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Reuters Sports Schedule at 1400 GMT on Tuesday, May 31

Reuters sports schedule at 1400 GMT on Tuesday: SOCCER Messi tax fraud trial begins in Barcelona BARCELONA - Barcelona's five-times world player of the year Lionel Messi went on trial on Tuesday along with his father on accusations of defrauding the Spanish state of millions of euros. (SOCCER-SPAIN/MESSI, moved, 300 words) Euro 2016 We will bring you all the latest news as national team managers finalise their 23-man squads for next month's finals. (SOCCER-EURO-COUNTRY/SQUAD) Italy boss Conte finalises Euro squad ROME - Italy coach Antonio Conte will be among the managers naming his final 23-man squad for Euro 2016. (SOCCER-EURO-ITA/SQUAD, expect by 2000 GMT/4 PM ET, 300 words) Austria take on Malta in Euro warm-up KLAGENFURT - Euro 2016 qualifiers Austria face Malta in a friendly and coach Marcel Koller finalises his 23-man squad for the tournament in France. (SOCCER-FRIENDLY-AUT-MLT/, expect by 2100 GMT/5 PM ET, 300 words) Ireland host Belarus in friendly Injured Keane misses out on Belarus friendly Ireland's record scorer Robbie Keane has been ruled out of their final Euro 2016 warm-up against Belarus in Cork through injury as he waits to see if he has made Martin O'Neill's 23-man squad. (SOCCER-FRIENDLY-IRL-BLR/, expect by 2145 GMT/5:45 PM ET, 400 words) TENNIS French Open (to June 5) Djokovic, Williams sisters in action after Monday washout PARIS - After Monday's play was washed out, world number one Novak Djokovic faces Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut, while Serena and Venus Williams look to move towards a potential semi-final showdown when they play Ukraine's Elina Svitolina and Swiss eighth seed Timea Bacsinszky respectively. (TENNIS-OPEN/ (PIX), play starts at 0900 GMT/5 AM ET, by Pritha Sarkar, Julien Pretot and John Stonestreet, 600 words) NBA Stage set for NBA Finals LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers finally know who stands between them and the city's first major professional sports team title in 52 years, since the 1964 NFL Cleveland Browns. (NBA-FINALS/, expect by 2000 GMT/4 PM ET, 400 words) BASEBALL Arrieta, Cubs look to continue surge against Dodgers The Major League Baseball-best Chicago Cubs send Cy Young winner Jake Arrieta (9-0) to the mound against the Los Angeles Dodgers and left-hander Scott Kazmir (4-3) in one of 15 games on the schedule. (BASEBALL-HIGHLIGHTS/, expect by 0515 GMT/1:15 AM ET, by The Sports Xchange, 800 words) NORTH AMERICAN SPORTS Roundups of off-field developments in the major North American professional sports leagues. (expect by 0001 GMT/8:01 PM ET, 500 words) OLYMPICS Rugby Sevens World-beating Australian women on rampage to Rio MELBOURNE - Australia's women captured the nation's first rugby sevens world series title and have that important winning feeling in the leadup to Rio, their coach has told Reuters. (OLYMPICS-RIO/RUGBY-AUSTRALIA (INTERVIEW), moved, by Ian Ransom, 600 words) (Europe duty editor: Ed Osmond)