Lawn Tennis
Williams Seals 3rd Round Progress in Western and Southern Open
Serena Williams overcame a scare against Dutch qualifier Arantxa Rus to reach the Western and Southern Open third round in New York.
American, Williams, 38, stopped Rus serving out the match at 6-5 before winning 7-6 3-6 7-6 in almost three hours.
Two-time champion Williams will play Greece’s 13th seed Maria Sakkari in the third round.
Also, Fourth seed Naomi Osaka of Japan beat Karolina Muchova 6-7 6-4 6-2.
The world number 10 was playing her first match since the WTA resumed after it was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.Osaka will face 16th seed Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska in round three.
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Lawn Tennis
Andy Murray Exits Rennes Open After Losing to Roman Safiullin in Last 16
Andy Murray is out of the Rennes Open after a punishing 6-2 4-6 6-1 defeat to Roman Safiullin in the last 16.
The world number 116 was sluggish in the first set but hit back to take the second against the big-serving Russian. Seeded fifth, Murray had hoped for a run of games in France, attracting large crowds for his two matches.
But an unfortunate net cord at break point down in the third set broke his resistance and Safiullin ran away with the match. Murray, 34, was impressed in the first round and wanted to build his ranking with a good run in this ATP Challenger event.
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Lawn Tennis
Dominic Thiem Outclasses Rafael Nadal
Dominic Thiem became the first man to move into the last four of the ATP Finals event in London.
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The Austrian beat Rafael Nadal 7-6 7-6 in a high-quality match for his second victory of the season-ending event at the O2 Arena in London.
Nadal had two set points in the first-set tie-break but could not convert with Thiem eventually securing the win on his fifth match point.
Dominic Thiem’s qualification was secured when Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Andrey Rublev.
Defending champion Tsitsipas survived a match point as he won 6-1 4-6 7-6 in Tuesday’s other match of Group London 2020.
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Athletics
Gumel: Sports Administration Key to Development
The third Module of fifth edition of Sports Administration and Advanced Sports Management Course (ASMC) started on Tuesday November 11, 2020 at the National Olympic Committee (NOC) boardroom, National Stadium Complex, Surulere, Lagos.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) course which the NOC is partaking in, is a global sport management course put together to produce and promote excellence in sports administration.
Engineer Habu Gumel, President, Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) at the opening session told the participants to see the course as a key to national development and an opportunity to know and as well have first hand information as regards sports administration globally.
“The International Olympic Committee (IOC) through the Olympic Solidarity designed this course to provide National Olympic Committees the needed assistance to conduct administrative courses in their respective countries. This is to enhance their skills as sports administrators in their day to day activities”, Gumel added.
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The three day programme which is virtual and conventional, has twenty five participants in attendance with Prof. Clement Fasan and Mr. Dyagas Jonathan as certified IOC Program Directors. They are assisted by Mrs. Nyakno Oluokun, Assistant Director, National Institute for Sports and Mrs. Olanipekun Bodunrin of the Lagos State Sports Commission.
The course ends on November 13, 2020.
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