The 2018 British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships began in Nottingham today with quad singles players battling it out for quarter-final places at the Nottingham Tennis Centre.

Brazil, Russia, the United States, Ukraine and debutants Italy have all joined reigning champions China, hosts The Netherlands and Canada in the quarter-finals of the womens’ World Sitting-Volleyball Championships after the final group stage matches in Arnhem today. 

France have won three gold medals on the opening day of the International Canoe Federation (ICF) Canoe Slalom Under-23 and Junior World Championships in Ivrea in Italy.

World number 24 and home star Jeong Sangeun has suffered a shock defeat in the men's singles qualification round at the International Table Tennis Federation Korea Open.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have once again been forced to defend its proposed new rules on female classification - widely believed to be aimed at Olympic and World Championship 800 metres gold medallist Caster Semenya - after the influential United States-based Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) claimed it “undermines the spirit of sport”.

The first 2018 International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Paraclimbing Cup is set to take place tomorrow, in Briancon in France, nine months after the last Paraclimbing Cup, in October 2017.

British Skeleton's head coach talent Mark Wood has left his role, citing a decision to "pursue other opportunities" this summer, it has been announced.

The International Swimming Federation (FINA) Artistic Swimming World Junior Championships begin in Hungary tomorrow, with Russia looking to win all the golds on offer. 

Retired National Basketball Association (NBA) player and esports franchise owner Rick Fox will host the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) esports forum at Lausanne’s Olympic Museum here on Saturday (July 21), it has been reported. 

The United states lead in three classes at the 2018 World Youth Sailing Championships after day one, with the event being held in America for the first time in 30 years.

World Archery have announced the six events that will make up their new Indoor Archery World Series in 2018, which will replace the old Archery World Cup.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will work with the Dow Chemical Company to help make their new CHF200 million (£159 million/$207 million/€181 million) headquarters in Lausanne, Olympic House, more energy efficient, it has been announced.

The 2018 British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships are set to begin in Nottingham tomorrow, just two days after the end of Wimbledon.

North and South Korea are to join forces again and compete together at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Shinhan Korea Open.