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Nakashima, the 28th seed, had never previously made it past the third round at the tournament but was too strong for Jodar in a 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 triumph.

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Jodar saved four match points before Nakashima finally converted his fifth to overcome the world No 15 in two hours and two minutes of play on IGA Stadium.

"Going into the tournament, I knew I was playing at a really high level, so I knew that I could get a go on a deep run here," said Nakashima.

"Obviously, wasn't thinking about the final or anything."

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Nakashima will face defending champion Ben Shelton in an all-American final on Friday, live on Sky Sports Tennis.

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Shelton beat compatriot Learner Tien in the night's second semi-final and said afterwards: "Super happy with the performance.

"Learner is a guy who presents me with a lot of problems in my game. A tough challenge to overcome.

"To get a win over him in the fashion that I did, I'm super pleased with that."

Rybakina fights back to beat Gauff to set up Swiatek final

At the women's semi-finals in Toronto, second-seeded Elena Rybakina beat fourth-seeded Coco Gauff 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 to book her place in the final.

Rybakina will play seventh-seeded Iga Swiatek on Thursday night after the Pole saw off ninth-seeded Elina Svitolina 6-3, 1-6, 6-3.

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The 6ft Rybakina finished off Gauff just before 1am local time to bring the rain-delayed night session to a close. The Kazakh has won the Australian Open and Stuttgart titles this year, taking her career tally to 13 titles.

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In the first semi-final, Swiatek broke Svitolina's serve at love for a 5-3 lead in the third set. Swiatek then jumped out to a 40-0 lead before converting her second match point. The match began about an hour after the scheduled start because of rain.

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Japan's foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi said the islands were "inherently Japanese territory both historically and under international law, and the Government of Japan strongly protests this visit".

The countries have been locked in a dispute over the Kurils for decades, and it is the main reason Moscow and Tokyo did not sign a peace treaty after World War Two.

The Kuril islands sit between Hokkaido in northern Japan and Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Four of the southernmost islands are claimed by Japan, which calls them the Northern Territories.

They are administered by Russia. At the end of World War Two, the Soviet Union annexed the island chain and deported around 17,000 Japanese residents.

During his visit, Putin sampled fish roe and spoke to island locals, Russian state media reported.

Over the years, attempts to resolve the territorial dispute have made little progress. Bilateral ties have also remained frosty, with Japan imposing sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Japan has protested against previous visits by Russian officials to the disputed islands, including Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and his predecessor Dmitry Medvedev.

The Kuril islands are a strategic area for Russia, which has beefed up its military presence on the islands over the past decade. The island of Iturup is used as its primary military air base in the region.

Last month, Chinese and Russian naval warships sailed through a strait in the Kuril islands during a joint patrol.

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On Thursday, complainant J’s ex-girlfriend was cross-examined by Jones’s defence team, during which she maintained she had a conversation with J more than 20 years ago in which he alleged Jones touched him.

Jones is facing a trial before judge Glenn Walsh in Downing Centre court after he pleaded not guilty to 20 charges of indecent assault and two of sexual touching against six complainants.

Last week, J, a former student athlete and the first complainant to appear in the trial, told the court he reported the alleged indecent assaults to police in 2024 after Jones was arrested because he wanted his child to know “right from wrong”. He also said he disclosed allegations Jones had touched him to his former high school girlfriend, whom he met in the mid-2000s when she was 16.

Jones’s barrister, Gabrielle Bashir SC, asserted on Thursday in her cross-examination that the ex-girlfriend had a financial motive to fabricate that J had made the disclosure when they were teens. Bashir read messages to the court in which J told the girlfriend he “promised” to look after her after she provided her statement to police, with Bashir asserting this meant financially.

But the ex-girlfriend denied the evidence was fabricated or that there was a financial motive, saying J “wanted to come out and tell his truth”.

“It never crossed my mind and I know he didn’t mean that either, we’ve never spoken about it,” she said of assertions the message that J promised to look after her meant financially.

Bashir later produced before the court a $1,200 fine the ex-girlfriend had received two years ago, which prosecutor Georgina Wright objected to. Wright argued Bashir was “intimidating” the witness and the move was an attempt to “besmirch” the witness.

“The witness has denied financial issues,” Wright said, before adding a $1,200 fine wouldn’t contest that.

Walsh allowed the questioning saying it didn’t amount to intimidation. He said the questioning flowed into the theory put forward by Jones’s team that there was a financial motive for J and his ex-girlfriend to fabricate the evidence, therefore it was relevant.

“The air should be cleared between parties in my view, for we are going to be together it seems to me for a number of months,” Walsh said.

Asked by Bashir about the fine, the witness agreed the sum was significant to her at the time. She also agreed it required her to attend a 12-month program which had a “financial consequence” attached to it.

“You had also been working on maintaining your sobriety?” Bashir asked.

“Yes,” the witness responded.

“I suggest at the time financial help would have been very welcome,” Bashir said.

“No, I didn’t need financial help.”

On Tuesday, the ex-girlfrend told the court that she remembered a conversation with J late one evening 20 years ago, during which he said: “Alan Jones has touched me inappropriately.”

Bashir repeatedly suggested the conversation 20 years ago had never happened.

“No, I remember that clearly,” she said.

The witness said J was embarrassed and couldn’t look her in the eye.

“He felt uncomfortable telling me; he had his head down,” she told the court.

“I said, ‘Is this something you want to speak about to somebody, and maybe you should report it,’ and he said a very firm no.”

The court has heard that J made a report to the police about the nine indecent assault allegations after he saw news reports about Jones’s arrest over other indecent assault allegations.

Walsh has allowed the prosecution to expand the dates of some of the alleged offending against J, after apparent inconsistencies in the evidence about the timeline given by witnesses. The crown had originally alleged that Jones kissed him and touched him on a trip to Fitzroy Falls some time in 2004. However, the crown now says the incidents may have happened anytime between January 2004 and April 2006, meaning J may have been between 18 and 21 years old.

The trial before Walsh continues.

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