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Daily Mail
03-07-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Emma Raducanu to take inspiration from top dog Jannik Sinner as she looks to topple Wimbledon favourite Aryna Sabalenka
Emma Raducanu will attempt to take down Wimbledon favourite Aryna Sabalenka by harnessing the power of osmosis. After her practice, the 22-year-old and coach Mark Petchey spent 20 minutes watching Jannik Sinner, and Raducanu joked that proximity to one world No 1 might help her take down another on Friday. 'Learning by osmosis!' said Raducanu at the practice courts. 'He is so effortless when he hits the ball. I have been trying to watch a bit more live when I am away. I watched Joao Fonseca the other day.' So, can Raducanu beat Sabalenka? Watch them as much as she likes, Raducanu will never be able to belt the ball with the force of Sinner or Brazilian sensation Fonseca and there is a suspicion that for all her balletic movement and easy strokemaking, she lacks the power and physicality to trouble the creme de la creme. She has failed to win a set in eight matches against the elite trio of Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff and Sabalenka, but hope lies in the fact that not one of that octet of defeats was played on grass. Indeed, of Raducanu's three wins over top 10 opponents, two were on the lawns - here against Maria Sakkari and in Eastbourne against Jessica Pegula, both last year. This surface rewards easy, balletic movement and hand skills - two categories in which Raducanu scores highly. The Brit watched men's world No 1 Sinner practice for 20 minutes after finishing her own practice on Thursday 'With grass, you get rewarded for staying in the point because a nothing ball, a slice in the service box, it's very tricky to deal with,' said Raducanu. 'You are incentivized to chase one more ball down and scrap and turn points around.' Raducanu's ability to do exactly that was on show in her 6-3, 6-3 defeat of 2023 champion Marketa Vondrousova. Data company TennisViz records a player's 'steal score' in each match - the number of times they go from a defensive position to winning the point - and Raducanu's score of 51 per cent was a mile clear of the draw average of 34. Former world No 1 and BBC analyst Tracey Austin said after the Vondrousova match: 'That was the best I have seen Emma play since she won the US Open. Her tennis was sensational. 'I would say she has a chance to beat Sabalenka if Emma plays that way. The way she was returning today, if she can maintain that length, she can rush Sabalenka. There are a lot of parts of Emma's game that can bother Sabalenka.' That may be a bit of a stretch but Sabalenka, despite much improvement in this area, can still be vulnerable when opponents vary the tempo of the rallies. In the French Open final, Gauff's array of slices and spins robbed Sabalenka of all rhythm, and Vondrousova did a similar job on her in Berlin earlier this month. 'She's world No1 for a reason,' said Raducanu. 'I don't think I'm going to go out there and out-power her. I'm going to have to try and be creative.'
Forbes
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Muse Reaches The Top 10 For The First Time In A Decade
Muse's "Unraveling" debuts at No. 9 on the Official Singles Downloads chart, marking the band's ... More first top 10 hit on the ranking in 15 years and signaling a new era. UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 01: Photo of Chris WOLSTENHOLME and MUSE and Dominic HOWARD and Matt BELLAMY; L-R: Dominic Howard, Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme - posed, group shot (Photo by Mick Hutson/Redferns) After several years of relative quiet, it looks like Muse is preparing the world for a brand new album. The English rock band, which has ranked as one of the biggest in the country for well over a decade, dropped a new single titled "Unraveling" in mid-June, and unsurprisingly, it has become a quick hit on a number of charts in the United Kingdom. The tune even helps the group score its first new top 10 smash on one sales ranking in 15 years as it arrives. "Unraveling" Debuts Inside the Top 10 "Unraveling" opens at No. 9 on the Official Singles Downloads chart, which ranks the top-performing individual tracks on platforms like iTunes and other digital download storefronts. Muse has only scored a trio of appearances within that loftiest space throughout the years, and it has been quite a long time since the band pushed a track into the region. Muse's First New Top 10 in More Than 15 Years "Unraveling" marks Muse's first new top 10 on the Official Singles Downloads chart since 2009. In September of that year, "Uprising" debuted at No. 9, in the same position where "Unraveling" begins. The group earned its first placement on the downloads tally and its debut top 10 with "Apocalypse Please," which only spent a single frame on that list at No. 10. "Unraveling" Earns a Lofty Debut Muse also sees "Unraveling" kick off its time on the Official Rock & Metal Singles chart at No. 9. On that list, the superstar musicians have seen 23 of the 40 songs that have reached that genre-specific ranking enter the top 10 for at least one week. The group even doubles up on the tally, as "Supermassive Black Hole," one of its most famous releases, sits at No. 24, 676 frames into its tenure on the list. "Unraveling" Misses the Top 10 on the Main Sales Chart "Unraveling" just misses out on the top 10 on the Official Singles Sales chart, as it enters at No. 12. It also reaches the main ranking, the most closely watched list of the most consumed songs throughout the U.K., the Official Singles chart, but it does not approach the top 10. Instead, Muse has to settle for No. 85 as a fairly low starting point for the first single from what may be an upcoming new album.
CNA
30-06-2025
- Sport
- CNA
Medvedev makes early exit after Wimbledon meltdown
LONDON :Daniil Medvedev found the roasting conditions and a French opponent who had not won a match on grass for three years too hot to handle on Monday as the ninth seed lost 7-6(2) 3-6 7-6(3) 6-2 loss to Benjamin Bonzi in the Wimbledon first round. The Russian, who reached the semi-finals at the All England Club last year, got all hot and bothered as Bonzi brought out what he described as his "A-game" to dispatch the 2021 U.S. Open champion on Court Two, which felt like an oven throughout the three-hour match. While spectators took shade under umbrellas, large-brimmed hats, newspapers and any other makeshift item they could grab to block out the burning sun, the only respite the players got was a 10-minute break at the end of the third set with Wimbledon's heat rule coming into force. That did little to revive Medvedev, however, as he immediately fell behind 2-0 to world number 64 Bonzi in the fourth set and it was a setback he could not recover from. When the Russian netted a backhand, it brought up a first match point for Bonzi, and the Frenchman was celebrating his first win over a top-10 player at a major seconds later after Medvedev smacked a forehand long. "This is special for me today. This is my first top 10 win at a slam. I love this place," a beaming Bonzi told the crowd with the temperature soaring above 32 degrees Celsius. "Daniil is a great player. Sometimes its easier to play an opponent like him in the first round as the players are not used to playing on grass early in the tournament. "I had nothing to lose and I played my A-game."
Reuters
30-06-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
Medvedev makes early exit after Wimbledon meltdown
LONDON, June 30 (Reuters) - Daniil Medvedev found the roasting conditions and a French opponent who had not won a match on grass for three years too hot to handle on Monday as the ninth seed lost 7-6(2) 3-6 7-6(3) 6-2 loss to Benjamin Bonzi in the Wimbledon first round. The Russian, who reached the semi-finals at the All England Club last year, got all hot and bothered as Bonzi brought out what he described as his "A-game" to dispatch the 2021 U.S. Open champion on Court Two, which felt like an oven throughout the three-hour match. While spectators took shade under umbrellas, large-brimmed hats, newspapers and any other makeshift item they could grab to block out the burning sun, the only respite the players got was a 10-minute break at the end of the third set with Wimbledon's heat rule coming into force. That did little to revive Medvedev, however, as he immediately fell behind 2-0 to world number 64 Bonzi in the fourth set and it was a setback he could not recover from. When the Russian netted a backhand, it brought up a first match point for Bonzi, and the Frenchman was celebrating his first win over a top-10 player at a major seconds later after Medvedev smacked a forehand long. "This is special for me today. This is my first top 10 win at a slam. I love this place," a beaming Bonzi told the crowd with the temperature soaring above 32 degrees Celsius. "Daniil is a great player. Sometimes its easier to play an opponent like him in the first round as the players are not used to playing on grass early in the tournament. "I had nothing to lose and I played my A-game."
Reuters
16-06-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
Three Americans in ATP top 10 for first time since '06
June 16 - Ben Shelton ranked a career-high 10th in the ATP Tour world rankings released Monday, giving the United States three men in the top 10 for the first time in nearly two decades. Shelton joined No. 4 Taylor Fritz and No. 8 Tommy Paul to mark the first top-10 American trio since Andy Roddick (No. 4), James Blake (No. 7) and Andre Agassi (No. 10) in April 2006. "That's really cool. A big milestone in tennis," Shelton said Friday after reaching the semifinals in Stuttgart, Germany, and learning of his impending ranking. The 22-year-old left-hander is only the fourth U.S. southpaw to reach the top 10 since the rankings began in 1973, joining Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe and Roscoe Tanner. Fritz moved up three spots after his victory in Stuttgart. Paul took last week off after reaching the quarterfinals at the French Open. The rest of the top 10 on Monday features seven players from seven different countries, led by World No. 1 Jannik Sinner of Italy, No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz of Spain, and Alexander Zverev of Germany. --Field Level Media
