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Novak Djokovic has announced Croatians Marin Cilic and Borna Coric as the latest players to join an eight-man tournament to tour the Balkans.

Austria's Dominic Thiem, Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov and Germany's Alexander Zverev - all current or former top-three players - will also take part.

The first leg will take place in Djokovic's hometown of Belgrade on 13 and 14 June.

"I'll do everything in my power to be a good host," said the world number one.

The tournament could be behind closed doors with Serbia's coronavirus containment measures still banning large-scale gatherings.

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Three-time world champion Mark Selby hopes the return of snooker next week could attract a new audience to the sport.

The coronavirus pandemic has forced a widespread sporting shutdown, but snooker is set to be among the first major sports to return with a 64-player event behind closed doors in Milton Keynes.

The Championship League, featuring world champion Judd Trump and Ronnie O'Sullivan, will be on free-to-air television from June 1-11.

All players and commentators must be tested before the event and strict social distancing measures will be in place.

"It is great for everyone who follows the game," Selby told World Snooker Tour.

"The German football Bundesliga has been going, so that is the first sport back, but us being the second one is massive for snooker,"

"I think we could attract a lot of new followers as well. People are sitting at home, crying out for sport to be on TV."

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Amber Barrett says her FC Koln team has gone "from 0 to 60mph in a week" as it prepares for Friday's Women's Bundesliga resumption.

Koln face leaders Wolfsburg in the first of eight games in five weeks after a three-month Covid-19 break and with just over a week of full training.

"It will be tough on the body - that's the main concern for every team," said the Republic of Ireland striker.

"But everyone's in the same boat and we're going to take it head on.

"It just happened overnight - we heard we were going to get back into training and within 24 hours we were back and it was great to see everyone again," the 24-year-old told BBC Radio Foyle.

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Southampton striker Danny Ings has been talking about returning to training amid the coronavirus pandemic and also discussed his goalscoring form before the season was stoppped.

He told BBC Radio 5 live: “Going into the training ground, it took a day or two to adapt to all the precautions and the measures that are in place. All the lads are adapting to it now and we are getting some good work done.

“I was pretty calm, I was talking to the physios and doctors and they were filling me in on the protocols that were in place. For me personally, I feel safe going into training. It is very difficult with everything that is going on but with the government giving us the green light to get the organisation going in the safest and most respectful way possible, everything that is in place seemed to be OK so far.

“I have really pushed myself this season and it is great to be on a goalscoring run. It has been my favourite season I have had as a footballer overcoming a lot of stuff from previous years and really feel like I am coming into my own form at the moment. The goals are going in and I am happy."

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We've all missed football during the coronavirus shutdown right?

Well tonight we get a treat.

Bayern Munich v Borussia Dortmund. Robert Lewandowski v Erling Braut Haaland.

German football's biggest names meet on Tuesday evening and to make things even better there's a title on the line.

A win for second-place Dortmund would move them within a point of leaders Bayern with six games left, while victory for the seven-time reigning champions would put them seven points clear at the top.

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Reading's first-team players are to defer "a substantial percentage" of their wages for three months to help the club deal with the financial fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.

Manager Mark Bowen agreed to a similar salary deferral in April.

Reading returned to training this week, like other Championship clubs.

"This was the least we could do as we all try to get through the challenges that the coming weeks and months present," said captain Liam Moore.

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Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba will be fit for the proposed resumption of the Premier League.

Rashford was due to miss the rest of the season after a back operation in January while Pogba had a foot injury, but with both men now in group training ahead of Project Restart, Solskjaer has delivered positive news.

"They're looking good, they've joined training now and they've done everything the other boys have been doing. No reaction so far, touch wood," he told MUTV. "When we get started, it looks like we can have a full squad to choose from."

Former Tottenham striker Teddy Sheringham has told Harry Kane to make sure he does not waste his career. Kane's future has been the subject of speculation in recent weeks after he suggested that he would leave Spurs if he could not see clear signs of progress.

The England captain has been linked with a move to Manchester United - though the north London club have no intention of selling their star man - while Barcelona are also reported to have shown interest.

"At the moment, I would say his career at Tottenham - I know they haven't won anything - but his career has been going steadily forward. "I think it might be at a crossroads," Sheringham told Sky Sports.

"If they haven't won anything or they don't look like they are going forwards, then there could be changes. "Harry has only got one career and he wants to win things. My advice would be 'you only get one career, Harry, make sure you make the most of it'."

Iconic UK supercar maker and Formula 1 team McLaren plans to cut more than a quarter of its workforce after the coronavirus crisis hit demand.

The firm employs around 4,000 people but 1,200 of those are to be made redundant, the vast majority in the UK.

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Fans of La Liga sides Espanyol and Leganes with season tickets for the current campaign will be given free passes for the entire 2020-2021 campaign to compensate for missing matches because of coronavirus.

The Spanish top-flight is set to resume next month, potentially on 11 June, with 11 rounds of matches remaining but, as in Germany's Bundesliga, matches will be behind closed doors.

It is unclear when fans will be able to return to stadiums, with medical experts saying mass gatherings should be avoided until there is a vaccine, which is unlikely to be available until 2021.

Espanyol and Leganes are 20th and 19th in La Liga respectively so both could be relegated to the second tier.

Barcelona side Espanyol said in addition to offering its 27,833 season ticket holders free 2020-2021 passes, they would also reimburse 20% of the value of their current season ticket.

Earlier this month, Getafe became the first La Liga club to offer season ticket holders free passes for next season.

Iain Carter
BBC Sport golf correspondent

Tiger Woods is fit and firing, Phil Mickelson is a born entertainer and two legendary NFL quarterbacks can play half-decent golf.

Furthermore, Justin Thomas will have a big future in broadcasting if he ever needs it.

Despite prolonged Floridian downpours that threatened golf's second comeback event, there was much to enjoy from a contest that pitted Woods and Peyton Manning against Mickelson and Tom Brady in the The Match (2).

A total of $20m (£16.4m) was raised for Covid-19-related charities as Sunday's event proved far more worthwhile than its grubby forerunner, when Mickelson beat Woods to pocket $9m in November 2018.

You can read more from Iain here.

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AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has a calf injury and will be examined again in 10 days, the club have said.

The Swede, 38, suffered the injury in training on Monday andreports claimed it could be career threatening, external.

But, tests have confirmed the former Manchester United forward has injured his right calf, rather than his Achilles tendon.

"The Achilles tendon is perfectly intact," Milan said. "An examination will be carried out in 10 days."

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Premier League players could be 25% more susceptible to injury when football resumes because of the intense schedule, research shows.

Based on Project Restart's provisional return date of 20 June, Manchester City players could face 13 games in 49 days.

Research conducted by artificial intelligence platform Zone7, which specialises in injury risk forecasting and works with 35 professional football teams worldwide, shows that playing eight matches in a 30-day period increases the incidence of injury by 25% when compared with playing four to five matches in the same timeframe.

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Ligue 2 side AC Ajaccio said on Tuesday they are taking their case to France's highest court for administrative matters after their request for promotion playoffs to be staged was rejected.

The French Olympic Committee rejected requests by Troyes, Clermont and AC Ajaccio for playoffs to be used to decide on promotion to Ligue 1 after the French League (LFP) ended the season early because of the COVID-19 crisis.

With 10 games remaining, Lorient (54 points) were crowned champions and promoted to Ligue 1 alongside RC Lens (53). Third-placed AC Ajaccio (52), fourth-placed Troyes (51) and fifth-placed Clermont (50) will all remain in Ligue 2.

"We will immediately submit an appeal to the Council of State to ensure that our rights and sporting equity are respected," AC Ajaccio said in a statement.

Rory McIlroy believes this year's Ryder Cup will be postponed until 2021.

The Northern Irishman is one of a number of players whopreviously called for the biennial event between Europe and the US not to be playedthis year if spectators are not able to attend.

Whistling Straits in Wisconsin is set to host the event from 25-27 September.

"My personal hunch is that I don't see how it is going to happen, so I do not think that it will happen," the world number one told BBC Sport NI.

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And while we're on the subject of a bit of fun, how about a charity fight between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson?

The 5 Live Boxing podcast has caught up with Holyfield and he kind of poured fuel on the fire.

"If I ask him it's almost like me being a bully saying I want to go against somebody I've beaten twice," he added.

That sounds like a challenge Evander.

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So our last entry asked for you to get filming for this week's #GoalsAtHome challenge.

Here was last week's result. Keep an eye out for the mum, dad and lad effort sent in by one family.

Sensational.

So we've brought you a lot of serious news so far with the papers and news on mass gatherings. Let's have a lighter 10 minutes shall we? Good.

First up, you'll have hopefully seen your #GoalsAtHome series where we ask you to recreate a cracking goal at home.

Here is this week's request. Get shooting and filming.

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Two major sporting events held in March "caused increased suffering and death", the scientist leading the UK's largest Covid-19 tracking project has said.

Data gathered from millions of volunteers found coronavirus "hotspots" shortly after the Cheltenham Festival and Liverpool's Champions League match against Atletico Madrid.

Professor Tim Spector said rates of cases locally "increased several-fold".

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The Times leads on news that Silverstone could host the British Grand Prix in July despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. There's also news on Odion Ighalo's loan move at Manchester United coming to an end.

You can read about that here.

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