Get news alerts for your favourite sports

In the BBC Sport app you can now set alerts for football, cricket, tennis, golf and formula 1 news – ensuring you never miss any of the biggest stories from your favourite sports.

These five new alerts complement Top Stories, which already send out breaking sport news and reaction to more than 400,000 subscribers.

The alerts are easy to add – head to the My Alerts section of the menu and then choose the topics you are interested in.

You can also add score alerts for your football, rugby and cricket teams as well as Formula 1.

As an example, you might be a fan of Manchester City, the English football team, Lancashire cricket and Salford Rugby League, while also enjoying tennis.

In the app, you could set score alerts for Man City, England football, Salford and Lancashire, while also setting news alerts for football, cricket and tennis.

Whether it’s a try for Salford, the start of a key Andy Murray match, a major football signing or the latest England cricket squad announcement, the news that matters to you would arrive on your homescreen.

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What are alerts?

Alerts are notifications which pop up on to your phone’s homescreen with key information. For example, if you set alerts for a football or rugby team, you can receive an alert every time a goal or point is scored in one of their matches, as well as alerts with the line-ups, half-time and full-time score.

Similarly, cricket fans might like to add England cricket alerts – these will provide notifications every time a wicket falls (with the batsman’s score and team score), as well as alerts for end of innings scores and results.

The level of detail can be set for each type of alert, for example you might not want to know every time a wicket falls, you might just want the result. Similarly you might want Formula 1 alerts for qualifying but not the race itself if you’re planning to watch the highlights later.

How do I add them?

To add the alerts follow these steps.

1. Visit the MyAlerts section of the app from within the menu
2. Select Euro 2016, or if you want to add other alerts pick from a sport – cricket, football, Formula 1, rugby league or rugby union – or sport news
3. For sport news, simply tick the box! To set alerts for the Formula 1 season, simply set the sessions you want to receive updates for. For all other sports, select the teams you want to follow – there’s a full list below. You can add alerts for as many teams and sessions as you want.
4. Wait for the alerts to arrive – hopefully they’re good news!

You can of course easily turn alerts off – if, for example, you do not want to know the results of a match you’re planning to watch highlights of on Match of the Day.

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Leon Smith: Davis Cup captain becomes Tennis Scotland's performance chief

Tennis Scotland has appointed Davis Cup-winning captain Leon Smith as its new performance director.

The 40-year-old Scot will continue his roles with the GB team and as LTA head of men’s tennis.

Smith welcomed being handed the task of ensuring there is a legacy for Scotland when Andy Murray retires.

“I am passionate about assisting to deliver a structure and programme that will help to achieve the goals we all want,” he said.

“There have been changes recently at Tennis Scotland and I do believe the sport is heading in the right direction, which is really exciting.

“I would like to contribute to this and work closely with the chair, the board and the staff to help influence the future for tennis in Scotland.”

In his non-executive board position, Smith will lead Tennis Scotland’s aims of improving facilities and driving up participation while Murray and brother Jamie are still active.

Tennis Scotland chair Blane Dodds said: “This is a key role for us and I am convinced that the ambitious new plans we are making, and the support we are receiving, are beginning to show progress.

“It is a significant step forward for us for Leon to be joining Tennis Scotland and the objective is to deliver more in Scotland on the back of the world-class achievements that both Andy and Jamie Murray, and others, are delivering.

“We have ambitious plans for the future and having Leon on board to formulate and drive these plans with us will significantly help deliver the outcomes we all want.

“Our field team work tirelessly throughout the country and to have someone of Leon’s stature complementing that work will be a massive boost all round.”

Smith, who signed a deal in March to stay on as Davis Cup captain for the next three years, worked with Andy and brother Jamie as teenagers and last year led them to Great Britain’s first Davis Cup success since 1936.

He has been in the position since 2010, when Britain were on the verge of relegation to the competition’s bottom tier.

Smith has also spent time coaching British number two Aljaz Bedene this year.

Jamie Murray, presently the world’s highest-ranked doubles player, welcomed the appointment.

“Leon, with his experience, not just with Davis Cup but working with juniors for quite a long time in Scotland and then in the UK – he has had several important jobs at the LTA – I am sure will be a huge benefit to Scottish tennis,” he told BBC Scotland.

“We’ve talked about it a lot together and I think he is very passionate about it and wanting to make the most of the success that me and Andy have had and Leon with the Davis Cup team.

“I am glad that he is in a good position to influence things now.”

Colin Fleming, who will join his fellow Scots in Team GB at the Rio Olympics, considered it “a brilliant appointment”.

“Leon has been brilliant at whatever he has done,” he said.

“He has been the head of men’s tennis and he’s done a good job there, as a coach, he is very effective and, as Davis Cup captain, he’s been brilliant.

“Scottish tennis has some real figureheads, but up until now they have probably not been involved with the governing body.”

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Andy Murray column: 'Dan Evans has made mistakes along the way – but he can play'

Dan Evans might have made a few bad decisions in the past but he’s always had the ability to play at the top level.

I don’t know if a switch went off in his head some time last year, but to go from being ranked below 700 to 91 in the world and playing Roger Federer on Centre Court is very impressive, and it only happens through hard work.

It takes some people longer than others to work out how best to get there and he’s on the right track now.

Dan’s been a great Davis Cup team-mate – he supports well and tries his backside off in matches, and that’s all you want really.

He played very well against Kei Nishikori in Birmingham earlier this year, and he’s had some big wins in the past against guys ranked much higher than him.

Every time I’ve practised with him he’s been fantastic and he’s never complained when he’s not been picked or played.

I don’t think that’s always been said, or that the good things about him have been reported as much.

Dan would probably admit he’s made some bad mistakes along the way but when he’s represented his country, I think he should be very proud of how he’s performed.

‘He’s a cheeky chappie, fun to be around’

I thought Marcus Willis did very well against Roger once he settled into the match and it will be interesting to see how Dan gets on.

He and Marcus are good friends and I think both of them know how to enjoy themselves. Dan is a sort of cheeky chappie, always fun to be around.

My fitness trainer Matt Little worked with him when he was 10 years old and said the first time they were introduced, he said, ‘Hi, I’m Matt Little’, and Dan said, ‘It’s funny that your surname’s Little when you’re tiny.’

That was Dan as a 10-year-old, and in some ways he hasn’t changed much!

He still seems like the same person I first met. We always got on well. It seems like he’s finally found that consistency of working hard all of the time and I think his coach Mark Hilton will be very good for Dan in that respect, because when Mark played he was a really good worker.

The other reason I think Dan is going to keep moving up the rankings is because he’s good – he’s really good – and the more you play at this level, the better you get.

In the past he would play maybe one match every three months at this level, and then go back down to Futures. Now he’s playing and practising with guys like this every week and he can keep pushing higher.

Dan certainly won’t be the favourite against Roger but he can cause him problems and make it interesting.

‘You can’t avoid the top players if you want to win things’

I was happy with how I played against Yen-Hsun Lu, especially in the second and third sets, and as always at this stage I’m just hoping I can keep improving with each round.

After the match I met Carl Froch for the first time face to face, having spoken to him on the radio a couple of times before, and I always get something out of meeting boxers.

What made Carl different was he always fought the best fighters available, which is pretty rare in boxing. He fought everyone, all of the big names in his division, and he was very entertaining to watch. He was never really in dull fights.

I suppose I can relate to that in as much as you can’t avoid the top players in tennis if you want to win things, although to be honest I can understand it more in boxing because it’s a very dangerous sport.

Boxers have a short career and obviously want to make the most amount of money and be as successful as possible in that time.

I certainly don’t plan on anything going wrong when I play John Millman on Saturday, but when I do lose a tennis match, the consequences are not quite so serious.

In a sport like boxing, if you pick the wrong fight at the wrong time, it can be pretty rough.

Andy Murray was talking to BBC Sport’s Piers Newbery.

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Wimbledon 2016: Britain's Dan Evans set for Roger Federer encounter

Great Britain’s Dan Evans meets seven-times champion Roger Federer in the third round at Wimbledon on Friday.

The 26-year-old follows in the footsteps of compatriot Marcus Willis in meeting the Swiss on Centre Court.

British qualifier Willis, ranked 772 in the world, lost 6-0 6-3 6-4 to Federer on Wednesday.

World number one Serena Williams is second on Centre Court as the defending champion faces fellow American Christina McHale.

In the men’s draw, Novak Djokovic will be on Court One as the Serb continues his bid to defend his Wimbledon title against American Sam Querrey.

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Can Evans trouble Federer?

Evans has enjoyed a remarkable run in the past year, climbing more than 650 places up the world rankings since dropping to 772nd in May 2015.

Questions were raised about the Birmingham player’s commitment to the sport when he did not turn up to a Futures event, while he has also struggled with a knee injury.

But he has rediscovered his fitness and form in the past 12 months, helping Great Britain win the Davis Cup and claiming three ATP Challenger titles.

He was rewarded with his first Wimbledon win against Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff, before setting up the meeting with Federer by beating 30th seed Alexandr Dolgopolov on Thursday.

“(Federer’s) not a normal guy obviously, but he’s another tennis player,” said Evans.

“I just have to prepare myself and try and put that to the back of my head – that it’s Roger I’m playing – go out and give it my best.”

“Dan will go out there and try to make life as difficult as possible for Roger,” said British former Wimbledon semi-finalist Tim Henman.

“He needs to serve well, use that good sliced backhand and try and dictate when he gets the chance. Obviously that’s not easy against Federer.”

Venus Williams swiftly back in action

Venus Williams makes a swift return to action as the former world number one plays Russian Daria Kasatkina on Court One.

Williams overcame Greek qualifier Maria Sakkari 7-5 4-6 6-3 in the second round on Thursday.

However, the five-times Wimbledon champion appeared to be disappointed at having to play on Court 18 – the smallest show court at the All England Club.

“I think if players have to play outside (on the outside courts), all players should have to play outside,” said Williams.

“There shouldn’t be exceptions or any inequality to it.”

Here come the entertainers

Rain on Wednesday resulted in a hefty backlog of matches, meaning the remaining second-round encounters will be completed on Friday.

Two of the game’s entertainers, Nick Kyrgios and Dustin Brown, meet in a battle for a place in the third round.

The pair are close friends, having played together for the Singapore Slammers in last year’s International Premier Tennis League.

Also playing their second-round match are Stan Wawrinka and Juan Martin del Potro.

Former US Open champion Del Potro is making his return to Grand Slam action at Wimbledon after battling back from three wrist operations that almost led to him retiring from tennis.

“I was close to quitting at the end of last year but now is completely different,” said the Argentine.

“I’m expecting to be better in the future, but for this year my biggest challenge is to finish healthy and make a good preparation for next year.”

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