Day Six report: Never even liked tennis anyway.
Andy Murray’s illustrious career comes to an end at Roland Garros, Simone Biles wins another Olympic title and Great Britain’s rowers win another three medals.
TOP STORY – Andy Murray’s career comes to an end
Andy Murray’s career came to an end at Roland Garros after he and Dan Evans lost 6-2 6-4 to USA’s Tommy Paul and Taylor Fritz.
The American duo were dominant throughout the match with Murray and Evans only showing brief glimpses of another comeback.
Murray has had a distinguished career. He has won two Wimbledon titles, the US Open and led Great Britain to a Davis Cup.
He also won gold at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics and been world number one in the era of Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal.
Following Murray’s career has been a stressful and emotional experience at times but there is no doubt that he will be missed.
He later joked online that he “never even liked Tennis anyway.”
Elsewhere at Roland Garros, Carlos Alcaraz is through to the men’s semi-finals after beating America’s Tommy Paul 6-3 7-6. He is joined by Djokovic who beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-5 6-3.
Katie Boulter and Heather Watson are out of the women’s doubles after losing 3-6 1-6 to Italian duo Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani in the quarter-finals.
GYMNASTICS
Simone Biles secured her second gold medal in Paris after winning the women’s all-round gymnastics title.
After two rotations, Brazil’s Rebecca Andrade and reigning Olympic champion Sunisa Lee led Biles in the standings.
The eventual silver and bronze medalists performed superbly but were ultimately unable to beat the greatest gymnast of all time.
Biles finished with an excellent floor routine and won with a score of 59.131. She becomes the first female gymnast to win multiple all-round golds since the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
ROWING
Team GB’s rowing team won more medals in Paris today than they did in the whole of the Tokyo Olympic regatta.
Two-time Olympic champion Helen Glover was made to settle for silver in the women’s coxless four after narrowly losing out on a gold medal to the Netherlands.
Glover, Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten exchanged the lead with the gold medallists several times before being edged out by 0.18 seconds.
In the men’s coxless four, David Amber, Freddie Davidson, Matt Aldridge and Oli Wilkes recovered from a difficult start to win bronze.
In the first final, Rebecca Wilde and Mathilda Hodgkins Byrne unexpectantly won bronze in the women's double sculls.
SWIMMING
Katie Ledecky won her 13th Olympic medal to become the most decorated female Olympian of all time after the USA won silver in the 4x200m freestyle relay. Australia set an Olympic record to win gold in a time of 7:38:08. China won the bronze medal.
Léon Marchand continued his march towards a fourth Olympic gold by winning his semi-final in the 200m individual medley.
HOCKEY
Great Britain men’s team had to come from behind for the third match in a row to beat the hosts 2-1.
Goals from Zach Wallace and James Albery secured the victory to move into second place in Pool A and qualify for the quarter finals. They play world champions Germany in their last match on Friday with a win needed to top the pool.
GB women’s team have also qualified for the quarter finals after beating the USA 5-2 in Pool B. They went 1-0 down early on before Sophie Hamilton equalised. Tess Howard scored a brace in the second quarter to put GB 3-1 up before the US pulled one back before half time.
However, Hannah French and Sarah Jones scored two goals in quick succession to secure qualification with one match to play. They play Argentina in their last match with a win needed to avoid a harder quarter final match.
BMX RACING
Team GB’s Bethany Shriever and Kye Whyte are through to the men’s and women’s semi-finals in BMX Racing. Shriever - the current women’s Olympic champion – won all three races to qualify comfortably in the high-octane event.
Whyte had a tougher time. The silver medallist from Tokyo finished fifth, third and fourth in his three races despite suffering with a back injury.
The semi-finals are on Friday.
TEAM GB INJURY NEWS
Team GB’s 16-year-old sensation Sky Brown has dislocated her shoulder ahead of next Tuesday’s Skateboarding event. According to BBC Sport, she is now in a race against time to prove her fitness.
Brown won a bronze medal in Tokyo at the age of 13.
British Athletics medal hopeful Jake Wightman has been forced to withdraw from the Olympics after suffering from a hamstring injury.
The 2022 1500m world champion had been concentrating on the 800m since being plagued with injuries in the last few years.
