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• Moutet becomes villain with underarm serve act

  14-01-2025 11:48 via smh.com.au
  
  Corentin Moutet receives a chorus of boos after he attempts an underarm serve against an injured Alexei Popyrin.
  
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• Demon 'must be so annoyed' by criticism

  15-01-2025 00:48 via smh.com.au
  
  Daniela Hantuchova argues Alex de Minaur does have genuine weapons in his arsenal despite what the critics say.
  
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• McGuire-name to feature in college football showdown

  15-01-2025 00:43 via theage.com.au
  
  Joe McGuire will play in the College Football Playoff National Championship as his Ohio State Buckeyes take on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish for the title.
  
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• Live: Sabalenka and Djokovic headline day four as round two of Australian Open begins

  15-01-2025 00:41 via abc.net.au
  
  Round two gets underway at the Australian Open today and features an all star cast of Aryna Sabalenka, Novak Djokovic, Coco Gauff and Alexander Zverev. Follow live.
  
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• Murillo’s imperious form shows Forest’s recruitment gamble has borne fruit | Will Unwin

  15-01-2025 00:29 via theguardian.com
  Brazilian’s self-confident, brave defending marks him as emerging candidate for one of the world’s best centre-backsSore heads will be the order of the day in Nottingham on Wednesday morning. One of those will belong to the Forest centre-back Murillo who spent 90 minutes using his cranium in an attempt to help his side hold on to a lead against Liverpool. It was not meant to be in the end, but this was further evidence the 22-year-old is growing into one of the world’s best def
  
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• Arne Slot maintains Nottingham Forest remain threat to Liverpool in title race

  15-01-2025 00:14 via theguardian.com
  Reds’ manager hails Nuno’s side after lively 1-1 draw‘They are a team than can compete at the top end’Arne Slot doubled down on his claim that Nottingham Forest are Premier League title contenders after Diogo Jota headed in an equaliser with his first touch in an entertaining draw. Slot has predicted Forest will rival ­Liverpool to be champions if they keep key players fit. Liverpool lead Forest, up to second, by six points but also have a game in hand on Nuno Esp&iac
  
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• Sam Kerr appears in court charged with alleged racially aggravated harassment – video

  14-01-2025 23:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Chelsea striker Sam Kerr outside Kingston crown court in south-west London after a hearing where she was charged with alleged racially aggravated harassment of a police officer. Kerr is charged with causing a police officer harassment, alarm or distress under Section 4A of the Public Order Act during an incident in Twickenham, south-west London, on 30 January 2023Sam Kerr appears in court charged with alleged racially aggravated harassment Continue reading...
  
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• How affordable are fans finding the Australian Open?

  14-01-2025 23:54 via abc.net.au
  
  With more than 1 million people expected to walk through the gates this year, how affordable do punters reckon it is to head to the Australian Open?
  
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• Nottingham Forest 1-1 Liverpool: Premier League – as it happened

  14-01-2025 23:34 via theguardian.com
  
  The points were shared at the City Ground, where Diogo Jota scored seconds after his introduction from the bench to cancel out Chris Wood’s openerRead Ben Fisher’s match report from the City Ground “To lose on that day was hard to take,” said Liverpool’s head coach of his side’s surprise defeat at the hands of Forest at Anfield. “Now, looking back and seeing where they are in the league, it is not such a shock result as it felt then. They had a good game
  
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• European football: 10-man Holstein Kiel seal win over Dortmund with 45-yarder

  14-01-2025 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Bundesliga strugglers win 4-2 and add to Dortmund woesMilan recover to win at Como and Juventus draw againStruggling Holstein Kiel scored three times in a dominant first half but had to survive a late comeback from Borussia Dortmund before beating the visitors 4-2, capped by a breakaway fourth goal into an empty net, in a second straight Bundesliga loss for the Ruhr valley club.The result saw Dortmund, who had also lost 3-2 to Bayer Leverkusen on Friday, drop to eighth in the standings while pil
  
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• Confident Kinsky earns trust of his Spurs teammates … and Postecoglou

  14-01-2025 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The 21-year-old has kept two clean sheets in a rowSpurs manager calls abuse at Tamworth ‘detestable’Antonin Kinsky has bred confidence in his new Tottenham teammates and liberated them, according to the manager, Ange Postecoglou, who is ready to pitch him into another huge challenge on Wednesday night – the north London derby at Arsenal.It has been a whirlwind period for the 21-year-old goalkeeper since his arrival from Slavia Prague on the Sunday before last; the £12.5m
  
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• Brazilian teenager stuns tennis world

  14-01-2025 23:25 via smh.com.au
  
  Brazilian teenager Joao Fonseca stuns the tennis world by beating the ninth seed at the Australian Open.
  
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• Paquetá kickstarts Potter era but Fulham almost spoil West Ham party

  14-01-2025 23:18 via theguardian.com
  
  It was just as West Ham imagined it when they spent more than £100m last summer. Lucas Paquetá up front, two left-backs on the pitch at the end and the latest man to sit in the home ­dugout at the London Stadium wondering if his new employers are always this baffling.This was a game that West Ham did their best not to win, so much so that they even let in two crosses from Alex Iwobi. Still, though, Graham Potter found logic in the puzzle. Continue reading...
  
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• Popyrin bemoans 'shocking' Australian Open exit after tough month

  14-01-2025 23:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Rising Australian star Alexei Popyrin says he has some thinking to do after a disappointing exit from his home grand slam.
  
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• Sam Kerr faces London court on racially aggravated harassment charges

  14-01-2025 23:01 via abc.net.au
  
  The Matildas star has been charged with causing a police officer harassment, alarm or distress under the UK's Public Order Act.
  
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• Jota rises to peg back Nottingham Forest after Wood gives Liverpool early scare

  14-01-2025 23:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Just when it seemed nothing was dropping for Liverpool in a captivating contest, Arne Slot turned to his substitutes’ bench midway through the second half and exhibited his seemingly golden touch. Kostas Tsimikas and Diogo Jota entered, the former teeing up the latter at a corner to equalise courtesy of their first touches. It was Liverpool’s first shot on target and the first goal Nottingham Forest had conceded in more than 500 minutes of action.For Forest, this is a simply a ride s
  
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• Nottingham Forest 1-1 Liverpool: Premier League – live reaction

  14-01-2025 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The points were shared at the City Ground, where Diogo Jota scored within 22 seconds of his introduction from the bench to cancel out Chris Wood’s first-half opener“To lose on that day was hard to take,” said Liverpool’s head coach of his side’s surprise defeat at the hands of Forest at Anfield. “Now, looking back and seeing where they are in the league, it is not such a shock result as it felt then. They had a good game plan and made us play a poor game. We h
  
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• James saves point for Chelsea with late strike against patched-up Bournemouth

  14-01-2025 22:57 via theguardian.com
  
  From title challengers to top-four contenders to reviving the undercurrent of dissatisfaction with the club’s direction, quite the slide for Chelsea. The returning Thomas Tuchel will have seen few of the players he left behind in 2022 but he will, though, have been reminded of the permanent jeopardy of being Chelsea manager.Previously a safe pair of hands guiding the Chelsea project, Enzo Maresca’s formula for success is wobbling. His team showed a combination of callowness and profl
  
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• Brentford 2-2 Man City, Chelsea 2-2 Bournemouth: Premier League – as it happened

  14-01-2025 22:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Christian Norgaard and Reece James scored injury-time equalisers on a pulsating night of Premier League action“I wonder if readers, like me, struggle to remember much about Tony Book, the name as understated as his demeanour, playing and managing,” begins Gary Naylor. “In that sense, he was the perfect choice to lead City on and off the field, operating with purpose and achieving a still surprisingly excellent set of outcomes, content in the shadow of The Behemoth’s cabar
  
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• Manchester City throw away 2-0 lead as Nørgaard strikes late for Brentford

  14-01-2025 22:54 via theguardian.com
  
  When Brentford missed their first couple of chances, Thomas Frank applauded his approval and encourage­ment. But they kept mis­sing them: by the end of the first half his head was in his hands; by the time Yoane Wissa somehow shot into Nathan Aké with the goal at his mercy and 20 minutes remaining he was prostrate, forehead pressed into the turf in supplication. Maybe ­someone was listening.Phil Foden had opened the ­scoring moments earlier, and shortly afterwards he tappe
  
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• Brentford 2-2 Man City, Chelsea 2-2 Bournemouth: Premier League – live

  14-01-2025 22:44 via theguardian.com
  News from Tuesday’s 7.30pm GMT kick-offs and beyondLive scores | Latest table | Premier League top scorers “I wonder if readers, like me, struggle to remember much about Tony Book, the name as understated as his demeanour, playing and managing,” begins Gary Naylor. “In that sense, he was the perfect choice to lead City on and off the field, operating with purpose and achieving a still surprisingly excellent set of outcomes, content in the shadow of The Behemoth’s ca
  
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• Australian Open 2025 LIVE updates: Tomljanovic, Thompson lead Aussies on day four; Sabalenka, Gauff, Djokovic, Alcaraz in action

  14-01-2025 22:09 via smh.com.au
  
  Ajla Tomljanovic and Jordan Thompson are ready to fire as Sabalenka, Djokovic and Gauff continue their title quest.
  
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• Molik's plan to stop Kyrgios retiring

  14-01-2025 21:49 via theage.com.au
  
  Alicia Molik maps out a 2025 season for Nick Kyrgios that could encourage him to keep playing top level singles.
  
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• Red Bull’s ‘Dr football’ role at odds with Jürgen Klopp’s former club ethos

  14-01-2025 21:36 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Global head of soccer’ at an energy drink brand seems a world away from the rough and tumble of the touchlineFlanked by Formula One cars bearing the appropriate livery, Jürgen Klopp cracked open a can of Red Bull and started talking. Product placement has always come naturally to the energy drink brand and here, on home turf, little fanfare was spared in putting a shiny new asset front and centre. This moment had been well over two years in the making but now their head of glob
  
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• Police report says former MLB pitcher Brian Matusz died at 37 of likely overdose

  14-01-2025 20:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Pitcher played for Orioles and Cubs during careerMother found left-hander’s body at Arizona homeThe former Baltimore Orioles pitcher Brian Matusz died at the age of 37 after an apparent drug overdose, according to police documents.The Orioles announced Matusz’s death last week. According to a report by the Phoenix Police Department obtained by the Baltimore Banner, Matusz’s body was found by his mother, Elizabeth, on 6 January after she went to check on him in his home. A light
  
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• Judd Trump thrashes Barry Hawkins as quest for third Masters title begins

  14-01-2025 19:55 via theguardian.com
  
  World No 1 breezes through 6-1 after going 5-0 upTrump will face Ding Junhui in Friday’s quarter-final World No 1 Judd Trump breezed through his opening match at the Masters with a 6-1 victory over Barry Hawkins. Seeking his third title at Alexandra Palace, Trump was in ruthless form as he punished any lapse from Hawkins on his way to a 5-0 lead.Hawkins pulled a frame back with a break of 70, but Trump responded with 112 to take the win over the man he also beat in the UK Championship fina
  
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• Five quick hits: Medvedev's mid-court madness and who's on day four

  14-01-2025 19:52 via abc.net.au
  
  The luckiest loser wins on five-minute's notice, Daniil Medvedev is expecting a big fine for demolishing a net camera, and the debutant from LA hoping to put a smile on people's faces, here's the five quick hits from day three of the Australian Open.
  
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• Man charged with stalking Caitlin Clark disrupts court hearing

  14-01-2025 19:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Michael Lewis, of Denton, Texas, arrested over messagesJudge rebukes 55-year-old after interruptionsA man charged with stalking and harassing basketball star Caitlin Clark was rebuked after becoming disruptive during a court appearance on Tuesday.Michael Lewis, of Denton, Texas, was arrested on Monday at a hotel in Indianapolis, where Clark plays for the Indiana Fever, after allegedly sending threatening messages to the WNBA star, some of which were sexual in nature. Continue reading...
  
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• Transfer latest: Villa land £20m Malen, Manchester City close on Reis

  14-01-2025 19:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Reis set to join City for about £30m from PalmeirasWest Ham explore loan for Leipzig striker André SilvaAston Villa have completed the signing of Donyell Malen from Borussia Dortmund for an initial £20m. The Netherlands forward, who can play across the front line, was left out of the Bundesliga club’s squad for Tuesday’s trip to Kiel as he finalised a move to the Premier League.The 25-year-old has been a longtime target for Villa’s manager, Unai Emery, who is
  
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• Borthwick backs ‘world-class’ Itoje as England captain after stripping George

  14-01-2025 19:03 via theguardian.com
  Coach praises ‘great leader’ who is ‘calm under pressure’Radical decision comes before make or break Six NationsMaro Itoje will lead England into the Six Nations after Steve Borthwick made the radical decision to ditch Jamie George as captain and promote the second row before a campaign that promises to make or break the head coach’s tenure.Borthwick said George was “disappointed” to lose the captaincy after only 12 months in what he described as a chall
  
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