the top seeds get byes into the second round, but perhaps dominic thiem and marin cilic needed a bittime on court because they're out. but no worries for novak djokovic as the world number three is into the last 16 as austin halewood reports. since the middle of 2018, novak djokovic has been a player reborn, with injuries and issues we perform well behind him, the 1a time major grandslam champion is back to his best. with wimbledon and us open titles already this season, he is a redhot 13 match winning streak. jeremy chardy never really threatened it in china. djokovic coming through in straight sets and a step closer to a fourth title in shanghai. he has already qualified for the world tour finals in london next month. world number seven dominic thiem is one of those looking tojoin him there, but his hopes took a blow on tuesday thanks to australian matthew ebden. the 30—year—old is having the season of his life after 13 years on the tour. in what that it got even better, with his biggest win to date. —— in the third set. marin cilic has reached the tour final three times in his imp

the top seeds get byes into the second round, but perhaps dominic thiem and marin cilic needed a bit're out. but no worries for novak djokovic as the world number three is into the last 16 as austin halewood reports. since the middle of 2018, novak djokovic has been a player reborn, with

top seed marin cilic crashed out of the first round at the japan open in a shock defeat to germany's—3, but then the world number 56 took control to capture the next two sets 6—4, 7—6 and struff plays frenchmanjeremy chardy next. a swedish footballer celebrated in a unique way after scoring a goal this week. hammarby‘s kennedy bakircioglu caught a beer thrown from the crowd and drank it to celebrate his stunning free—kick against ifk goteborg, catching the cup on the run and showing great dexterity as he accepted the plaudits. you can get all the latest sports news at our website, that's bbc.com/sport. but from me, tulsen tollett, and the rest of the team that is your wednesday sport briefing. and thanks for that. pop star lady gaga appears opposite bradley cooper in his directorial debut a star is born. the new film is directed, co—written and co—produced by the academy award nominee, it follows a hard—drinking musician who discovers and falls in love with a young singer. the bbc‘s charlie stayt sat down with him to talk about his new film. # tell me something, boy. # about you try

trademark forehand to set up a meeting with nicolas jarry of chile next, who knocked out fifth seed marin cilicmurray and his partner bruno soares are through after beating argentina's diego schwartzmann and maximo gonzalez in straight sets. gareth bale is out of wales' friendly with spain tomorrow night. the real madrid forward was withdrawn in the 80th minute of saturday's loss with alaves. manager ryan giggs confirmed he wont feature at the principality and is ‘50—50' for the nations league match with the republic of ireland in six days' time. he will be on the pitch before the game to receive a golden boot for the record 30 goals he's scored for wales. yeah, he's probably 50—50 at the moment. 0bviously yeah, he's probably 50—50 at the moment. obviously we don't want to ta ke moment. obviously we don't want to take any risks. but if he's able to play then good, he's not then so be it. preparing for both scenarios, but obviously my mind is just on spain at the moment and after spain we will start concentrating about ireland. england face croatia in the second nations league match on friday —

trademark forehand to set up a meeting with nicolas jarry of chile next, who knocked out fifth seed marin cilicner, bruno soa res, are through after beating argentina's diego schwartzmann and maximo gonzalez in straight sets. gareth bale is out of wales' friendly with spain tomorrow night. the real madrid forward was withdrawn in the 80th minute of saturday's loss with alaves. manager ryan giggs confirmed he won't feature at the principality and is 50—50 for the nations league match with the republic of ireland in six days time. he will be on the pitch before the game to receive a golden boot for the record 30 goals he's scored for wales. probably 50—50 at the moment. we don't want to take any risks, but if he's able to play, then go. if not, then so be it. we are preparing for both scenarios. my mind is just on spain at the moment. and after spain, we will concentrate on ireland. england face croatia in the second nations league match on friday — the first time they will play behind closed doors, because of uefa sanctions against the hosts. that isn't stopping fans making the trip to ri—jeka.

he had been the boredom of 1a and close the match with his trademark forehand, he knocked out marin cilicking to win his first title. in the doubles, . the looking to win his first title. in the doubles,. the england women's manager criticised the standard of refereeing in the international game. several decisions went against his side in the draw with australia. despite the scoring. england were denied to penalties. australia equalised later on. there'll be no technology at the women's world cup next year. there will have to improve on third place finish from last year. it is easy saying we cannot criticise people within the women's game. the standards are not right. they accepted it. i think the women's game get better, we need to be having conversations like this and be brave enough to come out and sadist this does is temporary. it was being displayed at the cycle show in birmingham, along with the the other two grand tour trophies having been lent by team sky to their bike supplier pinarelo. police are now trying to recover it. thomas said he hopes whoever took it will have the good g

trademark forehand and will play nicolas jarry of chile next, who managed to knock out fifth seed marin cilicnd his partner bruno soa res are through after beating argentina's diego schwartzmann and maximo gonzalez in straight sets. well done to them. that's all the sport for now. i'll be back at around 9:30am. good morning, hello and welcome to oui’ programme. for women in northern ireland it's nearly impossible to terminate a pregnancy. abortion is illegal in virtually every situation they're some of the strictest abortion laws in the western world — but pressure is now mounting on the uk government to change them. three conservative mps have told this programme that it's time for westminster to step in and decriminalise abortion, to stop women's human rights from being violated. new polling, seen by this programme, also shows that two thirds of people in northern ireland want the uk parliament to intervene and allow access to abortions. the nothern ireland assembly is supposed to legislate on health care, but the assembly collapsed, almost two years ago. jean mackenzie has this report from