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Emma Raducanu went out of the Miami Open in the first round after losing in three sets to Canada's Bianca Andreescu. In a battle of the former US Open champions — Andreescu in 2019, Raducanu in 2021 — it was the Canadian who prevailed, with her baseline dominance ultimately proving the bedrock for her victory, despite an excellent second-set fightback from her British opponent.
The ATP Tour has released its calendar for 2024 and it features some significant changes to the current season. The calendar has been altered due to the Paris 2024 Olympics, which will include a one-week tennis event played at Roland Garros, the home of the French Open. Ad The post-US Open Asia swing will continue after events including the Shanghai Masters and China Open which return later this year, and there will be five 12-day ATP Masters 1000 events.
We are nearly at the end of the season and, as such, it is time for the penultimate ranking event of the year, the 2023 Tour Championship. Neil Robertson is the defending champion but, he is not participating as a number of big names miss out on the tournament. Ad The eight players for the Tour Championship are picked based on the one-year ranking list and a host of big names have missed the cut due to the up and down nature of the season.
Japanese duo Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara stormed into a convincing lead on home ice as they got their bid to win a first World Figure Skating Championships gold medal off to the best possible start. The duo won silver in Montpellier in 2022, after finishing behind Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier from the United States. Ad But they have ended the day well ahead of their American rivals on the scorecards in Saitama, with a total of 80.72 points in the short program.
Japanese duo Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara stormed into a convincing lead on home ice as they got their bid to win a first World Figure Skating Championship gold medal off to the best possible start. The duo won silver in Montpellier in 2022 after finishing behind USA's Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier. Ad But they have ended the day well ahead of their American rivals on the scorecards in Saitama, finishing with a total of 80.72 points in the short program.
Iga Swiatek's absence from the Miami Open due to a rib injury «might be a good thing for her tennis», believes Mats Wilander. Swiatek lost comprehensively in the semi-finals of last week's Indian Wells to Elena Rybakina, and talked after that match of the problems she had experienced in coping with the muscle strain. Ad It looked doubtful she would compete in Miami, and that proved the case as she announced her withdrawal on Wednesday.
Mark Selby buried Ali Carter under a barrage of breaks to reach the final of the WST Classic in Leicester with a 5-0 whitewash in a one-sided semi-final. The four-time world champion is chasing a first ranking title in his home city and produced a relentless display of scoring with knocks of 95, 138, 65 and 89 enough to book his spot in the inaugural Classic final at 7pm UK time on Wednesday night.
South Africa tighthead prop Thomas du Toit will join Bath after the World Cup later this year. Du Toit has been at United Rugby Championship side Sharks since 2014 and was part of the South Africa team that won the World Cup in 2019. Ad He also spent three months at Irish Pro14 side Munster at the end of 2014, before returning to Sharks.