Womens tour before this event but her spirit remained unbroken unlike her spirit remained unbroken unlike herup by her spirit remained unbroken unlike her up by sets. Nadia podoroska smashed eggen back even when the match was long lost. Iga swiatek eased into her first match was long lost. Iga swiatek eased into herfirst grand slam final. Hard to believe it will be her last while Nadia Podoroska will go home with nearly £400,000, her life estrangement is strange fortnight in finance. In france, patrick gearey, bbc news. And swiatek will face Australian Open champion sofia kenin in the final. Kenin beat Petra Kvitova in straight sets in her semi. The american kenin took the first set 6 4 and the second 7 5 to reach her second grand slam final and had to save ten break points against the two time wimbledon winner. The final is on saturday. Britains Andy Lapthorne is into the mens quad final in paris. He beat the american david wagner by two sets to one. Fellow briton alfie hewett saw of
Life difficult for him to the next 24 life difficult for him to the next 2a months. Life difficult for him to the next 24 months. Being forced back to the drawing board once again, the second time, losing it at such an early stage too. They lost their leader the Tour De France and theyve come to the sick and grantor of the year in three stages and theyve lost a leader there, so, the team to receive the past few seasons commending these events, is now going hunting for stage wins or whatever they can get. Not a team like us that have a big budget, level of strong writers and its number they need. Officials needed to examine the photo finish to decide who won. Eventually Arnaud Demare on the right of the picture was given the victory, ahead of peter sagan and davide ballerini. Portugalsjoao almeida retained the overall lead. To the french open then with some familiar names in action today. But the focus is on one name you may not have heard of, argentinas Nadia Podoroska has made history
Refuses to say why he wont co operate with the Public Inquiry into the attack. And Prince William says he wants to bring optimism and positivity to efforts to solve Climate Change, as he launches a new environmental award with Sir David Attenborough. Hello and welcome. Almost 3,500 people with coronavirus are now being treated in hospitals in england. The number of patients being admitted has been doubling every fortnight since the start of september. Hospitals that have been quiet over the summer are making preparations for a second wave. Some are already dealing with large numbers of covid patients. Its all had a huge knock on effect on other services. New figures reveal that more than 4 Million People are currently waiting for routine operations on the nhs in england. Half of them have been waiting at least four months. And more than 110,000 people in england have been waiting longer than a year. Thats the highest figure since 2008. More than 20,000 Cancer Patients did begin treatme
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me is the chief leader writer of the observer, sonia sodha and the deputy Political Editor of the daily express, sam lister. Tomorrows front pages. Starting with lets start with the metro the paper claims a three tier system of local restrictions will be announced on monday, with pubs, bars and restaurants facing shutdown and families banned from meeting in each others homes. The mirror says many of the areas likely to be given increased restrictions, are in the north of england. The guardian reports that scientists advising the uk governments believe the new restrictions dont go far enough they think a so called Circuit Breaker was needed weeks ago. And on the front page of the i, a stark warning from the englands chief medical officer who says that in three weeks time, intensive care cases in the north of england could pass aprils peak. The times reports that Vulnerable People could have mon
Help, and that is to try to say to people they can go and get treatment, they really must, dont stay at home. We will come back to covid in a moment, but the Financial Times looking at donald trump. Did either of you stay up for the Vice President ial debate . Im afraid not. It was past my bedtime. I have to say i did stay up. The Financial Times is looking at this idea that this virtual bait that had been suggested with donald trump having tested positive for covid virtual debate. Its best to have it virtually, but then mr trump said hes boycotting it. Its quite the situation in the us, bearing in mind that we are under a month now till the actual election. Trump has
tested positive for covid i9, hes got the disease these. Got the disease he tested positive for covid i9, hes got the disease he hasnt made a full recovery yet. I think this is President Trump trying to wriggle out of another debate because we know the first debate that happened with biden, all the polls suggested that bi