Hello, youre watching bbc news, this is a sportsday, heres whats coming up. England kick themselves back into six nations Title Contention, beating ireland at the death at twickenham. There are tears ofjoy for the azzurri italy celebrate a rare six nations win in rome, as the scots titles hopes are dashed. In the late winner for arsenal, their back on top of the Premier League for at least 2a hours. Another late winner. But its all over for englands cricketers a 4 1 test Series Defeat as they disintegrate in dharmashala inside three three days. Also coming up on sportsday. Teenager 0llie Bearman makes history by becoming the youngest briton to start an f1 race. And after a knockout win for anthonyjoshua, hes gunning for fury or usyk. I think both of them are very credible fighters and i would love the opportunity to face them at some stage. Welcome. Wow, its been an incredible day in rugby unions six nations, and the championship is going down to the final weekend. That certainly wasnt
Loss against sweden. Three us players, inlcuding theirstar, megan rapinoe, missed in the deciding penalty shootout. Now on bbc news sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday, im paul scott At The Bbc Sport centre heres whats coming up. Not to be england fall short in their bid for Netball World Cup glory. Over and out megan rapinoe s dream of further world cup success comes to an end, as sweden book their place in the last 8. And bouncing back Mathieu Van Der Poel recovers from this crash to become world road champion. We start with disappointment for englands netballers. They have fallen just short in their quest for world cup glory, after losing to australia 61 45 in the final in cape town. Ben croucher reports. In cape town, if you try to take on all the dramatic scenery, you could miss what is right in front of you. Cut out the distractions, remove the noise for englands roses, their sights were set on one thing. A step into the unknown in a first World Cup Final. England started o
impressive victory over alex de minaur in the final means he s also the world number one, over taking novak djokovic in the seedings for wimbledon, which starts in a week s time. patrick gearey reports. one of the most popular paths to wimbledon runs through west kensington. queens is a good place to see the future. it s grass courts are strange territory for carlos alcaraz, but he s been growing on these lawns, adjusting his game accordingly. in alex de minaur, he had an opponent who could provide a test. a bundle of aussie energy. at times in the first set, he threatened alcaraz, only to ultimately lose the argument. and after several flowing phrases of tennis, the set was finished with an alcaraz full stop. and he seemed to need the pause. the physio was called to provide some comfort. a few extra seconds in the shade would have helped. the temperature in london was above 30 degrees, but the pace didn t seem to drop. earlier in the week, de minaur knocked andy murray out,
he leaves it as the champion and world number one. i started the tournament not really well, as you said, i had to adapt my movement, you know, a little bit on grass to get experience but it s been an amazing an amazing week and ending the week with a lot of, you know, a lot of energy. so atjust 20 years old, alcaraz is king of queens and wimbledon top seed. he is making english grass his turf. patrick geary, bbc news. kazakhstan s alexander bublik, meanwhile, defeated andrey rublev in three sets to win the biggest title of his career at the halle open. rublev, who s the world number seven, was looking to become to first player to win atp 500 titles on all three surfaces. but he found bublik, ranked 48th in the world, in fine form ahead of wimbledon, winning only his second tour title. at the women s tournaments, petra kvitova boosted her hopes of a third wimbledon title by winning the german open in berlin sweeping past donna vekic in straight sets. while at the birmingham