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Toni Nadal has given some forceful statements in an interview with ClayTennis about the debate of who is the best in the Big-3
Toni Nadal has given some forceful statements in an interview with ClayTennis about the debate of who is the best in the Big-3
It will be many years before a rivalry similar to that of Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Roger Federer is produced again. Toni Nadal wanted to investigate the career of the ‘Big Three’ in an interview with ‘ClayTennis’.
The Spanish coach has placed special emphasis on the levels of transcendence in tennis that each one has had throughout their careers: ” Federer and Nadal have transcended their sport more than Djokovic. And Federer has transcended their sport more than anyone.”
Toni Nadal has given some forceful statements in an interview with ClayTennis about the debate of who is the best in the Big-3
Nadal surrenders to the Swiss class and as far as the level is concerned he places him at the top: “I think the one who has managed to play at a better level and do more difficult things is Federer.”
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Of Djokovic he has recognized that he is the one who “has won the most” and of his nephew, he considers that he has been greatly affected by injuries: “If we told Rafael everything that he has not played due to injury, he probably would have won more than the others “.
Toni has taken the opportunity to send criticism to the ATP about the tournaments and their surfaces: “We live in a circuit in which we always play on a hard court. My nephew always plays three Grand Slams on the surface that is not going well for him, one on the surface that is doing well, and all the Masters on the surface that is not doing well”.
Carlos Alcaraz surpasses Berrettini and is already in the Wimbledon quarterfinals
The tennis player from Murcia beat the Italian with a great game in four sets after three hours of play and will face the Danish Holger Rune in the quarterfinals of the All England Club.
Carlos Alcaraz continues to pass rounds at Wimbledon. Matteo Berrettini was on a roll and with an unbeaten serve until he faced the Murcian, but the world number one had a great game and is already in the quarterfinals.
The start of the game was very even. Berrettini was coming off injury, but he had not yet lost his serve from him once and had beaten tennis players on the level of De Minaur or Zverev before facing Alcaraz. And both had options to break the other’s serve, but the Italian did take advantage of his opportunity and took the first set 6-3 .
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And there, the best level of the tennis player from El Palmar appeared . He began to go up to the net, hit good shots and due to his own weight, the break ended up falling, the first that Berrettini suffered at Wimbledon, which made him tie the match with another 6-3 .
The Murcian went into beast mode and in the third set he broke the Italian’s serve up to two times, who was beginning to get unhinged. Also 6-3 Alcaraz took the set. Berrettini began to crumble and suffer excessively with his service.
The last play that the Italian tried was to put the roof on the center court of the All England Club. With 2-2 in the fourth set, Berrettini complained that he did not see the ball and asked to put the ceiling and lights on , a request that the chair umpire accepted and took 15 minutes to execute.
And far from cooling Alcaraz, the break finished sentencing Berrettini. He had to wait for the fourth match point, but the Murcian closed the match 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 and 6-3 in 3 hours and five minutes .
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Max Verstappen has once again claimed that he is the target of ‘British bias’ in the media after watching the fallout from his battle with Lando Norris. The three-time world champion’s defending was criticised by a number of drivers, including Lewis Hamilton.
Verstappen and Norris shared a titanic battle at the Circuit of the Americas last weekend, but the flashpoint came at Turn 12 as the Dutchman deployed a signature tactic, lunging deep into the corner to get to the apex first before running both himself and his title rival off the road.
Norris opted to keep his foot in and overtook the Red Bull driver around the outside, although this decision landed him a five-second time penalty that dropped him back behind Verstappen in the general classification. This sparked a major debate with other drivers – Hamilton included – calling for the FIA to take action and outlaw this style of defending.
Verstappen has been frustrated by this debate. Quizzed by Viaplay in Mexico on whether he’d like to see the rules changed, he replied: “No, not really. But I have the wrong passport.” Asked if he was referring to a British passport, he confirmed as much.
“Yeah, it’s the wrong country, on that aspect… with complaining” he replied. “I love my passport but on that aspect, I should have had a different passport, actually.” The Dutchman also complained of ‘British bias’ earlier this season following comments made by Adrian Newey.
When asked about the debate surrounding Verstappen’s on-track conduct, former title rival Hamilton was quick to point out that the Dutchman has been employing these tactics for some time, dating back to their no-punches-pulled fight in 2021.
“It’s always been a grey area, that’s why he’s got away with it for so long,” Hamilton explained ahead of the Mexican Grand Prix. “They probably need to make some adjustments for sure.
“Also, we do have inconsistencies through rulings, weekend in, weekend out, obviously depending on which years it is. I mean, as a sport, we do need to level up on all areas and if you look at other global sports, they have full-time refs, for example, and I’m sure that wouldn’t be a bad thing for our sport.
“I experienced it many times with Max, you shouldn’t be able to just launch the car on the inside and be ahead and then you go off and still hold your position. So, they need to definitely work on this.”
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$200M Jeff Gordon teams up with Chase Elliott and Co. to decode the HMS driver behind the “Don’t judge me” old tweet
Hendrick Motorsports vice chairman Jeff Gordon teamed up with Chase Elliott and other HMS drivers in a lighthearted fun exercise for fans where they attempted to solve the mystery behind an old tweet from their current driver.
The anonymous tweet reads, “Don’t judge me, but I can’t wait to see the new twilight movie haha,” and it’s believed to belong to one of the HMS’s driver lineups, which includes Elliott, Kyle Larson, William Byron and Alex Bowman.
Jeff Gordan, who has a net worth of $200 million (according to Celebrity Net Worth), and HMS drivers tried to guess, but none of them were correct. Bowman and Elliott named Byron, while Byron went with Elliott, but it was Larson. He accepted that it was his tweet in 2011 and revealed that he likes Catherine Hardwicke’s Twilight movie.
HMS shared the video of the fun investigative activity on Instagram with a caption:
“Hold on tight, spider monkey”
Watch the Jeff Gordon and HMS’s guesses below:
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Three out of four HMS drivers are still in contention for the 2024 NASCAR Cup championship. Larson and Byron are in good position in the playoffs points table, with 35 and 27 points above the cutline.
However, 2020 Cup champion Elliott is in danger of getting eliminated from title contention, as he’s 53 points behind the cutline heading to this weekend’s Homestead-Miami race.
In an interview with NBC Sports earlier this season, Jeff Gordon spoke about the competition between their two best drivers, Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott, for the regular season championship. Gordan wanted to see both top drivers perform well and race aggressively against each other while maintaining sportsmanship in their chase for the regular season title.
However, neither Larson nor Elliott won the championship; it was Tyler Reddick who clinched the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series regular season championship. Speaking to NBC Sports, the four-time NASCAR Cup champion Jeff Gordon said:
“I think it’s pretty clear at Hendrick how we expect teams and drivers to race against one another and how they’ve got to go and compete not only against their competitors but against one another.
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“Kyle Busch is an a**”: Brad Keselowski publicly chastised his fierce NASCAR rival in front of over 150,000 spectators
Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski birthed one of the fiercest rivalries in NASCAR. The duo had multiple run-ins throughout their careers, but the seed of their feud was sown at the 2010 Xfinity Series race hosted by the Bristol Motor Speedway. In the aftermath, Keselowski publicly castigated Busch in front of over 150,000 fans during driver introductions.
Busch kicked off his Food City 250 from third place in his #18 Toyota while Keselowski began in 13th. However, as the 250-lap battle inched closer to its conclusion, the then-Penske Racing driver held the domination while the former #18 Joe Gibbs Racing driver fought hard for the lead.
After struggling to overtake for nearly a dozen laps, Busch, with 31 laps until the checkered flag dropped, lunged ahead of Keselowski, only to be wrecked from behind and lose the spot again.
However, the JGR driver quickly retaliated and spun out Keselowski’s #22 Dodge. The move propelled the #18 Toyota to the victory lane while the Penske driver fell from a potential win to settling in 14th place.
The bitter feeling inside Brad Keselowski surfaced during the Bristol Cup Series race driver introductions the following day. After Kyle Busch introduced himself, his fierce rival took the mic and blasted Busch with his “a**’ comment.
“Brad Keselowski, driver of the Penske Racing Dodge. Kyle Busch is an a**,” he said.
However, when asked why he slammed Busch, Keselowski said that Juan Pablo Montoya challenged that he can’t call the JGR driver an “a**”. It’s worth mentioning that the crowd’s roar on the Penske driver’s introduction notched 104.2 decibels.
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