No pedestals and no hashtags. Its tone of voice and its clarity have educated a nation – perpetually torn between cheering for and against – about tennis and its unwritten rules. Farewell to Elena Pero, the voice of tennis on Sky 

The defeats suffered by the men’s national team against Finland and the women’s team against Turkey have brought the Azzurri and Azzurre’s winning run in continental competition to an end. Italian volleyball, however, is looking ahead whilst holding on to the past, because a painful setback does not erase the sport’s golden era

The men’s national football team makes its Nations League debut against Belgium. The restoration of the ‘Mancien Régime’ is underway – ever new and elegant, just as the manager has always been able to reinvent himself time and again throughout his many careers as a coach

“I feel I’ve still got more in me, but in the swimming pool where I can see the bottom. In the sea, I’m afraid of sharks.” In the swimmer’s new chapter, her ambition remains immense, her obsession a little less so.

It has come to light with some delay that an Italian national football team has reached the final of the World Cup for humanoid robots, which took place in Beijing last month. Therefore, should interest in Mancini’s squad wane, attention can always turn to the national robot
team.

“My value isn’t just measured by the points I score, but by what I’m able to convey to my teammates, what I experience alongside them, and how well I’m able to gel with the team,” says the national team’s opposite hitter and captain of Numia Vero Volley

The first bankruptcy was in 2014, the second in 2019. Now Mens Sana is back in a national league, Serie B, after seven years. “We sought a different model, aimed at involving small investors who wanted to feel part of a revival project. So the team has truly become a treasure of the city.”

The president of the Moroccan Football Federation, Fouzi Lekjaa, is the face of the PAM campaign – the second-strongest party – even though he is not a candidate for them. The crisis in Ceuta, the social crisis and the promise of turning sporting success into political support

Two whole weekends without a league match, right at the start of the season, are a real blow. Not least because nobody really cares about the national teams – the players least of all.