The morning news | Sabalenka, fantastic comeback against Collins! He stopped the unreal streak of “Danimal”

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Aryna Sabalenka ended Danielle Collins’ 15-match winning streak, advancing to the quarter-finals in Madrid after a thrilling 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 battle.

The American got off to a perfect start and pulled away to 5-2 and, despite a wince of pride at the end of the set from Aryne, closed out the first set 6-4. The key moment of the match was in the second set, at 4-3 for the athlete from across the Ocean, when she benefited from two break points on the Belarusian’s serve. Aryna saved them and won the next 5 games, managing not only to close out the second set, but also to take a decisive lead in the decider.

“It was a tough battle, Danielle is playing incredible tennis. I want to thank all the spectators who stayed until this late hour to watch us, thanks to them I love being in Madrid“, said the Australian Open champion at the end.

Sabalenka finished the match with 39 winners and only 20 unforced errors, while Collins countered with 30 winners (27 unforced errors). Collina acquired more break points (11), but the world number two was more effective in moments under pressure (she converted 6 of the 9 opportunities to “break” the opponent’s serve).

In the quarterfinals of the competition, Sabalenka will meet the “phenomenon” Mirra Andreeva, who returned full of confidence to the tournament where she shone for the first time in the WTA last year. The Russian advanced to the eighths in a minimum of sets by Jasmine Paoloni, the 12th favorite, but she will have a complicated mission to penetrate the “ace box”. That’s also because she didn’t win a set against Aryana in the two direct meetings so far.

Several Bayern Munich players, including midfielder Jamal Musiala and central defender Matthijs de Ligt, are uncertain for Tuesday’s match against Real Madrid, at the Allianz Arena, in the semi-finals of the Champions League, reports AFP.

“Final checks are underway for Konrad Laimer, Matthijs de Ligt and Dayot Upamecano. Konrad wants to try to do the training” scheduled on Monday afternoon on the pitches in Siebener Strasse, the headquarters of the club in Munich, explained technician Thomas Tuchel in the traditional press conference on the eve of the game.

Instead, “for Matthijs and Dayot, it will probably be a little too early for training,” added Tuchel.

Regarding Jamal Musiala and Leroy Sane, “we have to wait. They still need treatment. We all need to have a little patience“, Tuchel said. According to him, “there will be some last-minute decisions” regarding participation in the last training session.

The victim of a pubalgia at the end of March, Leroy Sane missed four championship matches, but he was used for about half an hour in London, against Arsenal, in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and in the return leg from Munich he played almost the whole game.

For his part, Jamal Musiala was ruled out in the last two meetings in the Bundesliga, with Union Berlin and Eintracht Frankfurt.

Mike Maignan, the goalkeeper of the French national team, injured his right adductor, his club, AC Milan, announced on Monday, a month and a half before EURO 2024 (June 14 – July 14).

Mike Maignan’s MRI on Monday showed an injury to the right adductor, AC Milan indicated. “New examinations will be carried out next week depending on the evolution” of the injury, the second-placed club in Serie A explained in a statement, without estimating the duration of the unavailability.

This new injury to the goalkeeper is bad news for the French national coach, Didier Deschamps, who will announce the squad for EURO 2024 on May 16.

World runner-up in 2022, Maignan is the starter for “les Bleus”, being preferred to Brice Samba and Alphonse Areola after Hugo Lloris retired from the national team. The AC Milan player has also had physical problems this season: adductors, thigh, knee.

He could declare a forfeit for the next match in Serie A, which will take place at the weekend in the 35th stage.