Tuesday Morning Sport: Kildare Play Wexford In U-20 LHC; Italy & Spain In EURO 2020 Semi-Final Action Tonight.

Kildare team has been named

Gaelic Games

This evening, in the Leinster U-20 Hurling Championship Kildare meet Wexford in St. Conleth’s Park, Newbridge.

Manager Pat English named his team last night, and here’s Eoin Beatty with the details:

🚨Team Announcement🚨

Kildare U20 Hurling Manager Pat English has named the team to play Wexford in tomorrow evening’s Leinster Hurling Championship fixture. pic.twitter.com/wccbVsEBMD

— Kildare GAA (@KildareGAA) July 5, 2021

That game has a 7.30pm throw-in, & KFM will have live updates of the game, with Ger McNally.

Soccer

Italy and Spain contest the first European Championship semi-final tonight.

It's an 8pm kick off at Wembley, with the winners to face England or Denmark in the decider.

The Italians will be without defender Leonardo Spinazzola, who ruptured his Achilles tendon in their win over Belgium last Friday night.

Tennis

Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic are into the quarter finals of Wimbledon.

39-year-old Federer beat Lorenzo Sonego in straight sets, while Djokovic was also a three set winner over Cristian Garin.

Coco Gauff is out. She was defeated in straight sets by Angelique Kerber.

18-year-old Emma Raducanu is also out of the competition. The Briton was forced to withdraw last night, in her meeting with Australian Ajla Tomljanovic, after suffering difficulty breathing.

The ladies quarter finals begin today, with top seed Ashleigh Barty and second seed Aryna Sabalenka both in action.

Rugby

The entire South African rugby squad is in isolation after one of their players, Lood de Jager, tested positive for coronavirus.

The first test against the British and Irish Lions is on Saturday July 24th.

Ireland second row Iain Henderson will captain the Lions against the Sharks in tomorrow's tour game.

Formula One

The Australian Grand Prix, scheduled to take place in Melbourne in November, has been cancelled for the second year in a row because of the pandemic.

The Australian Moto GP has also been called off.

Horse Racing

There's a jumps card at Roscommon today, beginning at 4.25pm.