Medvedev advances to W&S quarterfinals
MASON, Ohio — No Novak, no Roger, no Rafa doesn’t mean winning his second Western & Southern Open championship will be easy for top-seeded Daniil Medvedev. He’s just making it look that way.
Medvedev, the 2019 champion and last year’s runner-up to Novak Djokovic, advanced to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open tuneup event Thursday with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Grigor Dimitrov.
More tennis: In other Western & Southern Open action secondranked Naomi Osaka sprayed balls all over the court in a 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 loss to No. 76 Jil Teichmann. Osaka repeatedly punched her left thigh with her left wrist and talked loudly to herself, trying to get herself going, but she was impassive as she shook hands at the net with the giddy
Teichmann. Top-ranked Ash Barty rolled through her match with defending champion Victoria Azarenka in a 6-0, 6-2 win to reach the women’s quarterfinals. Karolina Pliskova advanced with a 6-4, 7-6 (5) win over Jessica Pegula. Olympic champion and third-seeded Alexander Zverev also moved on, beating Guido Pella 6-2, 6-3, while second-seeded Stefano Tsitsipas got by Lorenzo Sonego 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.
NHL: Michigan defenseman Owen Power has elected to return to school for his sophomore season rather than make the jump to the NHL after being selected with the No. 1 pick by the Buffalo
Sabres in the draft last month.
College football: A former University of Miami football player was arrested in connection with the 2006 fatal shooting of his teammate Bryan Pata. Rashaun Jones, 35, of Lake City, was arrested in Marion County on a first-degree murder warrant by Miami-dade police and the U.S. Marshals Service, police spokesperson Alvaro Zabaleta said . ... Six University of Kentucky football players have been charged with first-degree burglary, with one also accused of first-degree wanton endangerment, following the investigation of an incident last March at a private party.