Three minutes a day to know about tennis in the world. Hello fans and friends, today is Saturday, August 13, 2022, welcome to listen to the news noon news provided by Tennis House.
This morning Beijing time, the ATP1000 Cincinnati Masters, which starts next week, announced the men's and women's singles main draws. Men's singles: World No. 1 Medvedev and Greek star Tsitsipas lead the top half, while Spanish war god Nadal and compatriot little brother Alcaraz, who returned to the field after an abdominal strain, sat in the bottom half. Serbian soccer king Djokovic announced his retirement from the tournament because he could not enter the United States without the new crown vaccine. Top eight big seed pairs: top half, Medvedev vs Rublev, Tsitsipas vs Hulkach; Bottom half, Rudd vs Alcaraz, Aliassim vs Nadal.
Judging from the signing table, Nadal will face the winner between Croatian Ciurić and a qualifier in the second round, followed by compatriot Agut, Argentine youngster Cerundoro, Canadian rising star Aliassim and Italian rising star Sina. If he reaches the semi-finals, he may be waiting for Norwegian star Ruud or Spain compatriot Alcaraz. Places in the finals in the first half are most likely to be won between Medvedev, Tsitsipas, Rublev and Hulkac.
Women's singles: World No. 1 Swatak and Spanish rising star Bardoza town guard the top half of the district, and the big seeds in the same district are Tunisian sister Jabbar and Spanish star Muguruzza. The lower half of the district is led by Estonian star Kontaveit and Greek sister Sakari, and the big seeds in the same district are Belarusian star Sabalenka and American Peggura.
Chinese veteran Zhang Shuai, who was directly shortlisted for the main tournament, was drawn to the second half of the quarter zone, and the opponent in the first round was Naomi Osaka, a Japanese.
Let's go back to the field. Last night and this morning Beijing time, the ATP1000 Montreal Masters began a singles quarterfinals. The 8th seed, Polish star Hulkac, was in excellent form, beating Australian Kyrgios 7-6 (4) 6-7 (5) 6-1 to end his opponent's nine-game winning streak since Washington. In the semi-finals, Master Hu's opponent was the No. 4 seed, Norway's Rudd, who swept the No. 6 seed and homegrown star Aliassim 6-1 6-2.
Briton Evans reversed American Tommy Paul 1-6 6-3 6-4 and also locked in a place in the final four. In the final quarterfinals that ended at around 11:20 a.m. Beijing time this morning, Spain's Busta defeated British rising star Dreper 7-6 6-1 to get the last semi-final ticket.
In the quarterfinals of the WTA1000 Toronto station, the match between Chinese rising star Zheng Qinwen and former world number one and Czech star Ka Pliskova started at around 9:30 a.m. Beijing time today. In the first two sets, the two won one set each with a score of 6-4, but unfortunately, Xiao Zheng lost the decider 4-6. Karp will face Brazil's first sister Maya, who reversed former tournament champion and 12th seed Bencic 2-6-6-3 6-3.
Romania's Halep beat Rising American Gough 6-4 7-6 to reach the final four of the WTA 1000 class for the 29th time and will compete with the 7th seed, American Pegula, who defeated Kazakh Putinseva 6-3 6-3.
Finally, let's guess and recognize. The picture below shows a player who falls down saving the ball during a match. Without prompting, can you recognize who she is?
Guess in the last issue, some golfers gave the correct answer. That's right, the person in the picture is the French cool little Black Monfils.
(Source: House of Tennis Author: Maverick)
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