• Woltemade on target as Germany cruise to 6-0 victory

• Netherlands secure place with 4-0 win against Lithuania

Germany secured a place at next year’s World Cup by crushing Slovakia 6-0 in their final qualifier, pummelling them into submission with four goals in the first half and sending their opponents into a playoff in March.

The four-time world champions, who went out in the first round of the last two editions of the World Cup, finished top of their group, three points clear of Slovakia.

• Fight will be live on Netflix on 19 December

• YouTuber to face former heavyweight world champion

Anthony Joshua and Jake Paul will face each other in a heavyweight fight in Miami on 19 December, it has been confirmed.

Rumours of the fight between Paul, a YouTuber-turned-boxer, and Joshua, the British former heavyweight champion of the world, had been trailed earlier this month and Paul’s company, Most Valuable Promotions, confirmed the news on Monday. The fight will be shown live on Netflix.

• New Zealander lost against Fabio Wardley in London

• Failed test ‘came as a real surprise to me’

Joseph Parker has denied taking a prohibited substance after he failed a drugs test on the day of his 11th-round stoppage to British heavyweight Fabio Wardley, expressing confidence an investigation would clear his name.

Ipswich-born Wardley and New Zealander Parker produced a pulsating encounter in London on 25 October to determine who would become WBO mandatory challenger to undisputed world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk.

• Trump opens LPGA career with 13-over 83

• Day’s biggest gallery trails debutante

• Sorenstam defends controversial invite

Kai Trump, the US president’s granddaughter and the eldest child of Donald Trump Jr, opened her LPGA career with a 13-over-par 83 on Thursday at The Annika, a debut round that left her at the bottom of the leaderboard and underscored the chasm between elite junior golf and a field stacked with the sport’s top professionals.

The 18-year-old amateur, playing on a much-discussed sponsor’s exemption, began her round on the back nine alongside former major champion Hinako Shibuno and Germany’s Olivia Cowan. She received warm applause when her name was announced on the par-4 10th tee and again after she drove it safely into the fairway, one of the few calm moments in a jittery start.

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