performance on the clay courts of paris. the wimbledon champion eased past the 21st seed, felix auger aliassime, winning in straight sets injust over two hours. alcaraz will play stefanos tsitsipas in the quarter finals, after the greek ninth seed beat matteo arnaldi in four sets. he didn t beat me, yeah. so the matches that we ve played i won all of them. so that s what i wanted to mean when i said that they have the key against him. i know when stefanos is playing great, but i know technically what i have to do in the match. jannik sinner survived a scare to book his place in the quarterfinals. he lost the opening set against home favourite corentin moutet but the second seed fought back to win in four, and will play grigor dimitrov next who s reached the last eight for the first time in his career at the age of 33. well, it has been a busy day of action with no rain finally, and the tournament climax getting nearer. earlier, we spoke to our tennis correspondent who s
so i m happy with the way i was disciplined, and ijust stuck to my tactics for the whole match. for a second successive year, ons jabeur is into the quarterfinals. she beat denmark s clara tauson in straight sets, 6 4, 6 4 and will now play the us open champion coco gauff, after she eased past italy s elisabetta cocciaretto, dropping just three games in a straight sets win. carlos alcaraz has moved a step closer to a possible first title at roland garros, after another impressive performance on the clay courts of paris. the wimbledon champion eased past the 21st seed, felix auger aliassime, winning in straight sets injust over two hours. alcaraz will play stefanos tsitsipas in the quarter finals, after the greek ninth seed beat matteo arnaldi in four sets. he didn t beat me, yeah. so the matches that we ve played i won all of them. so that s what i wanted to mean when i said that they have the key against him. i know when stefanos is playing great, but i know tactically w
The official title of the 169 athletes who have arrived to compete in this months Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in south korea as so called neutral athletes. It is a result of last yea rs neutral athletes. It is a result of last Years International Olympic Committee ban on russia that followed a long investigation into what they concluded was an unprecedented systematic manipulation of the anti doping system at the 2014 sochi Winter Olympics. A whistleblower from the head of the anti doping laboratory in russia revealed how dirty samples had been swapped for clean ones. But today the court of arbitration for sport has reopened the issue, upholding 28 appeals and partially upholding 28 appeals and partially upholding the remaining 11. The arbitrators unanimously found that the evidence moved forward by the ioc in relation to this matter did not have the same weight in each individual case. This does not mean that these 28 athletes are declared innocent, but in that case due to insufficien
The prince soon, then. Bloody hell the prince chats to younger fans alongside the exhibition, which documents British Racing over the years. exhibition, which documents British Racing over the years. I now officially open the silverstone experience. For lewis hamilton, there is no stepping back as he goes for a seventh world title. For harry and meghan this is their last engagement as senior royal family members is on monday. Time for a look at the weather. Heres stav da naos thank you, ben. Good afternoon. Before we move on to the weekend, lets enjoy todays sunshine. The weather watcher shows blue sky over Central London after yesterdays washout. You can see a lot of sunshine around over the next few hours. Some fair weather cloud in the far east. We have some cloud and
showers for scotland into Northern Ireland and western wales and the south west. Some wintriness over the high ground of scotland. After that cold frosty start, a chilly afternoon, but we will have sunshine. That first
The outbreak compares to previous viruses. Almost a hundred allies of the home secretary priti patel have written a letter defending her, after a series of bullying allegations. The duke and duchess of sussex have taken part in one of their last official engagements before they quit royal life later this month. And in sport englands women are beaten by the usa in their first match in the she believes cup in florida. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9 the Health Secretary, matt hancock, says the government is working with supermarkets to ensure that people staying at home because of coronavirus can be supplied with food. He told the bbcs question Time Programme that he was confident supplies would not run down. But the bbcs Business Editor says that a supermarket executive told him they havent heard from the government directly and that staff are working round the clock to keep shelves stocked. The total number of confirmed cases in the uk has risen to 116. A woman in her 70s