Julian Wanders achieved a strong performance in the street race in Valencia. And Belinda Bencic starts in Sydney against Barbora Krejcikova. The most important sport reports at a glance.
Tennis: Canada wins the ATP Cup
Denis Shapovalov during the handshake with the Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta.
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Canada has the third, with ten million dollars Won the award of the ATP Cup. In Sydney, the North Americans defeated Spain in the final of the team competition thanks to two individual victories.
Denis Shapovalov and Félix Auger-Aliassime emerged victorious from the two duels between the top 20 players. Schapovalov (ATP 14) won against Pablo Carreño-Busta (ATP 20) 6: 4, 6: 3, before Auger-Aliassime (ATP 11) won 7: 6 (7: 3), 6: 3 against Roberto Bautista Agut ( ATP 19) made everything clear before the possible double.
The Spaniards who competed without Nadal lost for the second time in the final after losing to Serbia in 2020. Last year Russia won. Switzerland has never participated in the ATP Cup before.
Tennis: Nadal returns to the tour with a tournament victory
(sda ) Rafael Nadal has successfully returned to the ATP tour after a five-month absence. The Spaniard, who was injured for a long time, defeated the American qualifier Maxime Cressy 7: 6 (8: 6), 6: 3 in the final of the ATP 250 tournament in Melbourne.
Nadal did not have to defeat any player from the top 90 on the way to his 89th tournament victory and only win three matches. The sixth in the world rankings needed 107 minutes to win against Paris-born, almost two meters tall Cressy (ATP 112).
Athletics: hiking with strong performance – Le Guen with personal best
(sda) Julian Wanders finished 11th in the street race in Valencia. In the busy race he was significantly faster over the 10 kilometers with 28:14 minutes than last October in Geneva, where he had to be content with 28:59.
His Geneva club colleague Morgan Le Guen finished the race in 18th place in 28:26 minutes. Wanders and Markus Ryffel were the only Swiss ever to run this distance faster.
Tennis: Belinda Bencic starts in Sydney against Krejcikova
(sda) Belinda Bencic (WTA 23) starts the season at the tournament in Sydney against the French Open winner . The eastern Swiss, who starts the tennis year with a week delay due to her corona illness, meets the Czech Barbora Krejcikova (WTA 5) in the first round. Bencic has won two duels so far: in the round of 16 of the Olympic Games in Tokyo and at the Billie Jean King Cup last November.
Jil Teichmann (WTA 37) and Viktorija Golubic (WTA 43) are at the start in Adelaide next week. Teichmann meets a qualifier, Golubic meets the Czech Marketa Vondrousova (WTA 35), the Olympic runner-up from Tokyo.
Ice hockey: Roman Josi and Timo Meier continue scoring
(sda) Roman Josi led the Nashville Predators to their fourth win in a row with one goal and one assist. The Swiss strikers Timo Meier and Kevin Fiala were also decisive for their teams.
Josi had another big appearance in the 4-2 away win against the Arizona Coyotes, one of his favorite opponents in the NHL. The Bernese defender, who was honored as the best player of the game, captured the puck shortly before the first break in his own third and initiated the 3-0. In the final section he hit the power play from the blue line to make it 4-1. It was the scorer points 10 and 11 for the captain of the Predators in the last five games against Arizona.
Timo Meier contributed two assists to the 3-2 victory of the San Jose Sharks at the Philadelphia Flyers. The Appenzeller was involved in the first two goals of the Czech Tomas Hertl, who secured the Californians victory after 24 seconds with his third goal. Meier has 38 scorer points after 31 games and is thus number 9 in the league.
Kevin Fiala was named the third best player in the 3-2 win of the Minnesota Wild at home against the Washington Capitals. The Swiss from Eastern Switzerland was involved in the equalization for 2: 2 35 seconds before extra time and was one of two successful shooters in the penalty shootout.
Nico Hischier lost 3: 4 with the New Jersey Devils in the Columbus Blue Jackets, but could his 7. Scoring goals of the season. With a wrist shot he scored 1: 2 in the 15th minute.
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