Briton Jamie Murray and Michael Venus produced an impressive second-set fightback to reach the third round of the men's doubles at the French Open.

They will face 2022 champions Jean-Julien Rojer and Marcelo Arevalo next.

Dutchman Rojer and Argentine Arevalo defeated Colombian Nicolas Barrientos and American Robert Galloway 6-2 6-2.

After comfortably taking the opening set with three breaks of serve, Murray and Venus looked destined for a deciding set against two-time major winners Cabal and Farah on court 11 when they went a double break down in the second.

Beginning their comeback with a break to reduce the deficit to 5-3, Murray and Venus then saved two set points in game nine before completing the turnaround with a further two breaks of serve against the Colombians, who have won 19 doubles titles together.

Also in the men's doubles on day five at Roland Garros, Britain's Lloyd Glasspool and Finland's Harri Heliovaara, the fifth seeds, take on Belarusian Ilya Ivashka and Australian Alexei Popyrin.

Former US Open champion Emma Raducanu has split with coach Sebastian Sachs, her fifth coach in less than two years.

Raducanu was forced to miss the French Open and will not return for Wimbledon this year as she recovers from minor surgeries on her ankle and hands.

The 20-year-old has now dropped out of the top 100 in the women's world rankings.

"I have really enjoyed Seb's coaching and working with him, it's unfortunate that circumstances made it unfeasible for both of us to continue right now and we have decided to part ways," Raducanu posted on her Twitter account.

"I wish Seb all the best moving forwards."

Raducanu's 2021 US Open win is her only singles title as she has struggled with injuries and a revolving door of coaching staff.

She has played only 10 WTA Tour matches in 2023, winning just five, with three of those victories coming at Indian Wells before a defeat by Polish world number one Iga Swiatek.

The lack of match wins has resulted in Raducanu's drop to 107 in the rankings, meaning there are no longer any British women in the top 100. She will not qualify automatically for this year's US Open and would need to either progress through qualifying or be given a wildcard to compete there - providing she is fit enough to do so.

The absence of British talent in the singles at this year's Roland Garros has drawn criticism as only three men and no women qualified for the main draws. Britain's highest seed Cameron Norrie, the world number 13, is the lone remaining competitor after Dan Evans and Jack Draper bowed out in the first round.

Draper is another promising young British player who has been hampered by a series of injuries, having retired from his first-round match In Paris against Argentina's Tomas Martin Etcheverry with a shoulder issue.

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The partnership was very much in its infancy, having only begun in December.

It ultimately lasted just five tournaments and 10 matches because Raducanu struggled with a series of injuries and a bout of tonsillitis.

The 2021 US Open champion is unlikely to play again for several months, leaving Sachs with little to do. But the foundations of the relationship cannot have been strong enough to persevere.

Raducanu's recovery from surgery allows plenty of time to mull over future options, and to find the person best suited to rebuild the 20-year-old's confidence and ranking.

Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina underlined why she is among the French Open favourites with a convincing win over rising Czech star Linda Noskova.

Rybakina, 23, showed her ability on the red dirt by winning the Italian Open title last week and this was her eighth successive victory on the surface.

The fourth seed will play Spain's Sara Sorribes Tormo in the last 32.

Rybakina is part of the emerging 'big three' on the WTA Tour, alongside Poland's Iga Swiatek and Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka, with the trio having won the past four Grand Slam titles between them.

They are the leading players on the WTA Tour this season, although the Kazakh is still fourth in the 52-week rankings - behind American Jessica Pegula - after not receiving points for winning Wimbledon last year.

Rybakina reached the Australian Open final in January, losing to Sabalenka, but showed with the win against Noskova she looks capable of going far at Roland Garros.

Her best performance came in 2021 when she reached the quarter-finals.

Top seed Swiatek, the defending champion, continues her bid for a third French Open title when she faces American world number 102 Claire Liu later on Thursday.

Sabalenka, 25, is already through to the third round, earning another straight-set win when she beat compatriot Iryna Shymanovich on Wednesday.

Tottenham plan to speak with Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou in the latest twist to their search for a new head coach, sources have told ESPN.

Spurs are re-evaluating their options after Feyenoord boss Arne Slot chose to resist their interest and sign a new contract with the Eredevisie club.

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Sources have told ESPN that Postecoglou is now emerging as a strong contender with the club set to hold talks after Saturday's Scottish Cup Final.

Celtic face Inverness Caledonian Thistle and a victory would mean Postecoglou would deliver the club's eighth domestic treble in its history.

The 57-year-old has won five of the six trophies available since joining the club from Japanese side Yokohama F. Marinos.

Postecoglou, who was born in Greece but grew up in Australia where he later managed the Socceroos for four years, is on a 12-month rolling contract and would therefore be free to move this summer without Celtic owed any compensation, although they are expected to try and ward off Tottenham's interest by offering him a longer deal on better terms.

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However, Spurs are keen to hold talks with Postecoglou as chairman Daniel Levy comes under mounting pressure to bring some clarity to the club after sacking Antonio Conte on March 27.

Conte's assistant Cristian Stellini was placed in interim charge but lasted just two games, a home defeat to Bournemouth and a 6-1 thrashing at Newcastle United, before he was replaced by Spurs coach Ryan Mason until the end of the season.

Mason has publicly stated that he wants the job on a permanent basis but Spurs are looking for a more experienced candidate than the 31-year-old.

Luis Enrique and Mainz's Bo Svensson are two names to have been discussed but the club continues to distance themselves from any speculation linking them with former Bayern Munich boss Julian Nagelsmann.

Lionel Messi will leave Paris Saint-Germain after two years at the club, head coach Christophe Galtier said Thursday.

ESPN reported last month that Messi would leave PSG when his contract expires this summer, with the forward considering a move to Saudi Arabian side Al Hilal, the city rivals of Cristiano Ronaldo's Al Nassr.

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Galter told a news conference ahead of PSG's final Ligue 1 match of the season against Clermont Foot: "I had the privilege of coaching the best player in the history of football. This will be his last match at the Parc des Princes, and I hope that he will receive the warmest of welcomes.

"This year, he has been an important part of the team, always available. I don't think any of the comments or criticisms are justified. He's always been there for the team. It's been a great privilege to accompany him throughout the season."

Messi has contributed with 21 goals and 20 assists for PSG in all competitions this season.

Messi joined the French champions in 2021 after his 21-year association with Barca ended because of the club's financial issues.

Alongside Kylian Mbappe and Neymar, he helped PSG to win Ligue 1 titles in both seasons he spent in the French capital. However, back-to-back round-of-16 exits from the Champions League meant the club's search for a first European title continues.

He scored 32 goals in 74 games in all competitions for PSG, as well as recording 35 assists.

Messi's time in Paris came alongside other accomplishments, too. In December, he led Argentina to win the 2023 World Cup, ending his wait for the only major honour to have eluded him in his career.

He was then named men's footballer of the year at The Best FIFA Football Awards in February -- his second time winning the award, adding to his record seven Ballon d'Or trophies.

DENVER -- Eric Lewis was not selected as one of the 12 referees who will work the NBA Finals between the Denver Nuggets and Miami Heat, while the league continues to look into whether he used a Twitter account to defend himself and other officials from online critiques.

Lewis had been chosen to work the Finals in each of the past four seasons. This year's Finals referees were announced by the league Thursday morning, about 12 hours before the start of the title series.

After some now-deleted tweets were revealed by a pair of Twitter users last week, the league opened an investigation into whether Lewis violated NBA rules by speaking about officiating in an unauthorized manner. It has not been determined if Lewis was using the account, which utilizes the name "blair cuttliff." The account was deactivated briefly last week but was active again Wednesday evening.

"Regarding Eric Lewis and the social media posts, we are continuing to review the matter and he will not be working the Finals," NBA spokesman Mike Bass said Thursday.

The league has not revealed a timetable for the completion of its probe into whether Lewis used the Twitter account. It also remains unknown what discipline from the league that Lewis could face if he broke policy by discussing officiating matters openly without approval.

Of the 12 referees picked for the Nuggets-Heat matchup, nine worked the title series last season. Scott Foster will be a finals referee for the 16th year, while Tony Brothers and Marc Davis were picked for a 12th time. Zach Zarba is now a 10-time selection, John Goble was picked for the seventh time, David Guthrie for the sixth time, Josh Tiven for the fourth and Courtney Kirkland and James Williams are now three-time selections.

Returning to the referee lineup for the Finals are Ed Malloy, now an eight-time pick, and Bill Kennedy -- picked for the fifth time. The only first-time selection this year is Kevin Scott, who began working NBA games in the 2010-11 season.

Tyler Ford and Ben Taylor have been assigned as Finals alternates. Foster has officiated 23 NBA Finals games, followed by Davis (18) and Brothers (15).

"The pinnacle for an NBA official is to work the NBA Finals," said Byron Spruell, the league's president of basketball operations.

Besides Lewis, the other referees who worked the 2022 Finals but aren't working them this year are Kane Fitzgerald -- who left on-court work after last season and took over in September as the league's vice president of referee operations and replay center principal -- and James Capers, who is injured.

Lewis has worked more than 1,200 games, counting both regular season and playoffs, in 19 seasons as an NBA referee. He last worked on May 16, when Denver played host to the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals. The reports of the tweets came out about a week later.

IT WAS A suggestion at first. The kind of thing a friend brings up during a long car ride when there will be plenty of time to discuss it. And in the winter of 2019, Denver Nuggets strength and conditioning coach Felipe Eichenberger had his pick of long car rides to the airport with star center Nikola Jokic to choose from.

The two had grown close in the four years they'd worked together. Eichenberger spent a month with Jokic in the big man's native Serbia each offseason. Jokic was present when Eichenberger's daughter was born -- and for all of her birthday parties afterward. Before games, Jokic often went into Eichenberger's office to escape the noise of the locker room.

Jokic had started talking with his friend and training coach about getting in better shape. He'd text Eichenberger a bodybuilding video and would then joke he wanted to look like that someday. Or he'd mention that his knees or back hurt after games and would ask Eichenberger if losing weight might help with that.

For years, Jokic had been told by coaches, executives and talking heads in the media that he needed to get in better condition if he wanted to succeed in the NBA. But now it was coming from within.

It was time for Jokic to hear this.

"You can be MVP in this league," Eichenberger told him.

Jokic had just been named to his first All-Star team. He had won a Player of the Week award in early February. The Nuggets were in first place in their division. Everything was trending upward. Which meant it was time to start pushing Jokic to an uncomfortable place: superstardom.

"He got mad at me," Eichenberger says, laughing at the memory. "He got pretty heated. He's like, 'That's not the player I am. I pass more than I score. ... I'm not selfish.'"

For those who know Jokic, who will be playing in his first NBA Finals against the Miami Heat beginning with Thursday's Game 1 (8:30 p.m. ET, ABC), this was not an unexpected response.

"I never coached Tim Duncan, but I always compare him to Tim Duncan," Nuggets coach Michael Malone tells ESPN. "He's just a selfless superstar who's almost embarrassed by the attention.

"He's not beating his chest, saying, 'Look at me.' He's saying, 'Hey, look at us. This is a group.'"

Eichenberger knew going into the conversation he might touch a nerve. But that was the point. And the ride to the Denver airport was at least 25 miles. So he dove in further.

"I knew he wanted to work," Eichenberger says. "He was always willing to work."

So rather than try to untangle the self-consciousness that the MVP talk was triggering, Eichenberger laid out a plan for Jokic to transform his body.

Focus on the work, not what it means to be an MVP.

Jokic thought about it for a little bit before answering.

"OK," he said. "Let's do it."

After every game, no matter how many minutes he played, they'd lift weights. He would change his diet, cutting out as many indulgences as possible, which meant no soda, no beer, no snacks while he played video games.

An exception was made for orange juice and the occasional bite of his mother's cooking, when she visited from Serbia. But just a bite. "I actually told him to enjoy his mom's food after games," Eichenberger says. "Like, come on, you can't not eat your mother's cooking."

"But once he gets something in his head," Eichenberger adds, "that's how it's going to be."

OVER THE REST of that 2018-19 season, Jokic adhered to this routine religiously, even lifting after playing 64 minutes in a four-overtime loss to the Portland Trail Blazers in Game 3 of their Western Conference semifinal series.

Denver ended up falling to Portland in seven games, and while Jokic led the team in every category -- averaging 27.1 points and 13.9 rebounds in 42 minutes a game -- he had worn down as the series went on.

By the end of Game 7, he had nothing left. He missed seven of 10 shots in the fourth quarter, unable to carry his team across the finish line.

It was a devastating defeat. The Nuggets had been up by 11 points at home midway through the third quarter. All they had to do was finish and they'd be in the Western Conference finals against a Golden State Warriors team that was dealing with injuries and chemistry issues.

Afterward, as Malone huddled the Nuggets coaches in the locker room, they heard a knock at the door.

It was Jokic. He had come to tell them he'd never let that happen again.

David Adelman remembers the sentiment in Jokic's voice as much as what he said.

"He was emotional when he came in," said Adelman, the lead offensive assistant coach for the Nuggets. "I think he felt like he wore down in the second half, and we all looked at him like, 'Joker. You carried us through this whole process.'

"The responsibility he has for us is different than maybe any player in the NBA. He can be our center. He can be our point guard. He can play the wing. He can be a catch-and-shoot guy. He's playing every part of the floor."

But Jokic was not interested in any consolations. He had finally felt what he and Eichenberger had been talking about: Everything he had was not enough to win. There was another level he needed to get to.

"I mean, he gave everything he had possible," Adelman said. "But then I think he, in his mind, thought, 'Maybe I can give more. Maybe if I get in even better shape. Maybe if I do this.'"

And so he did.

BY THE TIME Jokic returned to training camp in the fall of 2019, the change in his physique was striking. He was leaner and stronger, having lost 20 to 30 pounds while gaining muscle everywhere. The effect of this change became immediate on the court. Jokic played in every regular-season and playoff game, finishing ninth in MVP voting and leading Denver to the Western Conference finals in 2020.

"He lost 10 pounds, and he's like, 'It feels good.' He lost 20 pounds, and he's like, 'Wow. I can dunk now?'" Eichenberger said. "He lost 30 pounds. Like, 'Wow. I can really sprint.'"

During the four-month shutdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jokic kept training and eating healthily. So much so that photos of him taken at a gym in Serbia went viral on social media.

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Former teammate Jameer Nelson texted Jokic immediately after seeing the photos.

"When you do something like that, you deliver a message to your teammates," Nelson told ESPN. "When you do something for your body or your mind like he did, the way he did it, everybody gets stronger."

Nelson, a 2004 first-round pick and 2009 All-Star, had played with Jokic in Denver from 2015 to 2018, and like most people who knew Jokic early in his career, he cannot say he saw this kind of transformation coming.

"His skill level was high," Nelson said. "But obviously, I didn't know he'd be an MVP."

At the beginning of Jokic's rookie season in 2015, Nelson had organized a voluntary camp for the team near his home in suburban Philadelphia right before training camp.

He put guys up at the local Marriott hotel, put them through his offseason conditioning workouts at a local gym, then organized paintball and golf outings during their free time. Jokic was just looking to make an impression and, hopefully, the roster that fall.

There were no coaches there. But toward the end of the week, then-Nuggets general manager Tim Connelly called Nelson to check in.

"Who looks the best?" Connelly asked Nelson.

"The foreign kid," Nelson told him. "I don't really know his name, but once he learns English and gets in better shape, he's going to be really good."

JUSUF NURKIC WAS one of the only people who knew anything about Jokic when he came to Nelson's camp that fall. They'd played against each other in the Adriatic league as teenagers.

But whereas Nurkic, the Bosnian center, had been invited to the green room in New York as a projected first-round pick in 2014, Jokic was asleep back in Serbia when his name was finally called late in the second round, while the broadcast was airing a Taco Bell commercial.

"He played exactly the same style as he does now," Nurkic told ESPN. "But it was a different type of basketball. The pace was totally different. So I don't think people could really see what he could be."

It is important to remember this about Jokic's background when you hear him talk now. He'll say he never expected to make it to the NBA, much less win two MVP awards, and people assume he is just being modest.

But this is not an act. He's just modest.

You notice it as he covers his mouth when he has to talk about himself publicly. Or in his self-deprecating jokes about his English or always being a bit off-balance on the court.

On Saturday, prior to the 2023 NBA Finals, he was asked when he realized it might be possible for him to win an MVP award one day and whether it was true Eichenberger had planted that seed.

"I mean, still isn't," he said with a shrug. "But yeah, that's true. Felipe was the first guy who told me I was going to be an MVP. It was a car drive to the airport. I remember ... I was laughing.

"To be honest, I'm playing the same way since my days in Sombor [Serbia]. I didn't change. Maybe I upgrade a little bit, but I didn't trade my style or play since day one."

Jokic is underselling himself. Of course he has upgraded since coming to the NBA. He has transformed his body from a chubby, soda-guzzling teenager into a fit, 28-year-old, triple-double generator.

"He's an ultra-conditioned athlete now," Malone said after the Nuggets beat the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference finals. "The guy can play for minutes on top of minutes and play at a high level.

"He made that turn. And his dedication from that point on has allowed him to become a two-time MVP."

THE NIGHT THE Nuggets swept the Lakers to advance to the NBA Finals was supposed to feel like a culmination of everything Denver had been through. For the faith the Nuggets had shown in their core of Jokic, Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr. over the previous five years. For the patience they've had through significant injuries and setbacks. For the vision they'd had in drafting those players in the first place and the way they've built around them since.

But Jokic found himself strangely unsatisfied and restless during the long break they had until the start of the Finals.

"To be honest ... I thought it was going to be a much bigger feeling," he said on Saturday. "Yes, we won the game, and I was really happy. Yes, we made history. This, that. But next year, nobody is going to remember us. Maybe if we win it all, maybe it's going to be different."

Adelman is not surprised to hear Jokic in such a reflective mood. Over the six seasons he has coached him, there have been many conversations like this.

After the team lost its final regular-season game in 2018 at the Minnesota Timberwolves, Adelman remembers Jokic coming to the back of the team plane and sitting with the coaches to discuss the campaign and where the team could go from there.

"He really takes stock and ownership of what he just experienced, and he likes to talk it out," Adelman said. "I think that's why we've grown steadily as a group, is having a person that's your leader who thinks that way."

Jokic did this before he was a leader too.

He even did it as a rookie, when it became clear his presence had disrupted Nurkic's development.

Nurkic had been a friend and a mentor to Jokic, helping him acclimate to life in the NBA and America. But there wasn't room for both of them in the starting lineup, and within a few months, it was clear Jokic was the team's center of the future.

There were no hard feelings, Nurkic said. He just wanted to be somewhere he could start, so he asked for a trade. Jokic understood, but he didn't think it had to come to that.

"He went to the coaches and offered to come off the bench," Nelson said. "Like he really didn't care about starting. It didn't matter to him. He just wanted everybody to be happy."

Nurkic said he never knew Jokic offered his starting spot back then. He just knew his friend wanted him to stay and believed they could play together.

"We still talk about what could have been," Nurkic said. "But everything happens for a reason. I'm happy with my career. And I'm happy for him too ... His story is really amazing."

FOR THE MOST part, Jokic lets others tell his story. Coaches, former teammates, friends.

"I think probably my family, my close friends ... you need to ask them," Jokic said, when asked whether he has changed since the spotlight started shining on him. "But they are not going to answer you."

He is aware that this is a funny answer because people in the room laughed afterward. But he also has to know he isn't giving the most satisfying answer to an audience that is accustomed to superstars delivering those lines.

It's hard to know what to do with someone who doesn't bask in the attention the NBA spotlight creates.

But that's not his problem to solve.

The night he was named the MVP of the Western Conference finals, the story was LeBron James talking postgame about possible retirement.

But if Jokic had a reaction to James stealing his thunder, nobody heard it. He reads books, not his mentions, having deleted all his social media years ago.

"Maybe someone should actually start to address that, like, being humble is a virtue," Nuggets assistant coach Ognjen Stojakovic told ESPN. "That it's OK to be humble, be a hard worker, be a good person."

Stojakovic has known Jokic since he was a teenager making his way through the Adriatic league. He knows where Jokic is from in Serbia. He visits him in the summers.

He knows Jokic's parents and his two older brothers. And now he knows Jokic's wife and daughter.

"Honestly, it's very fun to be part of his journey," Stojakovic said. "To see how he's maturing from year one to year two, three, four, five, six, seven.

"You know he came as a boy. Now he's a father."

Each step was deliberate and thoughtful. This last one will be the hardest.

"For the first two years, we butted our heads because he had his own pace and he didn't understand how hard he had to work," Stojakovic said. "But now he does. He works so hard. And he's ready to do whatever it takes to win."