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And Britain’s Alfie Hewett has won his fifth wheelchair singles title in New York, beating his great rival and top seed Tokito Oda 6-0, 7-6 (5), to end a run of four successive losses to Oda in grand slam finals and stop the Japanese player from completing a calendar slam. Hewett said afterwards that he had been desperate to prove something to himself having won only two games against Oda in the Wimbledon final two months ago.
Already today in the men’s doubles: the British-American duo of Neal Skupski and Christian Harrison have done what Rybakina hopes to do later, adding the US Open title to the Australian Open crown they won in January, to claim a grand slam hard-court double. They defeated Germany’s Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz 6-4, 7-6 (6) after saving a set point in the second-set tie-break. It’s a case of third time lucky for Skupski after he was a beaten finalist in New York in 2022 and last year with different partners.
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Eleven years have passed since Daniel Farke mounted a magnificent palomino horse and rode round the perimeter of the pitch at Lippstadt, waving farewell to a capacity crowd. It seemed a fun way for the lower-tier German club’s centre-forward turned manager and sporting director to say goodbye. Yet few in the stands knew Farke was scared of horses and hauled himself into the saddle only out of politeness towards his chair, who had arranged this special surprise.
“I couldn’t deny him,” he said. “But it cured my fear – it was enjoyable.”
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BERLIJN (ANP/DPA) - Bijna een week na de historische verkiezingswinst van Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in de Duitse deelstaat Saksen-Anhalt namen tienduizenden mensen zaterdag deel aan demonstraties tegen radicaal-rechts extremisme. In onder meer Düsseldorf, Hamburg en Berlijn waren grote bijeenkomsten.
In Düsseldorf namen volgens de politie en de organisatoren ongeveer 20.000 mensen deel aan een protestmars "tegen de AfD en rechtse haat". In Hamburg liepen volgens de organisatie 25.000 mensen mee.
In Berlijn kwamen meerdere marsen tegen de normalisering van rechtse politiek samen bij het stadhuis. De politie schatte het aantal deelnemers op 18.000. De organisatie sprak van 32.000 deelnemers.
AfD boekte zondag een ruime overwinning in Saksen-Anhalt, wat leidde tot geschokte reacties. De landelijke AfD wordt door de binnenlandse inlichtingendienst in de gaten gehouden als een vermoedelijke extremistische organisatie. De tak in Saksen-Anhalt werd in 2023 aangemerkt als extremistisch.