Teams from the same country will have more chances to play each other when the Champions League and other European club competitions are revamped next year, UEFA said Monday.

There will be an open draw for the round of 16 without so-called "country protection" and two teams from a high-ranked nation could also face each other in the new league stage "to avoid a deadlock in the draw," UEFA acknowledged.

After links to Bayern Munich, Harry Kane returns to work at Tottenham this week for preseason training.

Victor Wembanyama, the NBA's top draft pick, showed improvement Sunday in his second game with San Antonio, scoring 27 points in an 85-80 NBA Summer League loss to Portland.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva criticized the appointment of Carlo Ancelotti as the new Brazil football coach, claiming he would be better off sorting out the Italian national team's problems.

Italian Ancelotti, who has won the Champions League a record four times as a coach, will take charge prior to the Copa America in the United States next June after honoring the final year of his contract with Real Madrid.

Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic can take a step closer to a Wimbledon title showdown on Friday as Andy Murray resumes his big-hitting duel with Stefanos Tsitsipas on a star-studded Centre Court schedule.

Grant Hill started working on the USA Basketball roster for this summer's World Cup many months ago, long before the first invitations were extended.

The result, he hopes, will make it worth all that effort.

Former Germany winger Bastian Schweinsteiger says Pep Guardiola shares blame for the national team's decline, telling British radio station Talksport that Germany lost its values because of the Spanish coach.

"When Pep Guardiola joined Bayern Munich, when he came to the country, everyone believed we have to play this kind of football, like short passes and everything. We were kind of losing our values," Schweinsteiger told Talksport on Thursday.

The developments at Wimbledon on Wednesday included Novak Djokovic joining Roger Federer and Serena Williams as the only players in tennis history to win 350 Grand Slam matches; a runner-up two years ago, Karolina Pliskova, exiting in the first round against a qualifier; a player seeded No. 8, Maria Sakkari, taking the opening set 6-0 but managing to lose.

Ho-hum. Those turned out to be among the least unusual happenings around the All England Club on Day 3 of this year's tournament. That's because so much of the buzz around the place concerned protests and, yes, rain.

The high-stakes game between Kylian Mbappé and Paris Saint-Germain about the superstar France forward's future was ramped up Wednesday.

PSG president Nasser al-Khelaifi insisted the club cannot let Mbappé leave as a free agent next year and get no transfer fee in return.

Brazilian football confederation chairman Ednaldo Rodrigues said Wednesday that Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti will be in charge of the national team at next year's Copa America.

Ancelotti has still not publicly confirmed any deal with the five-time World Cup champions. Brazil has never had a full-time foreign coach in charge of its national team. But the internal pressure to do so increased after Tite, hailed by many as the best Brazilian coach in the last decade, failed to deliver in the last two editions of the World Cup.