Category: 6. Sports

  • At 37 years old, Siegemund knocks out No. 6 Keys to extend Wimbledon run

    At 37 years old, Siegemund knocks out No. 6 Keys to extend Wimbledon run

    WIMBLEDON — Laura Siegemund lost in Grand Slam qualifying the first 10 times she tried. When she put together three qualifying wins for the first time, 10 years ago here at Wimbledon, she lost in the first round.

    In the intervening decade, the stoic German managed to win only two matches at the All England Club. But this year — at the age of 37, the second oldest woman in the starting field — has been completely different. On Friday, she defeated No. 6 seed Madison Keys 6-3 6-3 to advance to the fourth round. Those three match-wins in five days surpassed her career total here.

    Keys, the Australian Open champion, had won 13 of her 14 Grand Slam matches this year. Aryna Sabalenka — still yet to play on Friday — is the only Top 10 seed left in the top half of the draw.

    Next up for the No. 104-ranked Siegemund is another surprising second-week visitor. Lucky loser Solana Sierra has improbably put together three main-draw victories of her own — the first three of her Grand Slam career. The 21-year-old Argentine defeated Cristina Bucsa 7-5, 1-6, 6-1.

    Like gum on your shoe, Siegemund hangs around. Like a cold you can’t shake, she lingers and lingers until the frustration mounts. This Keys discovered on a gorgeous sunny day on Court 2. Drop shots, slices, lobs, odd short balls — they were all coming at the 30-year-old American in surreal time.

    Siegemund broke Keys’ serve no fewer than three times in the opening set, but it was on the other side that the set was truly won. Siegemund came into the match as the women’s leader in that crucible of resilience, break points saved, at 89 percent. She saved three of four against Keys and coasted to the first set by a tidy margin.

    When Keys broke through in the opening game of the second, it seemed the tide may have shifted. But Siegemund, playing that confounding game that took Keys out of her rhythm, came right back, She broke Keys’ twice to take a commanding lead.

    Siegemund finished with a clean card — 19 winners and only 11 unforced errors. Keys, meanwhile, had 16 winners and 31 unforced errors. Siegemund broke her serve five times.

    She is also a formidable doubles player, with titles at the 2020 US Open and the 2023 WTA Finals. And now Siegemund can equal her career-best result here at Wimbledon — the doubles quarterfinals in 2023 and 2024 — with a win on Sunday.

    Earlier, another seeded American, No. 13 Amanda Anisimova, was victorious — 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 over Dalma Galfi. She’ll play No. 30 Linda Noskova, a 7-6 (6), 7-5 winner over Kamilla Rakhimova.

    A win would send Anisimova into the quarterfinals for the second time in four years.

     

     

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  • Wimbledon 2025 live updates: Day 5 scores and results with Fritz leading and Alcaraz, Raducanu to come

    Wimbledon 2025 live updates: Day 5 scores and results with Fritz leading and Alcaraz, Raducanu to come

    Norrie *2-4 Bellucci

    Mattia Bellucci just hit perhaps the shot of the tournament so far, and is exuding real quality early on against fellow left-hander Cam Norrie on No. 1 Court.

    The Italian is coping pretty well with Norrie’s serve, forcing a deuce as he looked to take an early double-break.

    Norrie, with the advantage, did little wrong with his 107mph serve from the left, pushing Bellucci well out wide with a bit of kick.

    But the world No. 73 left the fans purring as he absolutely crunched a forehand around the net post, kissing the sideline, eradicating his opponent’s advantage.

    Norrie went on to seal the hold, but that one deserves to be replayed again, and again. Exhibition stuff.

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  • Tsolov takes second consecutive pole for Campos Racing

    Tsolov takes second consecutive pole for Campos Racing

    Nikola Tsolov fired in a late lap to take his second Aramco Pole Position Award in a row.

    The Campos Racing driver had been bettered by title contender Rafael Câmara going into the final attempts, but one last improvement put the Bulgarian back to P1. He finished ahead of Ugo Ugochukwu, who wound up second for PREMA Racing, with Câmara having to settle for third.

    With the tyre preparation laps complete, TRIDENT set the early pace with Câmara going to the top on a 1:46.318, 0.2s ahead of teammate Noah Stromsted in second. Ugochukwu split them on his first attempt, going to within 0.023s of the Brazilian’s effort.

    Tim Tramnitz delivered his first time to go top of the pile, but only briefly, as Tsolov followed to smash the time to beat with a 1:45.655, some 0.3s quicker than the MP driver in second.

    Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak made it a Campos 1-3, slotting into third with his initial attempt.

    Everyone returned to the pitlane for a fresh set of Hard tyres and returning to the track with just over 15 minutes of the session remaining.
    Tramnitz cut the gap down to 0.2s to Tsolov, while teammate Bruno del Pino slotted into third for the Dutch team on their next attempts.

    Behind them though, Câmara delivered a 1:45.176 to surge to the top of the times, 0.479s quicker than Tsolov’s initial benchmark time.

    Stromsted put in an improvement also to go third overall with just over 10 minutes to go, while Charlie Wurz followed a few minutes later to go fourth.

    With five minutes left, the circuit got busy once again. Théophile Nael moved Van Amersfoort Racing up to second to cut the deficit to provisional pole sitter Câmara down to 0.3s.

    Tramnitz followed that up to go second for MP, 0.296s behind the TRIDENT, but Tsolov returned to P1 with a 1:45.043 with less than half a minute to go.

    Ugochukwu then went to P2 with his final attempt and just 0.023s off the top spot. Câmara had a poor middle sector on his last lap and could only manage third in the end.

    Boya moved to fourth on his final turn ahead of Tramnitz and Wurz. Martinius Stenshorne followed in P7, with Laurens van Hoepen in eighth, Nael ninth and Noel León in 10th. Christian Ho wound up 11th for DAMS Lucas Oil, while Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak completed the top 12 positions and is set to line up on reverse grid pole for Saturday’s Sprint Race.

    The Formula 3 Sprint Race is scheduled to get underway on Saturday at 09:15 local time.

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  • The ITA notifies wrestler Tsogbadrakh Tseveensuren of an apparent anti-doping rule violation

    The ITA notifies wrestler Tsogbadrakh Tseveensuren of an apparent anti-doping rule violation

    The ITA reports that a sample collected from Tsogbadrakh Tseveensuren, a wrestler from Mongolia, during an in-competition testing mission at the Senior Asian Championships on 29 March 2025 has returned an AAF¹ for exogenous testosterone.

    Exogenous testosterone is prohibited under the WADA Prohibited List as S1.1 Anabolic Androgenic Steroids. Exogenous testosterone is prohibited at all times (in- and out-of-competition) and is a non-specified substance. Testosterone is the principal androgenic steroid and is associated with the promotion of muscle growth and increased strength, power and speed.

    The athlete has been informed of the case and has the right to request the analysis of the B-sample.

    If the B-sample analysis is requested and confirms the result of the A-sample, the case will be considered as a confirmed anti-doping rule violation. If the B-sample analysis is not requested, the case will also go ahead as a confirmed anti-doping rule violation. The athlete will have the opportunity to present his explanations for the result.

    Further, in accordance with the World Anti-Doping Code and article 7.4.1 of the UWW anti-doping rules, a mandatory provisional suspension has been imposed on the athlete. The athlete has the right to challenge the provisional suspension and ask for its lifting.

    Pursuant to the UWW’s delegation of its anti-doping program to the ITA, the prosecution of the case is being handled entirely by the ITA. Given that the case is underway, there will be no further comments made.

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  • WP U18s down hosts while Border CD and Bulls U16s share spoils at FNB Girls Weeks

    WP U18s down hosts while Border CD and Bulls U16s share spoils at FNB Girls Weeks

    WP and the Bulls claimed wins on Friday to finish the U18 Girls Week unbeaten, while Eastern Province, the Limpopo Blue Bulls, South Western Districts, the Pumas, Border and KwaZulu-Natal secured third-round victories to end their campaigns on a high.

    WP got off to a slow start in the final match against the Lions, but cracked into gear after half-time. The girls from the Cape scored five unanswered tries and 31 points in the second stanza, with flyhalf Nuha Levy contributing a try as well as three conversions.

    Earlier in the day, No 8 Amanda Seokotsa scored a hat-trick in the Limpopo Blue Bulls’ 31-15 win over the Griffons, while loosehead prop Jessica Ejeleonu touched down three times for the Valke in the East Rand outfit’s 27-25 loss to the Pumas.

    In the final round of the U16 Girls Week, the Lions beat WP 17-7 to finish their campaign with three consecutive wins.

    Border Country Districts drew 12-12 with the Bulls in the last game of the tournament, with the Eastern Cape side ending their campaign unbeaten.

    The girls from Border CD led 7-0 at the break, before the Bulls hit back with two tries after half-time. Just as the game was slipping away, loosehead prop Endinako Fetumane crossed the line for Border, ensuring that her side came away with a draw.

    FNB U18 Girls Week day three results (Friday, 4 July 2025):
    EP 12 (5) Zimbabwe 0 (0)
    Griffons 15 (0) Limpopo Blue Bulls 31 (12)
    Leopards 12 (12) SWD 22 (0)
    Valke 25 (15) Pumas 27 (0)
    Griquas 0 (0) Border 41 (12)
    Blue Bulls 19 (12) Boland 12 (0)
    Free State 0 (0) KwaZulu-Natal 38 (17)
    WP 31 (0) Golden Lions 5 (5)

    FNB U16 Girls Week day three results (Friday, 4 July 2025):
    Free State 0 (0) Zimbabwe 5 (0)
    Griquas 0 (0) Griffons 17 (5)
    Border 17 (12) Pumas 7 (0)
    SWD 20 (10) Limpopo Blue Bulls 27 (0)
    Valke 0 (0) Golden Lions Invitational XV 20 (10)
    Leopards 0 (0) KwaZulu-Natal 38 (24)
    Golden Lions 17 (12) WP 7 (0)
    Boland 7 (0) EP 13 (13)
    Border Country Districts 12 (7) Blue Bulls 12 (0)

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  • Ratified: world records for Assefa, Stano and Dunfee | PRESS-RELEASES

    Ratified: world records for Assefa, Stano and Dunfee | PRESS-RELEASES

    Women’s marathon (women-only)
    2:15:50 Tigist Assefa (ETH) London, 27 April 2025

    Men’s 35km race walk
    2:21:40 Evan Dunfee (CAN) Dudince, 22 March 2025
    2:20:43 Massimo Stano (ITA) Podebrady, 18 May 2025

    World records set earlier this year by Tigist Assefa, Evan Dunfee and Massimo Stano have been ratified by World Athletics.

    Olympic silver medallist Assefa achieved her women-only world marathon record at the London Marathon on 27 April. The Ethiopian clocked 2:15:50 to improve the previous world record by 26 seconds to win the World Athletics Platinum Label road race.

    The previous world record of 2:16:16 had been set by Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir in London on 21 April 2024.

    “When I crossed the line, I felt extreme happiness,” said Assefa.

    The performance, achieved in a women-only race, was the third-fastest marathon of Assefa’s career behind the 2:11:53 she ran to win in Berlin in 2023, a mark that at the time was a world record for a women’s marathon in a mixed race, and her 2:15:37 also from Berlin in 2022.

    Assefa’s 2:11:53 remains the second-fastest women’s marathon of all time behind the 2:09:56 achieved by Ruth Chepngetich to break Assefa’s world record in Chicago in October.

    “Having won today, what I am really thinking about going forward is to try and get my world record back for the marathon (in a mixed race),” Assefa added.

    Canada’s Dunfee set his world 35km race walk record at the Dudince 50 – a World Athletics Race Walking Tour Gold meeting – in Dudince, Slovakia, on 22 March.

    The world and Olympic bronze medallist’s time of 2:21:40 was seven seconds inside the previous world record of 2:21:47 set by Japan’s Masatora Kawano in Takahata on 27 October 2024.

    “I was well under pace but then lost a little time over the last seven kilometres,” said Dunfee. “I (then) got a little stressed out, but it was a dream come true.”

    Dunfee’s world record was improved by Italy’s Stano, who clocked 2:20:43 at the European Race Walking Team Championships in Podebrady, Czechia, on 18 May.

    The 2021 Olympic champion took the lead at 23km then wound up the pace to win by almost three minutes, improving the world record by 57 seconds.

    “The approach to the race was not to set out to break the world record, but the strategy was to close the last 20 kilometres as fast as possible,” said Stano. “That was my mission, then the world record was the consequence.”

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  • Aston Villa transfers: Philippe Coutinho joins Vasco de Gama

    Aston Villa transfers: Philippe Coutinho joins Vasco de Gama

    Aston Villa have confirmed that Philippe Coutinho has joined Brazilian side Vasco de Gama on a permanent basis.

    Coutinho spent last season on loan at the Brazilian outfit, where he made 31 appearances and scored five goals.

    The move brings an end to an underwhelming spell in Birmingham for the Brazil international, who first joined the club on loan in January 2022. His eight goal contributions in the second half of the season saw Villa sign him on a four-year permanent deal.

    But, Coutinho failed to kick on in his first-full season at Villa Park, making just 22 appearances in all competitions. He spent the next two seasons on loan at Qatari side Al-Duhail and Vasco de Gama.

    “Everyone at Aston Villa would like to thank Philippe for his service to the club and wish him all the best in his future career,” the Premier League club said in a statement.

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  • Stephen Vaughan, controversial former football club owner, dies

    Stephen Vaughan, controversial former football club owner, dies

    Jonny Humphries

    BBC News, Liverpool

    BBC Stephen Vaughan, who has short grey hair, smiles at the cameraBBC

    Stephen Vaughan snr owned Chester City, Barrow AFC and rugby league’s Widnes Vikings in different periods

    A controversial Merseyside businessman, boxing promoter and owner of football and rugby league clubs has died aged 62.

    Stephen Vaughan’s death was announced by his son and business partner Stephen Vaughan Jr, who described him as his “hero”.

    Mr Vaughan had spells as majority stakeholder in Chester City, Barrow AFC and Widnes Vikings.

    In 2009, while in charge at Chester, Mr Vaughan became the first person to fail the Football Association’s ‘fit and proper person’ test over his involvement in a £500,000 VAT fraud.

    Former professional boxer Derry Matthews, from Birkenhead, also paid tribute to his “first ever manager” – writing on Facebook: “No one could do a prep talk before a fight like you.”

    A view of the pitch at Barrow AFC's stadium

    Stephen Vaughan resigned as chairman of Barrow AFC in 1997 after being suspected of involvement in a money laundering scheme – a case later dropped

    Mr Vaughan was banned from acting as a company director for 10 years after an Insolvency Service investigation concluded he had been involved in a “carousel fraud” while a director at Widnes Vikings in 2006.

    Carousel frauds involve the cross-border trading of goods aimed at illegally reclaiming VAT.

    Widnes had entered into administration in October 2007 with liabilities of more than £1.6m.

    After the FA struck off Mr Vaughan in 2009, he was forced to handover the reigns at Chester and sold his stake to his son.

    Prison sentence

    Mr Vaughan took over Barrow FC in 1995.

    But he resigned as chair in 1997 after being named in a Customs and Excise money laundering probe centred around Liverpool drugs baron Curtis Warren.

    The case was eventually dropped and he returned as chairman before leaving the club permanently in 1998.

    In 2010 Mr Vaughan was convicted of an affray and the assault of a police officer in Wirral and received a 15 month prison sentence.

    He was released the following year and in 2012 moved to Malta, where he purchased local club Floriana FC and appointed Stephen Vaughan Jnr as chairman.

    In 2016, the pair were linked to a buy-out at Bangor City FC in North Wales, and Mr Vaughan Jr was player-manager until 2019.

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  • Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, Yanagita Hiroki suffer shock exit in 100m heats

    Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, Yanagita Hiroki suffer shock exit in 100m heats

    Wild would be a fair appraisal of the first day at the Japan Athletics Championships 2025.

    Abdul Hakim Sani Brown and Yanagita Hiroki, the two Japanese sprinters harbouring the most hope for the World Athletics Championships in September, both spectacularly crashed out in the men’s 100m heats on Friday (4 July) at the National Stadium.

    In their absence, Koike Yuki qualified first for Saturday’s final with the top semi-final time of 10.16 seconds in the sweltering Tokyo heat at the competition serving as the Japanese trials for the Tokyo Worlds.

    Two-time Olympian Sani Brown, who a day earlier revealed he would compete against doctor’s orders with a right hip bone bruise, finished fourth in his heat with a 10.45 – almost half a second off his personal best of 9.96.

    Two-time Asian champion Yanagita came into the meet with the Japanese lead of 10.06 but was disqualified for a false start in his pool. He was bawling afterwards as he met with the press.

    Sani Brown put a lot on the line by actually starting on Friday, when he could have aggravated the injury with just two months to go until a home Worlds.

    The pain, in the end, was too much to overcome.

    “I was on the blocks feeling like I just had to go out and do it – telling myself that I could do it,” Sani Brown said. “But at the end of the day, I just didn’t have it. That’s how I would describe it.”

    Yanagita had been in fine form, beating 2019 world champion Christian Coleman at the Golden Grand Prix in May and then defending his Asian title in Gumi, Republic of Korea. Hopes were high for the 21-year-old to win his first national championship.

    Yet as things turned out, Yanagita didn’t even get a proper crack to see how fast he could go. He admitted that he may have wanted it too much.

    “Nothing. I did nothing. I couldn’t even start,” Yanagita said as tears flowed down his face.

    “I worked so hard, to a point where I felt like I should give up on the 100m if I didn’t win here. That’s how good I felt and I was really excited to see how fast I could run. But maybe that backfired.”

    Both Yanagita and Sani Brown can still make the World championships team by virtue of their world rankings. A final decision will be made in late August.

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