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Getty ImagesSami MokbelSenior football correspondentNizaar KinsellaBBC Sport football news reporter13 minutes ago2 CommentsChelsea are in talks with AC Milan over signing France goalkeeper Mike Maignan.The Italian club value Maignan at about £25m but the Blues do not want to meet that price and are in talks about a lower fee.The 29-year-old has been a regular for Milan since joining on a five-year contract from Lille in 2021.He has also been first choice for France since Hugo Lloris retired from international football in January 2023, and has won 30 caps since 2020.Sources have told BBC Sport that Maignan would be interested in a move to Stamford Bridge.Chelsea have struggled to find a long-term option in goal since buying Kepa Arrizabalaga in 2018 for £71m, which remains the world-record fee for a goalkeeper.Two years later they signed Edouard Mendy, who left for Al-Ahli in 2023, while Kepa has spent the past two seasons on loan at Real Madrid and then Bournemouth.In the past two years Chelsea have also signed Robert Sanchez, Djordje Petrovic and Filip Jorgensen but the club appear unconvinced by all three.Petrovic spent last season on loan at Strasbourg while Sanchez and Jorgensen had spells in the Chelsea first team.Related topicsChelseaPremier LeagueFootballAC Milan

Getty ImagesJonathan JurejkoBBC Sport tennis news reporter at Roland Garros9 hours agoFrench Open 2025Dates: 25 May-8 June Venue: Roland GarrosCoverage: Live radio commentaries across 5 Live Sport and BBC Sounds, plus live text commentaries on the BBC Sport website and appLosing at the French Open is not something Iga Swiatek is accustomed to.Having won four of the past five titles at Roland Garros, the 24-year-old has become known as the ‘Queen of Clay’ – but her reign always felt under threat coming into this year’s tournament.Swiatek’s current frailties were exposed by world number one Aryna Sabalenka in a blockbuster semi-final on Thursday.Swiatek’s serve was obliterated by Belarus’ Sabalenka, who converted eight break points to end Swiatek’s 26-match winning streak on the Paris clay.”Iga will be back and she will be better,” said former world number nine Andrea Petkovic, who analysed the match for BBC Radio 5 Live.”I did think this year’s tournament was a huge step forward for her in terms of form.”Not a ‘bad’ tournament but Swiatek falls shortIn the eyes of many seasoned observers, Swiatek was the third favourite for the title behind Sabalenka and American second seed Gauff, who beat French wildcard Lois Boisson in Thursday’s second semi-final.Swiatek has been nowhere near her dominant best over the past year, failing to reach a final since last year’s French Open triumph and slipping to her lowest ranking since March 2022.After a chastening defeat in the Italian Open third round, Swiatek’s return to Paris offered positivity.”I think I already changed my mindset before this tournament,” said Swiatek shortly after her first French Open defeat since 2021.”Losing early in Rome gave me some time and perspective.”The former long-time world number one looked more like her old self as she rolled through her opening three matches without dropping a set.When a tougher test arrived against Elena Rybakina in the last 16, Swiatek fought back from losing the opening set 6-1 and answered more of the lingering questions around her form.She showed similar resilience in the opening set against Sabalenka, recovering from 4-1 down to force the set back on serve.Altering her return position helped Swiatek fight back from a poor start, where she was overwhelmed by Sabalenka’s power, and take the match into a decider.However, the fifth seed did not have the capability – or perhaps belief – to sustain her level and rolled over in a 22-minute third set.Overall, though, Swiatek felt she had positives to take from the past fortnight.”I played some quality matches,” said Swiatek, who has still won 32 of her 42 matches this season.”Now it’s probably not the best time to look at the wider perspective. “Probably it wasn’t a bad tournament, but obviously not the result I wanted.”Why has Swiatek’s form dipped?There are a mixture of reasons – on and off the court – as to why Swiatek’s level has dipped.Losing in the Olympics semi-finals in Paris last summer was a bitter blow, with Swiatek saying she cried for “six hours” afterwards.But later came a bigger bombshell – Swiatek had failed a doping test.It was announced in November she had tested positive for heart medication trimetazidine (TMZ) in an out-of-competition sample. She was subsequently given a one-month ban after the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) accepted the result was caused by contamination.Swiatek decided to switch coach at the end of last year, replacing Tomas Wiktorowski with Wim Fissette, and it is taking time for the changes she is making to bed in.The destructive forehand – her most effective tool on the clay – has lost some of its reliability, while her service game has been picked apart by big-hitting opponents.”Maybe she lost a little bit of a confidence, so that’s why sometimes you see her missing balls that she shouldn’t be missing,” said Sabalenka.”But overall, I think it was a really high-level match and she played really great tennis.”Sabalenka’s victory emphasised her position as the runaway leader on the WTA Tour and it is hard to see Swiatek challenging her on the Wimbledon grass next month.Sabalenka’s powerful game transfers well onto the faster surface, while Swiatek has never gone past the SW19 quarter-finals.”We know Iga doesn’t love that surface so I’m interested to see where she goes from here,” added Petkovic.”I think that is going to be very fascinating to watch.”Related topicsTennis

Getty ImagesHarry PooleBBC Sport journalist5 June 2025French Open 2025 men’s singles semi-finalsDate: Friday, 6 June Time: 13:30 BST Venue: Roland GarrosCoverage: Live radio commentaries across 5 Live Sport and BBC Sounds, plus live text commentaries on the BBC Sport website and appThe era of the ‘Big Three’ may be coming to an end – but the threat has not disappeared.Players born in the 1990s were restricted to just two Grand Slam singles titles between them as Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic diced up the major prizes for more than two decades.Two players born after 2000 have captured seven major titles between them.That is the current top two of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, who are on a collision course in Paris.But Novak Djokovic still looms large.The 38-year-old faces Sinner – who is 15 years younger than him – in Friday’s first French Open semi-final, having become the oldest man to reach the last four since 1968.”I think at the moment he’s a bit underrated,” world number three Alexander Zverev said after falling to Djokovic in four sets on Wednesday.”I think a lot of people count him out already, but this year he’s had wins over Carlos at the Australian Open, he has beaten me at the French Open. “Forget the age. For any player, those are pretty good results.”Defending champion Alcaraz, meanwhile, will look to continue his recent dominance over Lorenzo Musetti in the second semi-final.Djokovic is bidding for another slice of history. Win in Paris and he will secure a record-breaking 25th major singles title.But no man has defeated the top three men’s players to win a major since the ATP rankings were introduced.Djokovic is on a nine-match winning streak heading into the 51st major semi-final of his career. Victory in Geneva last month secured him the 100th tour-level title of his career – a timely confidence boost following a run of three successive defeats.That run included consecutive opening-round defeats to begin his clay-court season, and the Olympic champion entered Roland Garros in the unusual position of sixth seed.But he showed age is not inhibiting him as he won a 41-shot rally to save a break point in the fourth set on his way to beating Zverev in three hours and 18 minutes.He displayed impressive variety to disrupt the German’s baseline dominance with drop shots and serve-and-volley tactics.Sinner, however, will pose a sterner test. While their head-to-head record stands at 4-4, the Italian has won their past three meetings.The reigning US Open and Australian Open champion is on a 19-match winning streak at Grand Slam tournaments – the fourth longest this century after the Djokovic (30), Federer (27) and Nadal (25).He is chasing history of his own at Roland Garros, seeking to become the first Italian man to win the tournament since Adriano Panatta in 1976.In his 52nd week as world number one – despite serving a three-month doping suspension between February and May – Sinner could become the first man to win three consecutive majors since Djokovic in 2021.With unshakeable consistency and devastating precision, Sinner is yet to drop a set this fortnight before attempting to break down arguably the greatest defensive player the game has seen.Alcaraz looks to continue dominance over MusettiGetty ImagesAlcaraz appears to have hit top gear at the perfect time.After losing just five games in his straight-set quarter-final win over American Tommy Paul, the Spaniard said: “I could close my eyes and everything [would have gone] in.”My feeling today was unbelievable. I was trying to hit every shot at 100% – not thinking about anything else, just hitting.”The four-time major winner did not face a single break point in that match and will now target a sixth successive win over Musetti, having lost just one set in their previous five meetings.Musetti, whose sole victory over Alcaraz came in their first meeting back in 2022, has risen to sixth in the live rankings after moving to the brink of a first major final.The Italian will hope to offer greater resistance in their latest meeting after working to improve his serve in the off-season.”We shortened a bit the motion to have more control, and then I got more confidence in what I was having as a motion,” Musetti said.”Right now in really difficult situations, I make an ace or have my serve as a weapon, and it was a pretty big change for my game.”Related topicsTennis

Getty Images40 minutes agoEmma SmithBBC Sport journalistFrench Open 2025Dates: 25 May-8 June Venue: Roland GarrosCoverage: Live radio commentaries across 5 Live Sport and BBC Sounds, plus live text commentaries on the BBC Sport website and appBritish pair Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett reached the final of the French Open men’s wheelchair doubles for the sixth straight year.The top seeds beat Casey Ratzlaff of the USA and Japan’s Takuya Miki 6-2 6-3 amid increasingly heavy rain at Roland Garros.An ace from Reid sealed victory in Paris on the pair’s second match point.They will play either Tokito Oda of Japan and France’s Stephane Houdet or the duo of Spaniard Daniel Caverzaschi and Argentine Gustavo Fernandez in the final.Scotland’s Reid and Engand’s Hewett have won the past five titles at Roland Garros.They claimed victory in an hour and 14 minutes amid a sea of umbrellas on court 12, with all the other outdoor courts being covered to protect against the rain.Following a first set which saw six breaks of serve – four of them by the British team – the second was much more straightforward for the perennial champions, in spite of the conditions.It capped a slightly odd day for Reid and Hewett, which they started as opponents in the singles quarter-finals.Hewett, the second seed, triumphed 6-2 6-4. He will play fourth seed Fernandez in the singles semi-finals.Elsewhere, Britain’s Andy Lapthorne suffered double elimination in men’s quad wheelchair events on Thursday.The Englishman’s day started with a 6-4 6-4 defeat in the singles semi-final to top seed Niels Vink of the Netherlands.He then suffered another last-four loss in the doubles as, along with Dutch partner Sam Schroder, he was beaten in the match tie-break by Ahmet Kaplan of Turkey and South Africa’s Donald Ramphadi, losing 6-3 2-6 10-7.Lapthorne and Schroder, the second seeds, fought back from losing the first set by winning the second in 35 minutes, and were ahead in the first-to-10 shootout decider before suffering defeat against their unseeded opponents.Related topicsTennisDisability Sport