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Our Greek friend is silent so you probably can guess Anett Kontaveit won the Ostrava tournament

At the time Stosur had 0 WTA MD wins herself Her first came two weeks later in Australian Open R1 vs Conchita Martinez.

Yankees won two in a row vs Red Sox. The Rays series at the end of the season might not matter even if Rays won't have anything to play for. Mariners are 1-11 down to Angels (sic!) while Dodgers could drop one to D-backs. If NL wild card turns out to be Dodgers vs Cardinals that would be quite a game! LAD pitching staff is something else when Kershaw is basically #4 guy on the depth chart!

Oleksandr Usyk beats Anthony Joshua on points (117:112, 116:112, 115:113) and becomes new WBO, IBF & WBA heavyweight world champion. Really impressive and well deserved victory.

[hide] Knockout Round September 22nd - Ocotber 3rd, 2021 8 Nations, the Winners of each Quarterfinal will qualify for the Semifinals Quartefinals Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 26th 2021, h. 17:30 Morocco 1 6 Brazil September 26th 2021, h. 20:00 RFU 3 4 Argentina September 27th 2021, h. 17:30 Iran 4 3 Kazakhstan September 27th 2021, h. 20:00 Spain 5 3 Portugal [/hide]

It was from Casablanca quals in March 2003 until Boca Raton ITF in January 2004. It was at the start of her career (2003 was the first time she won a WTA MD match). She obviously did a lot better in the late 00s and even won WTA title in 2011. Scheepers' first WTA MD win was vs a certain wild card named Samantha Stosur in Gold Coast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Uncle_Tobys_Hardcourts_–_Singles

Meanwhile former RG junior champion Whitney Osuigwe lost her 17th match in a row (Chicago Q1). She's three losses away from tying the WTA Open Era record (Channelle Scheepers in 2003/04 & Abigail Spears 2005/06 both lost 20 matches in a row). Osuigwe was basically on par with Cori Gauff in the summer of 2019 and she's completely fallen off since the COVID break.

@MakedonasYes, reaching the deep end of these Premier/500/1000/GS events is worth more than winning three-four Internantional/250 events. Obviously the lack of tournament wins is a problem but Eugenie Bouchard reached Top 5 while only winning Nuernberg Internantional event which remains her only WTA trophy.

Apparently English speakers can pronounce this name too Admittedly my first name would be even more difficult to pronounce

Sakkari beat Swiatek and Kontaveit beat Kvitova so Sakkari will be Top 10 on Monday. As for Raducanu's new coach, Darren Cahill split with Simona Halep few days ago. I wouldn't be surprised to see these two hook up next.

Finally a World Championship medal for Katarzyna Niewiadoma!!!

And the Cardinals keep on winning. They tied a franchise record of 14 wins in a row last night matching the feat from 1935. The NL wild card race is basically over unlike AL where Blue Jays suddenly look cold after a bad loss to the Twins. The long-time suffering Mariners are sniffing to move into one spot away from the 2nd wild card alas I believe Red Sox and Yankees will probably get in.

First two QF in Ostrava are over so we have a vs semi-final. Swiatek vs Sakkari @Makedonas

He's simply a hypocrite. That's all. Obviously Democrats don't mind shipping immigrans back where they came from since they are in power so it doesn't matter they're doing the same what Trump did Another example that two-party system is a complete dumpster fire because both parties are doing exactly the same thing and there's no way to remove them from power any which way.

Back in Ostrava, the usual drama is on with Ostapenko. However Sakkari snitching to the ref was poor. Nouni said he didn't hear what Ostapenko said. Move on!

Meanwhile Great Britain used to pay money for civilian deaths. 4,000 pounds for death of four children? Man, life must be valued cheap in the UK. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58653492

USA is so desperate to get rid of immigrants they ship them back to Haiti by plane. So much for Joe Biden being any different with the immigrants than Trump https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-58650753

Gregor Schlierenzauer (ski jumping) announced his retirement. He won everything except the individual OG gold medal.

women team drew with 1-1 (not a good result) and barely beat 1-0 today. We don't stand much chance vs in this World Cup qualifying group

Meanwhile in Ostrava, Katerina Siniakova blows 5-0 lead in the third set TB vs Tereza Martincova and loses after three hours.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's Kayak Team September 22nd 2021 Austria Czech Republic x France Great Britain x Poland RCF x Slovakia Slovenia Spain Men's Kayak Team September 22nd 2021 Austria Czech Republic x France Germany Great Britain Italy Poland x RCF Slovakia Slovenia Spain x Switzerland Any Other Nation Women's Canoe Team September 22nd 2021 Czech Republic x France Great Britain Italy Poland RCF Slovakia x Slovenia Spain x Men's Canoe Team September 22nd 2021 Czech Republic France Great Britain Italy Poland RCF x Slovakia x Slovenia Spain x United States Uzbekistan Women's K-1 September 25th 2021 Jessica Fox x Ana Satila Katerina Minarik Kudejova Any Athlete from France Elena Apel Ricarda Funk x Mallory Franklin Kimberly Woods Luuka Jones Klaudia Zwolinska x Eliska Mintalova Ursa Kragelj Eva Tercelj Any Athlete from Spain Any Other Athlete Men's K-1 September 25th 2021 Lucien Delfour Felix Oschmautz Vit Prindis Jiri Prskavec x Mathieu Biazzizo Boris Neveu Hannes Aigner x Joseph Clarke Bradley Forbes-Cryans Giovanni De Gennaro Jakub Grigar x Peter Kauzer David Llorente Any Other Athlete Women's C-1 September 26th 2021 Monica Doria Vilarrubla Jessica Fox x Viktoria Wolffhardt Ana Satila Tereza Fiserova Marjorie Delassus Elena Apel Andrea Herzog x Mallory Franklin x Kimberly Woods Zuzana Pankova Monika Skachova Any Athlete from Slovenia Any Athlete from Spain Any Other Athlete Men's C-1 September 26th 2021 Lukas Rohan x Any Other Czech Athlete Denis Gargaud-Chanut Martin Thomas Franz Anton David Florence Raffaello Ivaldi Matej Benus Marko Mirgorodsky Alexander Slafkovsky Luka Bozic x Ander Elosegi x Miquel Trave Any Other Athlete [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Round September 22nd - Ocotber 3rd, 2021 16 Nations, the Winners of each Round of 16-matches will qualify for the Quarterfinals Round of 16 Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 22nd 2021, h. 17:30 RFU 4 1 Vietnam September 22nd 2021, h. 20:00 Venezuela 2 1 Morocco September 23rd 2021, h. 17:30 Brazil 5 2 Japan September 23rd 2021, h. 17:30 Argentina 5 1 Paraguay September 23rd 2021, h. 20:00 Kazakhstan 3 1 Thailand September 24th 2021, h. 17:30 Uzbekistan 1 3 Iran September 24th 2021, h. 20:00 Portugal 4 3 Serbia September 24th 2021, h. 20:00 Spain 4 1 Czech Republic [/hide]

Yeah, Bastianini was the real star of the race

Las Vegas Raiders scored an upset 26-17 win over Steelers on the road. It seems like Steelers losing three OL starters before the season has seriously hampered their offense after all. Baltimore Ravens beat KC Chiefs 36-35 so Lamar Jackson gets his first win over Mahomes.

Cardinals swept Padres over the weekend but they still have 7 games vs Brewers to play in the season. They have a three game lead for the second NL wild card spot.