Motorsport: Heineken have vowed to take F1 into a brave new era after announcing a £150m new sponsorship deal with the sport. The Dutch beer company, already in partnership with the Champions League, the Rugby World Cup and the James Bond movies, have added grand prix racing to their portfolio in a contract which will run until 2020 with an option to extend for a three further years. Gianluca Di Tondo, Heineken’s senior director, said: “Can we make F1 as big as the Champions League? Honestly, I think so.”

Tennis: Stanislas Wawrinka has added former Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek to his coaching team for the grasscourt season, the Swiss player said yesterday. Big-serving Dutchman Krajicek, Wimbledon winner in 1996, will join Wawrinka at London’s Queen’s Club next week as the Swiss tunes up for this month’s grasscourt grand slam. Krajicek will join Wawrinka’s existing coach Magnus Norman and assistant Yannick Fattebert. Twice grand slam champion Wawrinka has never really shone at Wimbledon, losing to Richard Gasquet in the quarter-finals last year and Roger Federer at the same stage in 2014.

Cycling: Chris Froome took over the race lead at the Criterium du Dauphine after clinching victory on stage five yesterday. The Team Sky rider launched an attack 2.5km from the summit of the final climb in the 140km route to Vaujany and was too strong for Richie Porte (BMC) as he crossed the line first to take the yellow jersey from Alberto Contador (Tinkoff). Froome and Porte finished 19 seconds ahead of Adam Yates (Orica-GreenEdge) and Dan Martin (Etixx-QuickStep), with Contador a further two seconds back.

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