Ireland manager Stephen Kenny sees tonight's friendly international against Hungary as a key part of his team's build-up to September's World Cup qualifiers. Despite scoring twice against Andorra last week, Kenny indicated during a cryptic answer about Troy Parrott being a second striker that the 19-year-old may not fit into his system for tonight's game in Budapest. Russian officials have reacted angrily after the head of Ukraine's football association unveiled a new national team shirt emblazoned with a map of Ukraine that includes Crimea.

Italian teenager Lorenzo Musetti won the first two sets of his French Open fourth round match with Novak Djokovic on Monday but bowed out in the final set following a medical break. Throughout the first two sets, Musetti broke down the world number one's game with supreme creativity, but Djokovic knows just what it takes to concentrate and maintain such a high level in best-of-five-set matches. Earlier Coco Gauff produced one of the best big match showings of her young career, smothering Tunisia's Ons Jabeur 6-3, 6-1 in just 53 minutes as the 17-year-old reached her first Grand Slam quarter-final. Naomi Osaka has pulled out of next week's Berlin WTA 5000 grass court tournament, raising doubts about her participation at Wimbledon later this month.

In his column this morning, Gerry Thornley explains why rugby is at risk of losing fans if two-hour games become the norm: "Endless stoppages are certainly contributing to the increased frustration and anger among supporters, and perhaps for players on the pitch and on the sidelines." Damian de Allende and RG Snyman, who were named last weekend in the South Africa squad to face the British and Irish Lions this summer, are among four Munster players to have sustained burns in a fire pit accident.

Meanwhile, Dublin light-heavyweight Emmet Brennan became the seventh Irish boxer to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics after coming through a bruising box-off against Sweden's Liridon Nuha at the European qualifier in Paris last night.