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Sabalenka wins first Grand Slam title in Australian Open by beating Kazakhstan’s Rybakina
Aryna Sablalenka, the 22nd seed from Kazakhstan, beat the 22nd seed Elena Rybakina in an exciting final on Saturday. The women’s game was dominated by two powerful players.
Sabalenka’s 11th consecutive win of the year will propel her back to her career high ranking of #2 – behind Poland’s Iga Swaiatek – as she reaps rewards of an improved mentality in the New Year.
The 24-year-old’s success comes after a period of reflection and change. She often seemed to let her emotions stop her progress on the biggest stage, with three previous semi final defeats at majors.
She shook off her sports psychologist during pre-season, and worked with a biomechanics coach to improve her fiery service. It was a weakness in the past.
Sabalenka said to reporters, “It’s even more enjoyable now after all those difficult matches.” “I feel that I needed to experience those tough losses in order to better understand myself.” It was almost like a rehearsal.”
“I feel happy I lost those matches. Now I can be Aryna, a new player.”
She won the Adelaide International 1 title before the first Grand Slam of the year.
Sabalenka is the first neutral athlete in history to win a major. Due to Russia’s invasion into Ukraine, Russian and Belarusian athletes competed as individuals without national association in Melbourne. She played down the significance.
“I’m sure everyone knows that I am a Belarusian player.” She told reporters that’s all.
Nobody tells you that it will be easy.
She embraced her emotional entourage before walking to Rybakina’s side of court. After completing her first Grand Slam, she fell to the ground in delight. Anton Dubrov, Sabalenka’s coach, shed tears of happiness.
Rybakina, the winner of Wimbledon last year, entered the final with confidence. She was the first woman to do so since Jennifer Capriati did it in 2001, after she defeated Swiatek and Jelena Ostapenko, as well as Victoria Azarenka.
“I was nervous for the last game. I kept telling my self, “Nobody told you it would be easy, but you have to work hard until the end.” She added.
“I am super happy that I was able handle all those feelings and win this one.”
Rybakina acknowledged the hard work that her opponent had put in to win her first major title.
She added, “I hope we’ll have many more fights.” “I look forward to returning next year.” It was a great two weeks and I hope to achieve the same or even better results next year.
The Australian wild card pairing, Jason Kubler & Rinky Hijikata, beat Hugo Nys & Jan Zielinski by 6-4 7-6(4) in the men’s doubles final.
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All-U.S. semifinal at US Open
Another big man exits the tournament. After the various Alcaraz and Djokovic, Zverev è is also no longer in the running at the US Open. The German è was beaten by Fritz in four sets (7-6 (2) 3-6 6-4 7-6), at the end of a match that è lasted almost three and a half hours. A defeat that leaves a lot of bitterness in Zverev’s mouth. The German was aiming to reach at least the final.
A feat for the American who, dragged by the home crowd, won the first semifinal of a Slam event. After winning the first set on tie-break, Fritz suffered the return of Zverev, who took home the second partial with a peremptory 6-3. The momentum seemed to be in the German’s hands but Fritz escaped on 3-0. Zverev recovers but gives up at the più beautiful. Spectacular fourth set. Zverev tries everything but, once again, the tie-break costs him dearly. He loses it 7-3 and says goodbye to the tournament.
Dreams big for Fritz who, in the semifinals, will face the other American Tiafoe who, in the quarterfinals, wins the match with Dimitrov, forced to retire in the fourth set due to a physical problem: 6-3, 6-7, 6-3, 4-1 the partials in favor of Tiafoe.
The United States dreams, after 21 years (Roddick, 2003), of an American winning the U.S. Open. In the meantime, it enjoys Sinner who, thanks to Zverev è’s knockout; increasingly serene in his comfortable position as world No. 1.
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Juventus, the list
Juventus has also released the Uefa list for the 2024/25 Champions League and specifically there are 28 players chosen by Thiago Motta: 22 on List A and 6 on List B.
The surprise name è that of Arthur, considered until yesterday out of the Bianconeri project, which remains for all intents and purposes Filip Kostic, cut and looking for accommodation abroad.
The complete list:
LIST A
1 PERIN
3 BREMER
4 GATTI
5 LOCATELLI
6 DANILO
7 CONCEICAO
8 KOOPMEINERS
9 VLAHOVIC
11 NICO GONZALEZ
14 MILIK
15 KALULU
16 MCKENNIE
17 ADZIC
18 ARTHUR
19 THURAM
21 BEANS
22 WEAH
23 PINSOGLIO
26 DOUGLAS LUIZ
27 CAMBIASO
29 DI GREGORIO
32 CABAL
LIST B
10 YILDIZ
36 ANGHELE’
37 SAVONA
38 DAFFARA
40 ROUHI
51 MBANGULA
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Milan, the list
No Champions for Luka Jovic, who is not part of the list handed to Uefa regarding the players who can be fielded in the Champions League group stage.
In fact, Fonseca chose the men for the eight scheduled matches with Real Madrid, Liverpool, Brugge, Bayer Leverkusen, Red Star, Dinamo Zagreb, Girona and Slovan Bratislava, leaving the Serbian out.
LIST A
2 Davide Calabria
4 Ismael Bennacer
7 Alvaro Morata
8 Rubén Loftus-Cheek
10 Rafael Leao
11 Christian Pulisic
14 Tijjani Reijnders
16 Mike Maignan
17 Noah Okafor
19 Theo Hernandez
21 Samuel Chukwueze
22 Emerson Royal
23 Fikayo Tomori
24 Alessandro Florenzi
28 Malick Thiaw
29 Youssouf Fofana
31 Strahinja Pavlovic
42 Filippo Terracciano
46 Matteo Gabbia
57 Marco Sportiello
80 Yunus Musah
90 Tammy Abraham
LIST B
Adam Bakoune, Davide Bartesaghi, Andrea Bozzolan, Francesco Camarda, Andrei Coubis, Hugo Cuenca, Victor Eletu, Mattia Liberali, Vittorio Magni, Mattia Malaspina, Lapo Nava, Dorian Paloschi, Diego Sia, Dariusz Stalmach, Lorenzo Torriani, Chaka Traoré, Kevin Zeroli.
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