Showing posts with label Paris 2024. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paris 2024. Show all posts
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MEDVEDEV LOOSES TO AUSTRALIAN POPYRIN AT PARIS MASTERS
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| Australia's Alexei Popyrin beat Daniil Medvedev for the first time in his career (JULIEN DE ROSA |
Daniil Medvedev is still searching for his first ATP tournament victory this year after the world number five lost to Australia's Alexei Popyrin for the first time in his career at the Paris Masters on Wednesday.
Medvedev won the Paris title in 2020 but has not found the indoor tournament to his liking in recent years -- the defeat to Popyrin is the third successive time he has gone out in his opening round.
Popyrin, who has been in a rich vein of form this year winning his first Masters tournament in Montreal in August and beating Novak Djokovic in the US Open, edged Medvedev 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7/4) in a gripping second round match.
For Popyrin, ranked 24 in the world, it was only his third win over a player in the top five.
"It is the first time I have beaten him (in four meetings)," said Popyrin, who will play the winner of the match between France's Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard and Karen Khachanov of Russia.
"We have had some right old battles in the past and it is a real pleasure to have performed like this this time round."
Medvedev, who has already qualified for the season-ending Masters, fought back twice in the deciding set.
He came back from 4-1 down to force a tie-break and then trailing 4-1 in that he levelled at 4-4.
However, with Popyrin leading 5-4, Medvedev double-faulted giving the 25-year-old Australian two match points and he wasted no time in sealing the victory on the first one.
Medvedev is not the first high profile seed to fall at the first hurdle as his compatriot Andrey Rublev and Norway's Casper Ruud have already lost.
Carlos Alcaraz remains in the mix having won his first match on Tuesday and is favoured to take the title after Italian world number one Jannik Sinner withdrew from the tournament due to an intestinal virus.
Alcaraz will play France's Ugo Humbert in the third round, the French number one breezed past America's Marcos Giron 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday.
A potential dark horse for the title is Bulgarian eighth seed Grigor Dimitrov who beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-7 (9/11), 6-3, 7-5.
Dimitrov still has a chance of qualifying for the Masters, if he won the Paris title he would move past Djokovic (sixth), Ruud (seventh) and Rublev (eighth).
Just the top eight qualify for the climax to the ATP season in Turin.
"I would give a lot to be in (Turin)," said Dimitrov, who reached the Paris final last year.
"I'm in a place where I am still a contender, I'm still fighting against the best players in the world, and still beating the younger guys.
"This gives me confidence and makes me happy."
Germany's world number three Alexander Zverev is already booked into Turin and begins his Paris campaign later on Wednesday against the Netherlands' Tallon Griekspoor.
- AFP
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U.S. QUARTET GO FASTEST WITHOUT NOAH LYLES TO MAKE 4X100M MEN’S RELAY FINAL - JAMAICA OUT
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| Picture by 2024 Getty Images |
The United States are on a mission in the athletics at Paris 2024 and made a statement when reaching the men’s 4x100m relay final with the fastest time in the heats.
With 100m champion Noah Lyles sitting out ahead of Thursday night’s 200m final, the U.S. quartet of Christian Coleman, Fred Kerley, Kyree King and Courtney Lindsey won the first heat with a time of 37.47.
Looking to make amends for missing out on the Tokyo 2020 final three years ago, the U.S. appear primed to back up the gold they won at the World Championships last year, while the women's relay team were also fastest in their Olympics heat earlier on Thursday.
South Africa produced a stunning relay to come second (37.94) in the first heat, while Great Britain - who finished fourth in the worlds last year - also made the final after finishing third with a 38.04.
Reigning Olympic champions Italy also raced in a stacked first heat, and their time of 38.07 was only enough to finish fifth as they faced a nervy wait to see if they would go through.
In the second heat, Tokyo 2020 bronze medallists the People’s Republic of China finished first (38.24) ahead of hosts France (38.34) and Canada (38.39), who all qualified.
The two next fastest nations outside of the top three in each heat also qualified, with Japan and Italy doing enough to complete the line-up, while 100m silver medallist Kishane Thompson was left disappointed as Jamaica came fifth in the second heat and were unable to qualify.
The men’s 4x100m relay final takes place at 19:45 local time in Paris, just 15 minutes after the women’s 4x100m relay final starts.
- Michael Hincks
SOURCE: QUINCY WILSON, 16, TO RUN 4X400 RELAY OLYMPICS
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| When Quincy Wilson runs in the 4x400 meter relay on Friday, he will become the youngest American male to have ever participated in an Olympic track and field event. Patrick Smith/Getty Images |
PARIS -- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old who turned heads at the U.S. track and field trials in June, will have the opportunity to do the same at the Olympics on Friday, a source confirmed to ESPN.
The Maryland native will be part of the men's 4x400-meter relay team that morning when it takes part in the opening heat of the Olympic relay. After Wilson missed 4x400 mixed heats earlier this week, it was uncertain whether he'd end up running at all or be an alternate in the overall relay pool.
When he takes the track inside the Stade de France, Wilson will become the youngest American male to have ever participated in an Olympic track and field event.
In July, Wilson said he was overjoyed when he received word that would be added to the Team USA relay pool after he didn't qualify for the individual 400-meter dash at trials.
"When I got the call, I was like, I was ecstatic," Wilson said. "I started running around the house. It was just a moment for me because everybody dreams about going to the Olympics as a young kid."
Wilson said he first started dreaming about participating in the Games during the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was 8 years old. That same year, he began running his premier event, the 400, and has become a force in it.
After twice breaking the event's under-18 world record while at U.S. trials, running it as quickly as 44.59 seconds, Wilson went even lower three weeks ago at a tuneup race in Florida. There, he ran a 44.20-second race that had the track world buzzing in anticipation of what he could do on American relay teams once the Olympics arrived.
Now, his chance is here.
- Coley Harvey, ESPN Staff Writer
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