three time winnerjohn higgins has been knocked—out of the uk snooker championship in the quarterfinals. he lost 6 frames to three to the chinese teenager — yan bingtao who now goes on to play ding junhui in the last four. the other quarterfinals are going on right now. these aer live pictures — northern ireland's mark allen is playing the veteran nigel bond. it's best to 11 frames. allen leads 5—4you can watch that on the bbc sport website and the red button. and on the other table scotland's stephen maguire is playing welshman matthew stevens. 4—all. the former world number one tennis player — caroline wozniacki has announced she's retiring after next month's australian open. she was the first scandinavian player to top the rankings. and says she's giving up having "accomplished everything she could ever have dream of on the court". i think she has more than fulfilled her potential. i think a lot of people would've said the opposite, that she has actually overachieved, because you know, she was a great competitor, and you remember, she got some fineness of the usa i believe

four time winnerjohn higgins was the last of the players to qualify for the final eight after he accounted for 2015 champion stuart bingham by 13 frames to ii. the 43—year—old scot will now play australia's 2010 winner neil robertson who hasn't played since qualifying for the quarter—finals on friday. ali carter is also through to the quarter—finals after beating china's zhou yuelong13—9. the two—time finalist was trailing 9—7 before winning six frames in a row and he's through to the last 8 for the 6th time in his career and will play fellow englishman gary wilson on tuesday. there'll be two wilson's in the quarter—finals after kyren also came from behind to beat barry hawkins 13—11. the pair shared 9 centuries — a new record for a best—of—25 match at the world championship and he'll play david gilbert starting on tuesday. in serie a, atalanta continue their bid to claim the final champions league place in italy. they were 2—0 winners at home to udinese with both goals coming in the last 10 minutes of the match. the side from bergamo move back ahead of roma into

coming up in sport at half past, former winnerjohn higgins is the first man into the semifinals of the world snooker championship. he beat kyren wilson to make it through for the first time in six years. next week will be the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of madeleine mccann. detectives say they are still pursuing what they describe as a "critical lead" in the case. the little girl was three when she vanished during a family holiday in portugal. her parents kate and gerry say the 10th anniversary is a "horrible marker of. . .stolen time". and they've promised never to give up looking for their daughter. our home affairs correspondent tom symonds reports. ten years, no answers. a desperate search with the media following every step. what happened here? where is madeleine mccann? this is still a missing persons enquiry. despite 2014's extensive police searches in portugal, there is no definitive evidence she is dead. for six years, with government money, the metropolitan police have been reviewing everything from scratch. we have a significant line of enquiry which is worth pursu

three—time winnerjohn higgins knocked out by the chinese teenager who had already beaten world a neil robertson. he will now ta ke world a neil robertson. he will now take on his compatriot in the other semifinal, ding junhui. you can watch that on bbc two and the mcguire and mark allen match is at 7pm. i will be back in the next hour. more now on that anthonyjoshua fight this evening where he's hoping to win back his heavyweight world titles. let's speak now to charlie edwards. he's a boxer himself and a friend of anthonyjoshua. have you spoken to anthonyjoshua about this fight in the past few days? not in the past few days. he isa days? not in the past few days. he is a busy man and will probably cut off all social media and focus on the fight. i was with him before he got out in camp and we were chatting and he seemed hungrier than ever and was determined to get these belts back. how might he be preparing today? i think he will stay cool, calm and collected. he has been boxing a long time. he cannot let andy ruiz boxing a long time. he cannot let andy ruinr get too much into his he

three time winnerjohn higgins has been knocked out of the uk snooker championship, in the quarterfinals, he lost six frames to three to the chinese teenager. he now goes on to play in the last four. well the two time champion has already beaten a chinese compatriot to make the semi finals in your key. one by six frames to do in at the quarterfinals today. the other last formats will be decided tonight. that's all your support can find out more on all those stories on our website, including the newsjust coming into us here this afternoon at the bbc sport centre. the former leicester manager, nigel pearson is set to take over at watford. that's oui’ set to take over at watford. that's our website, much more on that and everything else in sports day at half past six. thank you very much, hugh. you ferris there. now, we will talk more about our main story here tonight. a man described by police as one of the most dangerous sex offenders ever seen in the uk has been found guilty of a string of attacks earlier this year. 3a year old joseph mccann faced 37 charges relating to 11 women and ch