Palmeiras and Porto draw 0-0 in their first Club World Cup match
Estevão's left-footed shot in first-half stoppage time went into the hands of Claúdio Ramos, and Richard Ríos' attempt off the rebound was blocked.
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What Cincinnati Open finals mean for the tennis world No. 1 race on ATP and WTA tours
Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, the Cincinnati Open blew the race to be the best in the world wide open, the tournament saw a string of retirements, and a 12-day event still couldn't keep scheduling out of the headlines. If you'd like to follow our fantastic tennis coverage, click here. The climax of the Cincinnati Open is set to shape, if not define, the race for world No. 1 on both the men's and women's tours. Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz's fourth encounter in a final this season is up first in Mason, Ohio, at 3 p.m. ET. If Alcaraz wins, he will start the U.S. Open as the live world No. 1, as he is defending only 50 points after a Alcaraz's shock second-round exit to Botic van de Zandschulp last year. Even if Sinner wins, his defense of the U.S. Open title will mean that the ranking is on the line, but Alcaraz will need to make the semifinals to trouble him at the top. Sinner then defends 2,830 further points for the rest of the season, while Alcaraz defends 1,000. Advertisement Their final is followed by Iga Świątek vs. Jasmine Paolini, not before 6 p.m ET. Świątek would move to world No. 2 with the title, and despite that result leaving a near-3,300 point gap to world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the rankings, the two players go into the final stretch of the year with very different records to protect. As the reigning champion, Sabalenka defends 2,000 points at the U.S. Open to Świątek's 430; for the rest of the season, Sabalenka defends 1,615 to Świątek's 400. A title for Świątek would take her just over 500 points Sabalenka in the 'race' for world No. 1 — which counts points won in 2025. Should Paolini win the title, Sabalenka's position will feel rather more secure. 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Madison Keys is partnering with Frances Tiafoe, and Venus Williams will team up with Reilly Opelka. It has been ages since that many boldfaced names entered mixed doubles, and the pairings and personalities are intriguing. 'We're not in the matchmaking business,' Stacey Allaster, the U.S. Open tournament director, said last week. 'We let the athletes do that themselves.' For years, mixed doubles games were played in the final week of the tournament by so-called doubles specialists, who honed their craft but received little attention. The most famous players focused on singles, where the big money is. The mixed doubles matches have usually been sparsely attended, and have rarely featured on television. Doubles and mixed doubles are simply not as popular as singles. Even fans who know that Novak Djokovic has 24 major titles or that Aryna Sabalenka is from Belarus might not be able to name the 2024 mixed doubles champion. (That was the team of Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori, who were granted a wild-card entry to this year's draw.) This year, eight teams were admitted based on their combined singles rankings, and eight others — chosen by the U.S. Open organizers — received wild-card entries. Many of the top 10 men's and women's players in the world have committed to play in the abbreviated event, which will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the winners sharing a $1 million prize. That is a fivefold increase in prize money from last year, which could help explain why players who normally skip doubles suddenly wanted in. And, now that mixed doubles is taking place during Fan Week (the week of qualifying rounds before the main draws begin), players will have at least three days off before the singles draw starts. 'We had even greater interest than we expected,' said Eric Butorac, the U.S. Tennis Association's senior director for player relations and business development, and a former top doubles player himself. Last year, the U.S. Open held something of a dress rehearsal, with a one-night exhibition event called Mixed Madness, which was considered a success. Now, the new mixed doubles format is most likely here to stay. 'This is really an important strategic move for the U.S.T.A.,' Allaster said, noting that the prize money for the men's and women's doubles had been bolstered this year, too, though not by nearly as much. But some lesser-known players who rely on mixed doubles to earn a living will be left out. Bethanie Mattek-Sands won two U.S. Open mixed doubles titles with Jamie Murray in 2018 and 2019. She also reached the final of the Indian Wells Open mixed doubles with Mate Pavic this year, and most likely would have earned a wild card to the new U.S. Open event had she not taken time off from the game. She has mixed feelings about the new format, which she called a 'dramatic change.' 'Mixed doubles is exciting and a part of tennis history, but it's always been kind of the ugly stepchild of tennis, for no reason,' she said. 'It deserves to get more attention, so that is a good thing. But the best doubles players deserve to be there, too.' Butorac, the player relations executive, bore the brunt of the disappointment of many mixed doubles players who reached out to him when they heard the news. 'They were challenging conversations,' he said. 'No one left happy with the decision, but a lot of them really understood we are trying to do something to grow the game.' Fan interest is already high. 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