French Open: Fręch's defeat in 1st round

Magdalena Frech was eliminated in the first round of the French Open Grand Slam tournament. The Polish tennis player lost yesterday in Paris to the 10th seeded Russian Daria Kasatkina 5:7, 1:6. The meeting lasted one hour and 36 minutes.more

Grzegorz Krychowiak from Abha Club missed a penalty kick in the 1-2 away defeat against Al-Haz, last in the table, in the 34th round of the Saudi Premier League, ending the season. His team was also relegated to the lower league.more

Marten de Roon, a player from the Dutch national team and Atalanta Bergamo, will not play in the European Championships starting on June 14 due to an injury, the local federation informed. The "Orange" will be Poland's first rivals in group D.more

VfL Bochum players remained in the German top football league. In the return match, they won away against the lower class Fortuna Duesseldorf 3-0, making up for the losses from the first match, and won the penalty shootout 6-5.more

The famous Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, playing for the Al-Nassr Riyadh club, set the record for goals scored in the Saudi Arabian top league. In the last round, he scored two goals in a 4-2 win against Al-Ittihad and finished the season with 35 goals.more

Iga Swiatek won against Frenchwoman Leolia Jeanjean 6:1, 6:2 in the first round of the French Open Grand Slam tournament. The world-leading Polish tennis player is vying for her third consecutive and fourth career triumph in Paris.more

Robert Lewandowski scored a goal for Barcelona in a 2-1 away win against Sevilla to close the 2023/24 Spanish Premier League season. The Catalans finished second and the Polish footballer was the third goalscorer of the competition.more

Southampton FC, with Jan Bednark in the squad, defeated Leeds United 1:0 in the play-off final at London Wembley and secured their return to the Premier League after a year. The Polish national team defender played the entire encounter.more

Bayer Levekusen's footballers have won the German Cup for the second time. In the final played yesterday at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, they defeated second-league team FC Kaiserslautern 1:0. Among the defeated, Tymoteusz Puchacz played the entire match.more

Manchester United's players beat local rival and national champion Manchester City 2:1 at Wembley in London to win the FA Cup for the 13th time.more

Simone Inzaghi from Inter Milan was elected coach of the season in the Italian top league, and his Argentine player Lautaro Martinez received the trophy for the best player - informed Serie A. Inter secured the Italian championship on April 22.more

Girona crushed Granada 7-0 to end the club's best-ever season in the Spanish top flight. Ukrainian Artem Dowbyk scored a hat-trick. Coach Michel's team took third place and will make their debut in the Champions League.more

Serbian Novak Djokovic lost to Czech Tomas Macac 4-6, 6-0, 1-6 in the semifinals of the ATP 500 tournament in Geneva. This is another failure for the leader of the tennis rankings, who will start defending his title at the French Open Grand Slam in Paris in a few days.more

Coach Xavi Hernandez has been officially dismissed from Barcelona - announced the Catalan club, which will take second place in the Spanish football league. One of his protégés was Robert Lewandowski.more

Himalayan climber Piotr Krzyżowski from Bielsko-Biała reached the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest (8,848 m), without using additional oxygen. He did this just two days after climbing Lhotse (8,516 m), the fourth peak of the earth. He is the second Pole to conquer Everest without using oxygen from a cylinder.more

The legendary Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who ended his career in June last year, will be ceremonially farewelled on June 8 at the Friends Arena in Stockholm, right after the friendly match of the "Three Crowns" national team against Serbia.more

Fortuna Duesseldorf won away against VfL Bochum 3-0 (1-0) in the first play-off match for the right to play next season in the German top football league. The rematch will take place on May 27.more

World ranking leader Iga Swiatek and No. 8 seed Hubert Hurkacz will face qualifying tennis players in the first round of the Grand Slam French Open. Magda Linette has been matched up against Lyudmila Samsonova (No. 17), while Magdalena Fręch will play against another Russian - Daria Kasatkina (No. 10).more

Former Real Madrid and Spain national team coach Julen Lopetegui will be the coach of West Ham United from the new season, the English Premier League club announced today. The 'Hammers' goalkeeper has been Lukasz Fabianski since 2018.more

Last weekend, the legendary French fashion house unveiled a new instalment of its 'Core Values' campaign, which aims to celebrate ambition and determination to achieve. Louis Vuitton invited two of the world's tennis icons - Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal - to participate in the venture. The photographs were taken by acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz.more

Atalanta Bergamo defeated Bayer Leverkusen 3:0 in the Europa League football final, which was played in Dublin. The club from Lombardy reached for their first European trophy ever. The German champion, on the other hand, lost its first stakes match since 27 May last year.more

"I would prefer Iga Swiatek to win both the French Open and the Olympic Games, but it will be difficult because it's a difficult season" - announced the president of the Polish Tennis Association, Dariusz Łukaszewski, before the start of the second Grand Slam tournament of the season.more

Robert Lewandowski will remain an FC Barcelona player in the coming season, the Polish striker declared in an interview with Catalan daily Mundo Deportivo today.more

Bayer Leverkusen, unbeaten in 51 stakes matches so far this season, and Atalanta Bergamo, who are in with a chance of winning their first such important trophy, will face each other in the Europa League football final in Dublin tonight.more

Argentine Mauricio Pochettino is no longer coach of Chelsea London players, the English Premier League club has announced. The 52-year-old coach started working with 'The Blues' in July last year.more

Cristiano Ronaldo has been called up by manager Roberto Martinez to the Portugal national team for the European Football Championships, which will be held in Germany. For the 39-year-old striker, this will be the sixth tournament of this stature. He made his debut at Euro 2004 in Portugal.more

After her triumph in Saturday's final of the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome, Iga Swiatek has strengthened her place at number one in the world ranking of female tennis players. She is already 3,557 points ahead of second-ranked Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka. Hubert Hurkacz, on the other hand, moved up from ninth to eighth place in the world ranking of tennis players. Novak Djokovic remained the leader. more

Liverpool have hired Arne Slot as coach to replace outgoing Jurgen Klopp, the English Premier League football club confirmed yesterday.more

Bologna drew 3:3 at home against Juventus Turin in the match concluding the 37th round of the Italian Premier League football. The hosts' goal was defended by Lukasz Skorupski and his vis-a-vis was Wojciech Szczęsny. One of the goals for the visitors was scored by Arkadiusz Milik.more

Englishman Andrew Madley will be the main referee of the friendly match between the Polish and Ukrainian teams, which will take place on June 7 in Warsaw. In the following days, the preparatory matches of Euro 2024 participants will be hosted by, among others: Daniel Stefanski and Paweł Raczkowski.more