Benedict Cumberbatch, Riz Ahmed, Dua Lipa and Annie Lennox are among 300 public figures to have signed an open letter calling on UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to end the country’s “complicity” in the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. “We urge you to take immediate action to end the UK’s complicity in the horrors in Gaza,” …

Jack Draper had to deal with the boos of a partisan crowd as he eventually subdued the mercurial Gael Monfils, one of tennis’s great entertainers, in a brilliant yet baffling encounter on Court Philippe-Chatrier.

Gael Monfils would have liked to stick around longer than the second round at his 18th French Open but said he felt no shame in bowing out to Jack Draper on Thursday, happy just to have "teased" a player whose game he loves.