A British teenager has become the first tennis player from the UK to win a US Open junior title in 15 years.
Mika Stojsavljevic, 15, beat her Japanese opponent Wakana Sonobe 6-4 6-4 to lift the championship cup in New York on Saturday.
Stojsavljevic’s victory came 24 hours after Jack Draper’s semi-final defeat to world number one Jannik Skinner in the men’s draw.
The last British person to win the girl’s title at the US Open was Heather Watson in 2009, while Andy Murray won the boy’s title in 2004.
Stojsavljevic followed up her impressive semi-final display, where she ousted Iva Jovic – the 16-year-old American who made it to the second round of the main women’s draw – with another assured performance in the final.
She said afterwards: “I really want to go to the Rockefeller Center and see it from the top. And then also go to Chipotle or something. I love it.
“I’m super, super happy and grateful to my coaches for this week and my family supporting me back home.
“It was quite nerve-wracking, I had to trust my serve and treat it like any game.
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“I like fighting, it’s so fun to compete and play every match. When you win it’s such a great feeling.
“I feel I have handled myself pretty well. I had some tough matches. I lost the first set in the first round but stayed as strong mentally as possible.”
British teenagers Mingge Xu and Charlie Robertson were defeated in the semi-finals of the girls and boys categories respectively.
Manchester City have won a record-breaking fourth Premier League title in a row after beating West Ham 3-1 at the Etihad Stadium on the final day of the season.
A wondergoal from Phil Foden put the Sky Blues ahead after just 79 seconds before the England international scored again in the 18th minute.
City looked set to cruise into the history books before an acrobatic bicycle kick from Mohammed Kudus pulled one back for the Hammers before half-time.
However, a goal from Rodri just before the hour mark left West Ham with a lot of work to do if they were to spoil Man City’s party.
Pep Guardiola’s side are now the first English side to win four top flight titles in a row since the first edition of the football league started in 1888.
This season ends with more disappointment for Arsenal who have finished second in the Premier League for the second year in a row.
The Gunners beat Everton 2 – 1 at the Emirates Stadium but needed City to lose in order to lift Premier League trophy.
They have finished two points behind Man City in a title race that went right to the final day of the season.
It means Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta, previously Guardiola’s assistant coach at Man City, will have to try again if he wants to knock his former employers off their perch.
City supporters had attempted to run onto the pitch to celebrate during stoppage time as players encouraged them to remain in the stands this afternoon.
However, the pitch was filled with the sky blue shirts of supporters after the final whistle blew and ended another successful Premier League campaign.
It marks another historic year for City after they became only the second English side to win the Treble – lifting the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League trophies – last season.
Elsewhere in the Premier League, Liverpool won 2 – 0 on manager Jurgen Klopp’s final game in charge.
Man City have achieved unprecedented dominance – but judgement day awaits off the pitch
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Not even Sir Alex Ferguson’s all-conquering Manchester United managed this – four titles in a row.
Never before, in fact, in the 136 years of history of England’s top division.
Manchester City keep setting new standards for Premier League supremacy, dominating the division like never before.
Pep Guardiola’s side created history on a day Arsenal could not overcome the weight of history.
After a 20-year drought, their wait for the trophy goes on.
Mikel Arteta’s men were unable to match the Gunners of 1989 in overhauling the leaders on the final day.
It’s so difficult it has never been done since then.
And it’s even more difficult when coming up against the City’s £1bn squad with the Erling Haaland goal machine and Premier League player-of-the-season Phil Foden.
Spending that is enabled by their Abu Dhabi investors that has fuelled unprecedented dominance but also an unprecedented Premier League investigation.
Amid the celebrations this is a club fighting 115 charges from the Premier League on alleged financial rule breaches stretching back to 2009.
Judgement day awaits, though maybe still months away.
Talk of punishments – this season saw Everton and Nottingham Forest docked points for overspending – is on hold.
So for some is the verdict on this entire period of such superiority on the pitch.
But there’s no doubting the scale of City’s achievements and the scintillating football overseen by the genius of Guardiola.
They’d won the league only twice up to 1968 until 2012.
Now there’s little stopping the juggernaut for the 10 times champions of English football – on the pitch at least.
During his eight-and-a-half years in charge of the Reds, Klopp led them to glory in the Champions League in 2019 and their first-ever Premier League title in 2020.
Liverpool have finished this season in third place – seven points behind Arsenal.
Meanwhile, Brighton manager Roberto de Zerbi watched his side lose 2 – 0 against Manchester United in his last game in charge.
Luton Town, Burnley and Sheffield United all played their last Premier League game for at least another season after being relegated to the Championship.
Henry Searle has become the first British boys’ singles champion at Wimbledon since 1962.
The 17-year-old, from Wolverhampton, beat fifth seed Yaroslav Demin 6-4, 6-4 on Court One at the tournament on Sunday.
His win emulated Stanley Matthews, son of the famous Blackpool footballer of the same name, who triumphed 61 years ago.
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Searle is this country’s first junior champion since Laura Robson won the girls’ event in 2008.
He has ensured more home success at this year’s tournament after Brit Neal Skupski – ranked number one doubles player in the world – won the men’s doubles with Dutch player Wesley Koolhof, on Centre Court on Saturday.
“It is amazing to play on Court One with such a special crowd and manage to get the job done,” Searle said on court.
“It’s a pretty special feeling and it is not going to come too often and I am going to try and enjoy it. It was amazing in front of this crowd today.”
Meanwhile, on Centre Court, Prince George and Princess Charlotte joined their parents the Prince and Princess of Wales in the Royal Box for the men’s singles final.
Wearing a blue dress, the eight-year-old royal held Kate’s hand and petted a police dog before taking her seat to watch the match between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz.
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Speaking to Ella Ottaway, who runs the All England Club’s young people programme, Kate said that the youngest of the Wales’, Prince Louis, was “very upset” that he was not attending.
“It’s Charlotte’s first time, George came last year. They’ve been eagerly watching,” she said.
“Charlotte, you’ve been getting to grips with the scoring. Louis was very upset he wasn’t coming today.”
The title of Queen Camilla has been used for the first time by Buckingham Palace on invitations for the King’s coronation.
It comes as US President Joe Biden told the King in a phone call on Tuesday that First Lady Jill Biden will attend the coronation, the White House said in a statement.
More details of the 6 May event were also revealed along with the formal invitations on Tuesday night.
Camilla has been referred to as Queen Consort since the death of Queen Elizabeth II but is named Queen Camilla on the invites, which will soon be sent to more than 2,000 guests.
The Pages of Honour who will “attend their majesties during the coronation service” have also been named, with future king Prince George among them.
The eight boys who make up the pages are aged between nine and 13 and are either family friends or close relatives of the King and Queen. The group includes three of Camilla’s grandchildren.
The coronation invitations will be printed on recycled card and decorated with colourful wildlife and flowers in a design by artist Andrew Jamieson, a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild, of which the King is an honorary member.
It was inspired by the Green Man, an ancient figure from British folklore symbolic of spring and rebirth.
The figure appears at the bottom of the invitation crowned in natural foliage and formed of leaves of oak, ivy and hawthorn and the UK’s emblematic flowers.
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The invitations say: “The Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III & Queen Camilla – By Command of the King the Earl Marshall is directed to invite… to be present at the Abbey Church of Westminster on the 6th day of May 2023.”
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A royal source said: “It made sense to refer to Her Majesty as the Queen Consort in the early months of His Majesty’s reign, to distinguish from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
“‘Queen Camilla’ is the appropriate title to set against ‘King Charles’ on the invitation. The coronation is an appropriate time to start using ‘Queen Camilla’ in an official capacity. All former Queen Consorts have been known as ‘Queen’ plus their first name.”
Why will Camilla no longer be known as Queen Consort?
Alongside the release of the photo of the King and Queen Consort is the invitation for the coronation that will be issued to more than 2,000 guests.
The wording of the invitation demonstrates that for the Palace the coronation is the appropriate time to start using “Queen Camilla” in an official capacity.
Since the death of Elizabeth II, Camilla has been referred to as “Queen Consort” to distinguish her from the late monarch.
However, the wording of the invitation indicates that after the coronation “Consort” will be dropped.
A portrait of the King and Queen in Buckingham Palace’s blue drawing room was also released on Tuesday.
The Tyson Fury versus Oleksandr Usyk fight is now off.
Talks to make the undisputed heavyweight title fight happen have failed to reach a conclusion, Usyk’s promoter Alexander Krassyuk confirmed to Sky Sports News.
Usyk will now look to make a defence of his heavyweight titles against WBA mandatory challenger Daniel Dubois.
“I will try to express how disappointed I am, not just for Usyk, not just for this fight not happening but for all boxing fans around the world. Because this is probably the most anticipated fight, the most awaited fight, the most wanted one, not just from the fans but from our side as well,” Krassyuk told Sky Sports.
“I would love to see this fight. I would love to make it happen as the promoter. Usyk would love to be part of such a huge fight, we all are willing, we are thirsty to make it happen. Of course we are going to use each and every effort, if there is any. But from my perspective I don’t believe it’s possible.”
Egis Klimas, Usyk’s manager, has questioned whether Fury and his team genuinely wanted the fight in April.
“The Usyk side pulled out of further negotiations as the Fury side never had enough [and wanted] to pull everything and all rights to their side,” Klimas told Sky Sports.
“I don’t want to go into details as all negotiations were confidential but I will tell you one thing, when a fighter doesn’t want to fight he overprices himself knowing that the fight won’t happen.
“They most likely forgot that Usyk is holding the majority of belts in the heavyweight division and Tyson just has one.
“They claimed Tyson is a face and must have all the rights, but look at statistics on pay-per-view with Tyson v Chisora and Usyk v Chisora and then tell me who is who?”
Sky Sports has approached Fury’s UK and US promoters for comment.
Frank Warren, Fury’s UK promoter, has told TalkSportsradio that he believes the negotiations can be salvaged.
But Krassyuk responded that the issue around a rematch clause was just the final straw for those talks to collapse.
“They did as much as we did. They tried hard. We all tried to make it happen,” Krassyuk told Sky Sports “[The] rematch clause was just the point where it all exploded.
“The discussion about the rematch split was just the point where Usyk was fed up with everything. He said, ‘How many more times do I have to bow my head in front of Tyson. Why should I do this? It’s enough. Either he accepts what I say or I leave’. Tyson did not accept it and he left.”
Krassyuk did say a one-fight deal could still be “acceptable, but the split should not be 70/30.”
The undisputed championship, he insisted, was their “highest priority”.
“The money that was anticipated for Usyk in this fight was not even close to what Usyk earned in his last fight. It’s definitely not Usyk’s payday and it’s definitely not his attempt to get more money. It’s his attempt to get the WBC belt,” Krassyuk said.
“We will do our best to deliver this fight to the fans,” he added. “With Usyk, we’ve been together since 2013. We went through hell, through fire, through water, through everything. We never had any troubles with our opponents, we were always flexible.”
The Fury v Usyk fight would have been one of the most significant contests in world boxing.
Between them, they hold all four of the major heavyweight world titles.
Fury, who first became a unified world champion when he sensationally defeated Wladimir Klitschko in 2015, never lost those titles in the ring but they became vacant when he did not box for more than two years.
He made a remarkable return in 2018 and controversially drew with Deontay Wilder that year. Fury then beat Wilder in the rematch to win the WBC title and triumphed again in a sensational 2021 trilogy fight.
Undefeated he has held the WBC belt ever since and last year Fury headlined two stadium fights in London, stopping both Dillian Whyte and Derek Chisora to defend his title.
Usyk, a former undisputed cruiserweight champion, has established himself as Fury’s closest rival at the top of the heavyweight division.
He stepped up to heavyweight and in 2021 dethroned Anthony Joshua to win the IBF, WBO and WBA titles.
The Ukrainian defended those belts with another emphatic win over Joshua last August.
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Usyk has become a renowned global figure, returning to his Ukrainian homeland when Russia invaded in February of last year and continuing to represent his country on a global stage when he resumed his boxing career.
After Fury beat Chisora in his last fight, he faced off with Usyk in the ring and their teams conducted intensive negotiations for a protracted period.
Publicly Fury demanded Usyk agree to a 70/30 split, which the Ukrainian did accept as long as Fury consented to make a sizeable donation to the Ukrainian relief effort.
But the two parties were unable to conclude negotiations and Usyk’s promoter confirmed on Wednesday that talks had finally collapsed.
Dubois next for Uysk?
Britain’s Dubois is well-placed to challenge Usyk next, as long as he has recovered from the injury he sustained when he beat Kevin Lerena in his last fight.
Dubois is the mandatory challenger for the WBA title that Usyk holds and the WBA has already stated Usyk must begin negotiations for a defence against Dubois if he cannot show signed contracts for the Fury fight by 1 April.
Dubois is also represented by Warren, like Fury, so talks between the promoter and Usyk’s team will continue.
“We’re going to be having discussions anyway because if it comes to the mandatory Daniel Dubois, he’s with Frank as well,” Krassyuk said. “I treat Frank with big respect.
“We will have to comply with our obligations [for] the mandatories, probably. It’s very early to speak about that.”
No fighter has been considered the undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis 20 years ago. Fury v Usyk would have crowned one finally. But the wait, for the fight the boxing world was longing to see, is set to continue.