Tennis
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Tennis: Erin Routliffe wins Cincinnati Open doubles title
The win means the New Zealand tennis player extends her points lead over everyone else at the top of the world rankings.
“ winning 3-6, 6-1, 10-4 in one hour, 20 minutes”
The old “win by 6” rule in play for the 3rd set eh?
No. In non-GS tournament play there is no third set in doubles, they play a super tie breaker first to 10 wins
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Djokovic out in third round. Popyrin prevails 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
2002 the last year none of the 'big three' (Nadal, Djokovic, Federer) won a grand slam.
Fourth seed Alexander Zverev has lost the first set in his third round match currently in progress.
Just gone midnight in New York and Women's second seed Aryna Sabalenka has just started her third round match.
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Sabalenka wins, but a very swingy second set - she won three straight games to be 0-3 up, then dropped 5 straight games to be trailing 5-3 only to win 4 on the bounce to close out the title in straight sets. I wonder how often you win 5 straight games but still go down in straight sets?
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Good on her, after a pretty trying year. Pegula fought hard, but she strikes me as being a bit of a Wosniacki type player; super solid and consistent which accounts for the vast majority of players on tour, but lacking the killer shot to take her to the next level. She had a good tourney and should take a lot of positives away. Despite losing the final she pushed Sabalenka close and served for the second set
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Rafa has retired. Another member of the GOAT trio hangs it up
'What a career': From Federer to Alcaraz, tributes pour in after Nadal announces retirement
Sports stars and more gave Nadal his flowers as the 22-time Grand Slam champion announced that this year's Davis Cup will be his final tournament.
