April 6, 2021
MIAMI (AFP) – Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz defeated Italian teenager Jannik Sinner in straight sets to win the Miami Open and claim the first ATP Masters title of his career early yesterday.
The 26
th-seeded Hurkacz, who had eliminated four higher-ranked players en route to the final, held his nerve at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium to win 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 in one hour and 43 minutes.
It was a deserved victory for the 24-year-old from Wroclaw, who claimed his second title of the season as Sinner’s challenge unravelled with a series of unforced errors.
“It feels unreal, so happy that I was able to play a good match today,” Hurkacz said.
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The authoritarianism of the Polish government knows no boundaries. When Joe Biden won the 2020 election to become the 46th president of the United States, Polish President Andrzej Duda was quick to dispute the results. Duda had an infamously close bond with former US President Donald Trump, since they agreed with some of one another’s policies, and both are populists – Duda wanted to strengthen the ties between Poland and the United States in order to receive funding for a military base that he wanted to name “Fort Trump.” Duda’s government is wary of Russia in particular, due to the 1940 Katyn Massacre, Poland’s past as a Soviet Union satellite state, and Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. Consequently, Poland fears that Russia will attempt to exert its influence on Poland and its neighbors. As a result, Poland tends to align itself with the United States in a hopeful bid to benefit from the US military and to finance the country’s own weaponry.
Twenty years ago, just after the stroke of midnight on April 1, the mayor of Amsterdam married four couples in city hall as the Netherlands became the first country with legalized same-sex marriages.
“There are two reasons to rejoice,” Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen told the newlyweds before pink champagne and pink cake were served. “You are celebrating your marriage, and you are also celebrating your right to be married.”
Same-sex marriage is legal in 29 countries. That includes most of Western Europe. Yet its spread has been uneven Taiwan is the only country in Asia to take the step; South Africa
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