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Andrey Rublev said he was happy to be welcomed back to Wimbledon after becoming the first returning Russian through to the second round by beating Australian Max Purcell on Monday. ...

World number one Iga Swiatek cruised into the Wimbledon second round with a 6-1 6-3 mauling of China’s Zhu Lin on Monday in a fine start to her quest ...

American fourth seed Jessica Pegula moved into the second round of Wimbledon with a hard-fought 6-2 6-7(8) 6-3 win over compatriot Lauren Davis on Monday. Davis struggled to find her ...

Wimbledon officials have strengthened security and will use undercover “behavioural detection officers” in an attempt to prevent environmental protests at the Championships which start on Monday. Perfectly-manicured green lawns with ...

By Richard Boxall The weekend’s 40-over league matches again produced a feast of runs as Royal strengthened their position at the top while Markhor narrowly beat Limassol Zalmi. Royal’...

The All England Club gates swung open for the start of the Wimbledon championships on Monday with some notable absentees but one very familiar face, Novak Djokovic, fixing his eyes ...

Order of play on the main show courts on the first day of the Wimbledon championships on Monday (prefix number denotes seeding): CENTRE COURT (1230 GMT) Pedro Cachin (Argentina) v 2-Novak ...

England captain Ben Stokes’ swashbuckling 155 was in vain as Australia won the second Ashes test at Lord’s by 43 runs on an extraordinary final day on Sunday to take a 2...

Max Verstappen won Red Bull’s home Austrian Grand Prix from pole position and with the fastest lap on Sunday for the team’s 10th successive Formula One victory and ...

By Julien Pretot While the vast majority of the Tour de France peloton is not concerned by the riots that have been hitting the country following the fatal shooting of ...

Twenty-six years after Venus Williams made her Wimbledon debut, the five-times champion will be back on Centre Court once again on Monday and the 43-year-old American said she could even ...

Last year’s Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios will not place any unfair expectations on himself, the Australian said on Sunday as he gears up for the Grand Slam with little ...

Britain’s Adam Yates claimed the opening stage of the Tour de France to take the first yellow jersey of this year’s edition at the end of a 182.5-km ...

Double world champion Max Verstappen ran away with a Saturday sprint race in a Red Bull one-two at the Austrian Grand Prix to increase his Formula One lead over Mexican ...

Fifteen-year-old Cypriot racing driver Evagoras Papasavvas has won his first career race in the USF2000 championship in the US. “We worked very hard all year to achieve this, the race ...

Australia built a lead of 221 on the third day of the second test at Lord’s before rain stopped play on Friday, adding 130 to their first-innings score for the loss ...

Formula One’s dominant leader Max Verstappen took his fourth pole position in a row atRed Bull’s home Austrian Grand Prix on Friday while team mate and closest title ...

A rejuvenated Carlos Alcaraz enters Wimbledon as the top seed after reclaiming the world number one ranking but the brightest star of the next generation knows few will look beyond ...

The leaders of Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Activision Blizzard (ATVI.O) on Wednesday sought to allay antitrust concerns that a proposed $69 billion merger of the two companies would unlawfully concentrate ...

Two motorbikes from the French gendarmerie’s intervention brigade will ride ahead of the Tour de France peloton to prevent protesters from disrupting the race after several incidents last year. “...

Andy Murray knows his way around the All England Club better than any player in Friday’s Wimbledon draw and while his career highlights may be behind him there will ...

Tipped by no less than Carlos Alcaraz as the man with the best chance of denying Novak Djokovic the Wimbledon title, Nick Kyrgios is scrambling even to make it onto ...

Tottenham Hotspur have signed midfielder James Maddison from relegated Leicester City on a five-year deal, the Premier League club said on Wednesday. Spurs paid 40 million pounds, according to British media ...

Preparations are underway for Evagoras Papasavvas, the 15-year-old Cypriot race car driver, to compete at the Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio in Lexington this weekend. Papasavvas will be looking to put ...