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ATP Dubai, Matteo Berrettini surrenders to Stefanos Tsitsipas
ATP Dubai, Matteo Berrettini surrenders to Stefanos Tsitsipas
Matteo Berrettini, world number 30, è was beaten in the quarterfinals of the ATP 500 on the Dubai cement by Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, number 11, with a score of 7-6 1-6 6-4 in just under two hours of play.
The first to have to save beak balls, two consecutive, è Berrettini, in the eighth game of the first set, Tsitsipas does the same in the next game. It goes to the tie-break: from 3-3 Tsitsipas makes three points in a row, misses two set points but the third è the good one, for the final 7-5.
The second set è a domination of Berrettini, who from 1-1 strung five consecutive games with two breaks and lost only one point in four service turns.
In the third set no break point until 4-4,when è Matteo to have two consecutive ones na he does not transform them, in the next game he has to save two in a row, which are also two match points, the first he cancels but on the second he has to yield to Tsitsipas.
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Euroleague: Milan beats Monaco, Ettore Messina satisfied for final sprint
At the Assago Forum, EA7 Emporio Armani Milano beat Monaco 86-80 in the game of the 27th day of the Euroleague. Olimpia started badly, with a 0-7 partial, then è under 2-10 and 4-13 but tied with a 10-1 counter-partial and at the end of the first quarter è behind by only one point, 18-19.
In the second quarter there’è balance until 38-35 for Monaco, here Milan reverses the situation with a 9-0 partial and at the long interval the lead è of +7, 49-42. Ettore Messina’s team in the third quarter è in control, gets to +10 and when the last ten minutes begin è ahead 68-61. The guests però nibbled point by point until parity; on 70.
It goes on point to point until’80-80, when six free throws scored by Olimpia, 2 by Shavon Shields, 2 by Zach Leday and 2 by Nikola Mirotic, that together with a lost ball and two missed threes by Monaco seal the final score. For MIlano, Mirotic’s points were 22, Shields’ 19 and LeDay’s 10, for Monaco 16 by Elie Okobo. These are Messina’s statements at the end of the game to Euroleague TV.
«Did we move the ball well? We have to be honest and remember that in the one moment, for three to four minutes, when we stopped doing that, we let them back in. We have to be smarter, è it’s difficult under pressure. But we have great players and people, they will always do better and do it for 40 minutes instead of 37/38. But today è it was another great effort in another great Euroleague game.
“They know how to do it, they have to keep doing it especially in difficult moments. When we have flow and in good moments we are a good team, even to look at. When the opponents also run we have to stay calm and play our basketball. In clutch time we kept attacking, earning fouls and getting to the iron. We have to keep doing that”.
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Bologna wins in comeback, Milan still knockout
At the Stadio Renato Dall’Ara, in the rematch of the ninth day of Serie A, Bologna beats AC Milan 2-1 in a comeback and pulls them away in the standings, sending them 3 points away from the European zone and inflicting their second consecutive defeat after the one with Torino.
Rossoneri dangerous already in the second minute: Musah serves Gimenez who wastes from a good position. Shortly after Dominguez cross on which Thiaw touches… the’own goal. At 38’ again Dominguez who instead of putting in the area goes to Maignan and gets his shot rejected.
Goal missed by Bologna, goal scored by Milan when it seemed to be in trouble: at 43’ Maignan’s long relaunch, Gimenez touches a header for Leao who outruns De Silvestri and Skorupski and easily scores.
In the second half, on 48’ the hosts equalized with Castro who in a scrum put in from a few steps, the goal was validated by VAR after an alleged hand foul by Fabbian was not detected. At 64’ Musah’s personal action and left-footed shot repelled by Skorupski.
At’81’ corner from the right Casale hits a header off the post, the action continues and Vanbiaghi sends it high by a whisker. È the prologue to the goal, which arrives at’82’: Bologna’s side throw-in, the Rossoneri sleep and on Cambiaghi’s cross Ndoye anticipates Pavlovic and scores the winning goal.
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Chess, died at 88 Boris Spassky: played “match of the century” with Bobby Fischer
È Boris Spassky, chess legend of the Soviet Union, world champion from 1969 to 1972, when he was dethroned by American Bobby Fischer in what passed into history as the “match of the century, played in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, has died at 88.
Born on Jan. 30, 1937, in St. Petersburg, which was then called Leningrad, he acquired the title of Grandmaster in 1956 after qualifying at the candidates’ tournament in Amsterdam. But to become world champion he had to wait another ten years.
Indeed, in 1966 he was defeated in the rainbow match held in Moscow by Tigran Petrosian, over whom he però managed to prevail in 1969. Then in 1972, from’July 11 to September 1°, the match with Fischer, mediatically the mostù followed in the entire history of chess, in which the 29-year-old from Brooklyn broke’ the Soviet hegemony that had lasted for a quarter of a century.
Spassky later emigrated abroad and took French citizenship in 1982. He continued to play at a high level for about ten more years and in 1992 played a platonic rematch, not valid for the title, with Fischer in Yugoslavia and was beaten again.
For that match Fischer was put under indictment by the U.S. government, which issued a warrant for his arrest since Yugoslavia was a country under U.S. embargo, then he was actually arrested in 2004 and Spassky wrote a letter to President George W. Bush asking for a pardon for his friend and rival, which proved the great human depth of Boris Spassky.
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Euroleague: Milan beats Monaco, Ettore Messina satisfied with final sprint
Bologna wins in comeback, Milan still knocked out
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