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Andrei Rublev was so frustrated that he repeatedly hit himself with his racket during his 7-5, 6-2 loss to Carlos Alcaraz at the ATP Finals in Turin, Italy, on Wednesday, causing his left knee to fall. It was bloody.
Rublev had already slammed his racket to the ground in the first game of the second set. And when he missed a shot to give Alcaraz a break, he started punching himself on the way to his chair and wiped up the blood with a towel.
Blood continued to drip from Rublev’s leg as he continued to play, and he eventually called a trainer for treatment.
“It’s fine,” Rublev said of his knee. “I was disappointed and couldn’t cope.”
Alcaraz, a 20-year-old Spaniard and second-ranked Spaniard who has already won two Grand Slam tournaments, suffered a rare three-game losing streak after losing to Grigor Dimitrov in Shanghai, Roman Safiulin in Paris, and Alexander Zverev in his debut match. stopped. Match in Turin.
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band: Terry R. Taylor, whose pioneering 20 years as the AP’s first female sports editor transformed the AP’s emphasis on multi-layered coverage of hard reporting, entertaining enterprises and cutting-edge analysis, has died. . She was 71 years old.
Taylor died Tuesday at her home in Paoli, Pennsylvania, her husband Tony Rentschler said. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, and she developed metastases three years later. He said she stopped her chemotherapy treatment last December because her side effects became unbearable.
Ms. Taylor ran the Associated Press sports department from 1992 to 2013 and believed she worked nearly 24 hours a day. She arrived at the office around 10 a.m. most weekdays, and usually stayed until 7 p.m. or she was 8 p.m., and then she was constantly on the phone until the West Coast night game was over. She was, or she was, she was on the phone all night when the America’s Cup sailing was in Australia. She led Associated Press’ coverage of the Olympics 14 times.
soccer
NWSL: Defensive midfielder Alex Loera has become the first player on Bay FC, an expansion team scheduled to begin play in the San Francisco Bay Area next season.
Loera, who played for Santa Clara, was acquired in a trade with the Kansas City Current in exchange for $175,000 in allocation money and protection from Bay FC in the 2024 expansion draft.
Loera was a captain when the Broncos won the NCAA Championship in 2020. She was named Current in 2021 but was postponed as her eligibility at Santa Clara was extended by one year.
US men: Atlanta defenseman Miles Robinson is the only Major League Soccer player on the U.S. roster for Thursday night’s game against Trinidad and Tobago, which will decide berths in next year’s Copa America and CONCACAF Nations League. This game will be the first of two games over five days. Semi-finals.
Robinson and New England defender DeJuan Jones are the only MLS players on the October roster, as head coach Gregg Berhalter relies heavily on European-based teams in his second start as American coach. It was just that.
Christian Pulisic, Tim Weah and captain Tyler Adams will miss the total points series due to injury.
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