US Open, Matteo Arnaldi and Sara Errani in third round, Mattia Bellucci out

After Jannik Sinner and Jasmine Paolini landed in the third round of the US Open, two more wins out of three second-round matches came for Italian tennis, and it may not be over yet.

Matteo Arnaldi, world number 30, very convincingly beat Russian Roman Safiullin, number 57, with a score of 6-2 6-4 6-4 in two hours and four minutes of play. The 23-year-old from San Remo will now face’Australian Jordan Thompson.

Back in the third round of Flushing Meadows after nine years Sara Errani,  the veteran from Romagna, former world number 5 and now 96, bent with a double 7-5 in an hour and 50 minutes of play the U.S. Caroline Dolehide, number 49, and will now face the promising Russian Diana Shnaider, number 18.

Mattia Bellucci, number 101, instead è surrendered to Australian Christopher O’Connell, number 87, with a score of 6-3 6-4 3-6 6-3 in two hours and 48 minutes.

NBA, Stephen Curry extends with Warriors

Stephen Curry has extended his contract with the Golden State Warriors by one year, to which he will be bound until 2027.

In 2021, the 36-year-old fresh Olympic champion in Paris with the U.S. Dream team had signed a contract through 2026, worth $215.4 million, and according to ESPN the extension will net him an additional $62.6 million.

Curry has always played for the Warriors, a franchise in which he è arrived in the 2009 draft. He has won four NBA titles (2015, 2017, 2018, 2022) and è been named the season mvp twice.

He also holds the record for the most three-point shots made in the North American League, with 3,747 centers.

After second Olympic gold medal Caterina Banti says enough

The news was in the air by now, but today Caterina Banti, a 37-year-old Roman sailor and two-time Olympic gold medalist in the Nacra 17 class paired with Ruggero Tita, announced her retirement from competitive activities. She did so while speaking to Radio Sportiva.

“The gold won at the last Olympics paired with Ruggero Tita – his words – è was the best possible way to end my career as an athlete. I had decided this a few months ago, and I have no regrets, now I have to think about what I will do in life. Sì, Ruggero already knew”.

Then the story of his encore of the Olympic gold: “In Marseille on us there was so much pressure from the federvela and Coni – said Banti -, because everyone said ‘so much Tita and Banti will win the gold again’. Instead, nothing è been taken for granted. But we were good”.

“I knew it was going to be my last performance,” he added, “and it had to be the best possible. Soì è it was, and I brought home the gold medal”. Although the wind, especially the lack of it, it comes to say, in Marseille created various problems for the sailing teams.

“We were not so much worried – says her one-time Olympic champion -: sailing è a sport of long waits, we depend on the wind, if è too strong or too little you can not go out. So we are used to these waits”.

What is Caterina Banti going to do” now? “I have a number of ideas and projects in my head-the answer-but they are still in being, and itè premature to talk about them. Forò I would like to stay in the world of sports and give back what I have learned all these years”.

Finally, a joke about the difference between the Tokyo and Marseille Olympic gold medals: “Definitely they were two different competitions, and we were also different. But we had to repeat ourselves, so this one in France è was definitely moreù difficult”.