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Former US Open champion Marin Cilic became the lowest-ranked player to win an ATP Tour title with an emotional victory at the Hangzhou Open.Croatia’s Cilic, who started the tournament at 777th in the world, has spent the majority of the past two seasons out with a knee injury which required multiple surgeries.Given a wildcard to play in Hangzhou, the former world number three had not won an ATP Tour match in 22 months before this week.On Tuesday, just four days before his 36th birthday, he beat home favourite Zhang Zhizhen 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-5) to lift the title.”It has been…

Yoenis Tellez (left) takes it to veteran Sergio Garcia. Photo by German Villasenor for The Ring by Francisco Salazar |  Yoenis Tellez is blazing his own trail towards stardom at 154 pounds. Tellez will face Johan Gonzalez on October 19, Premier Boxing Champion (PBC) announced Monday. The bout will take place at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida. Also on the card will be Cesar Mateo Tapia squaring off against Endry Saavedra. Both 10-round bouts will precede the main event bout between newly-crowned IBF world junior middleweight titleholder Bakhram Muratzaliev facing former WBO world titleholder Tim Tszyu. The three fights…

Sep 22, 2024, 01:39 PM ETBilly Horschel won the BMW PGA Championship after beating Rory McIlroy and Thriston Lawrence in a thrilling three-man playoff at Wentworth on Sunday to take home the winner’s check of $1.53 million.The trio finished at 20 under overall, and in the first playoff at the event in 11 years, Lawrence fell first when he bogeyed the 18th after finding the water, leaving Horschel and McIlroy to fight it out for the title.McIlroy was looking to win for a second time after lifting the trophy in 2014 and birdied the 18th once again, but Horschel kept…

After Jaylen Brown publicly responded to the decision by USA Basketball to select Derrick White as the replacement on its Olympics roster instead of him, Brown texted his Boston Celtics teammate to make sure he knew it was not personal against him. USA Basketball had decided to bring White to Paris after Kawhi Leonard was deemed not healthy enough to play. Brown averaged 7.9 points and 4.1 rebounds for Team USA in the 2019 World Cup under Gregg Popovic. Sources said there were some questions about his ball movement and decision making.  Brown was critical on social media multiple times,…

Following his loss at UFC 306, Sean O’Malley was highly critiqued after a disappointing performance against Merab Dvalishvili that saw a fight go to distance in a unanimous decision loss. Former UFC champion Henry Cejudo labeled Sean O’Malley’s title-capturing win at UFC 292 a ‘fluke’ over former champion Aljamain Sterling. After defending his first UFC title defense against Chico Vera at UFC 299, ‘Suga’ was put to the test against Dvalishvili where it looked like a stylistic mismatch all night. Dvalishvili, who was cornered by Sterling in the fight, has a very similar style to him as they are both…

The final stop of the 2024 World Aquatics Open Water World Cup is moving to Neom, Saudi Arabia, as part of the 3rd annual Neom Beach Games. The races will be hosted from November 22-23. The stop was previously set to be hosted in Eilat, Israel, but with no sign to the end of the war between Israel and Hamas and escalating fighting with Hezbollah to the north, World Aquatics decided to move the event. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was back in the Middle East this week attempting to negotiate a ceasefire, but left without one. In addition…

Teenage super-talent Cat Ferguson confirmed her incredible potential and showed she is ready to step up from junior to the women’s WorldTour and elite racing by winning the junior time trial world title in Zurich.  Ferguson has already raced as a stagiaire with Movistar, winning a stage at the AG Tour de la Semois in Belgium. She only turned 18 in April but appears ready for a fast-track career.She dominated the 18.8-kilometre out and back course along the shore of Lake Zurich, clocking an average speed of 47.362 km/h and beating Slovakia’s Viktória Chladoňová by a hefty 34 second-margin. Her…

Fall Report Joe Healy – September 23, 2024 CINCINNATI — Head coach Jordan Bischel and his staff have only completed one season at Cincinnati, but it was quite the promising first season. The Bearcats went 31-25 overall, the most wins for the program in a single seasonsince 2019, and they finished fifth in the Big 12 regular-season standings in their first year in the league with a 17-13 record. That success has injected optimism into and around the program, but progress isn’t guaranteed to be linear, especially in a league that won’t necessarily get much easier with Oklahoma and Texas departing…

Arne Slot, manager of Liverpool. (Photo by Michael Regan/Getty Images) Liverpool midfielder Stefan Bajcetic is reportedly a target for La Liga outfit Valencia.The Spanish club are keen on the 19-year-old midfielder and they could look to make a move for him in the near future, as per Fichajes. The Spanish midfielder is currently on loan at RB Salzburg and it will be interesting to see if Liverpool are willing to sanction his departure.The technically gifted midfielder is highly rated at the Premier League club and he has a bright future ahead of himself. He could develop into an important player…

Ulster prop Marty Moore has retired from professional rugby on medical advice “to prioritise his mental wellbeing”.The 33-year-old played 94 times for Ulster after joining the United Rugby Championship side in 2018.Prior to moving to Belfast, Moore came through the ranks at Leinster and spent two seasons in England with Wasps.Moore won 10 Ireland caps and helped Joe Schmidt’s side to Six Nations titles in 2014 and 2015.Ulster said that Moore took his decision to retire with “the full support of the club”.Bryn Cunningham, head of rugby operations and recruitment at Ulster, said Moore should be celebrated for “an outstanding…