won the event backin since sue barker won the event back in 1976 and barker told our presenterjohn watsontwo have recent experience of each other. they've played before they played in rome about three weeks ago, it was a three set matches so she knows is a battle. she looked to me like she was getting nervous in her quarterfinal trying to close out the match, maybe she hasn't got a lot of grand slam experience and you know eve ryo ne grand slam experience and you know everyone wants to win a grand slam that's site will remember floyd as a player does not a a ranking, you are for the rest of your life celebrating that, it's a great achievement, so for both players it's going to be tough, but i believe my cat well struggle a bit more. and if she reaches a final she read she has the first british woman to do so, i worry, 1977, but there you go. it's going to be an amazing match. will be were playing in the 80s and both of the top ten, it was a fabulous time, i never thought all these years later, i would be sitting here at the last person to do that. well done, it's wonderful finally we have

vondrusova for a place in the french open final — she's hoping to become the first woman since sue barkerky skies. spits of rain, but not enough to prevent them starting on time. to hannahis my third grand slam semifinal. she lost the first two to angelique kerber and venus williams. angelique kerber and venus williams. a different proposition today, a bit ofan a different proposition today, a bit of an unknown quantity. they have played twice before, but how will the world number 38, who is more of a natural clay court than konta, cope with her first grand slam semifinal? it certainly feels like things are opening up for konta, given that simona halep is the first big name to be knocked out. that was a outstanding victory yesterday. i find it so difficult to pick a winner of the women's singles. konta has an excellent chance, no question, but so do the other three players who are in the draw. anisimova could win. but then again, it could well be konta. it makes it very exciting and wonderfully unpredictable. it does indeed. russell, many thanks for that. the women's world cup kicks off i

ending her hopes of becoming the first british woman to reach the final at rolland garros since sue barker to heartache. johanna konta emerged with a first grand slam final in her sights. she was favourite against czech teenager marketa vondrousova, and you could soon see why. konta led 5—3 and had set point. it seemed nothing could go wrong. and then this... it was a quite horrible miss, and how it came back to haunt her, as vondrousova reeled off the next four games. anotherjohanna konta error, and the czech was one set up. still konta had hope and in the second set again she led 5—3. but again it slipped away. it went to a tie—break and it was vondrousova who was inspired. the 19—year—old held her nerve to clinch a place in a first grand slam final. but her delight was matched by konta's disappointment. it means the waiting goes on. not since virginia wade won wimbledon in 1973 has britain had had a women's singles finalist at a grand slam. for 42 years, so many have tried to emulate her and for konta this had seemed a golden chance. instead, for her and for british tennis, it's ended i

that's according to sue barker — the last british woman to win the competition.tomorrow, after beating last year's runner—up — sloane stephens — in the quarterfinal. barker believe konta's in the right frame of mind, to build on her success at roland garros. it is wonderful to see her play like this. we always thought she could when she got to the semifinals at australia and wimbledon, you really thought this was it, and then there was a bit. but now, she is playing even better now, and looks as if she leaves on herself. i hope she can continue in that way. it is one thing to get there, it is another to stay there, and i think that is what affected her last time. everyone expecting you to get through to the latter stages really can affect you mentally. and she let it affect her, and she dipped, but having been there and suffered at once, hopefully she will know how to deal with it this time. and england's luke donald has qualified for his first major championship in two years. he's a former world number one, but now ranked way down at 512. he'll play at the us op

konta will play the world number 13 next and displaying the best tennis of her career according to sue barkerdoing so well, thinking that she is really going up and end the dip happened, but for me she is now playing even better and it looks like she really believes in herself. i hope she can continue in that way. but it is one thing to get there and it is another thing to stay there. i think that is what affected her last time. the pressure that comes with being at the top of the game and everyone expecting you to get to the last stages of the tournaments really can affect you mentally and she let it affect her and she dipped. but having been there and suffered it once hopefully shall know how to deal with it this time. there are two games currently going on at the cricket world cup. new zealand and bangladesh are playing at the oval well india and south africa face off in southampton. south africa had an up—and—down innings before setting a target of 228 to win. so far india have only lost a fewer wickets and are edging towards victory. you can follow both of those matches within play highl

sue barker agrees with this, she was the last british woman to wind the competition. thing to get there, it is another thing to stay there. i think the pressure affected her last time, everybody expecting you to get to the latter stages are turning and is really can affect you mentally and she let it affect her and she kept. having been there and suffered at once, hopefully she will know how to deal with it this time. johanna konta semifinal has been moved tomorrow due to heavy rain today. that is all from the sports centre now. i am now going to take it back to shannon, because president donald trump is about to disembark from marine one. the images there of the entourage arriving ahead of him. we are expecting him to come off very shortly. as he arrives for a brief visit to ireland, of course before he moves on to france to continue the commemorative events for the day. i said the commemorative events for the day. isaid marine the commemorative events for the day. i said marine one, the commemorative events for the day. isaid marine one, of the commemorative events f

you can catch coverage on bbc two at one o'clock today with sue barker.most of us either. although if you hang around outside you may feel that we bit nippy and the temperatures will tell you otherwise. we have a weather front careering southwards across parts of england and wales bringing some rain and we also have some heavy country downpours and gusty wind across scotland and northern ireland. into the afternoon you can see we're looking at them. by then, northern largely dry in the north—west may catch an odd rumble of thunder. into wales it is more patchy in nature. temperatures ranging from 12 in the north to maybe 20, 22 in any sunshine in the south—east. showers will fade and some mist and fog and the coast and _by some mist and fog and the coast and —— by the end of the night a new weather front coming in across western scotland in the north—west of northern ireland will be bringing in some rain. as a result it will not be particularly cold. tomorrow, that rain coming in across scotland and northern ireland moves eastwards, turning or showering a

if she wins, she'll be the first british woman to make the final since sue barker won it in 1976. over the west indies in theirfirst women's international one—dayer. england won by 208 runs — that's their biggest ever winning margin in this format of the game. it is an unbelievably busy day and i don't know if you can tell, it is raining horizontally at the moment so raining horizontally at the moment so don't be too jealous of me. your hair is still perfect, though. you are managing well. and joy paris. you know what? there is no hairspray on earth that will withstand this. we will see,. time now to take a look at the weather closer to home and sarah has the details for us. rainstorms in paris with a day washed out yesterday. how does it look here? all that rain and the wind they saw in paris is pushing northwards i'm afraid so we are in for some turbulent weather over the next couple of days. not a particularly whether headline for you today. heavy rain and strong and gusty wind and later in the day we expect to see some thundery showers developing as well. very unsettled weathe