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French Open quarter-finals: Sabalenka v Zheng, Svitolina v Swiatek, Musetti v Tiafoe – live

3 juin 2025 à 11:42

Zheng breaks: Sabalenka 1-2 Zheng* (*denotes next server)

A lovely touch drop volley from Zheng and she’s got a sniff at 0-30 on Sabalenka’s serve. “It’s a good tactic on the slow clay,” says Chris Evert on the commentary. I could listen to her all day. And there’s an “ooooh” from Chrissie when Zheng’s forehand smacks the sideline for a winner! 15-40, two break points. Zheng unwinds with an inside-out forehand … and then comes forward a few steps to wallop another inside-outer and there’s the break!

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© Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images

‘Hard for me to understand’: grappling with the Charlottesville tragedy eight years on

3 juin 2025 à 11:29

Author and Charlottesville native Deborah Baker revisits the devastating events of 2017 and examines how they speak to a difficult past

Deborah Baker’s new book, Charlottesville, is about her home town in Virginia, where in summer 2017 white supremacists marched, violence erupted and a counter-protester was murdered. In dizzying detail, Baker charts and reports the chaos. In interludes, she examines the dark history of a city long linked to racist oppression, from the days of Thomas Jefferson, Robert E Lee and slavery to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and resistance to civil rights reform.

Putting it all together was a new challenge for a writer whose books include In Extremis, a biography of the 20th-century poet Laura Riding, and A Blue Hand: The Beats in India.

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© Photograph: Steve Helber/AP

© Photograph: Steve Helber/AP

Tottenham’s Pedro Porro: ‘We won. Let them talk and do all the memes they want now’

3 juin 2025 à 11:17

The Spurs and Spain defender talks about the suffering before Bilbao, Ange Postecoglou’s future and playing France in the Nations League semi-finals

Pedro Porro had to take a pee. “I wouldn’t wish it on anyone,” the Tottenham Hotspur defender says and then he laughs, which he does a lot. It was late in Bilbao and in the home dressing room at San Mamés, up the tunnel and to the right, players divided by metal bars, the party had begun. But he had been selected for the drugs test and was stuck in a much smaller and much, much quieter room, drinking as much possible as quickly as possible until he could go. And that, he says, took ages. “It was hard for me. You’ve just won something huge, you have all your family there, all your teammates, all the people and … ”

And the party would have to wait. Porro missed those moments but at last they did all come together, the Europa League champions in their kit – “clean,” Porro adds swiftly – and winners’ medals round their necks, families joining them dancing downstairs at the Carlton Hotel, a mile east of the stadium where they won the tournament. Around 3am, someone turned the main lights on, so someone else turned them off again; some didn’t stop until they reached Tottenham High Road the next day, although he wasn’t one of them. “We wanted to carry on a bit, that’s normal,” Porro says, “although I had to go because my little daughter was tired. It had been a long, hard year and it was lovely to celebrate together.”

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© Photograph: Pablo Garcia

© Photograph: Pablo Garcia

‘God gave us Israel, all of it’ | Along the Green Line: episode 1 – video

Since the war in Gaza and the expanding occupation of the West Bank, a peaceful resolution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians feels more distant than ever. In this three-part series, the reporter Matthew Cassel travels along the 1949 Armistice border, or ‘Green Line’, once seen as the best hope for a resolution. He meets Palestinians and Israelis living just kilometres apart, but shaped by vastly different realities. This first episode begins in East Jerusalem, a city at the heart of the conflict

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© Photograph: The Guardian

© Photograph: The Guardian

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