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Trump was clinical in his win over Hawkins, who scored only 59 points in the first five frames – the 45-year-old’s cause not helped by knocking in a red when attempting to disturb the pack while potting the blue in the opening frame. It was a foul that Hawkins repeated in frame four, by which time Trump was in full …

Nathan Aspinall breezed into the quarter-finals of the PDC World Darts Championship with a comfortable 4-0 win over Ricardo Pietreczko. The Englishman, seeded 12th, held steady at an average in the low 90s throughout the match – finishing on 94.28 – and his German opponent’s struggles meant that was all that was required. Pietreczko impressed in his 4-1 win over …

Emma Raducanu made a winning return from injury before Katie Boulter followed with another victory to secure Great Britain’s place in the Billie Jean King Cup quarter-finals. In the opening match of Britain’s first-round tie against Germany, Raducanu secured a 6-4 6-4 victory – on her sixth match point after an edgy finish – over Jule Niemeier in Malaga. The …

Boulter is ranked 33rd in the world after a year which has yielded two WTA titles and a breakthrough into the top 30. While she has been unable to go past the third round of a major, Boulter has regularly asserted her authority with her powerful baseline game. That is what happened in Tokyo as the gulf between Boulter and …