Serena Williams suffered a dramatic first-round defeat on her return to singles tennis at Wimbledon on Tuesday as she succumbed to inspired Australian youngster Maya Joint, while Iga Swiatek started her title defence with a nervy win.

French Open champion Alexander Zverev came through a testing four-set battle with Belgian debutant Alexander Blockx to reach the Wimbledon second round on Tuesday.

Reigning champion Jannik Sinner twice fought back from a set down to battle past Serbia's Miomir Kecmanovic and avoid a huge shock in the Wimbledon first round on Monday.

Twelve months after Sinner and women's champion Iga Swiatek captivated Wimbledon with their respective triumphs, the All England Club storylines are richer and more varied than ever.

Sponsored by Anjan's, and organised by SSP Sporting Club with support from the Bangladesh Chess Federation, the day-long, eight-round Swiss-system event featured 169 players.

Tennis great Serena Williams, who retired in 2022, has been awarded a wildcard for the Wimbledon grass court championships starting in a week.

Bangladesh lost one of its finest sporting icons on Saturday.

Bangladesh will draw confidence from their recent success against Pakistan in white-ball cricket when they face their South Asian rivals in a crucial Women's T20 World Cup on Saturday.

Abdus Sadeque, a pioneering figure in Bangladesh hockey, passed away on Sunday morning at a hospital in Dhaka.

Serena Williams suffered a straight sets defeat in the Berlin Open doubles on Tuesday, hours after the confirmation of her return to Wimbledon to play alongside her older sister Venus.

Women's International Master (WIM) Wadifa Ahmed began her campaign at the World Youth Chess Championship with a defeat, losing to Poland's FIDE Master Klara Szczotka in the Girls' Under-18 category in Montesilvano, Italy, on Monday.

Lewis Hamilton claimed his first victory for Ferrari on Sunday at the Barcelona-Catalunya Formula One Grand Prix, ending championship leader Kimi Antonelli's five-race winning streak.

Bangladesh's professional golf landscape has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past decade.

Wimbledon's 20 percent increase in prize money has been welcomed as a "significant step forward" by the sport's top players.

Bangladesh women's hockey is set to receive a further boost after BRAC Bank committed Tk 2 crore towards the development of the women's game in partnership with the Bangladesh Hockey Federation (BHF).

Alexander Zverev finally secured his maiden Grand Slam title with a dramatic five-set victory over Italy's Flavio Cobolli in the French Open final on Sunday.

Maja Chwalinska will bid to become only the second qualifier in the professional era to win a Grand Slam title on Saturday after a run that has been "hard to process", but faces her toughest test yet in the final against Mirra Andreeva.

Mirra Andreeva won her first Grand Slam title on Saturday by downing Polish qualifier Maja Chwalinska in straight sets in the French Open final.

Alexander Zverev moved to the verge of a long-awaited first Grand Slam title as the second seed saw off Jakub Mensik in four sets on Friday to set up a French Open final against Flavio Cobolli.

Chwalinska will meet Russian eighth seed Mirra Andreeva in Saturday's title-decider.