Iga Swiatek stages stunning comeback to reach French Open quarter-finals

After another sad second serve rebounded off the top of the net and floated out on a break point, Iga Swiatek turned to her support team and frantically gestured her rage. She had simply not shown up. As Elena Rybakina bulldozed through the early stages of their highly anticipated fourth-round tussle, Swiatek trailed 6-1, 2-0 and her hopes of victory were fading.For much of this year, Swiatek has struggled to find her form when forced into difficult positions against her toughest rivals. However, she showed her resilience here with a supreme 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 statement win against the 12th seed, to return to the quarter-finals of the French Open

England edge West Indies to win second ODI as Root scores 166 not out – as it happened

Read all about it with Simon’s report:What an incredible innings from Root – intelligent, ruthless and easy, so easy, on the eye. He came in at 2-2 and carried England home with more than half the runs – an on drive for four popping the champagne.Alzarri Joseph was magnificent with the ball – just a shame West Indies tailed off towards the end with the bat – and didn’t make more of England’s fielding mishaps – or the game could have been even tighter.And as they start packing away in Cardiff, time for us to say goodbye too. Thanks for your company – we’ll be back for the last game in this series at The Oval on Tuesday, starting at 1pm BST

Joe Root’s magical 166 guides England to ODI series win over West Indies

England spent much of this game digging themselves into not so much a hole as a full-blown trench, a toxic combination of regular errors and occasional misfortune leaving them in a truly desperate situation, ­apparently destined for convincing and deserved defeat. Enter Joe Root, and an innings for the ages.Root produced a display of ethereal stroke-making on his way to a stunning, unbeaten 166, a batting performance of such beauty that the ugliness of much that came before will be forgotten. It was his highest score in one-day internationals, propelling him past Eoin Morgan to become England’s leading run-scorer in this format, and the first Englishman to score more than 7,000. It ended with a straight drive that brought his 23rd boundary, victory by three wickets, and a series secured with a game to spare

Giro d’Italia: Simon Yates seals overall victory as Olav Kooij wins final stage – as it happened

Here is Jeremy Whittle’s Stage 21 report:Thanks for reading and emailing in. Congratulations to Simon Yates and all the team. See you next time.“Life comes around, it gives and it takes.”“Honestly, I think it’s really still sinking in,” says the Giro d’Italia champion

French Open: Swiatek and Sabalenka advance, Paolini out – as it happened

Alcaraz attacks from the off on Shelton’s serve, getting the break back at the first opportunity, to 15, as Shelton skews wide. Having waited more than two hours to break, Shelton will be mad at himself that he conceded it without a fight. A quick hold from Alcaraz, and they’re back on serve, with the defending champ up 7-6, 6-3, 3-3. And Tiafoe is about to serve for the first set, leading Altmaier 5-3. I’m afraid that’s all from us for today, but do join us again tomorrow when the fourth round continues

Britain’s Simon Yates seals Giro d’Italia triumph and banishes pain of 2018

Simon Yates arrived in Rome, was blessed by Pope Leo XIV and then completed a miraculous overall victory in the 2025 Giro d’Italia, seven years after his race lead had traumatically dissolved with victory in his grasp.The Lancastrian rider’s remarkable turnaround in Saturday’s final mountain stage, in which Yates leapfrogged 21-year-old Giro debutant and race leader, Isaac del Toro and podium rival, Richard Carapaz, to take a near four-minute overall lead, was one of the most stunning in Grand Tour racing.This was Yates’s McIlroy moment, a career catharsis that banished the pain and humiliation he had endured on the Colle delle Finestre in 2018. Seven summers after the monstrous climb cracked his career apart, the mountain that had broken him became the setting of his redemption.As Yates, of the Visma-Lease a bike team, savoured the closing moments of the 2025 Giro, the final stage was won by his teammate Olav Kooij, who out-sprinted the Australian Kaden Groves to take their team’s third stage win of the race