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Swimmers relay at the European Championships to the 4x100m freestyle final
11:46 am: On the fourth day of the European Swimming Championships in Rome, almost all the Dutch participants in the morning session made it to the next round. Luke Crone did it in the 200-meter freestyle, Maaike de Waard and Tessa Giele in the 100 butterfly, Tes Scottin in the School 200 and the men’s team in the 4×100 freestyle. Emani de Jong was only eliminated in 1500 freestyles.
The relay team, made up of Stan Bjenberg, Jesse Potts, Crone and Shawn Newold, reached the final Sunday night in a 4×100 freestyle. The men scored 3.15.47. The difference with Hungary, which took first place, was 0.85 seconds.
The 20-year-old Crohn scored his 15th in the 200 series with 1.48.29. Hungarian Kristof Milak was faster than 2 seconds (1.46.26). Romania’s only 17-year-old David Popovici set the 13-year-old’s world record for Brazilian Cesar Celo in the 100 freestyle on Saturday, for the second time.
In the 100 butterfly race, De Ward (ninth with a time of 58.90) and Geely (10th with a time of 58.97) easily qualified for the semi-finals on Sunday night. Schouten qualified eighth for the 200 School Semifinals on 2.27.11.
De Jong was eliminated at the longest distance, 1500 metres, with a time of 16.40.11. She finished eleven. The best eight may return to the final.
Montreal tennis final between Hurkacz and Carreño Busta
08:51 am: The Masters final will be held in Montreal between Polish tennis player Hubert Hurkacz and Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain. Hurkacz, ranked 10th in the world, defeated Norway’s Casper Ruud (seventh in the world ranking) in three sets: 5-7, 6-3, 6-2. Carreno Busta qualified for his first Masters final, defeating Britain’s Dan Evans: 7-5 6-7 (7) 6-2.
The unseeded Spaniard, ranked 23rd in the world, never dropped a set en route to the semi-finals. “I’m playing unbelievably this week,” said the 31-year-old Spaniard, who has won six ATP titles in recent years. In Montreal, he reached the Masters final for the first time.
Hurkacz (25) won the Miami Masters last year. The Pole took his fifth ATP Tour title of the season in Halle. “Casper was better in the first set and a half, and I basically tried to stay in the match. I had to keep up and fight.”
Women prepare for the US Open in Toronto. In that Canadian city, the final match was between Romanian former world number one Simona Halep, and Beatriz Haddad Maya. The 30-year-old defeated American Jessica Pegola in three sets (2-6, 6-3, 6-4), and surprised Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic 6-4, 7-6 (7). Pliskova was in the final last year when the tournament was held in Montreal. Halep won the Canadian WTA Championships in 2016 and 2018.
Haddad Maya won the grass tournaments in Nottingham and Birmingham in the run-up to Wimbledon, but then faltered in London in the first round. In Toronto, Iga Swietic, the Polish No. 1 world number one, and Olympic champion Belinda Bencic of Switzerland have already surprised this week. As a result, she entered the world’s top 20 for the first time.
