Jorgen Strand Larsen came off the bench to play a starring role in Wolves’ dramatic late comeback against West Ham United and secure a place in the third round of the Carabao Cup.

In a meeting of two Premier League sides that have struggled early in their league campaign, Wolverhampton Wanderers came from behind to beat West Ham United 3-2, their first win of the season.

Also winning 3-2 were Wrexham, who struck their winner in the 92nd minute to defeat Preston North End at Deepdale. Kieffer Moore's late header gave The Red Dragons another dramatic win, following on from Ollie Palmer's late heroics in Round One, Carabao Cup reports.

League Two Cambridge United pulled off a shock result, comfortably defeating Championship opposition in Charlton Athletic.

Title holders VfB Stuttgart survived a rollercoaster evening to book their place in the second round of the German Cup, edging Eintracht Braunschweig 8-7 on penalties after a 4-4 draw on Tuesday night.

Second-tier Braunschweig entered the clash in confident spirits and stunned the visitors early. Sven Kohler's long-range strike slipped through the hands of goalkeeper Alexander Nubel in the eighth minute, giving Braunschweig a surprise lead. Stuttgart, however, wasted little time in replying, with Ermedin Demirovic heading in Maximilian Mittelstadt's precise cross just four minutes later.

Both teams continued to exchange chances before Stuttgart seized the initiative after the break. Angelo Stiller broke clear on the left and set up Demirovic for his second of the night, putting the Bundesliga side 2-1 ahead, reports.

Venus Williams' campaign at the US Open is not over yet as 45-year-old will return to the competition in New York after receiving a women's doubles wild-card entry with Leylah Fernandez.

Venus and Fernandez will take on the sixth-seeded team of Lyudmyla Kichenok of Ukraine and Ellen Perez of Australia.

Venus is appearing at her first Grand Slam tournament in two years after making a comeback following 16 months away from the tour.

Williams has won 14 Grand Slam women's doubles titles alongside sister Serena Williams, most recently at Wimbledon in 2016. She has competed just three times in women's doubles at the majors since then, including her most recent US Open appearance in 2022, during her sister's farewell tournament.

Liverpool boss Arne Slot is hopeful Alexis Mac Allister will be available for the club's upcoming outing, when Arsenal visit Anfield on Sunday. The midfielder missed Liverpool's dramatic 3-2 victory at Newcastle United, having withdrawn from a training session at the weekend due to a fitness concern.

However, Slot doesn’t believe the issue to be serious and is optimistic of being able to call upon Mac Allister’s services for the clash with the Gunners.

New Zealand have some major injury concerns ahead of a home summer, ruling Will O’Rourke, Glenn Phillips and Finn Allen ruling out of the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy T20I series against Australia at Bay Oval in the first week of October.

O’Rourke is set to be out of action for at least three months after scans revealed a stress fracture in his lower back.

The 24-year-old sustained the injury while bowling in the first Test against Zimbabwe earlier this month and subsequently returned home to undergo further assessment.

New Zealand coach Rob Walter said O’Rourke will undergo a three-month strength and conditioning block before being reassessed to ascertain a return to bowling and to play.

Carlos Alcaraz downed big-serving American Reilly Opelka 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 to begin his campaign at Flushing Meadows, where this fortnight Alcaraz is aiming for his second US Open crown and sixth major trophy overall.

With the win, Alcaraz stays on course in the battle for World No. 1. If the Spaniard matches or betters Jannik Sinner’s result, Alcaraz will leave New York atop the ATP Rankings.

Alcaraz boasts a season-leading 55 wins and six titles, according to the ATP Win/Loss Index. Last Monday, Alcaraz lifted his first Cincinnati Open title.

He will next face Mattia Bellucci in the second round. Alcaraz will look to avoid a repeat of his stunning second-round exit last year, when he fell to Botic van de Zandschulp in straight sets.

Gary Neville believes Manchester United skipper let his penalty miss against Fulham negatively impact him, as the Red Devils were held to a 1-1 draw on Sunday.

Fernandes skied his penalty, which was won by Mason Mount, and was unable to open the scoring at Craven Cottage. An own goal saw the visitors go ahead before Emile Smith Rowe equalised.

"I think he let it impact him. I thought he let it get to him. When he came out for the second half, he was still talking to the referee.

"I know that can happen, but I think you can see in his face sometimes with Bruno that he wears his heart on his sleeve and it was quite clear that obviously he's desperately disappointed about missing the penalty in the way in which he did.

Olympic medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu marked a golden return to action as she won the gold medal in the women's 48 kg category at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships on Monday.

Competing for the first time since her fourth-place finish at the Paris Olympics last year, former world champion Mirabai Chanu lifted 84kg in snatch and 109kg in clean and jerk for a total lift of 193kg for a top spot on the podium.

Following the International Weightlifting Federation’s (IWF) revised weight categories, which saw Mirabai’s pet division of 49kg scrapped, the Indian weightlifter competed in 48kg at the championships.

In his first competitive outing since Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic saw off a challenging opening-round test presented by Learner Tien to advance at the 2025 US Open.

Djokovic navigated fluctuations in his own physical level and held off the increasingly confident teenager to prevail, 6-1, 7-6(3), 6-2.

The 24-time- major winner called ATP physio Clay Sniteman to court after the second set to re-apply tape to a bloodied big toe on his right foot.

Earlier in the match he appeared to be troubled by a hip issue and also pulled his racquet behind his head on several occasions, perhaps in an attempt to suck in more oxygen, ATP reports.

Bangladesh have named a 15-member squad for the upcoming 2025 ICC Women's ODI World Cup in India and Sri Lanka, with Nigar Sultana Joty appointed captain for the team's second appearance in the tournament. Joty, who also captained Bangladesh during their debut World Cup campaign in 2022, will once again spearhead the side.