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Camila Giorgi beats Kaia Kanepi 7-6(4) 6-7(4) 7-6(4) in 3 hours and 32 minutes

And when Giorgi throws the racquet then it's flying all the way

Miami 1000 has started today; Marta Kostyuk beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto in R1 so we have the high drama R2 match vs Anastasia Potapova coming next. We could have some ugly scenes in that one if things boil over, Potapova is hardly as anonymous as Gracheva who played Kostyuk in the Austin final three weeks ago.

Could be one of the worst ends Anna Hasselborg has ever played (at least from what I've seen). Germany take FIVE stones and win 9-3 with one end scratched.

Polish commentator said the Jentzsch rink lost 11 straight matches vs Hasselborg before?

Top nations have the resident problem that newcomers are blocked by veterans who can keep up the relative high standard for several years even if they're #5 or #6 on the depth chart. Sometimes there comes a fortunate break with a pregnancy pause or it has to get drastic like the Italians did with Sanfilippo to make room for the youngsters. It's never a problem for minor biathlon nations where talented & successful juniors can immediately move into World Cup level full-time (see Żuk in Poland, Davidova in Czech Republic or Todorova in Bulgaria).

Elena Rybakina wins Indian Wells 1000 beating Aryna Sabalenka 7-6(11) 6-4 in the final. Definitely the two most in-form players to sit behind Świątek in the rankings. If Wimbledon virtual points counted then Rybakina would be #3 in the rankings on merit.

Final World Cup standings for women:

1. Simon 1093

2. Wierer 911

3. Vittozzi 882

4. Herrmann-Wick 874

5. E. Oeberg 764

6. Tandrevold 731

7. H. Oeberg 710

8. Chevalier-Bouchet 670

9. Davidova 668

10. Hauser 604

...

51. Żuk 82

64. Jakieła 36

77. Mąka 15

Oeberg wins ahead of Olsbu and Chevalier-Bouchet who denies Kebinger a maiden podium.

Herrmann can still 3rd place in the overall from Vittozzi?

Meltdown for Jeanonnot but Olsbu 5/5 in the fog...

Win #88 for Shiffrin to close out the season. Maryna G-D in 8th place

Klinec 223.5 in the 2nd round and wins Raw Air overall. Two other jumps over 200 meters in the 2nd round - Loutitt 225.0 and Opseth 207.5. The wind could have been better but this is the nature of this sport.

Maryna Gąsienica-Daniel in 4th place after GS 1st run in Soldeu

Yes, it was in the later session. I wonder if they let them use the higher gate tomorrow since technically 230 meters is suddenly feasible

Grotian 5/5 in the prone and only 9.8 behind...

Joanna Jakieła 9/10 and has a rare chance to score points

Petra Vlhova wins the final slalom in Soldeu. First career podium for Leona Popovic in 2nd place

Alexandria Loutitt with the new women's distance record of 222.0 meters

Maren Lundby (212.5) and Ema Klinec (203) also over the 200 meter mark in third training session.

Silje Opseth (186.5) won the first training. Also Loutitt (186.5) and Ito (182.5) over 180 meters.

De Cler is only 19 years old, this is surely going to end up bad for someone and I believe it will be bad for the boxer herself.

Can FIE ban the yellow & blue shoes?

Are you ready for AO final rematch though?  Elena Rybakina beat Iga Świątek 6-2 6-2 in the second SF.

5 hours ago, phelps said:

still, the race is scheduled once again late in the afternoon.

 

you already know the forecast is not good at all and then you persevere to put events in the worst possible clocking with no chance of "playing with time"?  

Men's pursuit and women's sprint are put either side of the cross-country races in Falun. Since Norway can control the Holmenkollen schedule I'm pretty sure they want to avoid TV window clash.

Women's pursuit cancelled like expected. New bibs for the sprint and suddenly everyone goes in Group 1 again Grotian with #71.

29 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Another proof that most sport officials are completely braindead. They could have scheduled this race for earlier this day or they could have scheduled both sprints for yesterday, but instead they created a schedule that only would have worked if no race/only men's sprint had to be delayed. I guess just canceling women's pursuit/mass start doesn't matter, because it only hurts the athletes. The same has happened in ski jumping many times before. They schedule a competition as late as possible and then they are shocked when they have to cancel it because they can't postpone it. At the 2018 olympics one of the ski jumping competitions finished after midnight ...

I'm pretty sure today's sprint was scheduled so late so it didn't clash with the World Cup cross-country races in Falun. Norwegian TV probably wanted to avoid the overlap. There was no cross country yesterday so men's sprint was not affected.

Women's sprint is postponed for Saturday. Probably no pursuit then.