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By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) – World number one Carlos Alcaraz bulldozed his way into the French Open quarter-finals with an awe-inspiring 6-3 6-2 6-2 crushing of Italian Lorenzo Musetti on Sunday. The 20-year-old Spaniard, whose maiden run at Roland Garros ended in the last eight last year, next faces Stefanos Tsitsipas or Sebastian Ofner with a potential mouthwatering semi-final clash against Novak Djokovic looming. On paper, Musetti had all […]

By Karolos Grohmann PARIS (Reuters) -World number three Novak Djokovic inched closer to a 23rd Grand Slam title by crushing Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas 6-3 6-2 6-2 on Sunday to reach the French Open quarter-finals. The Serbian, who is tied with Spain’s Rafa Nadal on a men’s record 22 majors, was untroubled by his 94th-ranked opponent, the first Peruvian in 29 years to reach a Grand Slam fourth round, on […]

By Alan Baldwin (Reuters) – The rain in Spain fell mostly inside George Russell’s helmet on Sunday as the Mercedes Formula One driver mistook beads of his own sweat for precipitation during an otherwise dry race in Barcelona. The Briton, who finished third after starting 12th, told his team over the radio early in the race that it was raining at turn five. “Is anyone else reporting rain?” he asked, […]

(Reuters) – England spinner Jack Leach has been ruled out of the five-match Ashes series against Australia due to a stress fracture in his back, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said on Sunday. Leach, who took four wickets in England’s 10-wicket win over Ireland in a one-off test earlier this week, has been an ever-present in England’s squad under coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes, claiming 46 test wickets […]

DAKAR (Reuters) -Senegal’s government has cut access to mobile internet services in certain areas because of deadly rioting in which “hateful and subversive” messages have been posted online, it said in a statement on Sunday. The West African country has been rocked by three days of violent protests in which 16 people have died, one of its deadliest bouts of civil unrest in decades. Last week, the government limited access […]

By Alan Baldwin (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton celebrated a ‘mega’ job by Mercedes at the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday and dropped another big hint he will stay with them next year to fight for a record eighth Formula One title. The Briton finished runner-up to Red Bull’s Max Verstappen at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya with team mate George Russell third in the first real test of their re-designed Formula […]

(Reuters) -Former NBCUniversal executive Joe Benarroch will join Twitter on Monday, focusing on business operations, he told Reuters. (Reporting by Chandni Shah in Bengaluru; Additional Reporting by Dawn Chmielewski; Editing by Will Dunham) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

PARIS (Reuters) – Popular Russian singer Zemfira, who left the country because of her opposition to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, was spotted at the French Open on Sunday sitting in the player’s box of her compatriot Daria Kasaktina. Zemfira was placed on a Russian Justice Ministry list of foreign agents in February on grounds that she supported Ukraine and criticised the invasion, which Russia calls a “special military operation”. An […]

By Lisa Richwine and Maria Caspani (Reuters) -Hollywood’s major studios reached a tentative labor agreement with the union representing film and television directors, likely averting a work stoppage that would have piled pressure on media companies to settle with striking writers. The Directors Guild of America (DGA) will ask its 19,000 members to approve the three-year contract, which was announced late on Saturday after three weeks of talks. The agreement […]