The top seed is bidding for a place in the semi-finals today

Former champion Petra Kvitova battled her way through to the Wimbledon quarter-finals with victory over Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro.

Defending champion Serena Williams defeated Kimiko Date-Krumm of Japan in straight sets late last night. Date-Krumm, at 42 the oldest woman on the tour, put up a decent fight and it took Williams 35 minutes to take the first set. But she raced away with the second to take the match 6-2 6-0 in 61 minutes.

The lights of Centre Court seemed a long way away for last year's Wimbledon giant-killer Lukas Rosol as he made a first-round exit today.

On a day when the defeat of Agnieszka Radwanska, the world No 5 and last year's Wimbledon runner-up, demonstrated the difficulties that grass-court tennis offers even to the very best, the current British No 1 and one of her predecessors proved the value of experience on the sport's most challenging surface.

Tens of  thousands of people forced to evacuate their homes as further dramatic rises in the levels of the swollen Elbe and Danube rivers continued to cause chaos

19,000 people have been evacuated from the flooding in the Czech Republic

Historical centre of Prague spared but suburban areas deluged

Our Travel Editor at Large addresses holiday-makers' concerns over planned trips to these two destinations

At least eight people have died and at least two are missing after heavy rain caused landslides and swelled river waters to dangerously high levels

Many tweets apparently confused the two countries, which are around 1,700 miles apart

Randy Blythe, the singer for US metal band Lamb of God, had manslaughter charges against him dropped in a Czech court today following a trial over a fan's death at a concert in Prague three years ago.

Officials said that traces of horsemeat were found in "beef and pork" meatballs in the UK, Netherlands, Portugal and others

A look ahead to tonight’s Europa League fixture at the Stadion Letná