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Australian Open, Daniil Medvedev folds Hubert Hurkacz and flies to semifinals
Australian Open, Daniil Medvedev joins Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner in semifinals
It’s Daniil Medvedev the third semifinalist of the Australian Open 2024. The Russian tennis player, in fact, è won in five sets over Poland’s Hubert Kurkacz with a score of 7-6 2-6 6-3 5-7 6-4, after a marathon game that lasted more than four hours.
The first set opened immediately with a break in favor of the Russian. Subsequently, the world No. 3 also has a chance to go up 3-0, but Hurkacz manages to come back and grab parity, which will last until the tie-break won by Medvedev 7-4. The inertia completely changes in the second partial, as the world number nine gets off to a strong start and immediately snatches service from his rival. Accomplice to the Russian’s numerous errors, then, the Polish tennis player manages to increase the lead by easily closing the set on 6-2.
In the third set, after nullifying two break points in the opening, Medvedev managed to place the decisive break in the second game, which he then managed to maintain until the end closing on 6-4 on the fourth set point. In the fourth set, the world number three tries to up the tempo to try to close out the games, but the Pole after recovering a break manages to extend the match thanks to an excellent twelfth game a response.
In the last set, the turning point came in the seventh game, with Medvedev managing to break serve from the Pole. From that moment, the Russian reduced the errors to a minimum and conceded nothing more, closing the match on the second match point.
In the semifinals Daniil Medvedev will face the winner of the match between Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev. On the other side of the scoreboard, however, there will be the match between Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner.
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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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