Andy Murray admitted it was easy to get back in the old routine with Ivan Lendl after the world number two’s coach watched him battle to a 7-6 (10/8), 7-6 (7/1) victory over Nicolas Mahut at Queen’s Club on Tuesday.

Angelique Kerber, who started the year by creating one of the biggest Grand Slam upsets of all time, believes she is only now beginning to deal with the fall-out from her startling success.

Roger Federer got his bid for a ninth Halle grasscourt title off to a winning start yesterday with a 6-4, 7-6 (7/3) victory over Germany’s world number 88 Jan-Lennard Struff.

Milos Raonic made a winning start under coach John McEnroe as the Canadian third seed fought back to beat Australia’s Nick Kyrgios 6-7 (5/7), 6-4, 6-4 at Queen’s Club yesterday.

Matt Cullen took a needle in a fractured toe before each of the Penguins’ final 11 playoff games.

LeBron James and Kyrie Irving each scored 41 points Monday, a pretty good formula to win an NBA Finals game and concurrently save a sagging season.

Now that the Cavaliers survived elimination once, now that they marched into Oracle Arena and did what few other teams have accomplished this season, now comes the hard part. Now they have to figure out how to beat the Warriors again.

Cheer up Nick, it could have been worse.

Northern Ireland face Ukraine in Lyon today with both sides needing a win to keep their Euro 2016 knockout stage dreams alive while the Irish are mourning the death of a young fan.

Unbeaten half centuries from Lokesh Rahul and debutant Faiz Fazal earned India a clean sweep of their three-match One-Day International series in Zimbabwe after a crushing 10-wicket victory on Wednesday.

Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal were stunned by tournament debutants Iceland yesterday as a second-half equaliser from Birkir Bjarnason earned the minnows an unlikely 1-1 draw in Euro 2016 Group F.

Riding legend Frankie Dettori produced a superb ride on Al Shaqab Racing’s English 2000 Guineas winner Galileo Gold to win the feature race, St James’s Palace Stakes, on the first day of his favourite meeting Royal Ascot yesterday.