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Don’t tell Kyle Kirkwood that Alex Palou will waltz to his fourth NTT INDYCAR SERIES championship this season.
Kirkwood, the only driver besides Palou to win a race in 2025, led an eventful opening practice Friday for The Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio Presented by the All-New 2026 Passport with a top lap of 1 minute, 5.8272 seconds in the No. 27 Andretti Global Honda featuring a special Honda tribute livery this weekend.
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“We’re really fast right now,” Kirkwood said. “As long as we continue that, we’ll be in a really good spot. We’ve come here this year with maybe a different philosophy, and it seems to be working out.”
Reigning Mid-Ohio winner Pato O’Ward was second at 1:06.0160 in the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet. All teams are benefiting from this event being the first anniversary of the INDYCAR hybrid system as, for the first time on a road and street circuit, teams can return to their car setup notes from 2024.
Palou still lurks near the top as he seeks his seventh victory this season, ending up third at 1:06.0409 in the No. 10 Open AI Chip Ganassi Racing Honda. Kirkwood has won three races in 2025 and is second in the championship, 93 points behind Palou.
Two-time Mid-Ohio winner Josef Newgarden made a good start by ending up fourth at 1:06.1791 in the No. 2 PPG Team Penske Chevrolet. Two-time Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge winner Newgarden is a disappointing 17th in the season standings and is looking to jump-start the second half of his season this weekend.
Another driver looking to salvage his season, Marcus Ericsson, rounded out the top five at 1:06.2324 in the No. 28 FOX INDYCAR Honda of Andretti Global. 2022 Indianapolis 500 winner Ericsson is 21st in points.
The tricky, roller-coaster nature of Mid-Ohio caught out a handful of drivers in the 80-minute session, which was split into two groups.
David Malukas backed into the tire wall hard in Turn 9 in his No. 4 Clarience Technologies Chevrolet of A.J. Foyt Enterprises, while Colton Herta backed his No. 26 Gainbridge Honda into the tire barrier in Turn 6. The Andretti Global with Curb-Agajanian crew was able to fix Herta’s machine so he could return to the track. Neither driver was hurt.
2022 Mid-Ohio winner Scott McLaughlin spun into the gravel in his No. 3 Odyssey Battery Team Penske Chevrolet and continued. Felix Rosenqvist was forced to stop on track due to a mechanical problem in his No. 60 SiriusXM Honda of Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb-Agajanian, adorned with a special livery saluting hard rock icon Ozzy Osbourne and his band Black Sabbath.
Up next is pre-qualifying practice at 10:30 a.m. ET Saturday, followed by NTT P1 Award qualifying at 2:30 p.m. (both sessions FS1, FOX Sports app, INDYCAR Radio Network). The 90-lap race starts at 1 p.m. ET Sunday on FOX, the FOX Sports app and the INDYCAR Radio Network.
Just days ago, Gwinn spoke of the pride at leading her team into a major tournament wearing the captain’s armband.
“It’s a great honour for me [and] it makes me really proud,” she told DW.
“Going into a tournament like this is special. I’m feeling very motivated and looking forward to finally getting out onto the pitch.”
But in a cruel twist of fate, the full-back was helped off the pitch following what seems to be a serious injury sustained while making a goal-saving block.
Germany’s skipper put her body on the line to prevent Ewa Pajor from getting a clear shot on goal, hurting herself in the process.
Despite admiral attempts to continue, she was helped off the pitch by physios before the interval.
Not only is she a huge loss of ability on the field for the European giants, her leadership skills will be sorely missed at the back.
The extent of this injury is unknown at this point, though it is particularly brutal for Gwinn, who has missed out on major tournaments previously after sustaining two Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injuries in her career before.
Fans and teammates alike will be tentatively waiting for updates in the coming days, but such an emotional reaction from the Bayern Munich star could signal the end of her campaign before it has even really started.
An earlier version of this article misstated Nicolás Jarry’s nationality. He is Chilean, not Argentinian.
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Welcome to the Wimbledon briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories on each day of the tournament.
On day five, a South American derby delivered, fortune favored a lucky loser and a second-week appearance meant more to one player than most.
South America is having itself a pretty solid Wimbledon, just not in the way anyone might have expected.
When the tournament started, names like Fonseca or Haddad Maia seemed far more likely for runs to the second week than the surviving South Americans.
When the dust settled Friday evening, it had two players in the rounds of 16, in Nicolás Jarry of Chile and Solana Sierra of Argentina. It’s hard to overestimate how hard they had to get there. More on Sierra in a bit.
Jarry has barely won matches since he made the Italian Open final last year. He had to survive qualifying to earn a first-round date with Holger Rune, where he came back from two sets down to win. On Friday he beat João Fonseca, tipped for stardom when he is a little older, in four sets.
South America, a continent with a fervent tennis fan base, doesn’t get a proportional share of attention from the tours. North America has four 1,000-level events, just below the Grand Slams. Europe has five. There is one in Dubai and one in Doha, plus the WTA Tour Finals in Saudi Arabia, which is earmarked to get a 1,000 in the future. South America has zero.
Hopes for changing that may rest with Fonseca, a supreme talent from Brazil, the continent’s largest country, which has been without a big-time player since Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil a quarter-century ago. Tennis officials describe Fonseca as a potential game-changer.
That’s a lot to put on the shoulders of a teenager playing his first year of ATP Tour tennis. Fonseca has said he can feel the pressure. He knows what the sport and Brazilians at home and abroad are hoping for him.
It’s going to take a little time, and the third round of his first Wimbledon is a very respectable showing given that he has barely played on grass. Carlos Alcaraz only made the second round of his first Wimbledon in 2021, when he was 18. He made the third round of the French Open that year and the second round of the Australian Open.
Fonseca has made the last 32 here and in Paris, and the second round in Australia.
After the loss to Jarry, he spoke about how much he is learning about Grand Slam tennis and ups and downs of a five-set match. In Australia, he wondered whether he could last five sets. Now he knows he can, and that things can change very quickly.
“When you go to a Grand Slam, the players play differently,” he said. They are much more focused.”
He hears the noise, people saying he is the next Sinner or Alcaraz. He appreciates it, but is trying to stay inside his head, no matter what anyone else says.
“I’m just going to be me,” he said. “Some people understand that.”
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Now for Sierra. Amid all the chaos and upsets this week, it’s fitting that Friday saw another first for the underdog.
By beating Cristina Bucșa, Solana Sierra became the first lucky loser to reach the Wimbledon fourth round in the Open Era.
Lucky loser is the term given to players who lose in qualifying but then get a spot in the main draw when someone pulls out. So they are ranked outside the top 100, and have just lost to players in a similar postcode: the underdog’s underdog.
Sierra, 21 and from Argentina, is ranked No. 101. She had never won a Grand Slam match before this week, and only had eight wins at WTA Tour level with none on grass. She won 52 of 72 matches in 2024 on the third-tier ITF World Tennis Tour, but lost her only match on grass then too — in Wimbledon qualifying.
Her run follows Eva Lys, another lucky loser, reaching the fourth round of the Australian Open in January, which is also an Open Era first.
Next up for Sierra is a last-16 match against Siegemund on Sunday. Who, appropriately enough for this Wimbledon, is ranked lower than her, at No. 104.
Yet another reminder of the depth in women’s tennis — and of the randomness of this year’s Wimbledon.
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At Wimbledon 2024, Russian tennis player Andrey Rublev reached the bottom of a very deep hole. In a first-round defeat to Argentina’s Francisco Comesana, Rublev obliterated his racket against his leg in frustration, as had become a habit for him.
Rublev, who has reached 10 major quarterfinals but never gone beyond the last eight at a Grand Slam, later discussed the impact of tennis on his mind at that time. He acknowledged that defeats had left him without control of his thoughts off the court, that he had reached a point when he did not “see the reason of living life.”
“Sometimes you learn the most from the worst cases,” Rublev said during an interview in Dubai earlier this year, another place of things were coming full circle. At the 2023 Dubai Tennis Championships, Rublev was defaulted from a match against Alexander Bublik after he screamed in the face of the line judge and was alleged to have used a Russian expletive. Rublev was defaulted from the match, and was stripped of his prize money and ranking points from the tournament, but they were later reinstated.
For Rublev, learning meant speaking to a psychologist, as well as reconfiguring his feelings about himself as a tennis player. No, he has never reached a Grand Slam semifinal. But going deep in the biggest events and being a reliable fixture at them? That makes him a good player. How can he put himself down about that, he would think.
That mindset explains why reaching the second week this year is such a milestone. Rublev returned to a site of one of his most painful moments, and has produced a calm, consistent level of tennis even while so many seeds around him are losing.
“Now this year, of course, I’m happy that I am able to win three matches,” he said in his news conference after beating Adrian Mannarino 7-5, 6-2, 6-3 to reach the fourth round.
“So I did better than last year. It’s already better than nothing.”
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Flavio Cobolli (22) vs. Jakub Menšík (15)
A match between two rising prospects, who are high on talent but have struggled to produce it in tight moments at Grand Slams. Menšík has a gigantic serve but his forehand can get shaky in tight moments, while Cobolli can find himself overpowered despite his skill and flair.
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Iga Świątek (8) vs. Danielle Collins
Świątek has a 7-2 record against Collins, but a strangely one-sided beef between them, which started with Collins calling Świątek insincere at the 2024 Olympic Games, gives this contest some bite. Collins also thrashed Świątek in their last meeting.
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SANTIAGO (Chile) – Canada will face off against the United States after claiming victory over Colombia 73-49 on Friday afternoon at Centro de Deportes Colectivos. The team will compete in the Women’s AmeriCup Semi-Finals for the ninth consecutive edition, and has medaled in seven of the previous eight editions.
It was Canada’s fourth win over Colombia in four AmeriCup meetings.
Canada’s second-quarter efforts helped them extend a 7-point lead to a 21-point lead at the half, thanks to scoring 24 points to Colombia’s 10.
Despite shooting 39 percent as a team, Canada shot 45.5 percent from two-point range and 84 percent from the foul line compared to Colombia’s 57.1 percent.
While Shay Colley and Yvonne Ejim both dumped in 12 points for Canada, Colley was a perfect 100 percent from two-point range and also grabbed 8 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 steals for Canada in the win.
Kayla Alexander has 8 points, 9 rebounds, and 3 blocks, which led her to rise in the latest rankings in the three categories: she reached 269 points in her history in the AmeriCup (12th), 220 rebounds (2nd), and 19 blocks (9th).
Canada continued to win the battles in transition, scoring 13 points on the fast break, and turned 18 turnovers from Colombia into 15 points on top of that.
Also dominating down low, Canada out-rebounded Colombia 46-32, and scored six second chance points while keeping Colombia to zero.
Canada continued to use its rotation to get the best out of the game, with six players scoring seven or more points in the win. The team also had four players grab four or more rebounds and tallied 12 steals as a group.
Canada will now face United States in the Semi-Finals.
“We were locked in pretty defensively today, we’ll let that offense run a little smoother tomorrow, and it will put us in a better position,” said head coach Nell Fortner.
“We did a great job as a team coming in and applying the pressure of pushing the pace at the start of the game. I thought our defense was good the first half of the game … we just have to stay locked in for 40 minutes,” said Colley.
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July 4 (Reuters) – West Indies were bowled out for 253 in their first innings of the second test in Grenada on Friday, trailing Australia by 45 runs at stumps after a dramatic second day that saw early promise turn to utter collapse before a thrilling lower-order fightback.
Australia were 12 for two when play was called off, having lost Sam Konstas for a duck when he was bowled by Jayden Seales, and Usman Khawaja for two runs when Seales trapped him lbw.
What began as a Friday of fluctuating fortunes for the hosts became a tale of extraordinary resilience, with the West Indies tail staging a spirited recovery to keep alive the test match and series.
The morning session belonged to John Campbell until a moment of madness cost him his wicket on 40.
The West Indies left-hander looked in fine touch, striking five fours and a six, before attempting an ambitious shot off Beau Webster that he could only sky for a simple catch to Mitchell Starc at mid-on.
Kraigg Brathwaite’s milestone 100th Test got off to the worst possible start when he fell for a duck in just the second over after being caught and bowled by Josh Hazlewood.
Keacy Carty also departed cheaply for six, falling to a spectacular catch by Pat Cummins off his own bowling.
The afternoon session began ominously for West Indies when Roston Chase became Hazlewood’s second victim in the first over after lunch, falling lbw for 16 via a successful Australian review.
Brandon King and Shai Hope then steadied the ship with a patient partnership that saw King reach 75 with some authoritative strokeplay.
King’s innings was a masterclass in controlled aggression, while Hope grew in confidence alongside him, striking boundaries with a flourish and looking increasingly comfortable.
The session was not without its lighter moments either, as play was briefly interrupted when a dog wandered on to the field, trotting around casually before Cummins helped to shepherd it back over the boundary rope.
Cummins, as he so often does, produced a moment of magic to break the crucial King-Hope partnership and swing the tide back in Australia’s favour.
The Australian captain cleaned up Hope on 21 with an absolute peach of a delivery, triggering a collapse that saw West Indies slump from a promising position to 174 for seven, after King and Justin Greaves (1) departed soon after.
At that point, the hosts seemed headed for a substantial deficit chasing Australia’s first innings total of 286, but the West Indies tail had other ideas.
Alzarri Joseph was the chief architect of the fightback, smashing 27 from 49 balls, while Shamar Joseph provided equally valuable support with 29, before falling to Starc.
The tail-end resistance proved nothing short of remarkable, with Anderson Phillip contributing a gritty 10 from 40 balls and Seales adding a valuable seven runs as the last-wicket partnership frustrated Australia’s bowlers.
The lower order added 79 crucial runs for the last three wickets to keep alive West Indian hopes.
The final wicket of the hosts’ innings fell when Travis Head took a low catch to dismiss Phillip, with the third umpire ruling the catch clean despite replays suggesting it was touch-and-go.
Nathan Lyon was Australia’s most successful bowler with three wickets for 75 runs from 19 overs. Hazlewood and Cummins claimed two wickets apiece but even they could not prevent their hosts from rallying.
Australia’s failure to deal with the West Indies tail will be a source of frustration for the tourists, but they can take comfort from the fact that their narrow lead could still prove crucial if the pitch deteriorates further.
Australia lead the three test series 1-0 after winning the opener in Bridgetown. (Reporting by Simon Jennings in Toronto)
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada (AP) — Jayden Seales ripped out the opening batters to reduce Australia’s second innings to 12-2 and lead over West Indies to 45 runs on day two of the second test on Friday.
The West Indies’ first innings almost lasted the entire day but it was all out for 253 — 33 runs behind Australia — which left a tricky half-hour in the day.
The hosts made it as hostile as possible and preyed on Australia’s nervous top order.
Seales bowled Sam Konstas for a duck in the first over and almost claimed Cameron Green on the next ball. Green barely fended off Seales and was fortunate the ball dropped in front of second slip.
Seales then got a nip-backer to trap Usman Khawaja plumb on 2. Khawaja’s video review showed it was going to hit middle stump.
Nathan Lyon came in as the nightwatchman and he and Green just made it to stumps. On the penultimate ball, Lyon took an Alzarri Joseph delivery into his left bicep. He needed on-field treatment.
Seales had 2-5 from three overs, including a maiden.
For Konstas, it was his third single-digit score in four innings on tour. Opening partner Khawaja has scored 47, 15, 16 and 2. Before that, he had 0 and 6 in the World Test Championship final. No. 3 Green is also still looking for a morale-boosting score.
The West Indies have their own top-order issues.
Kraigg Brathwaite was out for a duck in his first bat in his 100th test, caught and bowled by Josh Hazlewood in the first over.
Keacy Carty went the same way on 6 to Pat Cummins, and John Campbell wasted a good start of 40 when he skewed Beau Webster to mid-on.
It took Brandon King’s maiden test half-century and the tailenders’ 73 invaluable runs for the West Indies to get close to Australia’s 286.
The West Indies was 174-7 after lunch, still more than 100 behind, but the Nos. 8-11 batters — notably Alzarri Joseph and Shamar Joseph, not related — frustrated the Australians for 25 overs and led the West Indies past 200 and 250.
King and captain Roston Chase, who took 18 balls to get off the mark, rebuilt West Indies from 64-3 to a confident 110-3 by lunch.
Chase was out straight after lunch, trapped on 16 by Hazlewood after Australia reviewed.
But King lofted Hazlewood for six over square leg then his seventh boundary brought up his 50 off 77 balls, his first 50 in his second test and West Indies’ first 50 in the series.
King waltzed down the track to hit Lyon for another couple of sixes as his partnership with Shai Hope began to flourish.
But Cummins ended their 58-run stand when he bowled Hope on 21, and King fell in the next over nicking Lyon behind. King labored for 75 off 108 balls with eight boundaries and three sixes.
A third wicket in four overs, Justin Greaves, tumbled West Indies to 174-7.
But the Josephs made it to tea and kept going for 51 runs together. Alzarri scored 27 and Shamar 29. Last pair Anderson Phillip and Seales resisted for another nearly 11 overs for 16 runs.
All six Australia bowlers took wickets; Lyon led with 3-75.
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LAUSANNE (Switzerland) – Germany and Slovenia will be shooting for history with a spot in the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup 2025 Final on the line in an all-European Semi-Final.
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Slovenia have reached the top four for the first time ever while Germany’s only previous Semi-Finals appearance dates back to 1987. One of the two teams will lock up their maiden podium finish while the losers will have a second chance in the Third Place Game.
These two teams faced off in their first game of the tournament with Germany winning 75-68 after coming back from 13 points down. Will this boost the Germans’ confidence or fuel Slovenia’s motivation?
Lovro Lapajne vs Hannes Steinbach
Lovro Lapajne will be needed against Germany
Slovenia were ambushed on the glass in the opening game 46-24 with the Germans grabbing 15 offensive rebounds. Hannes Steinbach snatched 7 of his 19 rebounds at the offensive end and he also picked up 19 points.
Slovenia had no answer for the German big man. Lovro Lapajne is one of the few bigs on a Slovenian side altogether lacking size and he will need to someone keep Steinbach as well as German center Eric Reibe in check.
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There is the revenge factor for Slovenia. Not only revenge for the loss in the group stage but also after Slovenia were beaten 88-68 in the Semi-Finals of the FIBA U18 EuroBasket 2024.
Nearly all of the players from both teams from last summer are back. It’s never easy to beat a team twice in the same competition – not to mention three times in the span of two summers.
Germany rank third in the competition in scoring with 88.2 points per game while Slovenia do not have the offensive firepower with only 78.0 points scored – good for 10th place. That is also because Slovenia connect on only 25.5% three-points – good for 13th. Slovenia also rank second to last in offensive rebounds with 12.2 per game.
Slovenia and Germany have squared off 30 times in FIBA youth events including the matchup on Day 1. The Germans have won 16 of them – including the U18 EuroBasket 2024 Semi-Final, which was the only knockout game between them.
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English amateur Lottie Woad carded a superb six-under 67 to hold a three-shot lead at the halfway stage of the 2025 KPMG Women’s Irish Open, with Charley Hull tied for third four strokes back.
Switzerland’s Chiara Tamburlini sits in solo second place on eight under after a second-round 71 on the O’Meara Course at Carton House, while Hull is joined by Australia’s Kirsten Rudgeley, Sweden’s Madelene Sagström and New Zealand’s Amelia Garvey in a share of third one shot further back.
The 21-year-old Woad, starting her second round on the 10th tee, made her first birdie on the 13th hole before gaining further strokes on the 15th, 17th, first, fifth and seventh.
The world No 1 amateur carded her only bogey of the day at the eighth, but bounced back immediately with a birdie at nine to lead with a score of 11-under-par.
“The wind was pretty strong on the final few holes around seven, eight, nine. It was quite a tough stretch, and I was trying to get in as quickly as possible,” Woad said after her table-topping second round.
“I’m happy with the first two days. I’m playing pretty solidly, and everything is feeling pretty good. It’s definitely a bit different in a professional tournament, but I’ve had a lot of experience.
“I’ve played in a lot of majors, so I know how to deal with it and I’m trying to look at staying in contention and I’ll see where it puts me.”
Adding further English interest on the top page of the leaderboard is Hannah Screen, who sits six under tied for seventh with Alexandra Swayne of the US Virgin Islands.
Screen had started the second round in a tie for third alongside Woad and Mimi Rhodes, who returned a disappointing round of 75 to fall behind her compatriots.
England’s Georgia Hall also found the going difficult on Friday, a round of 76 dropping her back to one over par for the week alongside, among others, her Solheim Cup team-mate and Irish star Leona Maguire.
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