RIATH AL-SAMARRAI AT WIMBLEDON: If there was a single detail about Alcaraz's first-round encounter with Mark Lajal that followed convention, it was found in the outcome.

Andy Murray is set to get his final Wimbledon campaign underway with men's second seed Novak Djokovic and women's top seed Iga Swiatek also in action.

Briton battles to 7-6 (0), 6-3 victory over lucky loser Says football showed things don’t ‘need to be perfect’Few tennis players understand the importance of taking advantage of opportunities quite like Emma ­Raducanu. Her transcendent 2021 US Open ­triumph, after all, was an exercise in rising spectacularly to the occasion as various factors fell in …

Chelsea complete the £5m signing of Barcelona teenager Marc Guiu, who joins on a five-year deal with an option for a further year.

FRANCE 1-0 BELGIUM: Dusseldorf hosted the pick of Euro 2024's last-16 ties.

Emma Raducanu was not impressed with England at Euro 2024

Watch highlights as Emma Raducanu begins her Wimbledon campaign with a hard-fought 7-6 (7-0) 6-3 victory over Mexican lucky loser Renata Zarazua on Centre Court.

Played out of position against Slovakia, made to survive on his wits, the winger proved Mr Dependable once againDeclan Rice is the guy who has to break the news. It’s a good choice. Instinctively Rice feels like the kind of guy who you want breaking bad news. Rice in a veterinarian’s coat, clipboard under his arm, explaining that they tried everything …

SAMI MOKBEL AND CRAIG HOPE: Guehi twisted his shoulder in a collision with Slovakia forward David Strelec and would have been a doubt to face the Swiss were he not suspended.

France made it through to the quarter-finals of Euro 2024 with a hard-fought 1-0 win against Belgium. Mail Sport's Tom Collomosse assesses how both sets of players performed.

Watch as Belgium's Jan Vertonghen scores an own-goal late in the second half to seal a Euro 2024 quarter-finals spot for France in Dusseldorf.

France 1-0 Belgium: Jan Vertonghen diverted Randal Kolo Muani’s harmless shot into his own goal on an evening of fine margins

Raducanu, returning to SW19 after her absence through injury last year, found it tough going and was patchy against lucky loser Renata Zarazua but battled through to round two

IAN HERBERT AT THE DUSSELDORF ARENA: Two own-goals and a penalty have taken them to the quarter-finals and we still look for an end result to go with the counter-attacking pace.

England's Richard Bland won his second consecutive senior major title with a nerve-wracking victory in the US Senior Open.

France left it late as they laboured to a 1-0 victory against Belgium to book their place in the quarter-finals of Euro 2024.