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Katie Boulter defended the Nottingham title last week. Liudmila Samsonova won the Den Bosch title. Defending Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova suffered a bad slip vs Anna Kalinskaya in Berlin today and retired injured. Let's see how bad this turns out to be...

The Kosovar reporter who made the Albanian eagle sign to Serbian fans after the England game has been kicked out of the Euros

Yeah, but Group B is suddenly looking like only two teams will qualify. Albania beating Spain would be the biggest shock here and while Croatia can beat Italy I don't think that's the most expected result.

You know it's going down when even Polish commentator screams "To je vyborne!"

That was junk. Portugal in slow motion as if Santos was back on the bench.

Empty net goal in the end. That was quite a match alright.

Georgia hits the bar. This game has had 30 shots already!

Georgia hits back against the run of play. 1-1.

Turkey scores and has another goal disallowed by VAR (offside).

Turkey hits the post in 10th minute and enjoy a better start so far.

Shapes up to be a memorable Euro debut for Georgia then...

[hide] *"Double-the-points" distributed as follow: Each user will have 5 during the Group stage. Each user will have to mark their matches with "Double-the-points" with an "*". Group Stage June 20th - July 2nd, 2024 16 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st-and 2-placed Nations from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals. Group A Date & Time (GMT -4-5) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 20th 2024, h. 20:00 - GMT -4 Argentina 2 0 Canada June 20th 2024, h. 19:00 - GMT -5 Peru 1 1 Chile June 25th 2024, h. 17:00 - GMT -5 Peru 1 2 Canada June 29th 2024, h. 21:00 - GMT -4 Chile 1 3 Argentina June 29th 2024, h. 20:00 - GMT -4 Argentina 3* 0 Peru June 29th 2024, h. 20:00 - GMT -4 Canada 1 1 Chile Group B Date & Time (GMT -5-7) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 22nd 2024, h. 15:00 - GMT -7 Ecuador 0 0 Venezuela June 22nd 2024, h. 20:00 - GMT -5 Mexico 3 0 Jamaica June 26th 2024, h. 15:00 - GMT -7 Ecuador 2 0 Jamaica June 26th 2024, h. 18:00 - GMT -7 Venezuela 1 2 Mexico June 30th 2024, h. 17:00 - GMT -7 Mexico 1 2 Ecuador June 30th 2024, h. 19:00 - GMT -5 Jamaica 1 3 Venezuela Group C Date & Time (GMT -4-5) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 23rd 2024, h. 17:00 - GMT -5 United States 2* 0 Bolivia June 23rd 2024, h. 21:00 - GMT -4 Uruguay 3* 0 Panama June 27th 2024, h. 18:00 - GMT -4 Panama 0 3 United States June 27th 2024, h. 21:00 - GMT -4 Uruguay 3* 0 Bolivia July 1st 2024, h. 20:00 - GMT -5 United States 1 1 Uruguay July 1st 2024, h. 21:00 - GMT -4 Bolivia 1 1 Panama Group D Date & Time (GMT -5-7) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 24th 2024, h. 17:00 - GMT -5 Colombia 1 0 Paraguay June 24th 2024, h. 18:00 - GMT -7 Brazil 2* 0 Costa Rica June 28th 2024, h. 15:00 - GMT -7 Colombia 2 0 Costa Rica June 28th 2024, h. 18:00 - GMT -7 Paraguay 1 2 Brazil July 2nd 2024, h. 18:00 - GMT -7 Brazil 1 1 Colombia July 2nd 2024, h. 20:00 - GMT -5 Costa Rica 1 2 Paraguay Top 3 Place 1st 2nd 3rd Nation ARG URU BRA [/hide]

That kinda follows the first choice for Rapallini at the last Euro (Ukraine vs N.Macedonia) - a tricky game between South/Eastern nations of Europe. I also think Tello could get two group stage games + one knockout phase like Rapallini in 2021 - since he won't be doing Copa America.

Looks like a lot of people picked Belgium vs Slovakia for the joker... and missed

Tours are doing as best as they can. Olympics are mainly held in July these days and July is full of clay 250s which all the top players would skip anyway. The post-Wimbledon clay events are usually for lower ranked players or clay speciallists (some higher ranked players could enter them if they did bad on grass). Most top players are HC speciallists these days (Nadal who is on his last rites anyway and Świątek are exceptions from the rule). The two most important events during August are Canadian Open and Cincinnati. They are not getting moved and the week before USO is another 250 and new 500 in Mexico for women. Again, top players don't want to overplay one week before US Open. The entry list cut-off will be much higher than in Canada & Cincinnati. The days of 2000 when Sydney OG were in September and there was a two week break between US Open and the Olympics will not return. Back then the season ended in mid-November (YEC date) or late November for Fed Cup final. These days women end their season in mid-October and they still complain they play too much. ATP had their 2000 YEC in the last week of November. This year it's held in the second week of November. The overall schedule issue is that Olympics are held in the same year as European Football Championships which is getting longer with more teams allowed. The days of 8/16 teams Euro ending in the last weekend of June are over. You won't see UEFA Euro overlapping the Olympics anytime soon and NEVER if Olympics are held in Europe as well. Everyone has to fall behind, even Athletics ECh which literally ended on a Wednesday this year not to mess up with the UEFA event. As big as World Athletics are, they are third string compared to UEFA. The ideal Olympics schedule for tennis would be the second and third week of July. But that's not gonna happen with UEFA Euro stretching to mid-July these days. The 2008 schedule when Beijing was held in mid-August was also a killer, you had the USO swing either side of the OG (and most of it was front-loaded before OG anyway including all the Tier I events as they were called back then). Same thing happened in 2004 with Athens (also held in mid-August). In 2024 to have ONE 500 event in DC during the Olympics is as good as it gets. It saves them having to split the USO swing into two halves if the OG would be held in August all the time. That 500 will be a good chance for lower ranked players or those who didn't make the OG cut due to nations quota to get an event result on their ranking. And Sabalenka would be a bigger favorite to win Washington than she would be of making the OG final for instance IMO. Sorry for the long post but I do have an extended history of watching tennis so I'm not talking out of context here

Facundo Tello has been chosen as the referee for today's match between and It could be a bad temper match alright here. @LDOG@konig

Now the claim is he won't have a surgery and they will "manage" this injury.

And he got booked for entering the field without consent. I'm sure he will love Manzano in Primera Division?

wins 1-0!!!

VAR 2 Lukaku 0. Clear hand ball in the buld-up.

Belgium press on and Slovakia clears off the line.

And Lukaku is a chance killer again.

scores!!! No offside!!!

@kungshamra71That statue could become a prolific meme by the time Holland plays their second game. We need some Germans to establish whether it's actually Bismarck or not

Overall England vs Serbia was the worst game so far. Even the one-sided Germany & Spain wins were more fun (not for their opponents ofc). I have zero expectatons for Romania vs Ukraine. I don't recall when was the last time I watched the Romanian NT in action