in the women's draw, jasmine paolini and elena rybakina wasted little time in racing through to the secondd, paolini, comfortably beat 21 year old chinese player wei sijia 6—0, 6—4, while former finalist rybakina was ruthless against 16—year—old australian wild card emersonjones, winning6—16—i injust 53 minutes. england's cricketers wasted a golden opportunity city travel to brentford and chelsea welcome bournemouth to stamford bridge. then half an hour later, league leaders liverpool take on nottingham forest. the australian open tennis continues, and there's been a big shock in the men's singles as brazilian qualifier and rising starjoao fonseca beat russian ninth seed andrey rublev. the 18—year—old has become only the second teenager since 1973 to defeat an atp top—io player in their debut grand slam main draw. he'll meet lorenzo sonego in the second round. in the women's draw, jasmine paolini and elena rybakina wasted little time in racing through to the second round. italian fourth seed, paolini, comfortably beat 21 year old chinese player wei sijia 6—0, 6—4, while former finalist ryb

it was an extremely encouraging start for the italian fourth seed, paolini, beating 21 year—old wei sijia—4. former finalist rybakina was ruthless against 16—year—old australian wild card emersonjones, wrapping up a 6—1, 6—1 victory injust 53 minutes. daniil medvedev is also through avoiding a monumental upset but that didnt stop him from getting extremely frustrated in the process. medvedev used his racquet to smash a net camera during his first round match with 418th—ranked kasidit samrej of thailand. the camera destruction took place in what would be the last game of the third set, which samrej won to take a two—sets—to—one—lead in the five—set match. taylor fritz had a much easier time of it, breezing past fellow american jenson brooksby. the fourth seed made a strong start in his bid to end the 22—year grand slam drought for american men with a resounding 6—2, 6—0, 6—3 victory over his compatriot. last year i was happy with all of my slam results and i'm going to treated the same. the worst thing i can do is be looking like superfar worst thing i can do is be looking like super far a

in the women's draw, italianjasmine paolini and kazakhstan�*s elena rybakina raced through to the secondaolini, comfortably beat 21—year—old chinese player sija wei in straight sets while former finalist rybakina was ruthless against 16—year—old australian wild card emersonjones, winning 6—1, 6—1 injust 53 minutes. emma raducanu and katie boulter also progressed. that means there are now six british singles players through to the second round at melbourne park. the last time that happened was over 60 years ago. raducanu says her serve �*had a mind of its own�* after a scrappy straight sets win over russia's ekaterina alexandrova. raducanu hit 15 double faults and lost her serve six times. she faces amanda anisimova of the us next. i'm very pleased to have come through that match. it was difficult, it was quite hot out there, um, getting quite sunny, and obviously playing against a really experienced and seeded opponent, who is playing great tennis. and i think, yeah, i'm very proud of how i fought and how i overcame certain situations in that match. katie boulter is the highest british s

karolina muchova gave her country the perfect start, beating the world number four jasmine paolini inght sets, dropping just four games. her team—mate tomas makatch then went one better, dropping just three games as he beat flavio cobolli and sealed the victory with a match to spare. they will play former champions, the usa, next. i think these kind of tournaments, this is the highest i can play and i'm really happy i managed to play this kind of match today. it is an important point and i was surprised that i played great without any mistakes, so i didn't give him any opportunity to come back. that was the key of the match today, for sure. that was the key of the match today, for sure. it will be a historic night at alexandra palace tonight as either michael van gerwen or luke littler will win the world darts championship. victory for van gerwen would mean a fourth title, whilst for 17—year—old littler it would be his first, but in lifting the trophy he would become the tournament's youngest winner, beating the previous record by seven years, which was set by van gerwen in 2014. ever