Borussia Dortmund aim to ruin Bayern Munich's plans to farewell Pep Guardiola with a seventh title in three years when Germany's top teams meet in Saturday's crunch German Cup final.

Victory over their main rivals at Berlin's Olympic Stadium would give Bayern the league and cup double before Guardiola leaves for Manchester City next season.

He started the season derided as an expensive panic buy, but Anthony Martial goes into Saturday's FA Cup final against Crystal Palace as the potential savior of Manchester United's season.

The French forward's deadline-day move from Monaco, at an initial cost of £36 million ($52.6 million, 47 million euros), rising to £58 million, sparked incredulity on both sides of the Channel.

Roger Federer withdrew from the French Open on Thursday after failing to recover from a back injury, bringing to an end the 17-time major winner's run of 65 consecutive Grand Slams.

"I regret to announce that I have made the decision not to play in this year’s French Open," the 2009 Roland Garros champion wrote on his Facebook page.

An English Premier League club wants to allow supporters to vote via smartphone for the player they want substituted during a match, a data analyst has told a Doha football conference.

Fans would cast their votes via an app on their phones after being given real-time performance data for every player on the pitch, said Mark Sear, chief technology officer with data and analytics company, EMC.

Japanese equestrian rider Hiroshi Hoketsu, 75, is to miss out on becoming the oldest ever Olympic athlete after his horse fell ill with a cough, officials said Thursday.

Hoketsu was set to break the 96-year-old record of Swedish shooter Oscar Swahn, who was 72 years and 280 days when he won his sixth Olympic medal at Antwerp 1920.

Newly crowned English Premier League champions Leicester City received a royal seal of approval at Bangkok's Grand Palace Thursday, with the team kneeling en masse in front of a portrait of the king alongside their new trophy.

The Thai-owned East Midlands team is currently visiting the football-mad Southeast Asian nation as part of a publicity blitz following their fairytale title triumph.

Steph Curry scored 28 points as the Golden State Warriors roared back to life in their Western Conference finals series against the Oklahoma City Thunder with an emphatic 118-91 victory on Wednesday.

Curry seized control of the contest with a spellbinding third-quarter points blitz as the Warriors squared the series at 1-1 heading into Sunday's game three in Oklahoma City.

Sevilla midfielder Coke popped up with two second-half goals to break Liverpool hearts in a controversy-filled 3-1 victory that secured a record third consecutive Europa League title on Wednesday.

Liverpool traveled to St. Jakob-Park confident in their chances of a first Europa League trophy since 2001 after an impressive campaign in Europe's second-tier competition.

As a player, Guy Forget never made it past the fourth round of the French Open but as the recently-appointed tournament director at Roland Garros, the 51-year-old believes he has the talent to make it "the most beautiful in the world".

However, there are challenges both on and off the court at the famed venue, nestled in the wealthy, leafy western suburbs of Paris.

Twelve months after his latest bid to complete a career Grand Slam was thwarted, Novak Djokovic targets an elusive French Open title with time and history threatening to conspire against him.

The world number one was left in tears in 2015 when Stan Wawrinka unleashed a battery of single-handed backhand winners to all corners of Court Philippe Chatrier on his way to a shock Paris title.