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American survives close putt on final holeKorda claims $2.5m first prize for victoryEngland’s Hull misses out on first major titleNelly Korda won the US Women’s Open on Sunday for her second consecutive major victory, holding off Charley Hull and Gaby Lopez by one shot when her final putt curled perilously around the cup and dropped in.Korda’s first US Open win is the fourth major victory of her career, and she claimed it with a steady two-under 69 in the final round – but only after her second putt on the 18th green – from a little over 2ft – caught the edge and toured half the circumference of the hole before falling. Continue reading...

Mondo’s three-year unbeaten run ended at Diamond League meetCameron Myers and Matthew Denny also secure podium finishesKurtis Marschall has pulled off one of the upsets of the sporting year as the Australian beat the seemingly unbeatable pole vault king Armand Duplantis in front of his home fans in the Stockholm Diamond League meeting.And though the world’s top athlete was not happy his 40-event unbeaten run was ended after nearly three years, especially with his adoring Swedish public cheering him on, he reckoned he was glad it was his Adelaide mate and occasional training partner who was the one to achieve it on Sunday. Continue reading...

Enrique Riquelme loses challenge against PérezJosé Mourinho will now be confirmed as managerFlorentino Pérez will continue as president of Real Madrid after winning their first elections in 20 years, paving the way for his plans to sell 5% of the club. Pérez, who has been president for 23 years across two spells – first between 2000 and 2006 and then since 2009, winning the last five elections unopposed – polled 65%. The 37-year-old challenger, Enrique Riquelme, lost with 35% after a total of 33,555 members exercised their right to vote. The results were held up after Riquelme challenged the validity of around 1,000 postal votes, of which over 400 were eventually struck off.The victory means that José Mourinho should be formally announced as manager on Monday, with Madrid paying Benfica a €15m (£13m) release fee for the Portuguese coach. Pérez had also promised to make a bid of “at least €150m” on Tuesday for an unnamed “galactico” understood to be Michael Olise. Riquelme said he would appoint Raúl González Blanco as his sporting director and he would attempt to convince Jürgen Klopp to come as coach. He also said he was confident of signing Erling Haaland and Rodri. Continue reading...

An easy ride through qualifying and a hard-to-read Africa Cup of Nations exit mean the Fennecs are an enigmaThis article is part of the Guardian’s 2026 World Cup Experts’ Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 48 countries who qualified. theguardian.com is running previews from three countries each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 11 June. Continue reading...

San Antonio 2-0 down in best-of-seven seriesGame 3 is on Monday night at Madison Square Victor Wembanyama’s dream run in his first NBA playoffs has taken a nightmarish turn, but the San Antonio Spurs star says he is embracing the setbacks as well as the success.“I think the key is acceptance a lot of times, taking a step back, realizing all the journey that’s behind this and what’s ahead of this,” Wembanyama said on Sunday as the Spurs prepared for a crucial Game 3 of the NBA finals in what promises to be a hostile Madison Square Garden. Continue reading...

Hamilton avoids Monaco chaos to go second in standingsGasly angry after penalties cost him third; Russell downcastLewis Hamilton believes his first win for Ferrari is on the cards after a second-place finish at the Monaco Grand Prix, with the seven-time champion committed to chasing down the Formula One world championship leader, Kimi Antonelli, who won again in Monte Carlo.After the race there was also a furious reaction from France’s Pierre Gasly, who crossed the line believing he had secured third and a place on the podium, only to find he had two penalties for speeding in the pit lane, dropping him to seventh. Continue reading...

Dan Lawrence became the first player to hit four Division One centuries this season, with his highest first-class score against HampshireWill Jacks is batting at No. 3 for Surrey in his first Championship outing this summer after a period with Mumbai Indians in the IPL. In England’s winter Ashes stumble down the stairs, Jacks collected 363 runs and took six wickets in his four games.Burns prods obediently forward and the ball skits through the gate and sends the off stump tumbling Continue reading...

Swiss star wins with third fastest time in historyHodgkinson targets world record after defeatOn a wild summer’s night in Stockholm, a woman ran the quickest 800m since the darkest days of the cold war. But, staggeringly, her name was not Keely Hodgkinson.Britain’s 800m Olympic champion had promised she was in personal-best shape, and duly proved as good as her word. But she had no answer to the young Swiss star Audrey Werro, who swooped like lightning across a cloudless sky before crossing the line in 1min 53.98sec. Continue reading...

Match against Ukraine abandoned after incidentDanish FA say Eriksen ‘conscious’ after treatmentDenmark’s former Manchester United and Tottenham midfielder Christian Eriksen collapsed on the pitch in a match against Ukraine on Sunday, but was conscious as he was taken from the field by medics.The incident happened during an end-of-season friendly between two sides who have not qualified for the World Cup. Eriksen, who suffered a cardiac arrest during a European Championship match in 2021, was quickly tended to by medics in Odense, while the referee abandoned the match early. Continue reading...

No 2 seed beats Italian 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-1Wins his first major in his fourth finalTwo weeks of nerves and tension across one of the most chaotic men’s grand slam tournaments in recent memory came to an appropriate conclusion as an excruciatingly tense five-set psychodrama ended with Alexander Zverev, the second seed, lifting his first grand slam title by holding off his own demons to close out a 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-1 win over Flavio Cobolli in the French Open final.For so long Zverev had won at every other level: he had triumphed at Masters 1000 events and twice at the ATP Finals, and he earned an Olympic gold medal in Tokyo 2020. But he had lost in all three of his major finals. A grand slam, the biggest prize of all, had always evaded him. Continue reading...