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TENNIS star Nick Kyrgios broke down in tears after being forced to retire due to injury at Indian Wells.
The 29-year-old was trailing Botic van de Zandschulp 7-6, 3-0 when he called a medical time out.
He became visibly upset, wiping away tears while receiving advice from his trainer and a physiotherapist.
Citing wrist pain, Kyrgios then retired from the match entirely.
He later admitted: “This process has been probably one of the biggest challenges I’ve faced in my life. In reality, it’s not too bad, but for my tennis career, it’s by far the biggest.
“Just the amount of work that goes in when I go back home or when I’m not playing, it’s not fun. I know that I can’t really be doing any more to try and get back and play.
“I guess it’s just the amount of work I put in and I’m still having so much discomfort in my wrist. That’s I guess why I got a bit emotional towards the end because it’s one of my favourite tournaments.”
Probed about his future in the sport, Kyrgios continued: “It’s all an experiment at this point.
“I was told I was arguably maybe not ever playing tennis again. [But] I feel I’m like right there. I feel like I can compete.
“I’m there, but if I’m not able to finish matches it doesn’t really matter at this point.
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“I’m not too sure right now. I don’t even… I’m not sure how it’s going to pull up tomorrow.
“I want to go out there and I want to compete. If I really didn’t want to play, I didn’t have to rehab, I didn’t have to try and get back on the court. I want to play.”
Kyrgios, who won Wimbledon as a junior in 2013 and was a finalist in 2022, has now lost all three matches he’s played this year.
He suffered a defeat to Jacob Fearnley at the Australian Open followed by a loss to Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard at the Brisbane International.
Meanwhile, Van de Zandschulp is set to face Novak Djokovic in the next round of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells on Saturday.
A WOMAN was reportedly sexually assaulted by a man on a train before he followed her onto another service.
A man boarded a train at Custom House railway station in London before he sat next to a woman and horrifically assaulted her shortly after 7pm on Wednesday, February 5.
After assaulting her on the Elizabeth Line train, he then followed her when she got off at Whitechapel station.
The man then stalked her through the station before boarding a London Overground train with the horrified woman.
CCTV images have now been released by British Transport Police of a man it wishes to speak to as it believes he may have information that could assist with the investigation.
British Transport Police (BTP) said: “Officers investigating a sexual assault on board the Elizabeth Line in February have today released these images in connection.
“Just after 7pm on Wednesday 5 February, a man boarded a train at Custom House railway station and sat next to a woman.
“He proceeded to sexually assault her, before following her off of the train at Whitechapel railway station and following her through the station and onto a London Overground train.”
The force is now looking for a man it believes could help with the investigation.
BTP added: “Officers believe the man in the images may have information which could help with their investigation.”
Anyone who recognises him is asked to contact British Transport Police by texting 61016 or by calling 0800 40 50 40, quoting reference 191 of 5 February.
You can also anonymously call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
CLEANING poo out of Britain’s rivers is the key to Labour beating Nigel Farage, a Cabinet Minister vowed today.
Environment Secretary Steve Reed said voters flirting with Reform need to have pride restored into their towns and cities.
He insisted disenchanted supporters will come back to Labour if they can see real progress in ridding waterways and streets of filth.
Mr Reed told The Sun: “Cleaning up our rivers will play a key role in defeating Reform.
“Farage doesn’t care about sewage.
“Labour’s new Water Act gives regulators the teeth they need to block unfair bonuses for polluting water bosses and bring criminal charges against lawbreakers.”
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It comes as Mr Farage yesterday accused Sir Keir Starmer of “giving up on attacking” the Tories and instead setting his sights on the anti-migration challenger party.
He told TalkTv: “It just seems to be Reform, Reform, Reform.”
Mr Reed acknowledged that voters in left behind towns and villages, particularly on the coast, are looking to alternative parties because their surroundings have become less beautiful and inspiring.
Sewage overflows and filthy streets have caused a loss of hope and pride in local communities.
In 2023 there were there were 3.6 million hours of spills – a huge rise on the 1.75 million hours recorded in 2022.
The Environment Secretary pledged to claw back disenchanted Brits by making waterways clean and sparkling.
He said: “Fat-cat water bosses lined their pockets with multi-million-pound bonuses – money that should have been used to clean up our waterways.
“We will unlock over £100bn of private sector investment to fund new sewage pipes and water treatment works to end the Tory sewage scandal once and for all.”
AN American astronaut has captured the eerie sight of Elon Musk’s Starship exploding over Earth after SpaceX’s latest failed test flight.
NASA spaceman Don Pettit snapped the dramatic breakup from the International Space Station (ISS) as the rocket disintegrated in the atmosphere on Thursday.
The Expedition 72 Flight Engineer said: “We saw the Starship 8 breakup in the upper atmosphere and fall back to Earth from the ISS.”
His photo shows glowing debris flickering in the distance next to a shell-shaped white cloud – likely the point of explosion – against the vast darkness of space.
The sunlit atmosphere traces an orange line over the blue planet below.
The 403-foot Starship rocket lifted off from SpaceX‘s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, at 6.30pm local time.
But minutes into the flight, the upper stage began spinning uncontrollably, leading to yet another fiery failure of Musk’s space company.
“During Starship’s ascent burn, the vehicle experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly and contact was lost,” SpaceX said.
“Our team immediately began coordination with safety officials to implement pre-planned contingency responses.”
The doomed rocket was supposed to make a controlled descent into the Indian Ocean.
Instead, it broke apart in a spectacular fireball over the Atlantic, scattering debris near Turks and Caicos.
The explosion triggered travel chaos, grounding flights at multiple Florida Airports.
Flights from Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Orlando had delays averaging 45 minutes.
Footage from a commercial flight captured Starship’s fiery disintegration, streaking across the night sky like a meteor shower.
Other clips showed glowing fragments tumbling towards the ocean, lighting up the darkness.
Despite the latest failure, SpaceX highlighted a small victory.
The Super Heavy booster managed to successfully return to the launch pad, and was caught by the company’s giant mechanical arms.
This is not the first time a Starship test flight has ended in an explosion.
In January, a launch failed eight minutes into flight, exploding over the Bahamas and scattering debris over Turks and Caicos.
Musk said on X at the time: “Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity.”
Putting a positive spin on the rocket failure, Musk also shared a video of the sky spectacle on with the upbeat caption: “Success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed!”
Passenger jets were forced to swerve the red-hot and glowing remains of the exploded SpaceX rocket that rained across the sky.
And dozens of commercial flights had to divert to other airports or stray course to avoid the deadly path of debris, with one video capturing the spectacle from the cockpit of a plane.
The FAA is now reviewing both Starship mishaps.
IN a shocking new podcast former football hooligans boast about never getting beaten and eulogise about the thrill of brawling on the terraces.
Hosted by retired boxer Tony Bellew it tells how everything from kettles to billiard balls to darts were used as missiles to terrify rival fans and the police.
Being part of these gangs is compared to being a religion or finding a new family.
But among the unrepentant thugs, glorying in what was known as the “English disease” during the 1980s, are reminders of the innocent lives lost to this ugly pastime.
There are the 15-year-old Leeds United fan Ian Hambridge who was killed during a mass riot at Birmingham City’s ground and the 39 supporters who lost their lives at the Heysel Stadium in 1985 alone.
Or 21-year-old Gerald Comerford who died when a brick was thrown at him on the way home from a game in 1977.
We also hear how the good Samaritan trying to save the life of a police officer, when Millwall ripped up Luton Town’s Kenilworth Road ground, was punched by a pitch invader and how undercover cops were threatened with pool cues when they infiltrated a notorious football ‘firm.’
There is certainly nothing beautiful about the game described by the people Everton fan Tony spoke to for the BBC’s Gangster Presents series Hooligans.
If somebody wanted to fight me, I’d fight them
Bill Gardner
Not that many of the punch-up loving ‘supporters’ show much remorse for their past.
West Ham fan Bill Gardner, 70, gloats: “I think I’ve had over 400 fights in my life, and I never got beaten. I’ve never had the fear that normal human beings have.
“I was never frightened when I was with my mates at West Ham.
“They all knew they could rely on me, and I would never leave them alone. If one of them went down, I would pick him up, and I would still do it today.”
Remarkably, Bill doesn’t consider himself to be a ‘hooligan’.
He argues: “A hooligan is somebody who smashes things up and breaks things. I’ve never done that.”
“If somebody wanted to fight me, I’d fight them.”
Tony’s six part podcast, which is streaming now, charts the rise of violence on the terraces and attempts to eradicate it from the country’s favourite sport.
It looks at the upbringing of the men and women drawn to the tribalism of a club’s most thuggish ticket holders.
Tony says: “What people misunderstand about hooliganism is that it was born out of frustration.
“What I’ve learnt through doing this podcast is that these people were doctors, they were solicitors, they came from all different walks of life and they go to these matches and have fights with other fans to escape their day-to-day lives.”
Londoner Bill says his mum used to “hit me with lumps of wood, lumps of rubber, plastic” and West Ham “made me feel at home.”
Chelsea fan Mark Alleway, who later found God, also felt drawn to the danger as a teenager.
What people misunderstand about hooliganism is that it was born out of frustration
Tony Bellew
He says: “If they had said at 14, 15, Mark, what do you want to be? I would have said ‘I want to join a football gang and I want to be a football hooligan.’ It was my life.”
While Cockney Al, the nickname for a Birmingham City hooligan, tells how he went “a little bit off the rails after my brother died” as a schoolboy.
He continues: “Once you get involved, you’re expected to get involved every week, and that’s what happened to me. I was 15, and we played West Ham on the night time at Birmingham and West Ham come out of New Street Station, and quite a lot of people feared them.
“Well, because I was from London, it didn’t bother me seeing 200 Cockneys come running out of New Street Station, so I run through our lot, and just run into West Ham.
“That was my first major fight and then it just grew from there.”
But even for Al, what happened at Birmingham’s St Andrews ground on May 11 1985, when they took on Leeds United, was too much.
As hundreds of supporters poured onto the pitch a kettle was launched from a trashed refreshment stand and a St John’s ambulance nurse was kicked unconscious.
The wild mob pushed a wall over onto 15-year-old Leeds fan Ian Hambridge from Northampton.
It was his first ever game and he died a few days later from his injuries.
Al says: “I remember my brother’s face when I got home. He just looked at me and he never said a word, never said a word. And that was enough.”
That might have been an accident, but what happened to Wolves fan Gerald Comerford in 1977 was not.
On the way home from a game he stopped in Cambridge when a brick was thrown out of the side of a car window at him.
It hit his jugular vein and killed him.
The men in the cars had been chanting “Cambridge, Cambridge.”
Former Chelsea youth footballer Robert Isaac had a very fortunate escape in October 1984 when he was cornered by a gang of Millwall fans.
Robert recalls: “They just piled in. And I remember going down on the floor thinking if I don’t get up now I could possibly die.
“So I managed to get up, don’t ask me how, I can’t even really remember it, got up and then just sort of charged through everyone and just kept running and running as fast as I could.
It felt like there was deep heat on my back
Robert Isaac
“And it weren’t until about a minute, two minutes later it felt like there was deep heat on my back or something. So I felt round, there was a lot of blood.”
Only his leather jacket had prevented the knife piercing his lung and killing him.
Trying to keep the rival gangs from battering each other to death was a thin blue line of police officers.
When Millwall supporters tore the plastic seats and anything else they could get their hands on at Luton Town’s ground in March 1985 33 cops were injured.
One of them, Andy Clark, says: “I got hit on the back of the knee with one of these pieces of concrete.
“So I remember being on the floor and thinking, I’m going to be run over and that there’s going to be a crowd come running across me and this is it.”
He adds: “A police officer had nearly died and had been resuscitated. And the guy that was resuscitating him was being punched and kicked at the time.”
The guy that was resuscitating him was being punched and kicked at the time
Andy Clark
Chief Constables knew they had to do more to stop the trouble makers.
Some of them asked their officers to pose as hardened fans in order to infiltrate the gangs.
But four of them were easily spotted when they went for a drink in The Crown pub behind New Street station in Birmingham in the last 1980s.
The doors were closed and they were surrounded by up to 20 people, some of them armed with billiard cues.
An officer says: “They were threatened and accused of being police officers, which of course they denied. They were actually sat having a drink with one of our targets.”
The hooligan target took offence at being accused of being a cop and everyone managed to get out alive.
Gangster Presents Hooligans. You can listen to all of the episodes from the series right now, first on BBC Sounds.
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