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At the start of the season, the odds on Zverev winning two Grand Slam titles would have been long. They are considerably shorter now.The French Open champion is a slight favourite to beat Shelton as he looks to double his tally of major wins – not only for the year, but his career.After three defeats in major finals, many thought the 29-year-old had missed his chance to win one of the sport’s biggest prizes given how Sinner and Alcaraz – who swept the Grand Slams in 2024 and 2025 and together earned the ‘Sincaraz’ tag – have dominated.But injuries to…

“It was the classic 10-year overnight success,” Jupp said of the band which would come to be known in 1997 as Elbow’s rise to fame.”We’d always been hanging out, tinkering with music until it became our main focus. “We saw everybody go off to uni, get jobs, go travelling. And we thought ‘No – we’re going to stick to this’.”After years of gigging, the band signed with Island Records after winning a Battle of the Bands competition. After being dropped, Elbow later signed with V2 and released their debut album Asleep in the Back in 2001.The album had been six…

Over the weekend, the two crypto billionaires individually gifted £36million donations, which Mr Jenrick would fund Reform UK’s political operation ahead of the next general election.He said: “Our 270,000 members have got us to this point, but we did need this now so that we actually have the bandwidth to build the team in the country. “It means that we can level the playing field with the two old parties who have raised far more than Reform has over the last five years.”He added the party was now “battle ready” for an election, whether it comes “in a couple of…

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Felton was the first of the original Harry Potter cast to reprise his role in the theatre show, but he will not be the only one for much longer, as Rupert Grint is set to return as Ron Weasley on Broadway in February.The 38-year-old actor says he called his former co-star as soon as he heard the news.”We are typically – and he will agree with me – pretty bad at our phone game, but when I heard the news I called him immediately and I’m so excited for him,” Felton says. “Who doesn’t want to see Rupert Grint play…

Ukrainian basketball player Kate Koval has joined a new college team after leaving Louisiana State University because they had signed a Russian player.Koval, 20, was granted a transfer waiver by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the request of LSU.The waiver allowed Koval to join a new team despite the transfer window closing in April, and she has signed with Baylor University in Texas. Koval played in all 35 of LSU’s matches last season, averaging 8.3 points and 6.3 rebounds per game.But following the arrival of 17-year-old Anna Minaeva, it was announced that Koval had departed for “personal reasons”…

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Earlier in the evening, a moment’s silence was held before Monday’s first anniversary of the death of Ricky Hatton, the Manchester fighter who famously brought tens of thousands of British fans to Las Vegas during his career.Benn’s travelling support was far more modest, with only pockets of British fans visible among the 18,855 crowd at T-Mobile Arena.Benn, dressed in black with a Union Jack carried behind him, was greeted by a wall of boos as he made his way towards the ring alongside his father Nigel, who enjoyed one of his most famous victories in Las Vegas when he stopped…

Aryna Sabalenka cut a forlorn figure as she sat staring into space following a painful defeat by Elena Rybakina in the US Open final.As Rybakina celebrated her third Grand Slam title following a 6-4 5-7 6-2 win in New York, cameras pictured Sabalenka deep in thought as she sat in silence with her team.At a tournament which has delivered so much success for two-time champion Sabalenka, the disappointment the 28-year-old has faced in the last week leaves her with plenty to ponder.Not only has Rybakina replaced Sabalenka as the world number one after 99 weeks at the summit, she has…