Arthur Fery has become the story of Wimbledon 2026. The 23-year-old British wild card, ranked 114th in the world and without a single five-set win to his name a fortnight ago, beat former world No. 3 Grigor Dimitrov 7-5, 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(10-7) on Centre Court on Monday to reach the quarter-finals of his home Grand Slam.

It made him the first men's wild card to reach the Wimbledon last eight since Nick Kyrgios in 2014. The win took three hours and 55 minutes and followed the script Fery has made his own this week: two sets to one down, broken twice in the fourth set, and a mini-break down in the deciding-set tiebreak, before he reeled off six of the final eight points to close it out.

Two rounds earlier he had done much the same to Zizou Bergs, recovering from two sets to one and a double break. Before this fortnight Fery had won just one main-draw match at a major away from SW19. He now has back-to-back five-set wins from seemingly lost positions, and his ranking is projected to climb from 114 to around 63.

"I have no words right now," Fery said on court. "It's incredibly tough to put words to what I've just felt on a tennis court in front of all you guys."

He then turned to the Royal Box and a watching Roger Federer: "We've got probably the greatest of all time watching from the front row." For Dimitrov there was a cruel echo. A year on from retiring injured while two sets up on eventual champion Jannik Sinner at the same stage, the Bulgarian played some of his best tennis before falling just short again.

Fery's reward is a last-eight meeting with Roland Garros finalist Flavio Cobolli, who earlier ended fifth seed Alex de Minaur's run. Fery beat Cobolli in straight sets at the Australian Open earlier this year, the kind of omen a dream fortnight tends to attract.

Spain are through to the World Cup quarter-finals and Cristiano Ronaldo's tournament career is over, after Mikel Merino struck in second-half stoppage time to settle a taut last-16 tie 1-0 in Arlington, Texas.

For much of the night the two Iberian neighbours cancelled each other out, Portugal defending deep and Spain probing patiently without a clear opening. The breakthrough came when it was least expected, deep into added time, with Merino arriving to finish and send Luis de la Fuente's side into raptures. The goal stretched Spain's remarkable unbeaten run to 35 matches, drawing level with their longest in history, and kept the pre-tournament favourites firmly on course.

The result carried a heavier weight on the other bench. Ronaldo, who had said before the finals that this would be his last World Cup, walked off knowing his pursuit of the one prize that always eluded him is finished. The 41-year-old still leaves a mark on the 2026 edition as the first player to score at six different World Cups, having also notched his first knockout-stage goal at the finals a round earlier against Croatia. With the 2030 World Cup co-hosted by Portugal, Spain and Morocco, his global journey closes just before his own country helps stage the game's biggest event.

Spain now move on to a quarter-final against the winner of the United States and Belgium, with de la Fuente's young and fluent side installed among the favourites to go all the way. Portugal, so long shaped around their talisman, face a summer of transition. For one storied rivalry, the chapter ended with a single Spanish swing of the boot in Texas, and a quiet walk to the tunnel from the most prolific scorer the international game has known.

Tadej Pogacar turned the first mountain test of the 2026 Tour de France into a statement, powering away from his rivals in the closing 200 metres of the summit finish at Les Angles to win stage 3 and reclaim the yellow jersey.

The 196-kilometre stage from Granollers climbed out of Spain and back into France across the Pyrenees, packing in close to 4,000 metres of ascent before the short, sharp rise to the line. UAE Team Emirates controlled it from the front all day, reeling in the breakaway and setting a pace on the final climb that stripped the race down to the favourites. When Pogacar finally launched, no one could respond, and the world champion crossed with a two second gap to Jonas Vingegaard, Richard Carapaz and Paul Seixas. It was the 22nd Tour stage win of his career.

The overall lead came down to the finest of margins. Pogacar collected 10 bonus seconds for the win and Vingegaard six for second, leaving the pair level on 8:46:55 after three stages. Pogacar takes yellow only on countback, courtesy of his runner-up finish in Barcelona a day earlier. Remco Evenepoel sits third at 23 seconds, with Isaac del Toro, Juan Ayuso and Seixas filling out the top six.

The day was shaped by more than the racing. With a large wildfire burning around 60 kilometres away, organisers ran the final 40 kilometres inside France without the publicity caravan and asked fans to stay away from the roadside and the finish. The usual Pyrenean crowds thinned to almost nothing, a subdued backdrop to one of the race's marquee days.

Pogacar now leads the general classification and the points competition, and through del Toro his team also holds the white jersey. Whether he wants the burden of defending yellow for three weeks is another question, with Vingegaard glued to his wheel on identical time. Stage 4 heads from Carcassonne to Foix on Tuesday, a 182-kilometre run through Cathar country that looks made for the breakaway.

Novak Djokovic moved past Roger Federer into sole possession of the record for most men's singles match wins at Wimbledon on Sunday, though the landmark came the hard way. The 39-year-old needed four sets to see off 132nd-ranked qualifier Roman Safiullin, 7-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, on Centre Court to reach the quarter-finals for the 17th time.

It was his 106th victory at the All England Club, one clear of Federer and second only to Rafael Nadal's 112 wins at Roland Garros among men at any single major. Martina Navratilova's 120 Wimbledon wins remain the outright record.

The seven-time champion was made to work. Safiullin, who had never beaten a player of Djokovic's standing, held two set points at 5-3 in the opener before Djokovic clawed back to take the tie-break, then recovered from dropping the third set. The match was not without friction. Djokovic was warned for an outburst in Serbian, drew boos after swatting a ball away in frustration, and later apologised on court for what he called "the outbursts, the meltdowns."

The record itself did little to move him. "Not on my priority list," Djokovic said. "Didn't even know about it until after the last match win. That's really quite insignificant to me at the moment." His sights are set higher: an eighth Wimbledon title to equal Federer, and a record 25th Grand Slam singles crown.

Next he faces either Felix Auger-Aliassime or Alejandro Davidovich Fokina. "Survive to thrive, that's how I feel," he said after three hours and 26 minutes on court. "So hopefully the thriving part is coming."

England produced an instant World Cup classic at the Estadio Azteca on Sunday night, beating hosts Mexico 3-2 to reach the quarter-finals despite playing more than half an hour with ten men. In front of a crowd of over 80,000, the Three Lions became only the third team ever to win a competitive match at the famous stadium, and the first to beat Mexico there in a World Cup.

Jude Bellingham lit the fuse with two goals in barely 90 seconds, heading in on 36 minutes and again on 38 from a Harry Kane pass. Julian Quinones pulled one back from a corner before the break, and the tie swung further when Jarell Quansah was sent off early in the second half. Kane restored the two-goal cushion from the penalty spot after Anthony Gordon was felled, only for Raul Jimenez to convert his own penalty after VAR spotted a Kane foul.

That set up a frantic final half hour in which England, a man down, defended for their lives and held on. It was a night of milestones: Kane's goal was his sixth of the tournament and 14th at World Cups, moving him level with Gerd Muller on the all-time list.

"All the occasion, the team, everything against us, we found a way," Kane said afterwards. Bellingham called it "the best night of my England career."

Mexico's tournament ends on home soil, leaving the United States as the last co-host standing. England now travel to Miami Gardens to face Erling Haaland and Norway on Saturday for a place in the semi-finals.

Naomi Osaka produced the upset of the Championships so far on Sunday, overpowering world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka 6-2, 7-6(2) on Centre Court to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the first time. The 14th seed, a four-time Grand Slam champion on hard courts, had never before gone beyond the fourth round at the All England Club.

The result reversed a lopsided recent rivalry. Sabalenka had beaten Osaka in all three of their meetings this year, including at the same stage of the French Open last month. On the warmest day of the tournament, Osaka's flat, heavy groundstrokes flew through the court and Sabalenka had no answer. The match lasted barely 90 minutes.

For Sabalenka it was a startling collapse of several long streaks. It was her first straight-sets defeat at a major since the 2020 US Open, her earliest Grand Slam exit since the 2022 French Open, and it ended a record run of 21 consecutive major tie-breaks won. "She overpowered me," Sabalenka said. "Level-wise, today, I wasn't world No. 1."

Osaka, who returned from maternity leave in 2024, savoured a rare feel-good moment on grass. "It's been a long time since I've had so much fun on the court," she said.

Her win completes a remarkable clear-out at the top of the women's draw. With Sabalenka following second seed Elena Rybakina and third seed Iga Swiatek out of the tournament, all three top seeds are gone, guaranteeing a ninth consecutive first-time Wimbledon women's champion. Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula, the highest seeds left, also reached the last eight. Osaka next faces Karolina Muchova, who knocked out 2024 champion Barbora Krejcikova.

Erling Haaland has knocked Brazil out of the World Cup. The Norway striker scored both goals in a 2-1 win at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Sunday, sending his country into the quarterfinals of a World Cup for the first time and ending the tournament of one of the pre-competition favourites at the last-16 stage.

It is Brazil's earliest World Cup exit since 1990, a chastening result for a side that had topped its group and come through the previous round. Haaland's brace was the difference on the night. Brazil pulled a goal back but could not force their way to a decider, and the five-time champions were left to reflect on a knockout campaign that unravelled far sooner than anyone in yellow expected.

For Norway it is the high point of a remarkable run. A nation that had not reached the World Cup since 1998, and had never before strung together back-to-back knockout wins on this stage, now finds itself among the last eight. Haaland, who also struck the winner against Ivory Coast in the previous round, carries the tournament's most talked-about individual story into its business end, his club-level menace finally translated onto the game's biggest stage.

The result reshapes the top half of the draw and removes a favourite from a bracket that is suddenly opening up. Attention now turns to the other Sunday tie, co-hosts Mexico against England at the Estadio Azteca, and to the quarterfinals that follow across US venues, where Norway will arrive with nothing to lose and the most in-form number nine on the planet.

Tadej Pogacar had the stage win in his legs and chose to give it away. On the second day of the Tour de France, the four-time champion was perfectly placed to take the sprint into Barcelona but eased up and laid an arm across his young teammate Isaac del Toro, ushering the 22-year-old Mexican across the line first. It was a rare act of on-the-road generosity from cycling's most dominant rider, and it handed del Toro the biggest win of his life on his Tour debut.

The stage itself was a hilly 168-kilometre loop from Tarragona that climbed the 17th-century Montjuïc three times before finishing above the Catalan capital. Del Toro attacked inside the final 700 metres, drawing Pogacar up to him, and when the Slovenian came past he declined to contest the sprint. UAE Team Emirates had their one-two, and del Toro had a moment he will not forget.

"I'm super proud to have the level to manage these kind of situations," an emotional del Toro said afterwards. "I cannot believe I just did this. You cannot believe how it feels for me, especially for my country." A winner of the Tour de l'Avenir who came within a stage of the Giro d'Italia last year, he is increasingly spoken of as the closest thing the peloton has to a young Pogacar.

The gesture cost UAE little in the standings. Jonas Vingegaard, who took yellow with Visma-Lease a Bike's opening time-trial win, finished fourth on the same time and kept the race lead, though the bonuses on offer trimmed his advantage over Pogacar to six seconds. And del Toro, savouring the day, had a message for home: he urged Mexico's footballers to beat England in their World Cup last-16 tie in Mexico City later that evening.

The 113th Tour de France rolled out of Barcelona on Saturday for the Catalan capital's first Grande Départ, and it was Jonas Vingegaard who landed the opening blow in his rivalry with Tadej Pogacar. Vingegaard's Visma-Lease a Bike team powered to the fastest time in the opening team time trial, a 19.5-kilometre blast through the city that swept past the Sagrada Familia before a short finishing climb overlooking Barcelona.

The result handed Vingegaard the first yellow jersey of the race and, more tellingly, a 12-second advantage over Pogacar, who is chasing a record-equalling fifth Tour title. UAE Team Emirates, starting last in the staggered format, could not match Visma's ride. "It is still a long Tour obviously, but it is a perfect start," Vingegaard said. "My team did an amazing job today."

Behind the two favourites, the clock underlined how tightly bunched the contenders already are. Filippo Ganna sits eight seconds off the lead, Juan Ayuso trails by sixteen, and Remco Evenepoel, another rider expected to challenge for the podium in Paris, is nineteen seconds back after a single stage.

The Barcelona start is a statement for a race that has increasingly looked beyond France for its openings, and the crowds packing the finish suggested the gamble has paid off. From here the race stiffens quickly. The peloton crosses into the French Pyrenees within days, where the first mountains will begin to separate the genuine yellow-jersey candidates from the rest. Three weeks and 21 stages stand between this Barcelona opening and the finish on home soil, but Vingegaard has drawn first blood.

The defending champion is out, and a 21-year-old from the Philippines is the reason. On a raucous Centre Court on Saturday, Alexandra Eala dethroned Iga Swiatek 7-6(9), 6-2 in the Wimbledon third round, ending the Pole's title defence and carrying herself into the second week of a Grand Slam for the first time. No Filipino player had ever reached the fourth round of a major; Eala has now done it in the most emphatic fashion imaginable.

The first set was the match. Eala raced 5-2 clear in a wild tiebreak, Swiatek clawed back four straight points to hold a set point at 6-5, and the left-hander steadied to take it 11-9. Once she broke at the start of the second set and surged to 4-0, the result was no longer in doubt, though nerves crept in as she needed three match points to seal it before sinking to her knees on the grass.

Swiatek, a multiple major champion who had already survived a first-round scare against Taylor Townsend, unravelled with forehand errors and five double faults, at one point hurling her racket into her bag in frustration. The defeat means no woman has successfully defended the Wimbledon title since Serena Williams in 2016. It also swings Eala's head-to-head with Swiatek to 2-1, after the pair split meetings in Miami and Madrid last year.

The moment landed far beyond SW19. Fighting back tears, Eala dedicated the win to "all the little girls with ruffled socks and chubby cheeks" back home, where a nation better known for rallying behind Manny Pacquiao has found a new sporting obsession. She next faces former finalist Jasmine Paolini for a place in the quarterfinals. Second seed Elena Rybakina fell the same afternoon, beaten by Elise Mertens, as the top half of the women's draw came apart.