rhia chohan, bbc news.ng a few first—round matches, matches that i wanted to be winning, of course. but to have the victories i have had and the results i have had, i'm obviously moving a step in the right direction, but today was certainly not one of those steps. muguruza will play the world number one and top seed simona halep in the semi—finals. halep came through in three sets against the former number one angelique kerber from germany. rafael nadal — 10 times a winner of the french open — will resume his quarter—final fightback tomorrow. nadal dropped the first set to the 11th seed, diego schwartzman. a rain delay gave nadal the opportunity to recover from a break down the second, and he led 5—3 when the weather returned to force an early finish in paris. australia's new cricket captain says the team will try to restore the nation's reputation during their forthcoming matches in england. in the wake of the sandpaper ball tampering scandal, which saw australian players banned for cheating, the team is p

rhia chohan reports. it had been awhile since maria sharapova had been this far. ban but she could hardly have had a tougher opponent. garbine muguruza, anotherformer have had a tougher opponent. garbine muguruza, another former champion, was not planning on making it easy for the last year‘s wimbledon winner had not yet dropped a set in the tournament and that was not changing in the opener. she took it 6—2. both we re in the opener. she took it 6—2. both were well rested after injuries to their previous opponents but for sharapova, was it a bit too much time away from the clay? muguruza pack a bigger punch, seizing the advantage in the second set. sharapova broke back but could not come back. muguruza was simply can be the dominant pulls a picture would have lasted longer, after 70 minutes muguruza was through to the last four. sharapova‘s biggest dates since coming back to the spot was over far quicker than she would have hoped. and muguruza will play world number one and top seed simona halep in the semi—finals. halep came through in three sets against former

rhia chohan reports. it was the bulger grad arena's final appearance of this tournament.t two meetings with poland, but today all that was needed was a draw. after a heavy defeat to columbia, poland had nothing to play for but pride. but good at polish sword stand on the way of the blues samurais? the game took a while to pick up. perhaps the 36 degrees heat in volgograd was to blame for the sluggish pace. you should newry have the first great strike, saved by lukasz fabianski, but it was this in the second half that threaten to send japan night. japan still had a chance to go through because they had fewer yellow card than senegal. the game slowed down even more, almost farcical. it is change from a board game toa farcical. it is change from a board game to a strange game, hasn't it? hgppy game to a strange game, hasn't it? happy to play at the time, japan became the first side in the world cup to go through on fair play. a risky waiting game. a risky waiting game. so here's confirmation of how group h looks. columbia top with six points, japan second with four points, s