Your Guardian sport weekend: Women’s Rugby World Cup, US Open tennis and more

Saturday

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8am (all times BST) Matchday live After a (mostly) exciting set of matches on the first weekend, we’ll have all the buildup to the Premier League’s second Saturday of the season, plus reaction to West Ham v Chelsea, with Billy Munday and John Brewin. There may also be news of more transfer targets being hijacked by a club’s fiercest rivals, as we get to less than 10 days before the window closes. Our correspondents will be chipping in with the latest transfer news, while Jamie Jackson will be checking in from the Etihad Stadium, before Manchester City v Tottenham.

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12pm Australia v Samoa After Friday night’s opener between England and the USA, the Women’s Rugby World Cup continues in Salford. Australia are expected to be too strong for the Pacific islanders, in what is expected to be a warm-up for the Wallaroos’ key Pool A game, against the USA next Saturday. Daniel Gallan is helming the minute-by-minute blog, while Aaron Bower will cover this match and the Scotland v Wales Pool B game that follows, before Sarah Rendell reports from York on the day’s other game in that section, Canada v Fiji.

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12.30pm Manchester City v Tottenham A nice, easy game for Spurs fans to look forward to after Eberechi Eze’s relocation to north London took an unexpected diversion. Tottenham began with a convincing home win over Burnley last Saturday, but the deposed serial champions will surely be tougher opponents. Billy Munday brings you minute-by-minute coverage as City look to follow up the 4-0 dispatching of Wolves against opponents who have caused Pep Guardiola a fair deal of angst down the years, last season’s equivalent fixture being a 4-0 win for Angeball. Jamie Jackson will provide the match report and the managers’ reactions. View image in fullscreen Tottenham put four past Manchester City at the Etihad last season under Ange Postecoglou. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA

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1.45pm Premier League clockwatch Join us for the 3pm team news and updates on the lower-league lunchtime games too, including Charlton v Leicester, from where Yara El-Shaboury will be sending us a report. John Brewin is at the helm for the live afternoon, which includes Brentford v Aston Villa and Bournemouth v Wolves, but perhaps the most critical game of the afternoon was a Championship fixture last season: Burnley v Sunderland. Will Unwin is at Turf Moor for the match report (including news of whether Martin Dubravka has learned to count to eight), while Ben Bloom is at the Gtech and Ben Fisher at the Vitality. We’ll also have all the news through the Championship and Leagues One & Two.

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4.10pm South Africa v Australia How, exactly, do the Wallabies follow that? Last Saturday’s epic comeback win in Johannesburg – Australia’s first victory there since 1963 – will live long in the memory whatever happens in Cape Town, but a Springboks backlash is expected. They are not alone in seeking revenge: the Brumbies wing Corey Toole, a sevens star at the Paris Games, makes his 15-man international debut against the nation that denied him an Olympic medal in the bronze playoff last August. Rassie Erasmus has made a slew of changes to the Rugby Championship holders’ XV against an Australia side shorn of their captain, Harry Wilson, by a knee injury. Daniel Gallan will guide you through. View image in fullscreen Joe Schmidt and his Australia team are seeking another statement victory in Cape Town. Photograph: Esa Alexander/Reuters

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