the number—seven seed, made it through to round two with a straight sets victory over uruguay‘s pablo cuevas that will play federer in the quarterfinals. wednesday's winners also included david goffin. the number—six seed from belgium beat the 2016 champion marin cilic in straight sets. goffin who reached the final back in 2014 now plays the 6'11" american reilly 0pelka. you can get all the latest sports news at our website, that's bbc.com/sport. but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello there. i think it's fair to say many of us will be glad to see the back of october and we've still got another week to come and there is more rain in the forecast for the next few days. some of it quite heavy as well. however, as we do close out the month, it does look as though we are likely to see a change. a different trend — drier, but it will feel noticeably colder by day and by night. for the here and now though we've got a couple of weather fronts sandwiched across england and wales producing some cloud and light patchy rain. as they sink south and east behind it, the winds will

it was a straight—sets win for him too over uruguay‘s pablo cuevas 6—4, 6—3. title but he'll be favourite to reach the semis in belgium, with world number 2a3 marius copil next. gael monfils won't be repeating his run to the final from last year. he was a surprise casualty at the hands of 18—year—old jannik sinner. the italian cruised to the biggest win of his career 6—3, 6—2. it's his first atp tour quarter final. alexander rublev is one of two russian men through to the quarter final at the kremlin cup tennis in moscow. he beat egor gerasimov in three sets to join defending champion karen kachinov in the last eight. in the women's draw, there was a surprise as top seed elina svitolina was dumped out by veronika kudermetova. it was the biggest win of kudermetova's career, playing against a top five player for the first time. baseball and game four of the american league championship series is underway in new york where the yankees are playing houston. they're in the bottom of the second inning, and the yankees lead i—o. houston lead the best—of—7 series 2—1.

it's after another win, this time over eighth seed pablo cuevas.er world number one faces marius copil for a place in the last four, and the scot says he'll need to guard against the romanian's serve. it was many happy ‘returns' for copil — see what we did there — who probably wouldn't have been able to fully celebrate his 29th birthday. although a first victory over murray in a bit mightjust be the best belated present he could ask for. the traditional ca ptain's run training sessions are taking place at the rugby world cup injapan ahead of the weekend's quarter—finals. we already know some of the teams. the rest are being named on friday. first up on saturday is england against australia. wallabies have called up centre jordan petaia for only his third cap, whilst england have dropped fly—half george ford. you can get all the latest sports news on our website. whatever you're up to, enjoy the rest of your day. since taking office, donald trump has called for america to return to the moon and then aim for mars. getting there is hard enough, but wh

comfortably against pablo cuevas last night in straight sets.m the area.. what is normally the busiest shopping centre in london, what is happening at the moment and is that structures were extension rebellion have put up in the last hours. there have put up in the last hours. there have been two protesters up there, but specialist teams have now had to bring ajcb but specialist teams have now had to bring a jcb into this area to try and get these protesters down. they have got one of them down. you can probably see that they are talking to that second protester. presumably, they are reading his rights before he is brought down and arrested after that. what we saw earlier as well as that there were lots of protesters who had glued themselves to the bottom of that wooden structure, and also, around this area, there were various demonstrators who had chained themselves to a metal pipe. what that meant was that specialist teams with various... you can see that protester is now being brought down to loud cheers from some of the demonstrators, who ar

andy murray has reached the european open quarter—finals after beating pablo cuevas in antwerp.to victory in straight sets over the eighth seed. the former world number one — now ranked 243rd — beat the uruguayan 6—4, 6—3. he'll play romania's marius copil in the last eight. boxing promoter eddie hearn held back tears talking about patrick day, who died after suffering a brain injury in the ring on saturday. the 27—year—old was knocked out in the 10th round of the super—welterweight clash with charles conwell. hearn, who was promoting the event in chicago, struggled to hide his emotions when reminiscing about the first team he met day last week. he came over to me before the press conference with joe he came over to me before the press conference withjoe higgins, and he was so conference withjoe higgins, and he was so excited. you know, he was... he just... was so excited. you know, he was... hejust... you was so excited. you know, he was... he just. .. you all right? was so excited. you know, he was... hejust... you all right? yeah, i just remember talking to him and what he wa

andy murray's reached the european 0pen quarterfinals after beating pablo cuevas.ive birth. it was another successful day at the european track cycling championships for great britain. they added three more medals on day two, with the team of laura kenny, katie archibald, neah evans and eleanor dickinson beating germany to win gold in the women's team pursuit. the men then went on to win bronze in the same event. and that was after emily nelson, who had already claimed the gold in the women's scratch race on wednesday, took the silver medal, she just couldn't quite pull past in a thrilling finish in the women's elimination race. let's have a look at some of this morning's back pages. the mirror are one of a number of papers with a picture of manchester united's paul pogba chatting to real madrid coach zinedine zidane on holiday in dubai. the sun have a write up of a briefing united's vice—chairman ed woodward gave to journalists yesterday saying they are right behind 0le gunnar solskjaer despite their poor start to the season. and the express are getting into the s

andy murray's reached the european 0pen quarter—finals after beating pablo cuevas.ursuit. the men then went on to win bronze in the same event. and that was after emily nelson, who had already claimed the gold in the womens scratch race on wednesday, took the silver medal, she just couldn't quoite pull past, took the silver medal, she just couldn't quite pull past, in a thrilling finish in the womens elimination race. ronnie 0'sullivan has been knocked out of the english 0pen in crawley. the five times world champion was beaten by china's mei xiwen in a deciding frame. he won't be too disappointed, he hasn't been the biggest fan of the venue, calling it a ‘hellhole' in the past. he also said it had a rather unique smell is less than complimentary about that now to check in with the weather. good morning to you. i think you will know what is coming today and showers today leading to some rainbows across the country with downpours on the lively side due to an error of low pressure spinning its way into the distal is a tell—tale story. a revolving area of cloud which c