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• How Jason Roy sought wisdom from his wife and coach to stand on the brink of greatness

  13-07-2019 23:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is less than two years since Jason Roy had the net session which changed his career. The journey since has been long, but now he finds himself on the brink of greatness with England.
  
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• Alliss played the last time The Open was hosted at Portush in 1951... 68 years later he is back

  13-07-2019 23:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  INTERVIEW BY PHILIP QUINN: With mobile phone coverage a mystery in certain pockets of the Surrey Hills, Peter Alliss takes to the garden terrace to be heard.
  
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• Lewis Hamilton insists his heart belongs to Britain amid jibes over patriotism

  13-07-2019 23:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JONATHEN McEVOY AT SILVERSTONE: Here at the old airfield, Lewis Hamilton declared himself as British as a Wellington bomber.
  
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• Eoin Morgan urges England stars to make history and lift the Cricket World Cup

  13-07-2019 23:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New Zealand stand between the hosts and a place in history as the first England team to win this tournament. They last appeared in a final 27 years ago and have never won this competition.
  
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• Bayern Munich prepare new £45m bid for Chelsea's Callum Hudson-Odoi 

  13-07-2019 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bayern Munich will not give up their interest in signing Chelsea's Callum Hudson-Odoi and are expected to make a new £45million bid this week.
  
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• Premier League transfers so far this summer and what each club still needs

  13-07-2019 23:45
  Aston Villa have been the most active of the promoted clubs; Arsenal look to have work to do; Tottenham have secured their top target; Newcastle are still looking for a managerWhat have they done so far? Nowhere near enough. Teenage striker Gabriel Martinelli has arrived from regional football in Brazil and is expected to need some adaptation and development time. David Ospina has departed for a modest fee. Continue reading...
  
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• Nicolas Mahut has the ball on his eye in marathon men's doubles final at Wimbledon

  13-07-2019 23:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nicolas Mahut suffered an injury scare on Centre Court last night after being whacked in the eye with a tennis ball during the marathon men's doubles final.
  
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• Arsenal make £25m bid for Kieran Tierney as they go back in for Celtic star

  13-07-2019 23:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Celtic rejected an opening bid of £15m last month but this latest development will further test their resolve. Napoli remain interested in Kieran Tierney but are yet to sell their own left-back Mario Rui.
  
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• Romanian billionaire Ion Tiriac proves to be lucky charm for Simona Halep

  13-07-2019 23:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MIKE DICKSON ON CENTRE COURT: Ion Tiriac, was in full flow on the Wimbledon players' lawn when, 10 minutes after leaving Centre Court, Simona Halep bounded up to give him a hug.
  
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• Ancelotti expects James negotiations with Real Madrid to take 'a very long time'

  13-07-2019 23:40
  The future of James Rodriguez is still unclear, with Napoli coach Carlo Ancelotti not expecting a quick deal with Real Madrid.
  
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• Wimbledon men's final is all just a matter of time with so little to separate Djokovic and Federer

  13-07-2019 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JOHN LLOYD - ANALYSIS: I would not be at all surprised if Sunday's final goes to five sets, as there is so little separating Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, the first and second seeds.
  
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• Phillip DeFreitas: The pain of losing the 1992 World Cup final to Pakistan still cuts deep 

  13-07-2019 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  PHILLIP DEFREITAS: I don't remember anything about the build-up to the World Cup final in 1992. The only thing I can remember is losing the match.
  
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• Wimbledon chiefs angered by former champion Angela Buxton after anti-Semitic claim

  13-07-2019 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  COURT CIRCULAR: Wimbledon are angered by former champion Angela Buxton's suggestion that they have not handed her a membership because she is Jewish. 
  
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• Novak Djokovic reveals chat with Gerard Pique over Davis Cup reforms ahead of Wimbledon final

  13-07-2019 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Not for the first time this tournament, Novak Djokovic's focus on tennis has been disrupted by the politics around the sport.
  
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• Great teams thrive under pressure... this England cricket side is really great

  13-07-2019 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: I told my players after we won the Rugby World Cup semi-final in 2003: if everyone does their job properly in the final, we will be world champions.
  
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• Steve Bruce confronted by angry Sheffield Wednesday supporter over Newcastle links 

  13-07-2019 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Newcastle managerial target Steve Bruce was confronted by an irate Sheffield Wednesday fan, as both clubs continued to discuss compensation.
  
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• Sebastian Vettel lost for answers again and there's no end in sight to his barren run

  13-07-2019 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sebastian Vettel was surprisingly chipper when he arrived at Silverstone last week. Memories of his victory here last year put a much-needed spring in his step.
  
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• Max Vestappen will be shaken, not stirred: Things we learned at Silverstone

  13-07-2019 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  VERSTAPPEN WILL BE SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED: To coincide with F1's 1,007th race, there is a James Bond theme at Silverstone.
  
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• I never had any doubt this would be England's triumph at the World Cup

  13-07-2019 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  STUART BROAD: At no stage have I doubted that England would be handed the trophy at Lord's on Sunday. I might be accused of bias but I have seen everything falling into place for this side.
  
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• England were the Basil Fawlty of one-day cricket... now they're the gold standard 

  13-07-2019 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  OLIVER HOLT - MAIL ON SUNDAY CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: Four years ago, when England played Australia at the 2015 World Cup, it was like watching boys against men.
  
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• Donaldson's guide to the three key holes at Portrush ahead of The Open

  13-07-2019 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Here, Sportsmail takes you through three key holes at Portrush with Jamie Donaldson - European Tour professional who won the 2012 Irish Open at Portrush.
  
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• Djokovic is the greatest returner of all time...Here's how the Wimbledon men's finalists match up

  13-07-2019 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JOHN LLOYD - ANALYSIS: The Djokovic serve is underrated. I can remember when he was having some injury problems and tried to tinker with it.
  
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• Wimbledon day 12: Simona Halep beats Serena Williams to win Wimbledon title – video highlights

  13-07-2019 23:17
  Simona Halep defeated Serena Williams in two straight sets to win her first Wimbledon title, while Colombia's Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah beat French pair Nicolas Mahut and Édouard Roger-Vasselin in a five-set thriller to win the Wimbledon men's doubles final.• Simona Halep stuns Serena Williams to win first Wimbledon title• Dylan Alcott wins at Wimbledon to secure fourth straight grand slam Continue reading...
  
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• Chess grandmaster admits to cheating with phone on toilet during tournament

  13-07-2019 23:12
  Igors Rausis, 58, caught cheating during Strasbourg Open
  Grandmaster says he’s retired after confessing in statementThe International Chess Federation says it has suspended a player at a tournament in France after the man was “caught red-handed using his phone during a game”.The organization said Friday on Twitter that all the evidence in the case of Igors Rausis had been sent to its ethics committee and that it was “determined to fight cheating in chess”. Continue
  
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• Man City forced to delay pre-season tour of China after plane troubles

  13-07-2019 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pep Guardiola's squad were due to jet off to China for the first leg of their trip at 6pm but an administration error by Thomas Cook saw the flight cancelled.
  
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• Lack of serious golf in the build up to the Open could be a major worry for Tiger Woods

  13-07-2019 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The last time the Open went to a venue freshly restored to the rota, Tiger Woods was almost the first through the front door.
  
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• Tour de France diary: Spin from Dave Brailsford, a spill for Geraint Thomas| Jeremy Whittle

  13-07-2019 23:04
  Our correspondent finds no joy at the free bar but gets to grips with Ineos’s innovations and an embarrassed Romain BardetTeam time trial day is usually more a test of management, organisation and logistics than brute strength. True to form, Ineos are very much on it, on and off the road, while Romain Bardet’s AG2R team ride like they’ve just stumbled out into the afternoon sunshine after a long and boozy Sunday lunch. Instead of Bardet, the French turn their attentions to a re
  
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• Alex Iwobi talks up golden generation as Nigeria bid to reach Africa Cup of Nations final 

  13-07-2019 22:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Arsenal forward Alex Iwobi believes Africa Cup of Nations semi-finalists Nigeria are standing on the brink of a golden future.
  
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• Bologna head coach Sinisa Mihajlovic diagnosed with 'acute leukaemia'

  13-07-2019 22:49
  50-year-old will begin treatment but continue working‘I know I will defeat it,’ Mihajlovic tells press conferenceSinisa Mihajlovic announced that he has leukaemia in a press conference on Saturday, but has said he will continue working as Bologna’s head coach.Mihajlovic said that the illness was discovered in tests carried out shortly before pre-season training began. Rumours about his health had spread over the past days after he did not join his team on a retreat to the Dolom
  
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• Layla Guscoth out of World Cup after England victory over Scotland

  13-07-2019 22:45
  • England 70-34 Scotland
  • Guscoth out of tournament with achilles injuryA thumping 36-goal victory for England in their second World Cup game over Scotland should have been a cause for confidence in the team. Instead it has dealt them a nasty blow after the key defender Layla Guscoth ruptured her achilles tendon in the first quarter of the match. Guscoth, who pulled up and limped off court with Jade Clarke’s arm round her shoulder, was immediately taken for medical assessment. W
  
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• Golf: Matt Wallace and Rory McIlroy search for winning form with The Open looming

  13-07-2019 22:14
  • Wallace bids to overtake Jon Rahm in European order of merit
  • Bernd Wiesberger leads Scottish Open as McIlroy aims for top 10Matt Wallace appears to have taken the loss of top spot in the European Tour’s order of merit personally. Jon Rahm leapt above Wallace after success at the Irish Open last Sunday. Wallace’s third-round 64 here at the Scottish Open, which blasted him into contention at 15 under par, was followed by a warning that the Englishman has Rahm in his sight
  
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• Rory McIlroy keen to build on momentum in bid to secure the Claret Jug at Royal Portrush

  13-07-2019 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rory McIlroy has admitted defeat in his quest to land the Scottish Open title but believes his game is sharp enough to contend for the Claret Jug at Royal Portrush.
  
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• Ten Sovereigns banishes Royal Ascot disappointment by storming to victory in the July Cup

  13-07-2019 21:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ten Sovereigns won a big gamble as he decisively landed the £500,000 Darley July Cup in a fashion that suggested he could still be the season's champion sprinter.
  
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• Simona Halep's explosive movement was key to final victory

  13-07-2019 21:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CHRIS EVERT - ANALYSIS: It was a brilliant display from Simona Halep. She's known as a counter-puncher, a defence player but she just took away Serena's game.
  
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• Man United target Maguire tells Leicester: I'm ready to leave now 

  13-07-2019 21:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Maguire, 26, informed Rodgers and the rest of the Foxes squad of his intentions during their pre-season training camp in France, hoping it will ease negotiations between the two clubs.
  
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• Australia to decide on Test squad in pre-Ashes trial match at Southampton between 25 hopefuls 

  13-07-2019 21:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Australia's Ashes Test squad will be determined on the back of a four-day match at Southampton's Ageas Bowl between 25 hopefuls.
  
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• Moore pain for bookies as Aidan O’Brien’s Ten Sovereigns wins July Cup

  13-07-2019 21:10
  • Ryan Moore lands July Cup after ride is backed from 10-1 to 9-2
  • Victory is huge boost to stud value of Ten SovereignsThe bookmakers have spent the past few weeks dodging Frankie Dettori’s mounts whenever possible. On Saturday, they ran into Ryan Moore instead. Ten Sovereigns, Moore’s ride from the three Aidan O’Brien-trained runners in the Group One July Cup, was a 10-1 chance in the morning, the 3-1 clear favourite by lunchtime and a 9-2 shot at the off, when he
  
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• Simona Halep’s show of power and belief helps her realise Wimbledon dream | Sean Ingle

  13-07-2019 20:56
  The Romanian’s work on her mentality as well as groundstrokes paid dividends as she dismantled Serena WilliamsIt took 56 minutes into the biggest match of Simona Halep’s career for her legs to go finally wobbly. But at that point her opponent, Serena Williams, was shuffling towards the net, head bowed and hand outstretched. And Centre Court was rising and roaring to salute a performance of staggering intensity.Watching on it seemed impossible that when Halep was a young child in Roma
  
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• Dylan Alcott wins at Wimbledon to secure fourth straight grand slam

  13-07-2019 20:55
  • Australian beats Britain’s Andy Lapthorne 6-0, 6-2 in final
  • Alcott is Wimbledon’s first quad wheelchair singles championWhen Rod Laver won Wimbledon for the fourth and last time in 1969 it was the 11th time in 14 years that an Australian man had won the title. Though John Newcombe won in each of the two following years, only two other Australian men – Pat Cash in 1987 and Lleyton Hewitt in 2002 – have won since. Evonne Goolagong, Sam Stosur and, most recentl
  
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• Man City forced to fly out for pre-season tour of China a day late after being GROUNDED

  13-07-2019 20:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The City squad and members of staff were due to fly out on Saturday afternoon but have been left stranded at Manchester Airport.
  
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• Geraint Thomas loses time after crash as Julian Alaphilippe regains yellow jersey on Tour de France

  13-07-2019 20:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thomas De Gendt soloed to victory as Julian Alaphilippe regained the yellow jersey and Geraint Thomas survived a dramatic crash which snapped Gianni Moscon's bike in half.
  
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• So, guys, you reckon you could take a point off Serena Williams? | Alex Clark

  13-07-2019 20:00
  Men want to get in on everything. Then again, we all have our dreamsLet us for a minute extend the benefit of the doubt to the 12% of men who believe they could take a point from Serena Williams in a tennis match, no doubt further emboldened by her defeat in the Wimbledon final.For who can say what manner of fugue state they fell into as they answered a simple polling question? Could they have collectively imagined, as they pictured the holder of 23 grand slam titles shaping up to serve, a freak
  
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• Christian Eriksen running short of options for future away from Spurs

  13-07-2019 20:00
  Only a handful of sides have the resources and stature to attract the midfielder and he could end up staying at Tottenham“In my mind I have had the following list for a long time: Ajax-Arsenal-Barcelona. Call it the Marc Overmars route,” Frenkie de Jong said this past week. “But then again, if you can go directly to Barcelona, then you are right where you want to be. Faster than you ever dared to dream.”It is six years since another elegant Ajax midfield graduate decided
  
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• Victor Wanyama poised to collect British passport with Tottenham open to offers for the midfielder

  13-07-2019 19:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Victor Wanyama is poised to collect his British passport over the coming weeks. The 28-year-old Tottenham midfielder put off a proposed move abroad last year to ensure he qualified.
  
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• Lewis Hamilton bites back at suggestions he is less British because he lives in Monaco

  13-07-2019 19:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hamilton's relationship with the wider British public is not as partisan as it might be for a five-time world champion on course to become the most successful Formula One driver ever.
  
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• Real players and staff pay tribute after Zidane's brother Farid dies

  13-07-2019 19:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Real Madrid's coaching staff and players held a minute's silence on Saturday in tribute to Zinedine Zidane's brother Farid who has died aged 54. Zidane left the club's training camp on Friday.
  
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• Philippe Coutinho agent insists Barca insiders are trying to engineer a move

  13-07-2019 19:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Philippe Coutinho will not be sold by Barcelona this summer insists his agent Kia Joorabchian, who has questioned whether club insiders are trying to orchestrate a move by leaking stories.
  
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• Nico Rosberg reveals just how hard he had to work to topple Lewis Hamilton 

  13-07-2019 19:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nico Rosberg has offered Valtteri Bottas the blueprint to beating Lewis Hamilton, revealing he employed a mind coach for eight hours a week to pip his rival to the world championship.
  
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• ‘I had no time for emotions’: Halep on her fearless defeat of Williams

  13-07-2019 19:30
  The Romanian took less than an hour to demolish the seven-times Wimbledon champion. But we shouldn’t write off Williams just yetLast month, Simona Halep was asked what she thought when the word “grass” came up. She replied: “Picnics.” Now the 27-year-old Romanian is Wimbledon singles champion, having obliterated Serena Williams 6-2, 6-2 in less than an hour on centre court. It was a ruthless, near-perfect exhibition of grass-court tennis, and a brutal, confounding a
  
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• Deontay Wilder accuses Tyson Fury of using his mental health issues to build US profile

  13-07-2019 19:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fury returned to boxing in June 2018 as a mental health advocate after a two-and-a-half year hiatus and has spoken openly about his experience and a desire to help people in similar positions.
  
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