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Removing ranking points from Wimbledon not a great move, says Andy Murray

Wimbledon champion Andy Murray said on Monday the decision to strip the Grand Slam of its ranking points was not a "great move" by the ATP and WTA Tours. Wimbledon had its ranking points taken away by the men's ATP and women's WTA after the grasscourt major opted to exclude players from Russia and Belarus because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow calls a 'special operation'. "Removing the points, if it doesn't stop players from playing then I don't think it's a great move from the ATP," Murray told reporters after moving into the second round of the Surbiton Trophy grasscourt event.

French Open 2022: Andrey Rublev through to last eight as Jannik Sinner retires injured

Jannik Sinner retired injured from his fourth-round French Open clash against Russian Andrey Rublev after a good start to the match on Monday. The 20-year-old, bidding to make his second quarter-final in Paris after 2020, won the opening set 6-1 before getting treatment on his left knee in the second, which he lost 6-4. Rublev, the seventh seed, was 2-0 up in the third when Sinner threw in the towel.

Iga Swiatek Survives Scare Against Injured Zheng Qinwen At French Open, Andrey Rublev Wins

World number one Iga Swiatek survived a scare at the hands of injured Chinese teenager Zheng Qinwen on Monday, dropping the first set in their French Open last-16 clash before going on to make the quarter-finals with a 32nd successive win. Swiatek prevailed 6-7 (5/7), 6-0, 6-2 to equal the third best winning streak this century set by Justine Henin 14 years ago. In an 82-minute opening set, 74th-ranked Zheng saved five set points, had two of her own and then clawed her way back from 2/5 down in the tiebreak to stun the top seed.

World No.2 Daniil Medvedev Knocked Out Of French Open By Marin Cilic

World number two Daniil Medvedev and fourth-ranked Stefanos Tsitsipas crashed out of the French Open in the fourth round on Monday as women's top seed Iga Swiatek took her winning streak to 32 matches after surviving a huge scare. US Open champion Medvedev was beaten by 20th seed Marin Cilic 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 in just 1hr 45 min on Court Philippe Chatrier. Tsitsipas, the 2021 runner-up to Novak Djokovic, was defeated by Danish teenager Holger Rune 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 earlier in the day. Cilic will face Russia's Andrey Rublev in his third career Roland Garros quarter-final.

French Open 2022: World No. 2 Daniil Medvedev knocked out by Marin Cilic

Marin Cilic did not put a foot wrong as he crushed Russia's world number two Daniil Medvedev 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 in a lopsided contest on Monday to return to the French Open quarter-finals after a gap of four years. The 2014 U.S. Open champion, seeded 20th, dominated proceedings from the start and finished off the contest in an hour and 45 minutes to reach the last eight stage on the Parisian clay for the third time in his career. Medvedev came into the match having won all three previous meetings against the 33-year-old Croatian but cut a sorry figure under the lights on Court Philippe Chatrier in their first contest on clay. "It was absolutely a fantastic match from the first point to the last," Cilic said in his interview on court.

Zinchenko 'touted' to team up with compatriot Mykolenko at Everton

Manchester City have reportedly offered Oleksandr Zinchenko to Everton and Newcastle, unsure about the Ukrainian's long-term future at the Etihad.

France blames ticket fraud for Champions League final chaos

PARIS: French authorities defended police on Monday for indiscriminately firing tear gas and pepper spray at Liverpool supporters at the Champions League final, while blaming industrial levels of fraud that saw 30,000 to 40,000 people try to enter the Stade de France with fake tickets or none at all. UEFA ordered an independent report that it said would “examine decision making, responsibility and behaviors of all entities involved in the final” and be made public. After a meeting into Saturday’s chaos, the French ministers of the sport and the interior shifted responsibility onto the Liverpool fans while not providing details on how they were sure so many fake tickets were in circulation.

Soccer-Newcastle to appoint Dan Ashworth as sporting director

(Reuters) - Former English Football Association's technical director Dan Ashworth will become Newcastle United's sporting director, the Premier League club said on Monday.

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Removing ranking points from Wimbledon not a great move, says Andy Murray

French Open 2022: Andrey Rublev through to last eight as Jannik Sinner retires injured

Iga Swiatek Survives Scare Against Injured Zheng Qinwen At French Open, Andrey Rublev Wins

World No.2 Daniil Medvedev Knocked Out Of French Open By Marin Cilic

French Open 2022: World No. 2 Daniil Medvedev knocked out by Marin Cilic

Zinchenko 'touted' to team up with compatriot Mykolenko at Everton

France blames ticket fraud for Champions League final chaos

Soccer-Newcastle to appoint Dan Ashworth as sporting director