Sportshour

How is horse racing coping amidst the coronavirus pandemic? On Saturday Tiger Roll should have been aiming to win a third Grand National in a row but the race was called off last month. The BBC's racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght and the Grand National winning trainer Lucinda Russell joined us to share their feelings on the morning the race should have gone ahead and to discuss how the sport is coping in the absence of racing.Travails on the Tennis Tour: In the week that Wimbledon was cancelled for the first time since the second world war we spoke to world number 375 Sofia Shapatava about the realities of life below the elite level. She tells us lower ranked players are struggling to pay their rent and essential bills and how she has started a petition asking the sport's authorities to provide players with financial support. From carrying clubs to carrying parcels: European tour Caddie Oliver Briggs is stranded at his parents house in England due to the coronavirus lockdown. He told us about missing lif