French veteran Gaël Monfils, 40, was placed on the ITIA retired-players list with a status dated 5 October, ending his planned farewell at the Paris Masters. The agency could not say whether the retirement notice came from the player, his agent or the ATP.
The DP World India Championship opens on Thursday, 15 October, with Rory McIlroy third in the Race to Dubai, 307 points behind leader Patrick Reed. Four season-ending events remain.
Winning numbers were published for the Euromillones, Bonoloto, ONCE daily coupon and Eurojackpot draws held on 13 October 2026. The Eurojackpot produced no first-category winner, so its 120,000,000 euro jackpot rolls over to the next draw.
The Meo Rip Curl Pro Portugal, the tenth stage and third-to-last event of the WSL Championship Tour, runs at Supertubos in Peniche from 16 to 25 October. Two of the five Portuguese competitors entered on wildcards.
The Netherlands refused visas to Angelina Melnikova, Viktoria Listunova and Anna Kalmykova, who were due to compete at the Rotterdam world championships from 17 to 25 October. The Russian federation says it will appeal to World Gymnastics and the IOC.
Jon Rahm will not participate in LIV Golf's planned reorganization after his legal team rejected terms for the LIV 2.0 circuit during a New Jersey bankruptcy hearing.
The 24-year-old from Lleida beat Michaela Polleres, the Austrian who took her Olympic bronze in Paris in 2024. Spain's medal tally at the Baku championships now stands at four.
Six-time world champion Clarisse Agbégnénou finished seventh in the under-63 kg category in Baku, leaving France with two bronze medals through four days of competition.
The three-time champion was removed from the Madrid entry list on Tuesday as he remains in the United States with his family, deferring his remaining European tour appearances to events in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
New Zealander Daniel Hillier aced the par-3 17th at Club de Campo Villa de Madrid on Thursday despite a mishit, winning a BMW iX5 valued at 140,338 euros. Grant Forrest, Connor Syme and Eugenio Chacarra share the first-round lead at 5-under 66.
The four-year-old colt, trained by Francis-Henri Graffard and ridden by Mickael Barzalona, beat Bay City Roller by more than a length to become the first colt to win successive Arcs in 48 years.
The Polish golfer carded a final-round 68 to finish at 20-under-par, securing a €725,520 prize and a DP World Tour exemption through 2028.
South Korean golfer Tom Kim shot a final-round six-under 64 at Kasugai Country Club on Saturday to capture Asian Games individual gold, securing an exemption from his country's mandatory 18-to-21-month military service.
The vacant UFC women's flyweight championship is contested in Salt Lake City as top contender Natalia Silva faces striker Wang Cong, following Valentina Shevchenko's injury layoff.
Morante de la Puebla returned to Madrid's Las Ventas on 12 October 2026, a year after the farewell he staged in the same ring. He cut no ears from his two bulls, while the crowd split between applause and whistles during a corrida dedicated to Ceuta.
World number one Luke Littler fell 6-5 to Cam Crabtree at Robin Park Leisure Centre in Wigan, missing the chance to simultaneously hold both the senior and youth world titles.
Polish heavyweight Kacper Meyna earned a unanimous decision victory over former two-time world champion Victor Emilio Ramirez in Koszalin on Saturday to claim the vacant WBA Continental belt.
Seventeen French judokas will compete at the 2026 World Judo Championships in Azerbaijan from 4 to 10 October, aiming to equal national medal records two years before the Los Angeles Olympics.
Taiwan boxer Lin Yu-ting secured the women's 60kg gold medal at the Asian Games in Nagoya on Friday, defeating China's Yang Chengyu by unanimous decision after stepping up to a heavier weight division.
Former British Royal Marine Dave Bell arrived in Kilifi, Kenya on 2 October 2026 after rowing over 15,000 nautical miles from Peru across the Pacific and Indian Oceans without support.
Golfers Michael Stewart and Jack Buchanan, both ranked outside the world top 750, shot matching seven-under 65s on Thursday to share the first-round lead at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship across Scotland.
British adventurer Karl Bushby has landed on Shakespeare Beach in Dover after swimming the English Channel, entering the final 400-kilometre walking leg of his journey from Chile to Hull.
Mexican wrestler El Hijo de Fishman was released on Friday 9 October after a reparation agreement with the family of referee Gerardo Germán Pineda, who died during a match in Hidalgo.
Former European super middleweight boxing champion Ray Close, best known for two world title bouts against Chris Eubank in 1993 and 1994, has died at the age of 57.
Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting secured the 60kg gold medal at the 2026 Asian Games in Nishio, defeating China's Yang Chengyu by unanimous decision after a 19-month break from international competition.
The British heavyweight bout is set for 11 December at Cardiff's Principality Stadium after Joshua accepted a pay reduction exceeding £10 million to stage the contest in the United Kingdom.
Polish windsurfers opened the U23 iQFOiL World Championships with Trepczyński climbing from sixth to second place and Wasiewicz ranking tenth ahead of the final series.