Andy Murray recovered from an early break down but hit the accelerator to motor into the third round of the Wimbledon Championships on a dry Thursday which got the grand slam back on schedule after two days of rain.

British men’s tennis is blessed with better players than many fans realise, the sport’s latest homegrown hero Dan Evans told a Wimbledon audience yesterday after dismantling 30th seed Alexandr Dolgopolov to reach the third round.

Gilles Simon threatened to sue, Eugenie Bouchard bopped along to Beyonce while John Isner steadily became very bored playing mini-golf.

If Easyjet happened to run an extra flight or two out of Turkey each day, Marcus Willis would never have made it to Wimbledon, never have played on Centre Court, never have aced Roger Federer.

Germany’s Jerome Boateng and Toni Kroos insist previous failures against Italy will count for nothing when die Mannschaft square off against the Azzurri in tomorrow’s Euro 2016 quarter-final.

After months holed up in his “garage”, Italy coach Antonio Conte has been finally able to smell the grass and he is relishing every minute of it.

Eden Hazard stole the show as Belgium crushed Hungary 4-0 in the second round at Euro 2016 but their quarter-final opponents Wales cannot afford to ignore midfielder Kevin De Bruyne, who is emerging as their key player.

Wales are happy to cast themselves as underdogs in their Euro 2016 quarter-final against Belgium today but such modesty belies their proven ability to bite hard.

Aspire Zone Foundation (AZF) honoured Aspire Academy’s advisory board for their contributions to the Academy’s five-year journey to receive the Council of International Schools (CIS) Accreditation.

The Qatar Olympic Committee and the Qatar Volleyball Association held a ceremony to honour the Qatari beach volleyball team, which has qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Brazilian giants Magnus Futsal on Wednesday beat countrymen Carlos Barbosa 4-3 in extra time to win the Futsal Intercontinental Cup. With both sides locked at 1-1 in regulation time, Magnus scored once in each of the halves of the extra time to win the tense final at Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya Arena.

Reigning champion Chris Froome and his Sky team could barely hide their excitement ahead of tomorrow’s Tour de France start in Normandy.