Amara Diallo
Athletics correspondent
Follows sprints and hurdles from the African circuit to the global championships.
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Athletics correspondent
Follows sprints and hurdles from the African circuit to the global championships.
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Tennis ·
World No. 1 Jannik Sinner’s 30-match winning streak has ended in extraordinary circumstances at Roland Garros, with unseeded Argentine Juan Manuel Cerúndolo overturning a 6-3, 6-2, 5-1 deficit to claim a historic five-set victory.
Tennis ·
The 23-time Grand Slam champion is reportedly seeking a doubles wild card at the HSBC Championships at Queen’s Club, with sources indicating she plans to partner teenage Canadian sensation Victoria Mboko.
Tennis ·
Novak Djokovic defended the difficulty of his second-round victory at the French Open, rejecting a journalist’s characterisation of the match as routine while setting up a highly anticipated third-round meeting with Joao Fonseca.
Formula 1 ·
Team principal Ayao Komatsu says Haas will determine its 2027 driver line-up between May and July, with Esteban Ocon’s position increasingly uncertain after a difficult start to the 2026 season.
Tennis ·
Sixth seed Daniil Medvedev’s Roland Garros nightmare continued as he fell to unranked wildcard Adam Walton in five sets, with a candid exchange between the Russian and his wife caught courtside during the match.
Formula 1 ·
Lewis Hamilton finished second at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, his strongest result since joining Ferrari, crediting a restructured engineering team and deeper involvement in the 2026 car development project for his improved form.
Formula 1 ·
McLaren principal Andrea Stella has conceded that even a trouble-free Canadian Grand Prix would not have been enough to challenge Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen for the podium, citing the MCL40’s inability to generate sufficient front tyre temperature in Montreal’s cold conditions.
Tennis ·
Seven-time Grand Slam champion John McEnroe has identified the one scenario most likely to derail Jannik Sinner’s bid for a maiden French Open title, with the world No 1 arriving at Roland Garros on a 29-match winning streak and without his chief rival Carlos Alcaraz in the draw.
Tennis ·
The opening day of the 2026 French Open delivered high emotion and significant results, from Novak Djokovic’s hard-fought win over a home favourite to Marta Kostyuk competing hours after a missile struck 100 metres from her parents’ home.
Formula 1 ·
George Russell retired from the front of the Canadian Grand Prix on lap 30 with a Mercedes power unit failure, allowing team-mate Kimi Antonelli to cruise to a fourth straight victory and extend his championship lead to 43 points.
Formula 1 ·
Nineteen-year-old Kimi Antonelli claimed victory at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve after teammate George Russell suffered a power unit failure while leading on Lap 30. Lewis Hamilton finished second for Ferrari, with Max Verstappen completing the podium in third.
Formula 1 ·
Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton qualified fifth for Ferrari at the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix, banking on forecasted wet conditions to close the gap on pace-setters Mercedes and McLaren on race day.
Tennis ·
France’s Arthur Fils has been ruled out of Roland Garros 2025 with a hip injury, becoming the seventh ATP player to withdraw from this year’s French Open. Two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz is also absent, leaving the men’s draw significantly depleted.
Formula 1 ·
Max Verstappen has disclosed that Red Bull overrode his set-up preferences ahead of Canadian Grand Prix qualifying, with the four-time world champion deliberately allowing the team to proceed in order to demonstrate that their chosen direction would not work.
Formula 1 ·
Four-time world champion Max Verstappen has ended speculation over his Formula 1 future, confirming he will continue racing in 2027 — conditional on the sport delivering on its promises. The Dutchman also expressed cautious optimism about proposed 2027 engine regulation changes.
Tennis ·
The world’s top-ranked tennis players have issued a collective challenge to French Open organisers over what they describe as an unfair share of revenue, with the dispute threatening to overshadow competition at Roland Garros.
Formula 1 ·
George Russell claimed sprint pole at the 2026 Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix, edging championship-leading Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli by just 0.068 seconds at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
Tennis ·
The 2026 French Open men’s singles draw has been made, pitting world No. 1 Jannik Sinner against a demanding road to a potential Career Grand Slam, while Novak Djokovic faces an early test against teenage star João Fonseca in a challenging bottom half.
Formula 1 ·
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri has acknowledged reports of Red Bull’s interest in him as a potential long-term replacement for Max Verstappen, describing the speculation as flattering while maintaining he has no direct knowledge of any approach.
Formula 1 ·
Red Bull technical director Pierre Wache has confirmed the team’s long-awaited new wind tunnel on its Milton Keynes campus will not be operational until early 2027, as the constructor continues to develop the RB22 using the oldest wind tunnel in Formula 1.