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Novak Djokovic qualified for the Australian Open semi-finals for the 11th time in his career.

He qualified after beating world number 12 Fritz in three sets 7-6, 4-6, 6-3. The challenge was completed in 3 hours and 45 minutes. This is also thanks to the battle presented by the American tennis player, who in the end surrendered only in front of the high quality of the opponent.

This was the 33rd victory for Djokovic at the prestigious tournament in Australia. He aims to win the 25th Grand Slam tournament, deepening the historic record he holds.

World football is in mourning, as another legend of this sport has passed away.

Dzhixhi Riva, the famous former Italian striker, passed away today at the age of 79 in Cagliari, the city where he became one of the most famous names in world football.

Riva had felt health problems at home and was urgently sent to the hospital, where his situation was normalized, as a medical report published in the afternoon revealed.

But in today’s dinner, his situation has worsened and during the dinner the news of his death was given.

Riva has been one of the most famous names in Italian football, winning the championship title with Cagliari in the 1969-1970 season, the only one in the history of this club.

He was the honorary president of Kaljar, in the club where he spent almost his entire career, playing 376 games and scoring 207 goals.

Meanwhile, with the Italian national team, he played 42 games, scoring 35 goals, and to this day remains the best scorer of all time.

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It is not for nothing that he is considered one of the greatest talents that the sport of tennis has known. The Spaniard, Carlos Alcaraz, has once again shown his potential, as he passed without much difficulty, in the round of 1/8, of the first Grand Slam for this calendar year, “Australian Open”, the Serbian, Miomir Kecmanovic , defeating him with a clean score of 3 to 0.

The talent from Murcia, Spain defeated the Balkan, in a match that did not last more than 2 hours, triumphing with the latter, in 3 sets, with the result, 6-4, 6-4 and 6-0 and now “number 2” of the world in this sport “fishes” a not a little easy opponent, to pass to the quarter-finals, such as the German, Alexander Zverev.

The latter suffered quite a bit in the 1/8 stage, as he faced the Briton, Cameron Norrie, with a match that lasted a full 4 hours and 9 minutes and ended with the overall result, 3 to 2. Meanwhile, apart from the challenge of “Iberic”, Alcaraz, 3 more matches will take place in the quarter-finals, such as Novak Djokovic-Taylor Fritz, Jannik Sinner-Andrey Rublev, and Hubert Hurkacz-Daniil Medvedev.

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The match between Udinese and Milan has been “tarnished” by the Maignan case, with the red and black goalkeeper subjected to racist insults by someone present in the Friulian stadium. Maignan then recounted the episode on Dazn’s mics shortly after the match ended:

“We won and that’s positive, but in the first half something happened that shouldn’t have happened. Some home fans made the monkey noise, it’s not the first time. The referee should have understood the situation, now let him make the right statements in the prosecutor. I didn’t want to play anymore, but we are a family and I couldn’t leave my teammates.”

Maignan said he had a short conversation with Ibrahimovic after what happened: “He told me to stay strong in my head, give the right answer and win the game.” The red and black goalkeeper then continued:

“We are a family, I felt the support of everyone. We are here to play football, to give everything for our fans, to put on a show. I was also upset to go to the dressing room like that, but I had the support of everyone. We talked and decided to go back to the field to give the right answer.”

Udinese promises a strong reaction

“The regulation provides for suspension for a limited duration, but the club can decide to exclude those fans from the stadium for a longer period of time. We will work to exclude them from the stadium forever, forever”.

Through the words of Franco Collavino, general manager of Udinese, the club in question announces that the people who insulted Mike Maignan, the goalkeeper of Milan, in the match on Saturday evening, will suffer badly.

The Udinese manager then explained what happened in the last 24 hours and what will happen now: “We are convinced to look for those responsible, it could be only two or three people. It’s one, two, three miserable and that’s enough to make it a very serious thing.

We have already started watching the footage from the stadium cameras, we should also listen to the audio. In our stadium, inside and outside, there are over 300 cameras. We have a lot of work to do in a very short time to see all the footage of the case”.

Maignan said: “Anyone who does nothing will be an accomplice.” Collavino supports him: “He is right, but we moved too far ahead of his words. Already, in the first half of the match, we got in touch with the police to start looking for those people we don’t want among us.

In general, we operate ticket policies that encourage the presence of families in the stadium, of which there are many. We send our footballers to schools to make children aware of the issue of racism”.

A message to the goalkeeper of Milan: “I want to tell him that we are very sorry for what happened, we express our solidarity. Udinese has always been an example of a multi-ethnic and multicultural society, an example of coexistence and tolerance.

We have always had a higher number of colored players than the Italian average and indeed, after Bosman’s decision to open the borders in 1995, we were criticized for this as well, because we had many footballers of different nationalities and few Italians. The last 30 years speak for us, they are in front of everyone’s eyes”.

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