 6—3. it is the 22—year—old's third title of the year and first on hardcourt since winning at guangzhou last year. the wta finals begin in riyadh in saudi arabia next saturday. the la dodgers took control of baseball's world series against the new york yankees. they've got 2—0 up in the best—of—seven tie, to determine the mlb champions. japanese pitcher yoshinobu yamamoto impressed for the dodgers — pitching into the seventh inning, withjuan soto's homer the only hit he allowed. teoscar hernandez and freddie freeman both helped put the d

machac will next face the seventh seeded jack draper in the quarter—finals.uciano darderi in straight sets. he raced past italian world no 42 luciano darderi 7—5 6—1 in 76 minutes. draper is trying to wind a second atp title this year. world number 9 daria kasatkina is through the quarter—finals at the pan pacific open in tokyo. she won the ningbo open last weekend and came from a set down to overcome the usa's mccartney kessler in three sets. she will now face sofia kenin in the quarterfinals. katie boulter is also through, the british number one beat the japanese lucky loser kyoka okamura in straight sets. she will now face canadian bianca andreescu in her first quarter—final on tour since eastbourne in june. and olympic champion zheng qinwen will face the usa's leylah fernandez in the last eight. the top seeded chinese player beat local favourite moyuka uchijima 7—5, 6—0. fernando alonso has pulled out of his media commitments on the eve of friday practice for the mexico city grand prix after feeling unwell. are he met his fans on arrival in the country's

and just to say jack draper in action at the vienna open he's up against karen khachanov in the finale second. to the us, where it's only nine days to go until the presidential election — and the campaigns are rolling on. donald trump spent saturday at a campaign event at a pennsylvania university, after campaigning earlier in michigan. at a rally near detroit, muslim leaders endorsed the former president onstage, saying they believe he can bring peace to the middle east. the conflicts in gaza and lebanon are top issues there in michigan. but in pennsylvania — energy and manufacturing top the list. at his rally, donald trump promised to reduce energy prices. under kamala's high cost energy policies, pennsylvania electricity prices are already up 50% and are projected to more than double in the years ahead, a year and a half, they expect to be doubled. not only are they not going to be double, your energy prices, that is car, gasoline because we are going to end the electric mandate immediately, 0k? applause. your energy prices will be cut in half within 12 months from january the 20th

british number one jack draper has won his first atp 500 title after beating karen khachanov in the final to have a comfortable victory after winning the first set against his russian opponent 6—4 and then led 4—love at the start of the second. khachanov responded though, winning the next five games in a row before draper came back to take the final set 7—5 and win the biggest trophy of his career so far. the title win also moves draper up to a career high ranking of world number 15. sometimes in tennis, you believe in yourself as a player, you believe in the work you're doing. but until you actually do it, you don't really have that belief that you can really do it consistently. i suppose, you can really do it consistently. isuppose, good results and confidence, that goes such a long way. hopefully, i can keep on building and becoming a better tennis player and with that, hopefully my results continue to get better as well. top—seeded qinwen zheng won the pan pacific open in tokyo and clinched her place at the wta's season ending finals next month. the world number seven served up 16 ace

jack draper is through to the final of the vienna 0pen — it's the first time in his career that he's atp 250 event in stuttgart. the us open semi finalist beat italy's lorenzo musetti, who was just above him in the rankings, in straight sets. draper had to hold off a second—set comeback from the world number 16 — it took him one hour and 48 minutes to win. the 22 year old will now face karen khachanov in the final after khachanov beat the second seed alex de minaur and that's all the sport for now. to the us. there are only ten days until the presidential election, and the campaign is rolling on with full force as milions of americans have already cast their vote in the early voting process. donald trump is in michigan — that's one of the seven key swing states either candidate could win — and called for americans to "dream big". it comes after his podcast withjoe rogan dropped — where he said his biggest mistake as us president was appointing "bad" and "disloyal" officials. meanwhile, former first lady michelle obama is expected tojoin kamala harris in michigan very soon, less than

jack draper is through to the final of the vienna 0pen — it's the first time in his career that he'stuttgart. the us open semi finalist beat italy's lorenzo musetti, who was just above him in the rankings, in straight sets. draper had to hold off a second—set comeback from the world number 16 — it took him one hour and a8 minutes to win. the 22—year—old will now face karen khachanov in the final after khachanov beat the second seed, alex de minaur. and that's all the sport for now. here, footage has emerged on social media appearing to show the labour mp for runcorn and helsby — mike amesbury — pointing and swearing at a man on the ground in frodsham, let's take a look. you won't ever threaten me again. you won't ever threaten me aaain. ~ ., . ., it's not clear what happened before the video was taken. 0ur political correspondent has been following the story. we should be clear about what we don't know first of all, which is what happened immediately before what we saw in that video, ie what led up to the incident. what we do know is that cheshire police say they were called to repor

british number one jack draper continued his recent good form with a win overjiri lehecka in the first world and he needed just over an hour to complete a straight sets victory, with fifth seed taylor fritz to come in the next round. steve borthwick has named his england team to face new zealand at twickenham in their autumn nations series opener on saturday. ben spencer will make his first start for england at scrum half in place of alex mitchell, ho remains out with a neck injury. —— who remains out with a neck injury. henry slade is fit enough to start at centre, where he will partner 0llie lawrence with marcus smith at fly—half. and tom curry makes his first england start since the rugby world cup 12 months ago, while slade has played less than an hour of rugby this season since returning from shoulder surgery for exeter last weekend. sladey said he wanted to play for his— sladey said he wanted to play for his club, and he is an experienced player. that's what we wanted to do. i think he's been — we wanted to do. i think he's been in — we wanted to do. i think he's been in great ph

now, jack draper may be the british number one after enjoying a great deal of success this year, buts gone under the radar a little. jacob fearnley�*s season has been pretty astonishing. little over a year ago he was unranked — now he's 98th in the world after winning he won four atp challenger titles this year. it's the fourth fastest rise into the men's top 100 since 2000, and he's back playing against draper, who he knows from their time together in thejunior ranks. i remember a lot. i remembera lot. i i remember a lot. i think we started travelling when i maybe about 11. we went to weber delete that winter cops, european events together. and, yeah, very fond memories. and he's a great guy. i think like he said in the post, we went on our separate paths. he kind of went like this very quickly, and i kind of chose the college route. but, yeah, to see what he's been doing on the tour is very motivational for someone like me. i look up to him a lot. something that people around me and my coaches at the time, my parents were saying, is that everyone has their own paths. i was maybe a

amidst all the success enjoyed by jack draper this year there's another british player whose story might. now he is 98th in the world after winning four atp challenger titles this year. it is the fourth quickest rise into the men's top 100 since 2000 and he's back mixing it with draper, who he knows from their time together in the junior ranks. i remember a lot. i think we started travelling when i was maybe about 11, we went to winter cups, kind of european events together. and, yeah, very fond memories. and he's a great guy. i think like he said in the post, we went on our separate paths. he kind of went like this very quickly, and i kind of chose the college route. but, yeah, to see what he's been doing on the tour is very motivational for someone like me. i look up to him a lot. something that people around me and my coaches at the time, my parents were saying, is that everyone has their own paths. i was maybe a little bit physically underdeveloped, mentally just not ready. and that's why i chose to go to college. i think that was the best move for me and i was very patient. i was ju

obviously, i'd have rather have seen jack draper, but they're pals. they're young dogs. give them their chance. yeah, absolutely. >> there's still stories like that. you tie it to the next story, which is about a world marathon record and how the record was broken. and i must say, you begin to raise eyebrows and say, look , i could i could and say, look, i could i could imagine you, you know, breaking this record by two seconds, three seconds, four seconds. but by two minutes, ruth chepngetich from kenya. >> now i'm not so much looking at that and thinking , oh yeah, at that and thinking, oh yeah, drugs. et cetera, et cetera. it's the shoes that are making such a huge amount of difference. we've spoken about these for a couple of years now. what have they got? >> springs in them or something? >> springs in them or something? >> basically they are. i mean, it's what they're using. they're so spongy. >> have you ever worn those trainers that have got air cushions in when you do your five k couch to five k? >> yeah. i'll tell you what. >> yeah. i'll tell you what. >> i'm st

. >> over to the world of sport now and british tennis number one jack draper has won his second atp title at the erste bank open in vienna. the 22 year old won in straight sets against russian karen khachanov to take the victory. speaking after the match, draper described the win as a relief and a british woman has begun her attempt to become the first woman to row solo from mainland europe all the way to south america. 21 year old zara lachlan set off from lagos on the portuguese algarve earlier this morning and will now aim to row the 3600 miles to french guyana, a journey that will take an estimated 90 days. we wish sarah all the best of luck. those are your latest gb news headlines. for now. i'm sophie reaper more from me in the next hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , or go to gb news .com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> welcome to the camilla tominey show on this sunday morning. lovely to see you and we have got such a show planned ahead. we're going to be s

what a year its been for british number one jack draper. to 15th in the world rankings after winning his first atp 500 title beating karen khachanov in the final of the vienna open. it looked like draper was going to have a comfortable victory after winning the first set and then led 4—0 at the start of the second. khachanov responded though, taking the next five games in a row before draper came back to take the final set 7—5 and win the biggest trophy of his career so far. and that's all the sport for now. a group of people who were found guilty of attempting to kidnap a coroner in essex have this afternoon been sentenced at chelmsford crown court. the group of tried to shut down a court last year in april last year with the intention of abducting hm senior essex today — they were sentenced to a combined total of more than 1a years in prison. let's speak to to our correspondent sam harrison who's outside chelmsford crown court. this is a remarkable case involving an online conspiracy group with frankly unbelievable details. the so—called

meanwhile, the men's british number one jack draper has a semifinal in vienna to look forward to later of the czech republic to seal his place in the final four, where he'll play italy's lorenzo musetti later. three games in rugby union's premiership today, including both saracens and bath in action. a win for either could take them top of the table. bristol currently lead the way after beating northampton last night 31—23 at ashton gate. joe batley with bristol's fourth and final try. rugby league's autumn internationals get under way this weekend. tomorrow, england's men take on samoa. this afternoon, england's wheelchair side take on their great rivals france in a repeat of the 2022 world cup final. when you're always battling it out at the sharp end of competitions, whether it is world cup for european championships or, like, test match series like this one, you inevitably get an affinity for each other and obviously, there are enemy at the end of the day and we want to get one over on them, but we wouldn't have got to the level we've got to without them pushing us all the way and

musetti's reward is a semi final against the british number one jack draper.. draper is trying to win his second tour title — after victory in stuttgart earlier this year. meanwhile in tokyo, china's zheng qinwen is through to the semi finals — after beating canada's leylah fernandez in three sets. she'll face diana schanider next. katie boulter will face sofia kenin in the other semi final. the world series gets under way later as the la dodgers take on the new york yankees. it's the best of seven with game one in los angeles at the dodger stadium. it'll be the 12th time these two teams have faced each other in a world series — although it's more than a0 years since the last one. it is worldwide and i think that is what is going to make this world series of special, so unique. you could easily argue that on a global scale, the yankees and the dodgers are the most followed, the most supported, the most visible, so obviously with our two great organisations and the branding, it is going to be very visible. and that's all the sport for now. with just a couple of