It's with serve all the way through the second set so, at 6-6, we're into a tie-break which Andy Murray needs to win to keep the contest alive.

Murray might feel a bit demoralised going into it - he missed a couple of set points in the 10th game of the set.

Kyrgios, by the way, has calmed down a bit since his little outburst earlier and the crowd are back with him.

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Rafael Benitez has released a statement, saying it was "an honour and privilege" to manage Real Madrid.

Spaniard Benitez was relieved of his duties following a meeting of the club's board on Monday and replaced by B team coach Zinedine Zidane.

"I want everyone at the club from the board of directors, executives, workers and all of the fans, to know it has been an honour and privilege to be in charge at this club, where I grew up as a person, player and coach from the lowest categories through to the first team," said the 55-year-old

Full story here.

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It's getting a bit spicy.

Then again, considering it's a match involving Nick Krygios perhaps that's not surprising.

Despite the fact he's playing on home territory in Perth, the fiery young Aussie has just exchanged words with a few spectators and now the crowd have started to side with Andy Murray.

It's still going with serve though, Murray 5-4 ahead after losing the first set 6-4.

He needs this set to keep the match alive.

They couldn't conspire to throw this away, could they? Nick Compton's out for England, they're 87-4 at lunch, a lead of 89. 

It means that Ben Stokes is now in - how will he approach the situation? 

Andy Murray is fighting hard at the Hopman Cup in Perth against Nick Kyrgios.

He's lost the first set 6-4 remember and it all seemed to be going a bit pear-shaped when, at 1-1 in the second, he was 0-30 down on his own serve.

The Scot isn't world number two for nothing though, fighting back to take the game.

It's still going with serve, Murray 3-2 in front and starting to look as though he might just be gaining the upper hand. Then again, maybe we shouldn't speak too soon...

British cyclist Mark Cavendish is hungry for success in 2016.

The 30-year-old is targeting the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, an Olympic medal and victory in the World Road Championships.

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He has been training on both road and track this winter before a busy year.

"If I don't win any of them it is not a failure because they are the biggest things you can do in cycling," Cavendish told BBC Sport.

#Greedy

Read the full piece here

Worrying times for Andy Murray. He's lost the first set 6-4 against Australian bad-boy Nick Kyrgios in the Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia.

Murray was then broken in the first game of the second set, despite being 40-0 up, but Murray immediately broke back. Kyrgios then smashed a ball into the crowd in frustration.

We'll keep you updated on that match... 

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Ireland winger Tommy Bowe has ruled himself out of the Six Nations as he continues his recovery from a cruciate knee ligament injury.

The Ulster player suffered the injury during Ireland's World Cup quarter-final defeat to Argentina but hoped to be back in action early this year.

"Unfortunately it's a slow process and to rule yourself out of the Six Nations is disappointing," said Bowe.

Bowe expects to return for Ulster later this season.

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British number two Aljaz Bedene has reached the second round of the Chennai Open with a 7-5 7-6 victory over world number 39 Vasek Pospisil.

Slovenia-born Bedene, ranked 45, took one hour and 46 minutes to see off the 2015 Wimbledon quarter-finalist.

He will next face Italy's Luca Vanni, ranked 61 places below him, for a place in the quarter-finals.

Bedene, 26, is preparing for the Australian Open, which starts on 18 January.

January promises to be a key time for Newcastle United - L'Equipe in France are reporting that Newcastle United have put in a £19m bid for Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette. 

And according to Newcastle paper The Chronicle, external, it'll be a busy transfer window for Steve McClaren. 

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Former Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro has arrived at a Croydon Employment Tribunal for an initial preliminary hearing into her claim for constructive dismissal against Chelsea. 

Seen here with her husband Jason De Carteret, she also has a separate case against Jose Mourinho for alleged victimisation and discrimination.

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Keep them coming to #bbcsportsday

Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher and Robbie Fowler are in Sydney ahead of a Liverpool Legends match in the city, and it seems they're enjoying the sights of the city, although they'd probably have hoped for better weather... 

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Back to Liverpool's win at the Britannia Stadium and this was the verdict of Stoke boss Mark Hughes.

"People might want to criticise what we did in the first half but sometimes you have to credit the opposition," he said.

"They restricted what we wanted to do in terms of getting people around the ball and restricting space and they did that to good effect and we had to improve in the second half.

Meanwhile, Liverpool gaffer Jurgen Klopp said: "The only thing we can criticise is our finishing again. We had a good structure, played football good, everything was good but we don't make enough goals."

A hard man to please, clearly.

No get out of jail card this time for Joe Root.

He's just been clean bowled for 29 by Chris Morris and England are three wickets down and looking extremely wobbly.

Could the unthinkable happen? Live text commentary here..

Broady got plenty of support on Twitter.

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"You'll see on the replay, there's no way it was accidental. She threw the racquet and it hit the ball boy," Broady told the umpire in an on-court exchange.

WTA rules state that "players shall not at any time physically abuse any official, opponent, spectator or other person...for the purposes of this rule, physical abuse is the unauthorized touching of an official, opponent and spectator or other person."

Players can be disqualified for incidents by the umpire and fined up to $10,000 (£6,830) for each violation.

"Jelena commented that my behaviour was terrible, which I thought was a bit out of order considering the events that had gone on in the match," said Broady of the row.

When all the excitement subsides, the Brit will play American Sloane Stephens in the next round.

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It's not often you get a really good story emerging from the ASB Classic (a tennis tournament in Auckland, in case you're wondering). But today we do.

British number three Naomi Broady followed up victory in the opening round over former world number one Ana Ivanovic with a three-set win over Jelena Ostapenko.

But the real story isn't that but the fact that Ostapenko escaped disqualification for throwing a racquet at a ball boy.

The Latvian claimed her racquet slipped from her hand in the second-set tie-break and was let off with a warning.

It led to some unusually spicy exchanges, Broady disagreeing and saying her opponent should be "straight disqualified."