lost her quarterfinal against italy s jasmine paolini. it means that 28 year old paolini makes it through to a grand slam semifinal for the first time in her career. rybakina, who is the fourth seed and who was yet to drop a set in the tournament, had recovered from a set in a break down to take this to a decider. however, 12th seed paolini took the match. 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. this was the perfect day, i think. singles and doubles. and the singles was a really tough match. i m happy i managed to come back in the third set because, you know, was tough after the second set. but yeah, i m really happy with my performance and i m also happy for that. i was just trying to find my game, which was always like i would step back and i was trying to fight through. but in the end, yeah, as you say, it s not the greatest day in the office. and i was close, but she won. and in the end, i mjust. yeah, i need to focus now on the grass season. perhaps even more of a shock second seed aryna sabal
his comments came in response to new figures that reveal the world is rapidly burning through its carbon budget. provisional data from the eu s climate service copernicus shows that for each of the past 12 months temperatures have broken the respective monthly record. the sequence started injune 2023 with the hottestjune, all the way through to may 2024 as the hottest may. most of the heat is due to climate change, with a small contribution from the el nino weather pattern. we the peoples versus the polluters and the profiteers. together, we can win. but it s time for leaders to decide whose side they are on. tomorrow, it will be too late. now is the time to mobilise. now is the time to act. now is the time to deliver. this is our moment of truth. and i thank you. but across europe, we are experiencing something of a greenlash . there is resistance to the transition wherever you look. the parties that make up the greens/european free alliance are currently the fourth biggest
Afghanistan were bowled out forjust 56, the lowest score in a t20 world cup semifinal. They were all out in the 12th over. Batting was a lottery with extremely inconsistent bounce with each delivery. South africa survived a few scares themselves, but Reeza Hendricks top scored with 29 and they are through to theirfirst mens white ball final. But for the afghanistan coach, the result left a bad taste in the mouth. Whenever you lose a game like this, its always going to hurt and it should hurt, because weve put so much into it, so many sacrifices made by the players, coaching staff, management, officials, all that sort of stuff. I dont want to get myself into trouble, but thats not the pitch you want to have a match, semifinal of the world cup on, plain and simple. There are a couple of rest days at the European Championship before the round of 16 starts on saturday. England have to wait until sunday for their game against slovakia in gelsenkirchen. 23 of the 26 players trained today. De
Top-ranked Jannik Sinner will compete in both singles and doubles at the Paris Olympics, the Italian tennis federation said Friday. This will be the first Summer Games for the 22-year-old Sinner, who reached the top spot in the men’s rankings this week following his run to the semifinals of the…