but the second saw kerber really struggling forform, as she was beaten 6—0.ad no problems. the czech advanced to the third round after beating the american lauren davis, dropping just one game in each set. third—seeded garbine muguruza fought back to beat latvian qualifier jelena 0stapenko. the 23 year—old who's also the current french open champion came back to triumph 2—6, 6—2, 6—1. simona halep is also through to the third round. the romanian, who won in madrid last weekend, beat germany's laura siegemund. her good form on clay appearing to continue as she came through 6-4, 6-4. in the men's event — well it couldn't have easier for rafael nadal, as he made his way into the third round of the rome masters. the spaniard was three—love up in the first set when his fellow countryman nicolas almagro retired with a knee injury. nadal, who is coming off the back of victories at monte carlo, barcelona and madrid, is going for a record eighth title at the event. he will play the americanjack sock in the last 16. stan wawrinka needed three sets to beat frenchman ben

in the women's singles, the top seed, angelique kerber is out.ugenie bouchard because of a hamstring injury. the canadian was well on top at the time. she won the first set 6—3 and was leading 5—0 in the second when kerber — who said she first had a problem in her previous match — was forced to call it day. i'm nick marshall—mccormack — see you soon. bye bye. hello there. after the dry weather that we have been experiencing for days and weeks now, there is finally a change on the way, courtesy of these lumps of cloud, which have been bringing some quite vicious thunderstorms across spain and portugal, now on the march northwards. so many of us will see some showery rain and perhaps some thunderstorms over the next couple of days, and with that, a feed of warm, southerly winds, some humid air moving in our direction for the end of the week. so yes, those temperatures climbing. quite a muggy feel to the weather, with the risk of some thunderstorms. in fact, there could be the odd flash of lightning as some showers approach the far south through the

kerber, who hasn't been on great form coming in to the grand slam, struggled throughout — losing then the second set. she lost by the same scoreline. a straight sets defeat making kerber the first women's top seed to be knocked out in the first round of the french open since the women's game became professional in 1968. petra kvitova has won herfirst match on her return to tennis, five months after she was stabbed in an attack at her home. the czech player suffered a career—threatening hand injury, but made her comeback in the first round of the french open this morning. kvitova's opponent was the world number 85julia bose—rup. kvitova broke the american's serve early on, and showed little sign of letting up, taking the first set 6—3. a short rain delay didn't interrupt her rhythm, as she went on to take the second set 6—2, cheered on by her parents and brothers and an encouraging crowd on her return. in the men's draw the british number four, dan evans made an impressive start to his first round match. evans is facing clay court specialist, tommy robredo and broke early in the first

next on court, angelique kerber, officially the world's best, but in reality, farfrom it.uch is her lack of form, her defeat to ekaterina makarova was a strange surprise. of course i'm disappointed that the rest of the season was not so good. at the end, maybe, maybe it is good for me. but i don't know, now i will go back home and i will do maybe a few days rest, a few more days, i don't know. in the men's draw, the sixth seed from austria dominic thiem lostjust six games on the way to thrashing australia's bernard tomic in straight sets. thiem is a contender for the title and he's the only player to defeat nine—time french open champion rafael nadal on clay this season it was very hot out there, so i'm happy that i won in three sets. he was a tough opponent, and it was a very close first set, i guess. i was also a little bit nervous. and because of this circumstance, i'm happy with my performance. bulgarian iith seed grigor dimitrov coasted past france's stephane robert in straight sets. dimitrov had previously lost his last four matches at the french open. every slam, i

next on court, angelique kerber, officially the world's best, but in reality, farfrom it.er defeat to ekaterina makarova was a strange surprise. britain's dan evans started strongly against tommy robredo. he went a set up. robredo's roots are in play and he eventually blossomed. robredo's roots are in clay and he eventually blossomed. the british challenge in paris will have to come from elsewhere. so an early exit for dan evans. he gave his reaction to kheredine idessane after the match. i think it's definitely helped my game, playing on clay. now it is over and done with so get ready for the grass. are you looking forward to getting back to the uk?” the grass. are you looking forward to getting back to the uk? i would have liked to have won today but now it is done, and looking forward to getting onto grass. it's obviously one of my favourites. hamilton have retained their place in the scottish premiership after beating dundee united 1—0 in the second leg of the play—off final. greg docherty scored the only goal of the game, as ben croucher reports. a season that started

bouchard did shake hands with sharapova at the end of the match and plays world number two angelique kerbervans says fellow player aljaz bedene shouldn't be considered british. evans made the comments after losing in straight sets to dutchman robin haase at the madrid open. it's a result that sees evans remain fourth in the british rankings, but he doesn't recognise the number 3 — the slovenian—born bedene — who qualified to represent great britain two years ago on residency grounds. that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are political commentator, jo phillips, and liam halligan, chief economics commentator at the daily telegraph. good to see you. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. .. the financial times, they lead with theresa may's plans to recommit to the conservatives' immigration target of tens of thousands, which she calls "sustainable levels". the express says mrs may told voters that border controls were "urgently needed to ease pressure on public services and

kerber struggled throughout — losing the first set 6—2 at roland garros.ber is the first top seeded woman to go out in the first round of the french open since the sport went professional in 1968. petra kvitova has made a winning return to tennis, five months after she was stabbed in an attack at her home. the czech player suffered a career—threatening hand injury, but made her comeback in the first round this morning. she was up against world number 85julia bose—rup. kvitova broke the american's serve early on, and showed little signs of letting up, taking the first set 6—3. a short rain delay didn't interrupt her rhythm, as she went on to take the second set 6—2, cheered on by her parents and brothers in the crowd. britain's dan evans is struggling in his french open first round match against tommy robredo clay is far from evans' favourite surface but he looked at home taking the first set 7—5 before the 35—year—old spaniard levelled the match.. the british numberfour remained on the back foot and robredo won the third set 6—3 to move into a two set to o

course, but it was not really about the game today. but it was not really next on court, angelique kerberality, farfrom it. officially the world's best, such is her lack of form, her defeat to ekaterina makarova was a strange surprise. her defeat to ekaterina makarova britain's dan evans started strongly against tommy robredo. he went a set up. against tommy robredo. robredo's roots are in clay and he eventually blossomed. the british challenge in paris will have to come from elsewhere. sebastian vettel has provided ferrari with their first victory at the monaco grand prix in 16 years. lewis hamilton finished in seventh place, after starting in 13th on the grid. place, after starting vettel‘s victory extended his world championship lead over hamilton to 25 points. world championship lead over butjenson button's one—off return to formula one for mclaren ended after a collision. to formula one for mclaren it's time to pop out of the room if you don't want to know today's football results as sportscene follows soon on bbc one in scotland. hamilton academical have retained their scottish prem

she'll next face top seed angelique kerber who is through to the last 16 after a tight three sets victory 27 minutes struggling in the second before regaining her composure to progress. in the men's section, grigor dimitrov, a winner of two atp world tour titles this year, got off to a winning start when he beat philipp kohlschreiber. 7—6, 6—4 was the score in one hour and 48 minutes. dimitrov said afterwards he had to fight very hard for every single point in tough conditions as the bulgarian is overcoming a virus. he will challenge ivo karlovic or roberto bautista agut in the second round. british and irish lions' head coach warren gatland says he fully respects ben youngs's decision to pull out of the tour to new zealand for family reasons. the wife of his brother and team mate tom has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. scotland's greg laidlaw has been called up to replace him in the squad. the interesting thing from my point of view is that we fully respect and understand that, and they are part of the values that our boys had. and i have been sent to the players were we meet this a

programme, where we start with the tennis news that, in paris, women's world number one angelique kerbere french open in the opening round. but it was a happier return to the court for petra kvitova as patrick gearey reports. it has never taken petra kvitova so much to reach the first round. five months ago everything was in doubt. a knife attack at her home left with tendon damage on her left hand, her playing hand. she has to rely on skill and

the top seed angelique kerber, it was a short event.ses the first set to ekaterina makarova on unforced errors. in the second, kerber serving, trailing 2-0. unforced error into the net. and this is match point. makarova gets her in a bad spot. pulling off the upset. first time the french ladies top seed has lost in the first round in the open air. and venus williams also advances in her 20th french open. this abc 7 sports report is brought to you by river rock casino. i think the cavaliers and the warriors are ready to get this under way. hair tired of the hype. tired of dealing with the media. let's play ball. >> i think we're all ready for that too. >> exactly. >> thursday. big, there. >> thank you. that's it for tonight. i'm eric thomas. abc 7 news continues tomorrow morning at 4:30 for drew and shu, i'm eric thomas. thanks for joining us. have a great night and even better morning. see you later. fitz: my fellow americans,ng ] now that congress has fulfilled its constitutional duty, completing their fair and thorough investigation i

world number one angelique kerber crashes out of the italian open in the second round hello and welcomews that real madrid are within touching distance of a first spanish league title since 2012, after a 4—1 victory at celta vigo on wednesday. zinedine zidane's side need just a point away to malaga on sunday. it was their talisman cristiano ronaldo who was again at the centre of it all with goals in either half that were added to by karim benzema and toni kroos late on meaning anything but defeat

the winner of this, going to play the number kerber.rapova could win this, it would mean that she has enough points for qualification, automatically to go into the wimbledon qualifying. that is going to be in about one month. and we're going to be watching the handshake. we can talk about muntari, one of the top footballers, and he has been caught in the controversy after being sent off in italy's top league. sent off because he walked off the pitch, saying he had been racially abused. initially, he was suspended, but that has been overturned after lots of discussion. excuse my language, i said you have not got any balls. you should have stopped the game. i told him that if he stopped the game, he is the referee, but his voice was on top of mine. i knew how i am. and how angry ican mine. i knew how i am. and how angry i can get, i was really calm that day. walked off. if it happens today, i am going to do the same thing. you can see that for the bbc sport app. and we can go to a lighter story. one of these, messi. the other, an iranian

next on court, angelique kerber, officially the world's best, but in reality, farfrom it.evans started strongly against tommy robredo. he went a setup. robredo's roots are in play and he eventually blossomed. the british challenge in paris will have to come from elsewhere. ferrari's sebastian vettel has won the monaco grand prix while lewis hamilton finished in seventh place, after starting in 13th on the grid. vettel has extended his world championship lead over hamilton to 25 points with the win. while jenson button's one—off return to formula one ended after a collision. hamilton academical have retained their scottish premiership status after beating dundee united 1—0 in the second leg of their play—off final. while blackpool have been promoted to league one with a 2—1win over exeter city. it's an immediate return to league one after their relegation last season but blackpool only had around 6,000 supporters at wembley due to an ongoing boycott by fans in protest against the club's owners. england's rugby union side have beaten the barbarians in their final match befor

the number one female player in the world, angelique kerber made history. she was the first player to get ousted in the first round. she rose to number one after serena williams stepped off the court due to injury and pregnancy in january. >>> now for a look at memorial day weather, here is bonnie schneider. not looking good. >> depends where you are. west coast summer like temperatures, 10 degrees above normal. things will change after memorial day, by tuesday, middle of the week, a cooler pattern will emerge to the pacific northwest. stormy across texas and louisiana. this is where we've seen a lot of lightning. if you're driving in this vicinity be careful because we're likely to see slowdowns. san antonio, houston this morning, watch out denver, airport delays, a busy memorial day with lots of folks trying to get somewhere. temperatures across the west, unseasonably hot. looking hot with triple d, keep digit numbers, cooler along the coast. so frances and gigi depending where you are you're getting a mixed bag for memorial day. >> a lot heading to the w

that is the headline at the french open when the number one female angelique kerber made history. she became the first female to ever get ousted from the tournament in round one. she rose to number one after serena williams stepped off the court due to injury and pregnancy in january. >>> for a look at memorial day weather, here is meteorologist bonnie schneider. is it going to rain? >> it's raining now gigi and friends. across the northeast and into the mid-atlantic, we have thunderstorms through the state college area and across much of the south. if you're driving i-10 louisiana or texas, be careful out there. it's a busy day for travel memorial day. texas and southeast, some of the places we're watching for highways to be a little more congested due to thunderstorms like in the houston area we're expecting storms today and through much of upstate new york. really from boston to philadelphia if you're driving i-95 or 87 or 90, buffalo, all those places you may have to face downpours. how about for those of you flying. in the past couple of days hasn't been bad for airport delay

next on court, angelique kerber, officially the world ‘s best but currently in far from it.prising surprise. of course i am disappointed that the season was not so good. at the end maybe it is good that it is over for me but yeah, now i don't know, i think i will go back home, or will do maybe a few days rest or a few more days, i don't know. at this time of year from piracy can always see venus, this the older venous system's11th opponent at roland garros. it was when her opponent was five. ill, no signs of slowing down. -- still. after 25 seasons with roma football club, francesco totti has played his final game which they won 3—2. the 40—year—old scored 307 goals in nearly 800 games for his hometown club. it's now likely he'll become a director at the club, although some reports have suggested he could look for another playing option, possibly in america. japan has a history—maker in motorsport. takuma sato has become the first person from his country to win the indianapolis 500 race. he took the lead with just five laps to go to deny the brazilian, helio castroneves, a r

angelique kerber has been beaten in straight sets by ekatarina makarova at the french open — it's theknocked out in the first round at roland garros in the open era. hamilton and dundee utd are playing the second leg of their scottish premiershi playoff final, it is 0—0 after 15 minutes. the home secretary amber rudd says the conservatives would set up a commission to tackle terrorism and hate crime and promote british values if they win the general election. labour say they would put 10,000 police on the streets and match a conservative pledge of an extra 1,000 security experts. new cctv pictures of the manchester bomber salman abedi have been released. salman abedi, the man who massacred children in manchester, pictured on the night of the attack. but where had he been, who knew his plans and what happened when his friends alerted the security services about his extremism? questions for the home secretary. was salman abedi on a surveillance list? i don't know those details because the intelligence services are still collecting information about him and about the people around him. i

germany's angelique kerber became the first women's top seed to lose in the opening round of the french. makarova was a 6—2, 6—2 winner in one hour and 22 minutes and it leaves kerber‘s number one status in the balance. both simona halep and karolina pliskova have the chance to take top spot for the first time with good runs in paris. of course i am disappointed that the clay—court season was not so good. at the end, maybe it is good that it is overfor me. i don't know, i think i will go back home, i will maybe do a few days rest, or a few more days. i don't know, i don't know what i will do now. for sure, i will think about what the best preparation is for grass now. better news for petra kvitova, who won her first match back since being stabbed during a burglary at her home in december. the 27—year—old czech who's a two time wimbledon champion defeated americanjulia boserup 6—3, 6—2. it was a nice and really heart—warming welcome. my team was there, my family was there, everybody that helped me through the difficult times. i'm happy with the game, of course. it wasn't only about the g

top seed angelique kerber heads an open women's draw and will face akaterina makarova of russia, whileanna konta will be hoping for a good run, she faces unseeded soo way shay of chinese taipei. this year's tournament at roland garros starts on sunday. it bea it be a summer of transfers in the premier league. zabaleta has been snapped right up. he becomes village's first signing at west ham. he signed a two—year deal that sta rts he signed a two—year deal that starts on the 1st ofjuly after his nine years with manchester city. he said it has been a pleasure to move to london. valencia will be staying put in manchester. he signed a contract extension with manchester united for another two years. he arrived as a winger but has been utilised by the manager as an attacking right back who said he had long admired valencia long before he joined the club as manager. wayne rooney says he has "more or less" decided about his manchester united future but won't say what that is for another two weeks. as for the 31—year—old's international career, well that looks to be coming to a close. england's

not kerber. >> and serena williams is gone. likely an outsider. mark: how about a brit?e to see you. alan hagans. despite the differences, merkel says that the u.s. and the eu must remain partners. we will bring you the latest. this is bloomberg. ♪ mark: live from london and live from bloomberg i am mark barton with the european close literally six minutes away. merkel trying to unite the european union behind their global agenda. patrick, is this a watershed moment, this merkel speech in -- last 12 four hours 24 hours? some have said that the government is in a pain to unite europe under the single cause. the language she used in this campaign was about reliability, and coming off a weekend in which the g-7 leaders were not able to agree with donald trump on the paris climate accord and in brussels in which there was a lot of difficulty talking to the u.s.. there was an element of frustration with merkel. reliabilityt that may be something of the past was kind of extraordinary. >> she is trying to g up the e.u. by saying that populist forces did not manage to cause an u

angelique kerber going out in the first round. losing 6-2. going out in the first round.get any better for the german in the second set, she lost that, 6—2 as well. cover is the first top—seeded woman to go out in the first round of the french open since the sport when professional in 1968. petra kvitova has made a winning return to tennis, five months after she was stabbed in an attack at her home. the czech player suffered a career—threatening hand injury, but made her comeback in the first round of the french open this morning. she was up against world number 85julia boserup. kvitova broke the american's serve early on, and showed little signs of letting up, taking the first set 6—3. a short rain delay didn't interupt her rhythm as she went on to take the second set 6—2, cheered on by her parents and brothers in the crowd. great britain have won three medals at the european rowing championships in the czech republic. karen bennett & holly norton, who took gold in belgrade earlier this month, had to settle for bronze today in the women's pair. they got off to a good sta

it's the first day of the french open and the world number one angelique kerber is already out.ussia's ekaterina makarova. britain's dan evans also lost in the first round. he won the first set 7—5 against spain's tommy robredo, but that was as good as it got. the 35—year—old spaniard levelled the match. and robredo then cruised through the next two sets to wrap up a 3—1victory. it was a disappointing day for sir ben ainslie and his crew at the america's cup — beaten in both races they made almost identical errors on each run as they lost to the usa and new zealand in the qualifiers. despitejust one win from four races in bermuda, they are still second in the standings. hamilton have retained their place in the scottish premiership after beating dundee united 1—0 in the 2nd leg of their playoff final. with the tie goalless after the first leg, greg docherty scored the winnerjust after the hour mark at new douglas park. blackpool have been promoted to league one after beating exeter 2—1 in the play off final at wembley. that's despite only selling around 6,000 tickets for the mat

kerber could now lose her world number one ranking.fter the first leg, greg docherty scored the winnerjust after the hour mark at new douglas park. blackpool have been promoted to league one after beating exeter 2—1 in the league two play—off final. the winning goal coming in the second—half from mark cullen. only around 6,000 blackpool fans were at wembley. many staying away in protest at the way the club is being run. it's estimated at least a £170 million awaits the winner of today's championship play—off final between huddersfield town and reading. one of those two clubs willjoin newcastle united and brighton in promotion to the premier league. sometimes the feeling if you're not a reading supporter then nearly everybody in england, in britain, and maybe in europe supports huddersfield town and likes to bring this fairytale to a happy end. so this looks like the second fairytale in british football in a row after leicester last season and this is what we are feeling and we are feeling that we getting backed from a lot of people all

still be fighting about abortion. 27 years later in 2016, a smaller group that included nancy linda kerber, and alice , kester harris as well as me came together to write an amicus case.in the texas texas following the same strategy as missouri. it had installed a series of regulations on abortion providers. and again, i will not go into what they are, but what is important here is that the texas claim was these regulations were designed to protect women's health. just one example -- they wanted abortion clinics to upgrade their building safety, parking, and staffing to meet the standards of a hospital. these laws collectively are known as trap laws, targeted regulation on abortion providers, and what is, of course, striking about them is that these abortion clinics work -- will be required to meet higher standards than many even ambulatory surgery clinics. we work very fast. we worked through email, and we demonstrated that such allegedly protective laws had historically been motivated by discriminatory assumptions about women, that what was called protection, in fact, disadvantaged women

kerber has an open draw facing a makarova of russia.ernational career, that seems to be coming to a close. he has been left out by gareth southgate who is left out by gareth southgate who is left his squad to face scotland in france. rooney has been a bit part player in his club side this season. his former club so everton or a chinese super league team have expressed interest. chelsea will ta ke expressed interest. chelsea will take on the london rivals arsenal in the fa cup final tomorrow. there have been contrasted fortunes for this season. arsenal fan of this, missing out on the champions league for the proscribed in 20 years. mustn't anger has not confirmed whether he will be at the club next season. axar —— at alex 0xlade—chamberlain thinks it will be a morale boost. we have given ourselves a boost, winning trophy is what it is about. it will be positive to finish on a positive note. there will be —— we wanted to finish higher in the league, there is no doubting about that. but it's a big trophy and one we want to win. it will def

this could prove to be the shock of the tournament — the top seed in the women's draw, angelique kerberhe was beaten in straight sets by ekaterina makerova. it's billed as the most lucrative match in world football, and it's estimated that at least £170 million awaits the winner of today's championship play—off final between huddersfield town and reading. one of those two clubs willjoin newcastle and brighton in promotion to the premier league. sometimes the feeling, if you are not over support, everybody in britain, maybe in europe, supports huddersfield town and likes to bring this fairy tale to happy and so it looks like the second fairy tale in british football in a row after leicester last season, and this is what we are feeling. we are feeling that we get back from a lot of people all over britain. we need to think about what we need to do now to win that game. that's what we will be facing. we are not going to be thinking about what it does to the club if we win, there is also a chance of losing. that's the sport — now back to victoria in dunstable. good morning and welcome back