American third seed Stephens surged into Sunday’s final against world number one Halep after overpowering Svitolina 6-3, 6-3 in the day’s second semi-final.

Stephens had dominated the first set, scoring two early breaks to race into a 4-0 lead against a hesitant Svitolina.

Svitolina rallied briefly to get back to 5-3 but then handed Stephens another break and the first set when she sent a forehand wide.

The second set was a similar story, with Stephens going 3-1 up after an early break.

The 25-year-old from Florida then overcame a wobble in the fifth game, double-faulting three times before eventually holding for a 4-1 lead and closing out the set.

US Open winner Stephens will go against Halep on Sunday, having only beaten the Romanian twice in their previous eight meetings.

Halep, who defeated Stephens in three sets at Roland Garros in June, earlier cruised past Australia’s Ashleigh Barty 6-4, 6-1 to book her place in the final.

Halep was in control from the outset against a nervous-looking Barty, whose challenge was undone by a string of unforced errors.

Barty was in trouble on her opening service game, an error giving French Open champion Halep a break point which she duly converted with a superb backhand crosscourt winner.

The next three games went with serve to leave Halep 3-1 up and the 26-year-old then bagged her second break in the fifth game when another Barty error let Halep off the hook to take the game to deuce.

A sensational backhand winner down the line gave Halep a break point and when Barty limply returned into the net on the next exchange she found herself 4-1 down.

Barty grabbed a consolation break of serve to make it 4-2, but was unable to claw back another break as Halep took the first set 6-4.

Halep went for the jugular in the second set, opening with two quick breaks to take a 3-0 lead. Barty offered a flicker of resistance in the fourth game after earning three break points to go to 0-40.

But once again Halep’s experience came to the fore and she fought back to deuce and saved another break point before holding for 4-0.

Both players then held before Halep soon took three match points at 0-40 in the seventh game.

Barty fought back to deuce to delay the inevitable, but Halep secured another break to reach her third Canadian final in four years.

Fourth-ranked Koepka, who had stretched the lead as large as five shots, fired a four-under par 66 to stand on 12-under 198 after 54 holes at Bellerive Country Club in the year’s final major event.

Koepka, who became the first back-to-back US Open winner since 1989 in June at Shinnecock, birdied five of the first nine holes but stumbled with bogeys at 14 and 15 only to boost his lead with a birdie at the par-5 17th.

“I played pretty well. Got off to a hot start,” Koepka said. “On the back just made a couple bad swings. It was nice to right the ship there. Made a couple of key putts. I feel really good.

“I just have to stay in the moment, don’t think about anything else, just come out and play tomorrow.”

Australian Adam Scott, the 2013 Masters champion, was second on 200 after shooting 65 Saturday with Spain’s Jon Rahm and Americans Rickie Fowler and Gary Woodland, each chasing his first major title, sharing third on 201.

“Brooks had a massive lead and then two holes later it was one shot,” Rahm said. “Going into the back nine on Sunday, anything within three shots is doable.”

Woods, a 14-time major champion in his comeback season from spinal fusion surgery, fired a 66 to share fourth on 202 with second-ranked defending champion Justin Thomas, 2009 British Open winner Stewart Cink, Ireland’s Shane Lowry, Australia’s Jason Day and South African Charl schwartzel.

Woods birdied five of the first eight holes then closed with 10 consecutive pars and finished four off the pace of Koepka, who took his second consecutive US Open triumph in June at Shinnecock.

“I could’ve been a little bit closer but I’ve got a shot going into tomorrow,” Woods said. “I hit it good on the back nine. I just didn’t make anything. I struggled to hit it as the greens were getting slower. I just have to make the adjustments better than I did.”

– Turning back the clock –

The 42-year-old former world number one finished off the last 11 holes of a storm-halted second-round 66 Saturday morning, then delighted spectators with a sizzling afternoon start.

“Tiger was performing great. It was just like turning back the hands of a clock,” said Cink, who played alongside Woods.

Koepka, who missed the Masters with a left wrist injury, could become only the fifth player to win the US Open and PGA Championship in the same year, the first since Woods in 2000.

Aussies Scott and Day were playing with their thoughts on Jarrod Lyle, the Aussie golfer who died Wednesday after a long battle with leukemia.

“It has been a very difficult week,” Scott said. “We’re all sending our thoughts back to his family in Australia.”

Hoisting the Wanamaker Trophy could be a major tribute as weell.

“I’m playing some good golf. I just need to shoot a lot one to try to get these guys. The course is gettable if you’re shooting from the fairways,” Scott said.

Woods, who has never won a major title when not leading after 54 holes, won his most recent major at the 2008 US Open and has not won any event since the 2013 WGC Bridgestone Invitational, although he led late on Sunday in last month’s British Open.

– A toll on Tiger –

“I’m tired. It just takes a lot out of you,” Woods said. “I played 29 holes in the heat. It takes it out of you not just physically but mentally.”

After an early birdie binge, Woods made a tension packed par putt at 10.

“It was a big putt,” he said. “I had a lot of momentum going. I didn’t want to lose any there.”

But he three-putted from 19 feet to par the par-5 17th, saying, “I got too aggressive and it cost me.”

Britain’s Matt Wallace made the first hole-in-one of the tournament, using a 5-iron for an ace at the 232-yard, par-3 16th hole.

Wallace, with European Tour wins at the Indian Open and BMW International Open this year, watched the ball bounce twice and roll the final few feet into the cup.

And they’re doing a pretty good job.

Scott, the 2013 Masters champion, fired Saturday’s low round, a five-under-par 65, to stand second on 10-under 200, two strokes behind US leader Brooks Koepka after 54 holes at Bellerive Country Club.

World number 10 Day, the 2015 PGA Championship winner, shares sixth in a pack on 202 with four other major champions, including Tiger Woods.

“There are going to be about 10 of us looking for that round of the year,” Scott said. “Someone will go out and do it and I’m glad I’m in that position that it could be me.”

But the golfer most on their minds this week is their friend Lyle, who battled blood cancer for years, twice thinking he had beaten it only for it to return, leaving behind a wife and two children.

“It would be more than twice the thrill for me,” Scott said of what a win would mean Sunday. “But I think no matter who wins tomorrow, if that person has met Jarrod Lyle, they will have felt something with him passing.”

The Aussies feel it especially hard. Day was in tears talking about Lyle on Thursday after his opening round.

“It’s hard because you sit there and you know him and he’s a buddy of yours, and he’s not there anymore. He’s never going to come back,” Day said. “That’s the hardest thing to sort of come by.

“I lived across the street from him when we first started out in Orlando. He’s a good buddy of mine. It’s obviously heartbreaking.”

Being away from others touched by the loss in Australia makes it tougher.

“It has been such a difficult thing for us to get our heads around because we’ve been removed from Jarrod and his family back in Australia and everything happening so suddenly,” Scott said.

“I don’t even really know if we have all really had time to reflect on it and let it sink in. But I think that a part of everyone is playing for Jarrod out here this week.”

Beyond that, the Aussies have some positives of their own to create.

Scott, ranked 76th, needed a special invitation from the PGA of America just to compete in his 70th consecutive major, last missing one at the 2001 US Open. And he has not been in the hunt at a major often since his green jacket win five years ago.

“I’m going to relish it tomorrow because if it’s another five, basically you’re wheeling me out to pasture,” Scott said. “I want to make the most of this and hopefully it’s the start of some continued form in the big tournaments.”

– ‘Juices were flowing’ –

Scott took a bogey at 15 but answered with birdies at the par-3 16th and par-5 17th, the same holes Day said were likely to play a pivotl role Sunday.

“Definitely playing 17 the juices were flowing a little bit,” Scott said. “I was feeling like I’m in the tournament and certainly has been a while since I’ve really been feeling that.

“It has been quite a while since I was really in contention. Which has been quite frustrating.

Day expects a grind but hopes to be in the zone.

“It hasn’t felt easy but hopefully it comes easy for me tomorrow. Hopefully, I get in the zone, and it just becomes automatic,” Day said.

“There’s definitely a 64, 65 out there for sure. There’s one in me definitely. I know I can do that.”

Jakarta and Palembang in Sumatra are set to host about 11,000 athletes and 5,000 officials from 45 Asian countries for the August 18 to September 2 Games, the world’s biggest multi-sport event behind the Olympics.

Indonesia started with less time than most host countries after it agreed to hold the Games when Vietnam pulled out.

However, officials say they are ready to take the Games in their stride.

“There are no problems for the preparation so far, even if we have problems we will solve them right there right then,” chief organiser Erick Thohir told journalists Thursday.

Seventy percent of tickets have been sold for the opening ceremony in the capital Jakarta next Saturday, he added.

Despite worries about Jakarta’s notorious traffic congestion, authorities say the implementation of an odd-even licence plate system is already bearing results.

“Traveling speed has improved by almost 60 percent, while travel time has improved 43 percent from 15.56 minutes per km to 8.86 minute per km,” Jakarta’s transportation agency chief, Andri Yansyah, told AFP.

Athletes and officials will travel on dedicated road lanes and schools will be closed to take the daily commute of millions of pupils out of the equation.

When Indonesia last hosted a major sports event, the 2011 SEA Games, two people died in a stadium stampede at the football final in Jakarta.

In a bid to safeguard the event, some 40,000 troops and police officers will be deployed in Jakarta and Palembang.

Indonesia suffered its deadliest terror attack in more than 10 years in May when suicide bombers killed 13 people in the nation’s second-biggest city Surabaya.

Police say they have been rounding up terror suspects and petty criminals in a pre-Games crackdown.

Haze headache

Haze from forest fires in Sumatra remains another potential headache for events in Palembang.

But Indonesian meteorologists have been monitoring weather conditions closely and extinguishing hotspots.

“We have been conducting weather modification efforts since May, including cloud seeding and water bombing,” Hary Tirto Djatmiko, spokesman for national meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency, told AFP.

The Games’ preparation has not come without hiccups, however.

Indonesians have made a mockery of the Jakarta government’s decision to cover a toxic river near the athletes’ village with black nylon mesh over fears it will be an eyesore at the showpiece event.

Similarly, the city council was ridiculed for erecting Games’ banners with spelling mistakes.

Some social media users have also questioned why city sanitation workers — and not artists — were chosen to paint Games’ murals in parts of the city.

Palembang briefly made headlines last month when irate football fans ripped plastic seats from the stands after the home team lost and hurled them onto the pitch at a stadium scheduled to host the event.

Still, excitement is building ahead of the Games.

“The Asian Games atmosphere is quite obvious here in Palembang, we have murals everywhere and our LRT (light rail) is already running,” Palembang resident Nicky Anggraini told AFP.

“I’m definitely going to watch the Games, I can’t wait,” she added.

A Bellerive Country Club course that had earlier flirted with surrendering the lowest rounds in major golf history was soaked by showers, leaving a tantalyzing prospect for 14-time major champion Woods as half the field of 156 that resumes play Saturday morning.

“I felt I was headed in the right direction,” Woods said. “Tomorrow is going to be a long day for a lot of us. The good thing is we’re going to have the greens prepared before we go back out there.”

Competition will resume at 7 p.m. (1200 GMT) with about 3 1/2 hours of play to complete before making the cut. Organizers said the third round will be played in threesomes and off the first and 10th tees starting 30 minutes after the second round ends.

Woodland fired a four-under par 66 to lead on 10-under 130, one stroke ahead of British Open runner-up Kevin Kisner with two-time US Open champion Brooks Koepka third on 132. Top-ranked Dustin Johnson, South African Charl Schwartzel and Belgium’s Thomas Pieters were on 133.

“I feel safe where my game is,” Woodland said. “I’m not too worried with what anyone else is doing out there.”

Koepka, Kisner and Schwartzel thrilled the crowd by chasing the all-time record low men’s major score of 62 set by South African Branden Grace in the third round at the 2017 British Open at par-70 Royal Birkdale.

Schwartzel and Koepka settled for 63s, matching the tournament record with the first same-day 63s in the event’s 100-year history, while Kisner shot 64.

“I’m all right with it,” Kisner said. “I knew I was playing well and had made a few birdies. I like my position going into the weekend.”

Woods, a 14-time major champion in the eighth month of his comeback from spinal fusion surgery, was 3-under after seven holes. Only two rounds still on the course were better and those were from players further off the pace than the 42-year-old former world number one.

Woods sank a 14-foot birdie putt on the second hole, a five-footer for birdie at the par-3 third and a 10-foot birdie putt at the fifth. At the par-3 sixth he blasted out to 14 feet and sank the clutch par putt, then parred seven before the storm struck.

– Three near-misses for 62 –

Koepka, who started on the back nine, birdied the par-5 eighth and had a 20-foot birdie putt at the ninth for 62 but rolled it three feet past and made the comeback to shoot 63.

“I didn’t know,” Koepka said. “I was just trying to make the thing. I thought I had made it. Sometimes you are in your own mind and don’t know where you are at.”

Koepka defended his US Open crown in June, the first back-to-back US Open winner since Curtis Strange in 1988-89.

Kisner, who also began off the 10th tee, sank a six-foot birdie putt at the seventh to reach 7-under. But he found a bunker and parred the par-5 eighth then chipped 23 feet past the hole a nine and two-putted for bogey.

Kisner birdied six of the first nine holes but opened his second nine with six pars.

“Couldn’t have asked for a better start. I was throwing darts at it,” Kisner said. “I hit it well on the second nine. I just didn’t make any putts.”

Schwartzel, the 2011 Masters winner, didn’t threaten the lead with his 62 bid but sank a seven-foot birdie putt at the par-3 16th to reach 7-under. He found a fairway bunker and parred the par-5 17th then left a 49-foot birdie putt five feet short ahead of a par at 18.

On the prospect of a 62 he said: “I didn’t know there was that. I would have liked to have birdied 17.”

– Rolling rock really well –

Woodland eagled the par-5 17th after his second shot landed five feet from the cup, then birdied the second and third and answered a bogey stumble at four with a 25-foot birdie putt at the eighth — all as Kisner watched.

“He’s rolling the rock and really striping it,” Kisner said. “We’re going to have a pretty good battle if I can keep up with him.”

Woodland has never finished better than 12th in 27 major starts but he has never started so well in one either.

“I’m very happy with where I’m at,” he said. “When I stand over a golf ball putting as comfortable as I am right now, I’m pretty excited.”

Eighth-ranked Jordan Spieth can complete a career Grand Slam with a victory this week, but the 25-year-old American shot 67 to stand on 137.

The Greek teenager, who turns 20 on Sunday’s final day, defeated his third straight top 10 opponent at the tournament after knocking out Dominic Thiem in the second round and 13-time major winner Novak Djokovic in the third.

Tsitsipas is the youngest player to post three top 10 wins at a single tournament since a 19-year-old Rafael Nadal at Monte Carlo in 2006.

He will next face Wimbledon runner-up Kevin Anderson, who beat Grigor Dimitrov 6-2, 6-2.

“I’m confused now, is this real?,” 27th-ranked Tsitsipas said after completing his prestige hat-trick of upsets.

The Greek rallied from a set and 5-2 down to turn the tables on Zverev, who had been bidding for a fourth Masters 1000 title.

“He started putting some balls into the court. I lost a little bit of concentration, a little bit of rhythm,” Zverev said. “Even if I would have won, it wasn’t a good match.”

Tsitsipas broke in the ninth game of the second on the way into a tiebreaker, where he calmly converted on his fifth set point after saving two match points for the second-seeded Zverev.

Tsitsipas then salvaged four break points for 2-1 in the third, he traded breaks with the German and saved another trio of break points for a 5-4 lead.

He completed the victory after nearly two and a half hours on Zverev’s sixth double-fault.

“This shows that with dedication and work, dreams do come true,” Tsitsipas said. “I can see that it’s real — it’s happening.

“I don’t know what happened (in the second set) I just broke him (for 4-5), All along I could feel the crowd support, I knew I was still in the match.”

Anderson’s sweep past reigning ATP World Tour Finals champion Dimitrov was a rematch of their 2014 quarter-final duel in Canada when Dimitrov claimed one of his six wins against the South African.

“It definitely was a great match today. I felt I played really well right from the beginning,” Anderson said.

“Right from the first point till the last, I felt I was in a really good frame of mind, playing the kind of tennis that I knew I wanted to be playing and needed to be playing.

“Getting off the court pretty comfortably definitely is a really good feeling.”

Anderson hadn’t defeated the Bulgarian for six years but he was in command throughout on Friday to reach his second career Masters 1000 semi-final having also made the last-four on clay in Madrid in May.

The big South African rolled into the semis in just 66 minutes, breaking four times while managing only a modest 11 aces.

“There’s not much to say, he came out, played his game and everything was going his way,” Dimitrov said. “He did everything well — simple as that.

“There was not much for me to do. I tried as hard as I can, but I couldn’t get into a rally.”

Dimitrov will now head for the Cincinnati Masters where he is the defending champion. Tsitsipas won his only previous match over Anderson, beating him on clay last May in Estoril.

Less than a month since Pogba scored in the World Cup final to help France lift the trophy, he was thrown straight into action by Mourinho despite just returning to pre-season training this week.

Pogba’s third-minute spot-kick settled the hosts’ nerves as United allayed some of the doom and gloom predicted by Mourinho after failing to land a series of targets before Thursday’s transfer deadline.

Luke Shaw sealed the points seven minutes from time before Jamie Vardy headed home a consolation for the visitors.

After a week in which Pogba has been linked with a move away from Old Trafford, with Barcelona’s interest piqued by the Frenchman’s frosty relationship with Mourinho after he was repeatedly dropped last season, the Portuguese showed his faith in the midfielder by surprisingly handing him the armband.

“Pogba was a monster,” said Mourinho. “We thought maximum (he could play) 60 minutes, but he managed 80.”

On top of his transfer troubles, Mourinho had a host of injuries and players lacking match sharpness after the World Cup to contend with.

“Paul was fantastic, his contribution was amazing but the fuel was disappearing. We were in trouble,” added Mourinho.

“I don’t remember in my career to be in so much in trouble to make my changes because I wanted to make five or six and I could only make three.”

The hosts got a much-needed lift after just two minutes when Daniel Amartey was harshly adjudged by referee Andre Mariner to have handled Alexis Sanchez’s shot.

Pogba resisted the pleas of Sanchez to take the spot-kick and after a prolonged stuttering run up, dispatched his shot into the top corner giving Kasper Schmeichel no chance to repeat his penalty saving heroics at the World Cup for Denmark.

“We don’t have a penalty taker, it’s how we feel and I decided to take it. Maybe on the next game I leave it to Alexis,” said Pogba.

“I didn’t have any pre-season games, I came back on Monday so it was very hard for the legs.”

Mourinho was particularly annoyed to miss out on a series of centre-back targets, including Leicester’s Harry Maguire who shone for England in Russia.

“It will be a difficult season for everybody, not just for us,” said Mourinho. “I had my plans for many months and I find myself with the market closed in a situation I did not think I would be in.”

However, he can still rely on one of the world’s best goalkeepers as David de Gea put his poor World Cup showing behind him with a fine save to prevent James Maddison levelling.

Both sides’ top scorers from last season, Romelu Lukaku and Vardy, started on the bench after their World Cup exertions and were introduced for the final quarter.

Vardy nearly made a vital contribution as provider when he outmuscled Shaw and picked out Gray in the middle who was denied by another fine save by De Gea.

Shaw, who himself has suffered plenty of criticism from Mourinho in the past two seasons, then appeared to make the game safe when he fired low into the far corner to spark wild celebrations from his manager.

“Even if I forget the goal, it was a complete performance,” said Mourinho of the left-back’s display.

Vardy pulled a goal back deep into stoppage time when he stooped to head in after Ricardo Pereira’s cross came back off the post and United were forced to see out a nervy final few minutes to get off to a winning start.

  The Indonesian badminton legend hopes that his players will be able to build on their recent success in big events and make their presence felt when their competition starts next Sunday in Jakarta.

“After they came back from four World Tour Super events and one World Championship, it’s great to see that they still have a fighting spirit as a team,” said Mainaky, the 1996 Olympics men’s doubles gold medallist.

“As a team we still have the same feeling from the Uber Cup and Thomas Cup, even though some players did well in some World Tour events and some did well in the World Championships. So I still believe we can do something [in the Asian Games],” added the 50-year-old.

Thailand’s historic achievement in reaching the final of the women’s Uber Cup on home soil, including a win over regular champions China in the semi-finals, caused excitement all over the country. The women’s team event therefore offers one of Thailand’s main medal hopes in the sport.

Although Mainaky also sees great potential for the women’s team, he is concerned that expectations may place too heavy a burden on their shoulders. China, Uber Cup champions Japan and hosts Indonesia are still the heavy favourites, he says, to dominate the women’s team event.

“The coaching team must not put pressure on the players just because they made history in the Uber Cup. We have to make the players think they are still underdogs and play like they have nothing to lose. The past is the past. We have to look forward. My focus is to make the team solid again,” added Mainaky.

He is also optimistic about Thailand’s chances of a medal in the doubles and individual events if they show impressive form in the earlier team events.

“I believe we still have a chance in the mixed doubles {where Thailand is represented by Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai]. Even Tinn [Isriyanet] and Diego [Kittisak Namdash] were the only duo that took Takeshi Kamura and Keigo Sonoda to three games [21-12 18-21 21-16],” Mainaky said.

Tinn and Kittisak lost to the Japanese players in the second round before the latter went on to win men’s doubles gold at the recently-concluded World Championships.

Mainaky also hopes Thai No 1 Ratchanok Intanon will regain her confidence after a flop at the Worlds, where she exited in only the second round, and that Thai No 2 Nitchaon Jindapol and the No 1 in the men’s singles, Kantaphon Wangcharoen, live up to their potential.

“I hope Ratchanok can recover from a not-so-good performance in a few tournaments. Nitchaon always plays well in Indonesia and has a lot of fans there. So I hope she can take this opportunity to perform well.

“Also, in the men’s singles, Gun [Kantaphon] has nothing to lose. I think he is the one who can come up with a surprise. So I believe they can deliver medals for Thailand,” the coach concluded.

After winning bronze medals in the men’s and women’s teams events in 2010 in Guangzhou, Thailand came home empty-handed from Incheon 2014. Thailand also only won one gold at Bangkok 1966, in the men’s team event.

For the first time the Premier League deadline was moved forward to the day before the season kicks off when United host Leicester City on Friday.

Unlike in England, the window for the rest of Europe’s leading leagues doesn’t close until later in August, meaning Premier League clubs have faced even more inflated prices when buying from the continent.

Yet, an expected deluge of deadline day deals failed to materialise with Everton the most active after also sealing a season-long loan deal for midfielder Andre Gomes from Barcelona and the capture of Brazilian winger Bernard on a free transfer.

Mina scored three times in three games at the World Cup in Russia, including against Everton’s England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford with a dramatic stoppage time header to send their last 16 tie to extra-time.

Yet Mina failed to impress in making just six appearances for Barca after joining from Palmeiras in January and the Catalan giants were keen to cash in on the 23-year-old, who cost just 11.8 million euros seven months ago.

After Chelsea shattered the world record fee for a goalkeeper with an 80-million euro (£71.6 million, $92 million) swoop for Athletic Bilbao’s Kepa Arrizabalaga, there was little late movement from the top six clubs with Mourinho in particular frustrated at missing out on a host of targets to bolster his defence.

Harry Maguire, who could face United for Leicester on Friday, Bayern Munich’s Jerome Boateng, Toby Alderweireld of Tottenham and Mina were all linked with United, while Atletico Madrid’s Diego Godin emerged as a late target on Thursday.

But Mourinho accepted early on Thursday he was unlikely to get his wish.

– Liverpool steal a march –

Liverpool look like the big winners of the window as they have emerged as second favourites for the title behind champions Manchester City after doing their business early in splashing over £170 million on Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson Becker and midfielders Fabinho, Naby Keita and Xherdan Shaqiri.

Despite slashing a club record £60 million on signing Riyad Mahrez, City have enjoyed a quiet window.

Australian teenager Daniel Arzani joined the English champions from sister club Melbourne City on Thursday will be sent out on loan to Celtic.

Tottenham Hotspur became the first Premier League side since the summer window was introduced in 2003 to not make a single signing.

But manager Mauricio Pochettino insisted he is happy with his squad after tying down the likes of Harry Kane, Christian Eriksen and Son Heung-min to new contracts.

“We have a very good squad, with very good players and it is very difficult to add players to that,” he said.

Leicester arguably enjoyed the best deadline day as on top of resisting United’s interest in Maguire and tying down Jamie Vardy to a new four-year deal, they snapped up defenders Filip Benkovic and Caglar Soyuncu.

Wolves’ impressive summer of dealing on their return to the top flight continued by signing versatile Belgian international Leander Dendoncker from Anderlecht.

West Ham signed Spanish striker Lucas Perez from Arsenal and Colombian midfielder Carlos Sanchez to complete a near £100 million summer spend.

Southampton have landed Liverpool striker Danny Ings on a season-long loan with an agreement to sign him permanently at the end of the campaign for £18 million.

Injury-plagued Ings, who has agreed a four-year contract, returns to his hometown club, who originally released him aged 10 because he was too small.

Fulham secured season-long loan deals for Sevilla goalkeeper Sergio Rico, Atletico Madrid striker Luciano Vietto and Manchester United defender Timothy Fosu-Mensah.

The promoted west Londoners also sealed permanent deals for Marseille’s Cameroon international Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa and Bristol City defender Joe Bryan.

Anguissa’s £20 million move still requires a work permit to be completed.

Ghana striker Jordan Ayew has joined Crystal Palace from second-tier Swansea on a season-long loan.

Stefanos Tsitsipas defeated his second seed in as many days at the Toronto Masters on Thursday, stunning Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-7 (5/7), 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals.

The Greek teenager, who turns 20 on Sunday, followed up his defeat of seventh seed Dominic Thiem, beating four-time champion Djokovic, seeded ninth, in a first-time meeting.

“This was the best match of my career,” Tsitsipas said. “I knew I was playing pretty good today.

“Losing the second set, it was tough to deal with – I had my opportunities and didn’t use them.

“But I remained calm, I tried few things that I didn’t try before. (The early break in the third set) was everything. It gave me the win at the end.”

Tsitsipas, ranked 27, spent just over two hours in advancing to the first Masters 1000 quarter-final of his career.

The 19-year-old forced the former world number one Djokovic onto the back foot in the first set but was unable to wrap up a straight-sets win as the 13-time Grand Slam champion claimed the tiebreak with the Greek firing long having saved two set points.

In the third set, the teenager showed great composure to break for a 2-0 lead and then saved a break point for a 3-0 margin.

He rounded off his afternoon with back-to-back winners to send Djokovic, the winner of 30 Masters titles, out on a first match point.

He played very well and deserved to win without a doubt,” Djokovic said. “I just played not that great.

“I didn’t return well. It wasn’t that great of a match.”

Upset scenarios were not in the plan of holder Alexander Zverev, who rolled over Russian Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 6-2 in just 52 minutes while never facing a break point.

Bulgarian fifth seed Grigor Dimitrov required almost two and a half hours to subdue Frances Tiafoe of the United States 7-6 (7/1), 3-6, 7-6 (7/4).

He next faces Wimbledon runner-up and fourth seed Kevin Anderson who defeated Ilya Ivashka of Belarus 7-5, 6-3 to also make the last-eight.

“It’s great, I haven’t competed in about four and a half weeks. And to come out and just play, I mean, that’s all I wanted,” said ATP World Tour Finals champion Dimitrov.

“I was really not focusing on winning or losing, just on starting to play good tennis and start building the right habits.”

Dimitrov, who last reached a quarter-final in April, added: “Clearly I’m not playing my best tennis, but I’m finding a way and managing to go through those matches.

“I think I’m improving. With each game, with each point that I play, I feel more confident, more stable on the court, and everything falls into its place.”

Sixth seed Marin Cilic continued his quiet progress, beating Argentine 11th seed Diego Schwartzman 6-3, 6-2.