Author: Sports News UK

One year ago, Coco Gauff departed the Cincinnati Open with her career at a crossroads. On serve, she had capitulated, offering up countless double faults in most matches, and she had lost confidence in her progress and game. She believed she had to make drastic changes to her team before it was too late.It has taken an enormous amount of resilience, patience and toil, but this week Gauff began to feel the consequences of those efforts as she closed out one of the smoothest tournaments of her career with her best performance of the season, thoroughly outplaying the third seed…

Kieffer Moore has led the line in Wrexham’s two Championship fixtures with Sam Smith coming off the bench.Williamson confirmed that they are working to give Parkinson more firepower.He said: “There are probably 72 other clubs looking for the same shiny new striker, right?”That’s the challenging one to find – the striker who is great with his feet, great with his head, great at hold-up play, great at finishing, is 6ft5ins and wants to move to Wrexham.”That’s your £40m striker right there, but we have two great strikers on the pitch right now.”We are comfortable with those two guys up top…

Mercedes Mone reacts to Ric Flair’s post on Charlotte Flair. On social media, Ric Flair posted a picture collage that featured five women: Charlotte Flair, Trish Stratus, AJ Lee, Stephanie McMahon, and Sasha Banks (Mercedes Mone). Ric Flair picked Charlotte Flair as the best heel among the wrestlers mentioned. He even went on to say that Charlotte is the greatest female wrestler of all time. His post drew a response from Mercedes, who commented, “Do you want to get your ass kicked Ric? Wooooooooo.” It doesn’t seem like Mercedes agrees with him on this one. Mercedes is currently scheduled to…

BMW Championship – final leaderboard-16 W Clark (US); -14 P Cantlay (US); -13 R McIlroy (NI); -12 G Woodland (US), C Gotterup (US), C Morikawa (US); -10 R MacIntyre (Sco), M McNealy (US); -9 J Bridgeman (US); -8 S J Im (Kor), M Brennan (US).Selected others: -7 S Scheffler (US), A Bhatia (US); -6 A Rai (Eng); -5 J Rose (Eng); -3 M Fitzpatrick (Eng); +2 T Fleetwood (Eng).Full leaderboardWyndham Clark said he is “one of the best players in the world” after he survived a fightback from Rory McIlroy to win the BMW Championship in Missouri.Clark held a five-shot…

Hull City boss Sergej Jakirovic kept his plan to topple Manchester United on their Premier League return under wraps for weeks, assistant head coach Dean Holden told Match of the Day.The Tigers produced a sensational 2-0 opening-weekend win over Michael Carrick’s side on Saturday while deploying a back five. Hull were making their first Premier League appearance in nine years after coming up through the play-offs last year.First-half goals from defenders Semi Ajayi and Nobel Mendy gave them their first league win over United since 1974.Jakirovic altered his tactics for the game, having watched a couple of United’s pre-season matches,…

Arthur Fils has always believed he was on the path to the very top of his chosen sport. Even when others considered him too young, too green or far too self-confident, he has entered the biggest tournaments in the world with the intention of winning them, ambitions he did not hesitate to express.On a historic afternoon in Mason, Ohio, Fils took an huge step forward in pursuit of those massive goals as the 22-year-old became a Masters 1000 champion for the first time in his young career. His greatest achievement was secured with a supreme mental effort under pressure as…

Yet again, the England men’s cricket team is picking through the wreckage of a late-night misdemeanour. The latest stain on the game’s reputation is a result of pictures of fast bowler Brydon Carse in handcuffs and surrounded by police officers outside a nightspot in Derby. His Durham team-mate Matthew Potts is in the images, while former England captain Ben Stokes appears in the background.If you’re keeping score, we’re now up to eight England players involved in incidents of this kind since Halloween last year.Harry Brook was punched by a nightclub bouncer in Wellington, with Jacob Bethell and Josh Tongue present.…

Our TNA Lockdown results for tonight feature The Hardys defending the TNA World Tag Team Championship against The Nemeths, Cedric Alexander putting his TNA X Division Championship on the line against Leon Slater in a Last Man Standing match, Mustafa Ali taking on Jason Hotch for the TNA International Championship, AJ Francis and Elijah competing in The Final Encore, and more. TNA Lockdown emanates live from the Credit Union 1 Arena in Chicago, IL. The Countdown to Lockdown pre-show begins at 5 p.m. ET, with the main show starting at 6 p.m. ET, live on TNA+ and PPV.com. TNA Lockdown…

This remains a Liverpool side offering more questions than answers. One significant question is the Cody Gakpo conundrum, which will roll into the final week of the transfer window. If Liverpool do bring in two more attacking players then Gakpo may leave.The club have been linked with Paris St-Germain’s Bradley Barcola and Ibrahim Mbaye and have had two bids rejected for Brighton’s Yankuba Minteh.Yet Dutchman Gakpo was Liverpool’s best player at Newcastle and took his goal brilliantly – while there was another positive in the performance of Spanish forward Victor Munoz on his Liverpool debut from the bench. Munoz won…

Yuki Tsunoda – 7/10Thrown back into a race seat at short notice and looked increasingly comfortable as the weekend went on. Just missed the points in 11th and was only a fraction away from Gasly in qualifying after months without racing in Formula 1.Arvid Lindblad – 6.5/10The raw pace was very good – 10th in both qualifying sessions was another impressive showing from the rookie. But failing to slow sufficiently for yellow flags and having to serve a drive-through effectively ended his hopes of points on Sunday.Gabriel Bortoleto – 6.5/10Quick throughout Saturday and put Audi ninth on the grid for…