Author: Sports News UK
In the dying embers of this pulsating match, Novak Djokovic morphed into a young Boris Becker, flying through the air to hit a diving backhand lob volley at match point. At this juncture his opponent, Arthur Rinderknech, was also on the floor after slipping at the net. And Centre Court? All 15,000 of them on their feet. And no wonder. Because this was a first-week mini-classic.There was little in Rinderknech’s grass court record of 15 wins and 18 defeats to suggest he could put the greatest player in history through the ringer, save for his victory over Alexander Zverev at…
The Tour de France starts while much of the sporting world’s focus is on the Fifa World Cup.Sixteen years have passed since Barcelona’s Andres Iniesta scored the goal that gave Spain their first World Cup title.Now he presides over the NSN Cycling team, who contest their first Tour de France and start their mission in the city where Iniesta has legendary status.Iniesta has one of the best riders in sprinter Girmay, but he also must deal with the headache of trying to run a cycling team which still has none of the free-market TV rights cashflow of the sport in…
Everything appeared to be going smoothly once again for Djokovic as he wrapped up his sixth and seventh successive sets at this year’s championships to assert himself against the big-hitting Rinderknech.Djokovic had delighted the audience with sumptuous shot-making up to that point, taking a bow and putting a finger to his ear after executing a volley at full stretch on his way to polishing off the opening set.That was a clear signal that he had found his rhythm following a start in which the players traded early breaks, but Rinderknech continued to ask questions as he forced an early break…
Chad Gable recently opened up about the wrestling legends who inspired him to pursue a career in professional wrestling. Gable revealed that several iconic names shaped his journey, with WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle playing a major role in his development. Gable is widely regarded as one of WWE’s best technical wrestlers. Many fans have compared him to Kurt Angle because of their Olympic backgrounds and elite in-ring abilities. Chad Gable names the WWE icons that made him want to wrestle Speaking on Good Karma Wrestling, Chad Gable was asked which matches or wrestlers first made him want to…
Naomi Osaka arrived on No 1 Court dressed for the occasion – as usual – in a flowing, flower-patterned robe but, 66 minutes later, her tennis was what had spectators on their feet after she dismantled Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 6-3 to reach the last 16 at Wimbledon for the first time.“I’m really happy,” Osaka said during her on-court interview. “I’ve actually never won on this court, so I’m just really glad to have made a really good memory here. It was a really big honour for me to play, so thank you.”The 14th seed has enjoyed the strongest grass-court swing…
Only St Mirren scored fewer goals than Aberdeen last season, with the Dons finding the net 40 times in 38 league matches. That rate was even poorer away from home.It is an issue they simply have to solve if they want to return to the top half of the table. So how might they go about it?No team played more long passes than St Mirren over Robinson’s four years in charge, while only Celtic and Rangers put more balls into the opposition’s box.They used three centre-backs with wing-backs consistently, sometimes with two strikers, but at other points with two advanced…
MondayThe week starts with Penelope Keith, sad news of whose death on Monday sends everyone over the age of 40 screeching back to her greatest hits – and they really were great, weren’t they? There are those sitcom characters from the late 1970s who have more or less faded from view – if I try really hard, I can just about summon the image of Wendy Craig and Geoffrey Palmer in Butterflies – but the Good Life never waned, remaining as stubbornly embedded in the national memory as Fawlty Towers, Dad’s Army and the winter of discontent.If Tom and Barbara…
Etsuo Hara/Getty Images Since Forbidden Door was introduced in 2022, the pay-per-view has evolved from being a show that pits some of the best stars that AEW has to offer against the biggest names in New Japan Pro Wrestling, to showcasing talent from several international promotions. In addition to AEW and NJPW, CMLL and STARDOM were also heavily featured at this past weekend’s edition of Forbidden Door, and according to former International Champion Will Ospreay, the European scene should be next to get involved. Speaking on “107.7 The Bone,” Ospreay stated that he’d…
Fiji will be favourites this weekend as they are ranked two places above Wales in the world rankings in ninth, with Steve Tandy’s side in 11th.They also won 24-19 in their previous trip to Cardiff in November 2024, although that game was played at the Principality Stadium.Seruvakula, who took over at the helm in April from Mick Byrne, has named a strong side in his first game in charge.It is close to full strength with a mix of players from the domestic Fiji Drua side that play in Super Rugby and those based in Europe and Japan.It boasts a powerful…
One of the most-storied national teams – and the current world champions – face opponents who only first qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations in 2013. Cape Verde was a colony of Portugal when Argentina took part in the first World Cup in 1930, finishing runners-up to Uruguay.La Albiceleste have only failed to qualify for one World Cup, in Mexico in 1970, though withdrew from the three tournaments either side of World War Two.Argentina’s first World Cup success came in 1978, beating the Netherlands 3-1. In 1986, a 3-2 victory over West Germany took the trophy back to South…