• Konta is first British woman in quarters since 1983• ‘I’m hoping to go one or two more steps better’Johanna Konta conquered her nerves and her opponent, Karolina Pliskova, in three compelling sets here on Sunday to become the first British woman to reach the quarter-finals of the US Open...

Spurs were an incisive attacking machine thanks to Eriksen but, as Arsenal’s influence grew, their dependency was evidentBolt the door. Cut the phone line. Gum the Real Madrid email servers with a barrage of online phishing scams. If Daniel Levy really is the master of the dark arts of transfer...