Former world champion Shaun Murphy was knocked out of the Champion of Champions event in Coventry by 15-year-old Chinese amateur Yan Bingtao.

Yan, who is still at school, secured a shock 4-2 victory over the 2015 Masters winner and 2005 world champion.

Murphy described his opponent, who had a top break of 74, as "potentially a great player in the making".

"Shaun is a tough opponent so I had nothing to lose and that took the pressure off," the teenager said.

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Joachim Low's side are staying in the five-star Molitor hotel on Rue Nungesser et Coli according to reports.

The world champions play France in a friendly this evening.

Rafael Nadal has been taking in the sights of London with his compatriot David Ferrer ahead of the ATP World Tour Finals, which starts on Sunday. 

"With my friend Ferrer enjoying another Master," posts the Spaniard on Instagram , externalwith Tower Bridge as a backdrop. 

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Saracens are "desperate" to win the European Champions Cup ahead of their first pool stage match at home to Toulouse on Saturday, says hooker Jamie George.

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Sarries were beaten finalists in the competition's previous guise, the Heineken Cup, in 2014.

"We have had a taste of it over the last three seasons and are hungry for more," George told BBC Radio London.

"It is one of the biggest club competitions in the world. It would be great to finally get our hands on it."  

Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo admits he still cannot understand what his former Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson is saying. 

The Portuguese describes Ferguson as a "father" figure who was vital in shaping his career during six years at Manchester United, but confessed to ITV chat show host Jonathan Ross that he still finds the Glaswegian's accent impenetrable.

"I still don't understand him. In the beginning, I had a translator, a Brazilian man, of course, basically only for him," Ronaldo said.

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Acting head of Uefa Angel Villar Llona has escaped a ban for not co-operating with investigations into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids.

The Spaniard, who led the joint Spain-Portugal bid, was warned and given a 25,000 Swiss francs (£16,377) fine.

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Fifa also banned Congolese Football Association vice-president Jean Guy Blaise Mayolas and general secretary Badji Mombo Wantete for six months.

They had been provisionally suspended so will serve the remaining 45 days.

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Shaun Edwards, whose contract as Wales defence coach expired at the end of the World Cup, says that he is "open to offers" but is concentrating on extending his seven-year stint alongside head coach Warren Gatland at the moment.

The 49-year-old former Wigan man also refused to rule out a return to league in a coaching capacity.

"Maybe I'll come back one day, who knows? I am in negotiations with Welsh Rugby Union at the moment about extending my deal but who knows, in the future maybe I'd be interested in maybe coming back," he said at his induction into the 13-man-code's hall of fame.

Jake White says he can win the World Cup again if he succeeds Stuart Lancaster as England head coach.

The 52-year-old South African is the bookmakers' favourite to succeed Lancaster, who left the post on Wednesday after England failed to make it out of their World Cup group.

White, who lifted the Webb Ellis Cup with South Africa in 2007, said: "I have a burning desire to win another World Cup. I can win the World Cup for England."

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England have won the toss and will bat first in the second ODI in Abu Dhabi. England are unchanged, Pakistan have made two changes: Mohammad Rizwan is back in for Bilal Asif and Iftikhar Ahmed replaces the retiring Younus Khan. 

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It was the showdown fans had been waiting for. And now they will have to wait a little longer because torrential rain in Buenos Aires forced Argentina's World Cup qualifying match with Brazil to be postponed on Thursday night less than an hour before kick-off. 

Officials ruled that the saturated pitch at Monumental Stadium in the Argentine capital was unplayable. Hail and lightning didn't help either. 

The South American superpowers will try again on Friday night. Both are struggling in qualifying with Brazil taking three points from their first two qualifiers and Argentina only managing one point, having yet to score a goal.

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Messi, Neymar, Suarez...Vardy?

According to the Daily Mail, external, Barcelona, along Real Madrid, told scouts to check out the form of free-scoring Leicester striker Jamie Vardy in tonight's international friendly between England and Spain in Alicante.

Barca's backroom boys will be disappointed however as the 28-year-old has tweaked a groin and so will sit out the meeting with the European champions.

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BBC Sport chief football writer in Alicante

England manager Roy Hodgson has given his squad an extended stay in Spain ahead of tonight's friendly against Spain in Alicante for some warm weather training.

And it is a bright and warm day here in readiness for a test that could be much stiffer than any Hodgson's England faced in winning 10 out of 10 Euro 2016 qualifiers.

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Chelsea's Diego Costa was on the lips of many yesterday as England's defenders brace themselves for possible combat with the striker.

Hodgson, however, insists no special instructions have been given for dealing with any potential provocation and that he has no reason to "villify" the man with the physical, argumentative approach whose struggles have mirrored those of his team this season.

Uefa vice-president Angel Villar Llona has been fined 25,000 Swiss francs (£16,376) and given a warning by Fifa's ethics committee for failing to co-operate with investigations into the 2018 World Cup bidding process.

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England bowler Stuart Broad tells BBC Radio 4 that the team have not ever found a suitable opening batsman to play alongside Alastair Cook since Andrew Strauss' retirement in 2012.

"Pretty much since Andrew Strauss retired, as a side no-one’s ever really nailed that spot down," said Broad.

"But there’s opportunities there, I mean Alex Hales averaged over 50 in the county championship last year, which got him a place on the Tour in the UAE. 

"He worked incredibly hard there, he’d love some runs in these one-dayers going on at the moment to try and cement that slot."

Andy Simms: Stuart Holden at #BWFC, external. You just knew he'd get injured as soon as he started his comeback from the last injury.

fquiren: Has to be Mark Webber. How that chap fails to win a championship is one of the greatest sporting mysteries in history.

Mrs B: Jockey Dick Francis on Devon Loch, 1956 Grand National.

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British 400m runner Martyn Rooney has questioned whether IAAF president Lord Coe knew of problems at athletics' governing body or had his "head in the sand".

It comes after a World Anti-Doping Agency independent report accused Russia of "state-sponsored doping".

Coe indicated "rogue elements" may have infiltrated the IAAF, where he was vice-president for eight years.

"It is pretty disrespectful to believe the vice-president did not know what was going on within IAAF," said Rooney.

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British steeplechaser Eilish McColgan reveals she was drug tested at 11pm on Thursday night. 

"We're the ones competing, living and breathing each day," says the Scot on The Victoria Derbyshire Show. "The fans are disappointed as well because they want to see a clean sport. I want to know we're all equal and we're all on a fair playing field."

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