Medvedev rolls to BNP win in his debut as No. 1
Daniil Medvedev defeated Tomas Machac 6-3, 6-2 on Saturday in the second round of the BNP Paribas Open, the Russian’s first tournament since ascending to No. 1 in the world.
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Skiing: Mikaela Shiffrin and Petra Vlhova are set for a nervewrecking duel for the overall title at the World Cup Finals next week after both missed the podium in the penultimate slalom. The American will take a 56-point lead over the defending champion from Slovakia into the finals, which features one race in each of the four disciplines. Vlhova was second after the opening run but dropped to fourth, while Shiffrin lost five positions in the final run and finished ninth in the race won by Katharina Liensberger of Austria. Ninth was Shiffrin’s worst result in a World Cup slalom since October 2014, apart from three DNFs in this period. It was the first
World Cup slalom in more than six years in which neither Shiffrin nor Vlhova was on the podium . ... Olympic champion Marco Odermatt finished runner-up to Henrik Kristoffersen in a men’s World Cup giant slalom to lock up the discipline season title with two races to spare. Kristoffersen was in fifth after the opening run but had an attacking effort to land his sixth career win in GS, matching the best mark from Kjetil Andre Aamodt for most GS wins by a skier from Norway. His second place also helped Odermatt to close in on the overall title. He stretched his lead to 269 points over his closest challenger, Norwegian speed specialist Aleksander
Aamodt Kilde, who was skipping the race weekend in Slovenia. Kilde was also in the race for the downhill title and opted to prepare for the downhill race at the World Cup Finals in France on Wednesday.
Soccer: In an unprecedented ruling against a club owner, the Premier League ordered Roman Abramovich to stop running Chelsea and sell after he was sanctioned by the British government over Russia’s war on Ukraine and his close links to President Vladimir Putin . ... Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat trick in Manchester United’s 3-2 victory over Tottenham.