Andy Murray defeated Rafael Nadal in straight sets to reach the Madrid Open final while Alice Schlesinger bounces back from European Championship disappointment to win gold at the Baku Grand Slam. Catch up on all the latest news from the last 24 hours here.
Andy Murray will face Novak Djokovic later today as he looks to defend his Madrid Open title after a straight-sets semi-final win over Rafael Nadal.
Murray beat the Spaniard in last year's final to lift the trophy and the two squared off again on Saturday with Nadal having won their most recent encounter at Monte Carlo last month.
But British number one Murray was back to winning ways, beating the nine-time French Open champion 7-5 6-4 in two hours and 11 minutes.
"There are many things that go into the match, you have to do a lot of things very well," he said.
"I think I used my forehand pretty good throughout the match, I was able to push him back towards the baseline.
"It's easy after winning a tight first set to drop your intensity or your level but I really tried to keep that intensity high and that was important."
Judoka Alice Schlesinger admitted returning to the top spot of the medal rostrum at the Baku Grand Slam was particularly sweet following her European Championships disappointment earlier in the year.
Schlesinger was knocked out at the second round stage of the Europeans last month in Kazan, Russia but there was no stopping her this time around.
The -63kg judoka was in dominant mood in Baku, quickly dispatching of her opponents to reach the final where she faced Croatia’s Marijana Miskovic Hasanbegovic.
And she needed just 27 seconds to beat her opponent, this time with a uci-mata to throw Miskovic Hasanbegovic and pick up 500 Olympic qualifying points.
It added to the bronze she won at the same event last year while also making it three medals won so far by British judokas in Baku with Nekoda Davis and Ashley McKenzie winning silver and bronze respectively on Friday.
“I am really pleased with how I fought and focused today. I was very disappointed at the Europeans, so it feels nice to be on the rostrum again,” she said.
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When it comes to Olympic Games appearances, Richard Kruse has been there and done it – but on the eve of his fourth outing the fencer admits he still has unfinished business.
Londoner Kruse finished eighth on his Olympic Games debut in Athens 12 years ago – the best performance by a British fencer for 40 years.
He again competed in the men’s individual foil at Beijing 2008 where he finished 14th while at London he was 17th in the individual and sixth in the team event.
In the four years since, British fencing has continued to go from strength to strength with Kruse a part of the team which earned European Championship bronze in 2013 and then gold at the inaugural European Games in Baku in 2015.
Team GB were assured of representation in the foil back in February where a ninth-placed finish at the World Cup in Bonn meant that qualification was sealed by virtue of being the highest European world-ranked team outside the top four.
And with results giving cause for optimism, Kruse believes this summer represents as good a chance as any to break his Olympic Games podium duck.
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Jamie Cooke has become the first Brit to win gold at the UIPM 2016 World Cup Final in Sarasota.
He had previously won gold in Kecskemét in Hungary and repeated that success in the Florida sunshine on Saturday.
Cooke finished his fencing ranking round in 17th place on Thursday before setting the second quickest time in the pool.
Sitting in 4th place he produced a cool, calm and collected clear round in the show jumping on the grey gelding, Hannover MCN, to pick up the maximum 300 points.
This left him in third place going into the combined event before completing the final discipline, the combined run and shoot, in 11 minutes and 12 seconds to take gold.
Stewart Innes cannot wait for the final of European Rowing Championships after his men’s pair semi-final win with Alan Sinclair.
Their perfectly-paced race on Brandenburg’s breezy Beetzee made them one of six GB Rowing Team crews to make today’s finals and join the seven crews that had already qualified.
Innes said: “We had a good start and then the middle bit got a bit bouncy but we came through it well – job done and we’re looking forward to the final.”
John Collins and Jonny Walton also came through in the second half of their open men’s double semi to take a third place and move through in a strong field.
Collins said: “We looked at both semi-finals and thought we had the toughest one but we know we have to race the best at some point.
“We had quite a strong first half in yesterday’s heats but needed to be a bit calmer in these conditions and I felt we pitched it a lot better today”.
Both GB open quads went through - the men in second place and the women in third in their repechages.
Jamie Kirkwood grabbed third in his lightweight men’s single semi and Imogen Walsh was second in her repechage to book a place tomorrow.
Olympic champion Kat Copeland and her partner Charlotte Taylor missed out on a finals spot coming fourth in their light double semi. Alan Campbell finished fifth in his open men’s single.
Great Briton’s Gemma Tattersall is third going into the final day of the Badminton Horse Trials.
Tattersall, riding Arctic Soul, has a great opportunity to improve on her previous best finish at Badminton – 16th last year.
Emily King, who was second going into Saturday, was eliminated after falling at the penultimate obstacle.
Team GB hopefuls must hit qualifying standards on the horse they wish to take to the Games by 19 June, with a selection announcement expected in July.
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