WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Breanna Stewart top-scored with 19 points as defending champions the USA cruised into the quarter-finals of the World Cup with a thumping 105-64 win over Czechia. They will face either Hungary or Japan in the last eight while 2022 runners-up China face a play-off against Puerto Rico to make it through. Also into the quarter-finals are second seeds France, Spain and current European champions Belgium.