COMMENT BY MIKE DICKSON: With the ATP Tour descending into a series of John McEnroe tribute acts with some added racket hurling, the likelihood of suspensions has to increase.
0k and the games does provide an opportunity to express themselves, as long as they do it within what we talk about as the code of conduct. it s not about athletes disrupting competition or being disrespectful or people who are part of the games. but it is providing an opportunity that if they wish to come up they can stand for something when they re on the podium or in the village. what a crazy 24 hours it s been in the world of tennis. loco indeed in acuplulco where alexander zverev has been kicked out of the mexican open for a bizarre outburst. over in dubai, andy murray s missed out on a milestone win but no problems for novak djokovic whilst in guadalajara emma raducanu was involved in the longest match of the year but couldn t go the distance. to dissect it all is russell fuller, our tennis correspondent. russell tell us what happened with zverev, and why we might not have heard this end of this? absolutely not. this is the world
politicians to decide upon. i think we all hope not only here in england, but in the whole of europe, if not in the rest of the world that things will de escalate. nobody could really be interested in a sort of war within europe. so this is more important, actually, than a champions league game, if we re honest. next to tennis. then world number three alexander zverev has apologised after being thrown out of the mexican open for attacking the empire s chair at the end of a doubles match. icy went to a deciding tie break in which they live argued with the umpire over that line call and once the decision was made to let his frustration out on the empire s chair. he has now been withdrawn from the tournament for unsportsmanlike contact. the
norwich city are in relegation trouble right at the bottom of the premier league. they lost 2 0 at southampton last night, goals from che adams and this one from 0riol romeu gave saints three points that lift them to ninth in the table. norwich remain bottom, five points from safety. just before i go, cameron murray has got through to the final of the mexican open, which is huge. he ll have a pretty daunting opponent in the final, none other than 3 time champion rafa nadal. we will have that tomorrow morning. we have the latest on the ukraine coming up. the duchess of cornwall has been speaking exclusively to the bbc about her work supporting victims of domestic abuse, and how she plans to continue it after she becomes queen consort. camilla, and the woman who inspired her to get involved in this area sat down at clarence house for a conversation with radio 4 s emma barnett. this took place before the duchess caught covid.