Sport in brief

• GOLF: The Australian pair of Marc Leishman and Cameron Smith defeated South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel in a play-off to claim the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

Both teams completed 72 holes tied on 268, before the Australians took advantage of a wayward tee shot from Oosthuizen on the first play-off hole to clinch the tournament with a par.

• TENNIS: The Lawn Tennis Association is making more than 1,000 free tickets available to key workers for its summer tournaments.

The tickets will be for the four key Wimbledon warm-up events in Birmingham, Nottingham, Eastbourne and at Queen’s Club and will be offered to key workers local to each venue from the NHS, police and fire service, local transport workers and other local authority workers.

• RUGBY: Guinness Six Nations champions Wales will tackle New Zealand and South Africa as part of a four-test autumn schedule later this year.

The series opens against New Zealand on October 30 with the Springboks following a week later. They then take on Fiji on Sunday November 14, followed by Australia’s visit on November 20.

• FOOTBALL: Alan Shearer and Thierry Henry are the first two players to be inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame.

Shearer is the league’s all-time top scorer having netted 260 goals for Blackburn and Newcastle United between 1992 and 2006 while Henry was a four-time winner of the Golden Boot award, given to the top scorer in a season, and netted a club-record 175 Premier League goals in 258 matches for Arsenal.

• Formula One has approved sprint qualifying races at three Grands Prix during the 2021 World Championship.

The shorter races on Saturdays, which will replace qualifying and determine the grid for Sunday’s grand prix, are likely to be trialled at Silverstone and Monza, with Brazil possibly staging another one. The top three finishers in sprint qualifying will receive points.