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Four months out, and a first-round draw that asks the question straight away
Carlos Alcaraz returns from a wrist injury to defend the US Open, and opens against Roman Safiullin. Jannik Sinner and Jack Draper have both withdrawn injured.
Seventeen wins, seven losses and no final since April: Sabalenka defends a title in the worst form of her reign
The world number one has won the last two US Opens. She arrives at this one having lost from 5-1 up in a tie-break to Sára Bejlek in Cincinnati, and without a final in five months.
A first Grand Tour stage win, on the day Norway stopped
Andreas Leknessund attacked 7.5km from the summit finish at Aramón Valdelinares to win stage seven of the Vuelta a España, ahead of his Uno-X teammate Tobias Johannessen.
Sunderland drawn at the San Siro, in their first European campaign since 1973
The Europa League league-phase draw sent Sunderland to AC Milan. Bournemouth drew Milan too. It is Sunderland's first European football in fifty-three years.
Celtic and Rangers ordered to play their next home Scottish Cup ties behind closed doors
Both Glasgow clubs will play their next home ties in the competition without supporters, a sanction for fan disorder last season.
Brentford pay West Ham forty million for El Hadji Malick Diouf
The Senegal defender moves west across London in a £40m deal, the largest fee Brentford have paid.
Serena and Venus Williams given a US Open doubles wildcard, four years on
The sisters will play a Grand Slam together for the first time since 2022. Stan Wawrinka was given a late singles wildcard for the last major of his career.
Five thousand to one: the season that has not been repeated and probably cannot be
Leicester City were quoted at 5,000-1 to win the Premier League in August 2015. They finished ten points clear, and the conditions that allowed it closed almost immediately.
Four hours, forty-eight minutes and a final that finished in the dark
Nadal beat Federer 9-7 in the fifth at Wimbledon in 2008, twice interrupted by rain and completed in light too poor to continue much longer.
9.58, and a world record that has now stood for seventeen years
Usain Bolt ran the 100 metres in 9.58 seconds in Berlin in August 2009, taking eleven hundredths off his own record. Nobody has been within a tenth of it since.