where the men s world number two daniil medvedev is out beaten by brazilian qualifier thiago syboth wild over five sets. medvedev was fresh from winning his first clay court title in rome, but his opponent ranked 172nd in the world pounced on the russian s inconsistency to book a first grand slam second round spot. medvedev said he was glad the clay court season was over after the match. for sure i m really disappointed. i m going to be one week thinking about this match, but for the moment i don t see anything wrong. idid. i mean, double faults. i mean, the wind was crazy today, so it was not easy. i think i made most of them. i mean, it doesn t matter even which side. it was tough, tough to play. so, yeah, i don t see anything i could really do better. and that s good. that s when you can bounce back faster in the next tournaments. no such problems for defending champion iga swiatek. after a slow start, the world number one gave herself an early birthday gift a day be
if you have just joined if you havejustjoined us it is time for the top business stories. we start here in the uk where in the next few hours the bank of england is widely expected to raise the cost of borrowing for the twelfth time in a row. the quarter percent rise most economists are predicting would take the bank s main interest rate to 4.5% the highest it has been in almost 15 years. the big question though will it be enough to start to get inflation, which is still running at more than 10% a year, under control? let s speak to katharine neiss she has held various roles at the bank of england and is now chief european economist at p gim fixed income. good to have you on the programme. iassume good to have you on the programme. i assume you are with the majority believe we are looking at a rate hike today of another 25 basis points. today of another 25 basis oints. . , today of another 25 basis oints. . , ., , points. that s right, that s the consensus p
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siro in italy later. manchester city or real madrid await the winner of the the second champions league semi final which sees ac milan play inter milan, the first meeting between the two city rivals in the competition since 2005. they share the stadium, but ac milan are the home team for this leg. they ve been sweating on the fitness of rafael leao, their star forward trained away from the group on tuesday. inter s attack looks to be back to its best ahead of what they re calling the euroderby . translation: we know - we are playing in the semifinals of the champions league. this is the derby, not a derby. we are not hiding the importance this match has for us, for the fans, for the club. we want to face it in the best possible way. a derby in the semifinal doesn t get much bigger. we are really excited for it. the last round against napoli, a lot of people were counting us out for it and we managed to put two great performances, we played three times in ten days and we di
16 countries take the stage in liverpool later for the second semifinal. sticking with the eurovision theme, we are in liverpool at the shopping centre right in the heart of liverpool, surrounded by these beautiful eggs, i will tell you about them later on. the bank of england is expected to raise interest rates again today to 4.5%, the highest level in 15 years. it will be the 12th consecutive hike since december 2021, meaning mortgage payments could rise further for millions of customers. our business correspondent hannah miller reports. this is the first home gheev has owned, bought with his girlfriend two months ago. but since they agreed their mortgage, the monthly payments have gone up twice in line with the base rate of interest set by the bank of england. when we were coming to find a mortgage, the fixed rates were astronomically high. we figured that if the bank of england base rate goes up by another two or three percentage points, we re actually better off staying