Regular skipper, Handré Pollard will miss this clash due to a calf strain picked up in training earlier this week, and will return to South Africa.
Djokovic clinched the Madrid Open without dropping a set and then won a pair of epic battles against Argentines Juan Martin Del Potro and Diego Schwartzman in Rome before succumbing to the imperious Nadal 6-0 4-6 6-1 in Sunday’s final.
An explosion struck a tourist bus near the country's famed pyramids at the weekend, injuring 17 people, three of them South Africans.
Sterling told a conference in New York that the hectic nature of a footballer’s schedule was the only thing that had kept him from meeting them already.
Scaloni also retained Paulo Dybala in his 23-man squad named on Tuesday, despite the Juventus forward’s lean season with the Italian giants.
Osaka has never won a top level WTA event on the surface and has failed to progress past the third round previously at Roland Garros.
The 30-year-old tested positive for anabolic steroids after her win at the Asian championships in Doha last month, a spokesman for the Athletics Federation of India told AFP.
Niki Lauda's death comes eight months after he underwent a lung transplant, which was the result of injuries sustained during his career.
Centre-back Nikola Tavares, 20, who is on the books of Crystal Palace, was born in Cape Town to Croatian parents.
Posters for the two-hour documentary about the controversial Argentine forward say ‘Diego Maradona: Rebel. Hero. Hustler. God.’ with the World Cup winner upset at the use of 'hustler'.
