Facebook Tweet Email Link Carlos Alcaraz won the Cincinnati Open title in anticlimactic circumstances as rival Jannik Sinner retired due to illness just 23 minutes into the match. Alcaraz raced into a 5-0 lead in the first set of Monday’s final, the 14th matchup between the world’s two best players, when an out-of-sorts and emotional Sinner announced that he was …
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Despite his obvious disappointment at not being able to complete the match, Sinner can take some comfort that it was illness, not injury, that held him back. He was on a 26-match winning streak on hard courts going into the final and had not dropped a set in Cincinnati. Sinner will stay world number one regardless of the loss, but …
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Jannik Sinner provides concerning update after sudden Cincinnati Open final retirement Jannik Sinner’s preparations for his US Open defence have been disrupted by illness after the World No 1 was forced to retire from his Cincinnati Open final against young rival Carlos Alcaraz, lasting just five games. Sinner was clearly out of sorts on a hot day in Ohio and …
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Jannik Sinner will play Carlos Alcaraz in a final for the fourth time this season after both players secured straight-sets wins in their Cincinnati Open semi-finals. Defending champion Sinner, celebrating his 24th birthday, did not face a break point in a 7-6 (7-4) 6-2 win over Terence Atmane. Alcaraz won 6-4 6-3 against an ailing Alexander Zverev, who struggled in …
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Carlos Alcaraz has booked his place in the semifinals at the Cincinnati Open following his victory over ninth seed Andrey Rublev. The Spaniard was forced to a third set by Rublev, but managed to emerge victorious in the end and seal his 17th top 20 win of the season, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5. After Alcaraz’s defeat in the Wimbledon final, he …
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Carlos Correa is a baseball connoisseur. Conversations with him often include offhand mentions of advanced metrics or other minutiae he’s gleaned from watching players across the league. Baseball’s best third basemen stay low before a pitch is released, Correa has learned, allowing them ample time to gauge a ground ball’s trajectory. “At shortstop,” Correa explained last week, “you have to …
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The Astros and Twins pulled off a shocking move in the final hours before the deadline that brought three-time All-Star infielder Carlos Correa back home to the team that he spent the first seven seasons of his career with. The deal sent Correa to Houston in exchange for pitching prospect Matt Mikulski, with the Twins retaining $33MM of the $103.4MM …
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CLEVELAND – Carlos Correa started his first career game at third base Friday, after playing 1,193 games at shortstop, during his first game back with the Houston Astros following his surprise trade deadline deal. It was a change Correa contemplated for years. As a free agent prior to the 2023 season, before signing with the Twins for a second time, …
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BOSTON — The third and fourth hitters in the Astros’ first lineup post-Trade Deadline were Jesús Sánchez, who started in left field and hit third, and Carlos Correa, who started at third base and hit cleanup against the Red Sox, and both had been acquired in trades a day earlier. Talk about your major Trade Deadline acquisitions. If that wasn’t …
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Carlos Correa knew it was time to go home. Correa, who spent the first seven seasons of his career with the Astros, is back with his former team after the Twins conducted a massive selloff Thursday at the trade deadline, as the team is reportedly facing significant financial issues. The infielder waived his no-trade clause with the Twins amid the …
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