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Canada News.Net
5 days ago
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- Canada News.Net
ATP roundup: Filip Misolic storms past Nuno Borges in Sweden
(Photo credit: Susan Mullane-Imagn Images) Austrian qualifier Filip Misolic rallied from down 5-2 in the second set and saved triple match point to force a tiebreaker on his way to upsetting Portuguese third seed Nuno Borges at the Nordea Open on Thursday in Bastad, Sweden. Misolic surprised Borges 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-3, flipping the momentum in his favor during the middle set and finishing with a 35-22 advantage in winners. He advanced the quarterfinals to face Argentine fifth seed Camilo Ugo Carabelli, who outlasted Botic van de Zandschulp of the Netherlands 7-6 (3), 5-7, 6-3 in a two-hour, 50-minute marathon. No. 1 seed Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina beat countryman Mariano Navone 6-3, 6-3. His upcoming quarterfinal foe, No. 7 seed Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia and Herzegovina, rallied for a 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 win over Frenchman Hugo Gaston. EFG Swiss Open Gstaad No. 2 seed Alexander Bublik won 80 percent (24 of 30) of his first-serve points and cruised to a 6-2, 6-3 win over fellow Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko in second-round action in Gstaad, Switzerland. Fourth seed Tomas Martin Etcheverry wasn't as fortunate, as France's Arthur Cazaux took down the Argentine 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. Cazaux smashed 16 aces past Etcheverry and saved 10 of 11 break points. Also advancing to the quarterfinals were No. 7 seed Francisco Comesana and Juan Manuel Cerundolo, both of Argentina, plus Swiss wild card Jerome Kym. Mifel Tennis Open In Tuesday's late-night action in Los Cabos, Mexico, the second, fourth and fifth seeds were shown the door in the Round of 16. Australian James Duckworth took down No. 2 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain 6-3, 6-4; Argentina's Juan Pablo Ficovich capitalized on his opponent's 10 double faults and 39 unforced errors in a 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3 upset of French No. 4 Quentin Halys; and Australian Tristan Schoolkate took care of German No. 5 Daniel Altmaier 6-3, 6-4. Seventh seed Aleksandar Kovacevic and eighth seed Adam Walton of Australia advanced to the quarterfinals, which will begin Wednesday night. The four matches will include Russian top seed Andrey Rublev against Emilio Nava.
Reuters
5 days ago
- Sport
- Reuters
ATP roundup: Filip Misolic storms past Nuno Borges in Sweden
July 18 - Austrian qualifier Filip Misolic rallied from down 5-2 in the second set and saved triple match point to force a tiebreaker on his way to upsetting Portuguese third seed Nuno Borges at the Nordea Open on Thursday in Bastad, Sweden. Misolic surprised Borges 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-3, flipping the momentum in his favor during the middle set and finishing with a 35-22 advantage in winners. He advanced the quarterfinals to face Argentine fifth seed Camilo Ugo Carabelli, who outlasted Botic van de Zandschulp of the Netherlands 7-6 (3), 5-7, 6-3 in a two-hour, 50-minute marathon. No. 1 seed Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina beat countryman Mariano Navone 6-3, 6-3. His upcoming quarterfinal foe, No. 7 seed Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia and Herzegovina, rallied for a 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 win over Frenchman Hugo Gaston. EFG Swiss Open Gstaad No. 2 seed Alexander Bublik won 80 percent (24 of 30) of his first-serve points and cruised to a 6-2, 6-3 win over fellow Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko in second-round action in Gstaad, Switzerland. Fourth seed Tomas Martin Etcheverry wasn't as fortunate, as France's Arthur Cazaux took down the Argentine 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. Cazaux smashed 16 aces past Etcheverry and saved 10 of 11 break points. Also advancing to the quarterfinals were No. 7 seed Francisco Comesana and Juan Manuel Cerundolo, both of Argentina, plus Swiss wild card Jerome Kym. Mifel Tennis Open Top seed Andre Rublev of Russia rallied from a set down to knock off unseeded American Emilio Nava 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 in the quarterfinals in Los Cabos, Mexico. No. 3 seed Denis Shapovalov of Canada swept Australia's Tristan Schoolkate 6-3, 6-2. In the semifinals Friday, Shapovalov will play No. 8 seed Adam Walton, who defeated fellow Australian James Duckworth 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday. No. 7 seed Aleksandar Kovacevic played Argentina's Juan Pablo Ficovich in the late match. The winner of that was to face Rublev in the semifinals Friday. --Field Level Media
Daily Mail
05-07-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Put a cork in it! Player rages at tennis fans as champagne drinkers throw her off game at Wimbledon
A tennis player popped off when an errant champagne cork threw her off her game. World No13 Amanda Anisimova had a hissy fit when a fan at Wimbledon opened a bottle of bubbly as the Russian-American was preparing to serve. Furious at the interruption, she railed: 'Why did you have to open that right now?' Pop goes her concentration: The Russian-American star was preparing her service action in the deciding third set After Anisimova claimed the ensuing point to put herself 30-love up, the chair umpire took a moment to remind the crowd of the importance of silence between points. 'Thank you ladies and gentleman, if you could avoid opening bottles of champagne when the players are about to serve,' the umpire said. On BBC pundit labeled the announcement 'the most Wimbledon warning you've ever heard.' The crowd at No3 Court, however, opted not to heed the umpire's call for long, with another cork flying on to the court during Nuno Borges' clash with Karen Khachanov. Anisimova's good friend Emma Raducanu was similarly affected on No1 Court during her opening match against her compatriot Mimi Xu. During her straight-sets thrashing of the teenager, a cork flew on to the court and almost interrupted the match. 'I'm glad people were having fun today,' Raducanu said during her post-match interview. 'I saw a champagne cork fly onto the court so cheers to you! 'It's really nice to be back. I love the support and I love playing in this atmosphere. 'It's my favorite tournament by far so I'm happy to get another match here.' The cork is said to have landed in the service box during a change of ends, with Raducanu heading onto court to pick it up. Anisimova eventually bypassed Galfi 6-3, 5-7, 6-3, and with the win under her belt, had a more magnanimous message for the crowd in her on-court remarks. 'It was an incredibly tough match,' Anisimova said. 'I just kept fighting, and she was playing some incredibly good tennis. I need to hit the practice courts tomorrow! 'Thank you everyone for the support, it was amazing.' After her match, Anisimova insisted that although the Wimbledon atmosphere took some getting used to, she was enjoying soaking up the energy of the crowd. 'I mean, it kept happening (champagne corks popping),' Anisimova told 'At some point I was, like, "Can everybody just do it on the changeover?" 'It was a bit rowdy on that court, too, because you could hear everyone on the sides that are, like, outside of the court. It was definitely a bit distracting. 'Then again, I have to just adjust, try and focus as much as I can. 'But it can be a little loud when people are doing their external things, but I love the atmosphere and the energy and the crowd supporting me, so it's been good.'
The Guardian
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Raducanu justifies primetime billing even as Sabalenka's superpower wins out
It's a little after 8pm by the time the first ball is tossed. Karen Khachanov has just beaten Nuno Borges on No 3 Court and so even before it has started Emma Raducanu v Aryna Sabalenka is the last game on anywhere at Wimbledon: a standalone attraction, the roof not so much closed as hermetically sealed. We are locked in, under these hot lights, until nightfall. And of course this is not simply a third-round game. At the behest of the broadcasters this is also a primetime television product, an item of light entertainment. Raducanu isn't just battling the world No 1 here, she's up against Gardeners' World on BBC Two. The hill is packed. Brian Cox and Mary Berry in the Royal Box are transfixed. And to think Roland Garros would probably have put this match on in mid-morning. But something about Raducanu in primetime still feels a touch incongruous, and not only because of her world ranking of 45. For this is not instinctively a player you associate with edge-of-the-seat drama or vintage comebacks. Usually Raducanu wins in a hurry and loses in a hurry. She has never won a third set at Wimbledon. So in a way, for all she has achieved, this is a player still awaiting her big homecoming, her Centre Court splash. None of which, of course, has stopped people from trying to confect drama around her. Sonay Kartal's progress to the fourth round has been met with a deluge of Raducanu-themed headlines. 'Kartal steps out of Raducanu's shadow', 'Raducanu's old rival', 'overtakes Raducanu in the rankings', and so on. Cameron Norrie has just been asked in his press conference whether he is dating Raducanu. One stalker has already been banned from the grounds, but others, it seems, are still walking around with lanyards around their necks. On Wednesday after beating Marketa Vondrousova she described a moment when her fug of concentration lifted for a second and the scale of it all suddenly hit her all at once – the crowd, the court, the occasion, what it all would mean – and briefly forgot how she was going to hit the ball. What must it feel like to live in this glare, to sense that tremendous rumbling noise every time you walk to practice or log on to the internet, to stay sane and competent in a world where the walls are constantly trying to collapse in on you? Perhaps Raducanu's real achievement has been simply to function, to build herself a palace of the mind strong enough to allow her not just to work but to thrive. To know that you're the last game of the day, and know why, and yet still to put in your greatest ever Wimbledon performance and your best against a top-10 player. To face down everything else out there and still have the strength to face down the most ferocious hitter in the game. And though it was a straight-sets defeat, there was enough here to show the rest of us what she had always believed herself. She saves seven set points in a remarkable 10th game as Sabalenka tries to pummel her to bits. She breaks, is broken courtesy of a slip and a lethal net cord, loses a heartbreakingly tight breaker. She's elusive, courageous, clever. It's past 9pm and Raducanu is now competing with Celebrity Gogglebox and Not Going Out, which has been moved to BBC Two. But of course Sabalenka, too, has added levels to her game. She serves more consistently, gets more revs on her ground strokes, drops more, comes to the net more, thinks her way through matches better. Above all she possesses what has always been Raducanu's superpower: the ability to intuit the momentum shift before it happens, to find the point of weakness that can upend the match entirely. Facing points for a 5-1 double break, she finds big first serves, finds the corners, wins five games in a row for the match. Occasionally very smart and very brave people on the internet like to argue that Raducanu is basically some manufactured confidence trick, that it's somehow possible to win a US Open by dumb fluke. But then along come matches such as this to remind us: actually, no. Emma Raducanu gets a lot of hype because Emma Raducanu is capable of playing a frighteningly high level of tennis. The only question worth asking is how she can unlock it more frequently. It's beyond 10pm. The news has been pushed back and Raducanu is now competing with First Dates on Channel 4. She should be pleased, she should be proud, but as she departs she looks crestfallen. And of course it should hurt to come this close, to get so many opportunities and ultimately to fall short. But when the dust settles she will know that she truly belongs in this company: a primetime performer for a primetime slot.
Yahoo
05-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Wimbledon relaxes strict dress code to allow Portuguese players to pay tribute to Diogo Jota
A black ribbon is worn by Francisco Cabral of Portugal as he plays his men's doubles second-round match on Friday at Wimbledon. -Portuguese tennis players Francisco Cabral and Nuno Borges were given permission to stray from Wimbledon's strict all-white dress code to honor the late Liverpool and Portugal soccer star Diogo Jota, they told reporters, including CNN, on Friday. Jota died in a car crash in Spain early Thursday morning. He was 28. His brother, André Silva – who was also a professional soccer player – also died in the accident at the age of 25. Advertisement Cabral, who competed in men's doubles, told CNN Friday that he initially wanted to wear a black armband, but he said he was told that would not be allowed. He was granted approval to wear a small black ribbon instead. The AELTC said to CNN in a statement: 'We are always open to having conversations with players regarding such matters, and given the tragic circumstances, the Referee's Office has approved the players wearing a black ribbon as a mark of respect and condolence.' Cabral, ranked 40th in the world in doubles, won his first-round match Thursday but fell in the second round Friday with his playing partner Lucas Miedler of Austria. 'Yesterday, I came up with the idea of wearing a black strap, but that was not allowed,' Cabral said. 'The players' relations, they had a black ribbon, and I asked for permission. They let me play with it and I just did it this morning. Advertisement 'It was an honor. It's not for the best reason. But yeah, he was not only an inspiration to me but for the country in general, he meant so much in the sport. He conquered so much in his life. So it was just an honor for me to try and help, if only 1% for the family and everybody.' Later Friday, in the men's singles draw, Portugal's Nuno Borges – with a black ribbon affixed on his white cap – lost to Russian and No. 17 seed Karen Khachanov in five sets. After the match, Borges said that he had initially hoped to walk out on court in a full red Portugal top, but his team was told that would not be allowed. Instead, he opted for the same small black ribbon worn by Cabral. 'I think it was a nice gesture for him (Jota). He was a great footballer, it's a tragedy,' Borges said. For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at
