WORLD OF SPORT

KYLE EDMUND is through to the quarter-finals of tennis’s Vienna Open after beating home favourite Dennis Novak 7-6, 6-7, 7-6. He plays German Jan-Lennard Struff today. Meanwhile, Martina Hingis, 37, says she will retire from tennis after the WTA Finals in Singapore. Hingis has won 25 majors in singles and doubles. ENGLAND have crashed to a second consecutive ODI defeat in the women’s Ashes. Australia made 296 for six and England were all out for 209, chasing a revised DuckworthLewis target of 285. Australia now have four points in the series and need four more from an ODI, a Test and three T20s to retain the Ashes.