Yes, if Malinin (288.44 points) had cleanly landed all six quads he did instead of going clean on just three of the six, it would have closed or even overcome the gap between him and repeat champion Shoma Uno of Japan (301.14) and surprise silver medalist Cha Jun-Hwan (296.03), the first South Korean man to win a world medal. champion Malinin the world bronze medal Saturday in Saitama, Japan, where he made more history as the first to land the quad Axel at worlds.īut it already had him thinking that the way to reach the tops of both the worlds and Olympus might be to acknowledge his mortal limits. The self-styled “Quadg0d” already has shown the chutzpah (or hubris?) to go for the most technically difficult free skate program ever attempted at the world championships, including that quad Axel, the hardest jump anyone has tried. Favorite us!Īt 18 years old, Ilia Malinin already has reached immortality in figure skating for technical achievement, being the first to land a quadruple Axel jump in competition. 4 Dominic Thiem, the 20 French Open runner-up, was upset in the first round.įRENCH OPEN DRAWS: Men | Women | TV Schedule The 39-year-old was pleased to double his match count over the last 16 months following a break for two knee surgeries.įederer, Nadal and Djokovic were in the same half of a Grand Slam draw for the first time. He beat Nadal at the Australian Open, pushed the Spaniard to three sets in a clay-court final in Barcelona last month and won the Monte Carlo Masters before that.įederer, seeded eighth, withdrew after a third-round win to focus on Wimbledon prep. The Greek Tsitsipas is a formidable opponent. But Djokovic took him out in four sets in the semifinals. Nadal, seeded third, was going for a record-extending 14th Roland Garros crown, and a 21st major title overall to overtake his longtime Swiss rival.

He can also get to 19 career Grand Slam singles titles, one shy of the record shared by Nadal and Roger Federer. Now he can make more historyĭjokovic gets Stefanos Tsitsipas in the French Open final, looking to become the first man in the Open Era to win all four majors twice.

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