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Unbelievable for professional players

Tight first set as expected. Canada squeaks it, after we led for most of it, but a couple of mistakes at the end turned things around. Our middle play is non-existent, Milanova is still just a name on the field, everything goes through Stoyanova and Paskova and you have a hard time winning this way..

The most important match of the first round of play in the group stage is coming up in half an hour. vs. is pretty much a direct elimination match, as the winner is almost assured in getting to the 1/8. An interesting fact about the other team in the group . This will be their first appearance at the women's WCH in 40 years and they have a player, who had been born when they last played, as they have a 45-year old in the roster.

She would still be second even without that error, the difference was too much.

This tournament will be the first GS without a main draw Bulgarian participation in either men's or women's singles since AO 1996 and without such at the US Open since 1982

Argentina getting a gold medal seems like a fairly big surprise in my eyes.

The organizers must be kicking themselves, that the only true doubles pairing actually won Their dream of having "big names" win the title for the headlines didn't pan out as expected. But from the full stands you can see, that this whole thing was a success from a commercial standpoint. Also, Ruud manages to lose another GS final, of course not as the same caliber as the singles ones, but still.

Now now, who are you kidding But Canada not having some of their best players is good news for us, i guess. After all this match will decide the second place in the group. We will also be without our captain Elitsa Atanasijevic and Radostina Marinova.

Now it's time for the Alcaraz-Raducanu romance rumours to intensify. I'm sure many sites are on speed-dial of their articles.

Add another name to the dafuq are you doing list. 5 months before the Olympics so why not. It's not like Austria has a plethora of rising speed skiers, where Venier place in the team would be in question. On the contrary her quota would have been 80% certain.

To be frank, mixed doubles haven't been relevant in over a decade. It was mostly a paycheck for the doubles players (not that there is anything bad about that), but far from the fans and medias attention. There is potential in this idea, but as usual a sloppy execution. First, it really does need more teams, if not 32, then have 24 at least. After that, don't have it in a random Tuesday-Wednesday. If they really want to make it a big prelude to the start of US Open have it Thursday-Saturday, just before singles start (though i'm sure the big names wouldn't want that). I mean Iga played a final yesterday and she will do 2 matches today and doesn't seem tired at all.

We are going to play a friendly with Canada before the start of the Worlds, which i'm not sure how wise it will be, since our first match at the Worlds will be against... Canada in a basically direct match for the knockout stage.

Oh God, a group stage format in a skiing event Everyone seemingly wants to have a group stage nowadays. That being said, i've been advocating to have more variety in competitions for some time. Though i said they should use the knockout system more often and not only at the Four Hills. If there is life in this group stuff, you can add it to a couple of starts in the season. Guess they are looking to make the first round more "important and exciting" in that you would have direct battles every 5 jumpers with stakes and not just wait 45 until the best arrive.

I thought Russ Bray was retired from calling matches? Then why am I seeing him in Australia calling matches at the World Series of Darts Not that I am complaining though.

Nothing screams "players health and wellbeing" as adding more frequent tournaments with more matches. Still, the LA system is better, than the Paris one, which is good. I'm happy we are getting the Continental quotas being the first ones allocated, as it ALWAYS should be.

In some shocking news, the Giro in 2026 will start in..... Bulgaria We could be seeing the first real Grand depart bust in these GTs Though the minister said today, that the 3 stages will try cover from one side of the country to the other.

Great WCH from a competitive standpoint, as 15 nations won gold medals and USA ended with less than 10. Anytime the US finish with sub 10 and not their usual 15-20 gold dominance is good for the sport. China seems to be below expectations with only 2 golds, while Hungary continues it's trend of having their best days behind them. Things are going very bad for them, especially if Milak doesn't return the same guy. From my view, I'm the most happy with Steenbergen and Popovici's wins. The final ascension of Maxime Grousset as a top name was also fun and something to look at in the next few years. Other than that it was the expected outcome for the stars. Marchand, McIntosh, Walsh, Ledecky came and won without trouble.

By American standards Alexy should be a much bigger star, than he actually is. The guy is just a beast. Unfortunately for him he is competing in the Popovici - Pan period.

I'd anticipate she would retire after LA28, so it leaves one more WCH to equal him and it will go through 4x200 relay win. Of course Phelps didn't take the WCH as serious as Ledecky has through the years.

As long as McIntosh is competing, I'm pretty sure Canada is disallowed to complain about performances.

Regan Smith breaking every bridesmaid record out there

Nice to see Marchand finally decided to join the party. Also what was that relay from Russia Lifintsev with an astonishing back, that could have won him the 100. Prigoda pretty much as well.

Damn Pakistan Really wanted to play against them.

Very shocking news Though when doing extreme sports and activities, one should expect that something could go wrong at any time. Doesn't make it any less sad.

This is a very weird tournament so far. Beside Pakistan, Korea and Finland are also doing exceptional. Now I'm very intrigued for us to have a match with Pakistan.