内容摘要：Mr Madelaine will run in the Swansea Half Marathon on 8 June.

Mr Madelaine will run in the Swansea Half Marathon on 8 June.

This was the first electoral contest in Scotland that they've put the full might of their party machine into. Reform leader Nigel Farage even made a campaign visit.They've made it clear that they are likely to be real competitors in next year's Holyrood election.

But there was a sense that voters in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse were scunnered with the status quo.It wasn't unusual to hear them complain about the cost of living, the state of the health service, or the condition of the High Street.Both the SNP and Labour would have to take some responsibility for those problems due to their respective positions of power at Holyrood and Westminster.

And yet Reform couldn't quite beat either of them in what was quite a fertile environment for a party promising to shake things up.There are plenty of seats across the central belt of Scotland that will be electorally similar to Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse. So there may well be more SNP/Labour/Reform fights to come when Scots go to the polls next year.

Reform are still a relatively unknown quantity in Scotland, and their swift rise to prominence is a factor that could make that election fairly unpredictable.

But what about the performance of the Conservatives?Gauff, runner-up to Swiatek in 2022, won 6-1 6-2 against world number 361 Boisson, who was appearing in her first Grand Slam main draw.

This was the potential match that everyone had their eye on when the French Open draw was made: the 'Queen of Clay' against the world number one in the crunch stages.Swiatek and Sabalenka have claimed six of the past 10 majors between them and dominated the WTA Tour over the past three years.

But with Swiatek dropping to fifth in the world after a turbulent season, it was Sabalenka who came into Roland Garros as the favourite.The magnitude of the eagerly-anticipated encounter appeared to affect both players in an edgy opening set.