Any move hinges on agreement over his £600,000-a-week pay Spurs ahead of United in race to sign Real’s Sergio Reguilón Tottenham have opened talks with Real Madrid about a loan return for Gareth Bale. Their interest comes as Manchester United also consider a loan for the Wales international as an alternative to Jadon Sancho. Spurs […]
Welcome to Lampard 2.0: the upgrade. Although on reflection, it might just take a while to download. On a lovely late-summer night in Falmer the first fruits of Chelsea’s extravagant close-season spending were evident. Timo Werner looked the liveliest part of an initially ponderous, increasingly fluent 3-1 defeat of Brighton, who were impressively slick and […]
Austrian comes back from two sets down to claim first major No2 seed wins 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 at Flushing Meadows As it happened: Bryan Graham’s game-by-game report Novak Djokovic may still be the best player in men’s tennis but, in the self-inflicted absence of the world No1, Dominic Thiem, 27, can fairly lay […]
Osaka says 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 win was ‘a tough match, but inspiring’ 2018 champion wore mask commemorating Tamir Rice Naomi Osaka flirted with ignominy before quelling the spirited challenge of Victoria Azarenka to win her second US Open, and the third slam of her young career, at the end of an extraordinary fortnight at locked-down […]
Updates from the second semi-final at Arthur Ashe Stadium Osaka v Azarenka: two champions but can be only one winner Tweet Bryan at @BryanAGraham or email him 2.56am BST Thiem has taken a medical timeout ahead of the third set. He said he felt something in his achilles when he took a spill earlier in […]
Winner will play Naomi Osaka in Saturday’s final Email Bryan with your thoughts or tweet him @BryanAGraham 2.57am BST First set: Williams 2-0 Azarenka* Williams is matching Azarenka’s shaky start with two double faults to go down 15-30, but she serves her way out of trouble with two unreturnable serves followed by a 110mph service […]
Updates from the last-eight clash at Flushing Meadows Any thoughts? Email or tweet @scott_heinrich 2.38am BST First set: De Minaur 1-6 Thiem Easy pickings for Thiem, who holds his serve to 15 and claims the first set with an ace. Four breaks of serve in the first set – three to Thiem, one for De […]
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of laundering money for a man who ran a network of over 400 properties used by organised crime groups involved in prostitution, cannabis cultivation and illegal immigration. criminal being arrestedThe 43-year-old was detained by National Crime Agency officers at her home address in Bull Road, Ipswich today (2 […]