Sabalenka entered the competition for the third time in her career. Final of the wta thousand tennis tournament in spain with a prize fund of almost 8 million euros. The day before , the belarusian defeated ilena rybakina from kazakhstan in a tense match. Kristina kamysh will talk about the course of the confrontations, as well as the layout of the match for the main trophy. Only true fans of Aryna Sabalenkas game continued to follow the developments in the semifinals of the wta tournament in madrid against Elena Rybakina after. First set, because it seemed that the outcome of the entire match was predetermined, in the opening game the belarusian literally had everything fall out of her hands, and as a result, she gave it away 1 6. The tennis player from kazakhstan confidently walked towards her victory, leaving behind three of the four starting games of the second set, but when there was nowhere to retreat, the second racket of the world noticeably added, as a result , sabalenka took
The next two as the brutal heat and physical effort caught up with the 22 year old atmane, who was forced to retire from cramp early in the fourth set. Also wins on monday for stefanos tsitsipas, Seb Korda and ben shelton. Aryna sabalenkas started her Australian Open Title Defence in dominant style, blowing away german 18 year old qualifier Ella Seidel 6 0 6 1. Coco gauff, the us open champion, is also through to the second round in melbourne with a straight sets win over slovakias anna karolina schmiedlova. The first set was tighter than the 19 year old would have liked but she saw that out 6 3 and didnt look back, in total control thereafter, winning the second 6 0. I felt good. Ifelt good. I i felt good. I was a little bit nervous coming into today, but i was able to calm down and play, not my best, but good tennis from that
Patrick Mahomes scrambled for a first down on his badly sprained right ankle and then was shoved late out of bounds by Joseph Ossai, giving Harrison Butker a chance to kick a 45-yard field goal with 3 seconds left that gave the Kansas City Chiefs a 23-20 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC title game.