tennis
Iga Swiatek won her first WTA Finals title and the year-end No. 1 ranking with a series of dominant performances on Monday in Cancun, Mexico, defeating Jessica Pegula 6-1, 6-0.
From the opening one-all, Swiatek was in complete control, winning the next 11 games with a quality baseline game, making few unforced errors and repeatedly forcing Pegula into mistakes.
Swiatek, a 22-year-old from Poland, had a 5-0 record in the tour’s final championship of the season, winning all 10 sets he played and conceding just 20 games total. This is the lowest number by a tournament winner since his 2003 year, when the tournament returned to a round robin format. The previous lowest total during this period was 34 games dropped by Justine Henin in 2007.
Swiatek is also the youngest WTA Finals champion since Petra Kvitova was 21 in 2011.
With this win, Swiatek returned to the number one spot, which she held from April 2022 to September of this year, before handing it over to Aryna Sabalenka.
soccer
Premier League: Tottenham’s players lost their heads and their unbeaten run in the English Premier League.
Nicholas Jackson’s late hat-trick, two red cards for Tottenham defenders Cristian Romero and Destiny Udoghi, five goals conceded and Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou’s unorthodox tactic in an unlikely game. Chelsea clinched a 4-1 victory in a chaotic London derby that saw two red cards for a controversial approach. Trying to survive with nine other men.
Jackson broke Tottenham’s resistance with three goals from the 75th minute, and despite keeping a high defensive line after the sending off of Romero in the 33rd minute and Udogi in the 3rd minute, the home side survived for a while, sometimes even with logic. This brought an end to an enthusiastic match that ignored the following. 55th place.
Dejan Kulusevski’s deflected shot in the sixth minute gave Tottenham a good start, but the derby was a heated one, with high challenges and crazy events continuing.
Cole Palmer scores the equaliser, after Romero concedes a penalty amid the uproar, earning his fourth red card in two-and-a-half years at Tottenham for a dangerous lunge on Argentina team-mate Enzo Fernandes. did.
And after Udogi received a second yellow card, Tottenham faced an uphill battle to maintain their unbeaten start to the season.
Chelsea initially failed to break through Tottenham’s brave but perhaps naive high line, but the result was disastrous in the end.
Jackson’s final two goals came deep in stoppage time, sealing a monumental victory for manager Mauricio Pochettino, who returned to the club he coached from 2014 to 2019, and a place in the Champions League final.
MLS: The Portland Timbers have named former Inter Miami coach Phil Neville as the team’s new head coach through the 2026 season.
Neville replaces Giovanni Savarese, who was fired by the Timbers in August after more than five seasons with the team. Portland made the playoffs in four of those seasons, reaching the MLS Cup title game in 2018 and 2021.
Neville, 46, had a long professional career with Manchester United and Everton, and was in charge of Inter Miami from 2021 until his sacking in June this year. He compiled a record of 35-42-13 as coach of David Beckham’s MLS club.
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