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Chelsea are reportedly in advanced talks to sign RB Leipzig defender Josko Gvardiol. According to reporter Fabrizio Romano, the Blues would pay €90m and loan the Croatian defender back to Leipzig for the rest of this season. Gvardiol would then join Chelsea next summer.
Ineos Grenadiers must be prepared to “lose the race massively” in a bid to unseat Remco Evenepoel (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) in the red jersey at La Vuelta. The British team boast three riders in the top 10 – Carlos Rodriguez (fourth at 3’55”), Pavel Sivakov (ninth at 7’06”) and Tao Geoghegan Hart (10th at 7’37”) – but on their own, it is hard to see any of them putting Evenepoel under pressure in the second half of the race.
The Six Red World Snooker Championship has been officially removed from the calendar on Tuesday with Northern Ireland Open champion Mark Allen claiming he knew it had been cancelled last week. Stephen Maguire won the last staging of the invitational event in 2019 with an 8-6 win against fellow Scot John Higgins, but will have to wait for an alternative time to defend his title with the scheduled dates of 5-10 September abandoned by local organisers. Ad «The Six Red World Championship, which was due to take place in Thailand from September 5 to 10, has been postponed,» said World Snooker Tour in a statement on Tuesday.
Great Britain’s Cameron Norrie eased past Benoit Paire in straight sets 6-0 7-6(1) 6-0 in the first round of the 2022 US Open. Norrie, who is the seventh seed after some withdrawals, started in blistering fashion, bageling the first set. Paire fought back well and forced a tie break, which Norrie won handily, but the Frenchman fell apart again in the second set suffering a second bagel.
A strong performance from top seed Iga Swiatek saw her ease past Jasmine Paolini in straight sets, 6-3 6-0, to race into the second round of the US Open. Swiatek, the world No.1, was mightily impressive in parts as she cruised past Paolini, making a bagel in the second set having been broken twice in the opening set. Ad After an inconsistent spell in which she crashed out of Wimbledon at the third round and suffered an exit in the quarter finals of the BNP Paribas Poland Open in Warsaw, Swiatek looked like she was finally recapturing her form as she wrapped up the match in 67 minutes.
Eurosport tennis expert Alex Corretja took to the practice court at the 2022 US Open to investigate complaints about the balls being used. Male and female players are using different balls at the tournament and this has drawn the ire of a number of notable players on the women’s tour, including Iga Swiatek and Paula Badosa. Ad «We make more mistakes [with these balls], for sure,” Swiatek told the press after her 6-4 7-5 win over Sloane Stephens at the Cincinnati Masters recently.
BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team could be the outfit to beat when the 2022 FIM Endurance World Championship is decided during the 100th-anniversary Bol d’Or next month. That prospect follows the first day of testing for the legendary 24-hour race at Circuit Paul Ricard today, which ended with the Belgium-based squad on top courtesy of a best lap of 1m52.517s around the 5.674-kilometre layout in southern France.
Tottenham left-back Sergio Reguilon has completed a loan move to Atletico Madrid for the 2022/2023 season. Reguilon, 25, joined Spurs from Real Madrid and made 25 league appearances last term, taking his tally to 67 in his two seasons in north London.