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Alex de Minaur blew through the opening set but needed some good luck in the second to emerge with a 6-2, 7-6 (8/6) opening win over James Duckworth on Tuesday at the ATP Montreal Masters.De Minaur, seeded third, hasn't lost to a fellow Aussie in four years, but he was made to work hard by his 86th-ranked compatriot to keep that streak alive.The second-round match turned in an instant in the second-set tiebreaker when a return which rolled off the top of the net handed de Minaur a match point after he saved six set points for his opponent.’A little bit of luck went my way in the tiebreaker,’ de Minaur said. ‘He was hitting me off the court in the second set, but I got lucky and managed to sneak away with the tiebreaker.’Ultimately it was a lot of fighting and competing,’ added de Minaur, the 2023 runner-up in Canada who married British WTA player Katie Boulter last month.De Minaur said he hasn't given much thought to his solid recent record against fellow Aussies.’We're doing our best to make Australia proud,’ he said. ‘We have strength in numbers.’In other second-round action China's Shang Juncheng – only just returned from months away because of injury – scored the first notable upset of the week with 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (7/5) defeat of 10th seed Andrey Rublev.Shang saved five match points, on his way to the third round, breaking Rublev as he served for the match at 5-3 in the third and hanging on to win a seven-deuce service game.Former world number three Stefanos Tsitsipas regained some of the touch lost during a recent rankings slump, with the high-profile qualifier dispatching Martin Damm 6-4, 6-4 in a first-round match delayed by rain.The 98-minute victory sends Tsitsipas into a match with Brazilian Joao Fonseca.The 53rd-ranked Tsitsipas, winner last month in Gstaad, said that his latest coaching split from his father, Apostolos, is paying off.’It's a chapter that should have started a long time ago,’ Tsitsipas said. ‘I guess I was too patient with my time and too nice with handling certain things, to take so much time to proceed with the change. But it's how life works.’Certain things come at a certain time, I'm very Buddhist in that sort of philosophy.’The Greek claimed the opening set against Damm and came back from a break down in the second to earn a 5-2 lead and the chance to serve it out.Damm managed to break back before Tsitsipas clinched the victory two games later.Hubert Hurkacz, a 2022 finalist in Montreal who is coming back from a knee injury suffered at Wimbledon, beat Marcos Giron 7-5, 4-6, 6-2.Britain's Jakob Fearnley, who reached the final of a hard court Challenger last month, advanced past French veteran Adrian Mannarino 7-6 (7/3), 6-4, overcoming more than 30 unforced errors to book a meeting with 13th seeded Czech Jakub Mensik.Fellow Brit Jack Draper shed bitter tears as his latest injury comeback collapsed in a 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 loss to France's Terrance Atmane, who delivered an ace on match point.Draper, who had not played a match since Eastbourne in June, was consoled at the net by his victorious opponent.It was more disappointment for Draper after he and new coach Andy Murray travelled to last week's Washington event only for Draper to withdraw as an existing arm injury flared up.Canadian Denis Shapovalov, who reached the final in Los Cabos at the weekend, was disappointed to retire with an ankle injury to hand a 4-6, 6-4, 3-0 victory to Zachary Svajda. Source link
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Italy took the unprecedented step of putting all its major cities on the top level of health alert due to high temperatures Thursday, while Hungary turned off the lights at some of its best-known buildings to save energy as a heatwave maintained its grip on large parts of Europe. Europe, the world’s fastest-warming continent, has been ravaged by record-breaking heat and destructive wildfires this summer, with France and Spain particularly hard hit in recent weeks. The European Union will push its member countries to spend more on measures to reduce wildfire risk, its environment commissioner told Reuters, as experts said the economic cost of this summer’s blazes had already exceeded €15bn ($17.3bn). Bulgaria in southeast Europe was the latest EU country to be hit by wildfire. The main Trakia highway was closed in both directions Thursday after the wind carried the flames of a huge fire across it around 70km (45 miles) southeast of the capital Sofia, NOVA news portal reported. Italy is accustomed to hot summers, but the red alert issued by the Health Ministry stretched from Palermo on the southern island of Sicily to Bolzano in the mountainous north. The warning indicated a potential health emergency with prolonged high temperatures posing a serious health risk to the entire population. Pilgrims gathered under a blazing summer sun in the hilltop town of Assisi were sprayed with water to cool them off as Pope Leo paid a visit to mark the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis. “I think that when you really care about something, when you truly believe in it, even if it’s hot, you make the effort,” said Miriam Mariotti, a volunteer at the event.Tourists in Rome used umbrellas to keep the sun off and dipped their hands in the city’s fountains. “We try to avoid going out during the hottest part of the day and instead go out in the evening or early in the morning,” said Gianni Arlotta, visiting from the northern Italian city of Trieste. Temperatures topped 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in several areas of the northern region of Emilia-Romagna Thursday, one of the hottest areas in Italy, reaching 42.8C (109F) in Bagnacavallo, near Ravenna. Hungary has switched off decorative and non-essential lighting at all state institutions — including its parliament, most of the Buda Castle and Chain Bridge — at night to save energy. Record-low water levels on the Danube have forced the country to largely shut down its sole nuclear plant, which uses the river for cooling, stretching power supply capacity to its limits. Romania was preparing to sink four rock-filled barges into the Danube to divert water to its only working reactor and buy a few more days of operation. The authorities in the capital Bucharest have dimmed the intensity of street lights by a third and switched off lighting at night at landmark buildings and museums to save power. Low water levels are causing problems for shipping on the Rhine in Germany, where many vessels can sail only part-loaded, raising freight costs. The river is an important shipping route for commodities such as grains, minerals, coal and oil products. In Bosnia, tourists have taken shelter in the constantly cool temperatures of the Unesco-listed Vjetrenica cave to escape outside temperatures of 40C. Vjetrenica, which means wind cave, is located in the south of Bosnia and Herzegovina, about 25km north of the Adriatic town of Dubrovnik, where cruise liners arrive daily with thousands of visitors. Numbers allowed to visit the cave are limited because of the sensitivity of the environment. Its constant 11C (51.8F) temperature year-round has made it a refuge for biodiversity as well as for humans. Source link
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