Rome: Jannik Sinner will face Casper Ruud in the men's final of the Italian Open after finishing off Daniil Medvedev in Saturday's closing chapter of an enthralling last-four clash, which was paused overnight due to rain in Rome.

The world number one could claim a record-extending sixth Masters 1000 title on Sunday thanks to a 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 win which had almost everything over the course of its two-and-a-half hours. newsindata.com

Sinner had to have treatment on his right thigh and even vomited during Friday night's leg of the semi-final as Medvedev gave the Italian by far his toughest test of the tournament.

But he looked in much better spirits before the restart as he joked and played football with his coaching team during his warm-up in the bowels of the centre court arena, just as warm spring sunshine started to shine after a few days of volatile weather.

"It was a different challenge, a tough challenge to be honest," said Sinner.

"During the night usually I never struggle to sleep, but this night was not easy because when you're on the third set, you know I'm nearly nearly done but you still have to show up again, and you never know what's happening because It's basically a new start of a match. There are nerves."

The match was scheduled to restart at at 3.00pm local time (1300GMT) but was again delayed by an hour both due to more rain and the men's doubles semi-final, won by Sinner's compatriots Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori.

A 4-2 lead in the third set for Sinner when play was stopped was too much for Medvedev to overcome, and the 24-year-old sealed his 33rd straight win in Masters 1000 tournaments.

Medvedev was at advantage in game seven of the third set, which he immediately won, but Sinner won the next game on his service to love and closed out the match in less than 20 minutes.

Ruud gets a chance for revenge for a brutal hammering against Sinner here last year after dismantling Luciano Darderi 6-1, 6-1 on Saturday, another match interrupted by heavy rain.

The Norwegian has not won a single set in any of his four matches with Sinner and was destroyed 6-0, 6-1 in the 2025 last eight in one of the most one-sided matches ever seen at the Foro Italico.

"I think he's playing much, much better tennis right now, so its going to be very tough," said Sinner.

"Every match every week, even if you play with the same player week after week. It's completely different, so I'm just happy to stand again here in the final."

Later Coco Gauff will attempt to claim her first Rome title in the women's final against Elina Svitolina.

American star Gauff lost to Jasmine Paolini in the last year's final but could go one better ahead of her Roland Garros title defence.

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Washington: The San Antonio Spurs advanced to NBA Western Conference finals with a 139-109 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves, while the Detroit Pistons sailed past the Cleveland Cavaliers 115-94 to force a Game 7 in their Eastern Conference semifinal series on Friday.

Spurs guard Stephon Castle finished with a game-high 32 points, going 11 of 16 from the field, and he was supported by De'Aaron Fox and Victor Wembanyama, who chipped in 21 and 19 points respectively.

With a 13-point halftime lead, the Spurs pulled clear in the third quarter, extending its lead to an insurmountable 26 points heading into the final frame.

The Spurs will face the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder in the West finals.

"Of course we're confident, but we need to keep the right confidence level," Wembanyama said. "Right now, I'm not even thinking about it. I'm just thinking about recovering."

Anthony Edwards led the Wolves with 24 points but shot 9-for-26. Reserves Terrence Shannon and Naz Reid contributed 21 and 18 points, respectively.

In the East, Cade Cunningham scored 21 points, including five 3-pointers, to lead the Pistons' win. Jalen Duren and Daniss Jenkins had 15 points apiece, with Duren also grabbing 11 rebounds.

Paul Reed had 17 points and Duncan Robinson 14 as Detroit's reserves outscored Cleveland's 48-19.

Leading 54-51 at halftime, the Pistons opened the second half with a 12-2 run. After the Cavaliers pulled within 74-68 late in the third quarter, the Pistons rolled again with a 13-2 surge and never looked back.

James Harden scored 23 points for Cleveland. Donovan Mitchell and Evan Mobley had 18 each.

The Pistons host the decider on Sunday.

Fermo, Italy: Ecuadorian Jhonatan Narvaez powered away from his breakaway rivals to win stage eight of the Giro d'Italia on Saturday for his second victory and injury-decimated Team UAE's third so far.

Adam Yates, Jay Vine and Marc Soler have all been forced out of the Giro after a gruesome stage three pile up in Bulgaria, but the super-team from the Emirates has refocussed impressively.

UAE Team Emirates - XRG Ecuadorian rider Jhonatan Narvaez sprints to win the 8th stage of the Giro d'Italia 2026. (Photo by Luca Bettini / AFP)

A rolling 156km stage starting from Chieti on the Adriatic seemed to favour a breakaway win.

Narvaez, who had already won stage four in a sprint, was part of a breakaway midway through the day after an original escape had been reeled in.

At the end he opened a 32 second gap at the line on Norway's Andreas Leknessund of Uno-X Mobility, with another UAE man Mikkel Bjerg third.

"He was the man of the day," Narvaez said of Bjerg. "It was a full headwind over 60km and it was so hard for me.

We had agreed he would lead me though and I would take the climb."

Pink jersey Afonso Eulalio, who grabbed a sizeable lead on stage five, still heads the Giro ahead of Jonas Vingegaard and Felix Gall.

Race favourite Vingegaard ignited his own Giro title bid on Friday on the formidable Blockhaus climb, finishing 13 seconds clear of Gall, while former Giro winner Red Bull's Jai Hindley was a further 49 seconds back in third to remain in the chase.

On Saturday, Hindley attacked on a climb to the line but crossed the summit with Vingegaard on his wheel a slender 2sec ahead of the peloton.

Sunday's stage nine also starts on the Adriatic and finishes with a steep climb over the final three kilometres, where Eulalio will again be tested by the big guns.

Monday is a day off, and Tuesday sees what promises to be a decisive 42km individual time trial along Italy's west coast
Some 15 riders have pulled out so far, by comparison with 25 who never made it as far as Rome in 2025.

أسدل الستار على منافسات سباقات السباحة ضمن دورة الألعاب الخليجية الرابعة الدوحة 2026 بعد أربعة أيام حافلة بالإثارة والندية، شهدت تفوقا قطريا واضحا على مستوى النتائج والميداليات، في نسخة عكست التطور المتسارع للسباحة الخليجية عموما والقطرية خاصة.

وفرض السباحون القطريون تفوقهم منذ انطلاق المنافسات في 12 مايو الجاري، محققين أرقاما قياسية خليجية جديدة على مستوى التوقيتات والميداليات المتنوعة، مستفيدين من جاهزية فنية وبدنية عالية وخبرات اكتسبوها من المشاركات القارية والدولية الأخيرة، ليواصلوا حضورهم القوي على منصات التتويج طوال البطولة.

وشهدت المنافسات مشاركة نخبة من أبرز سباحي الخليج في سباقات السرعة والمسافات المختلفة والتتابع، وسط تنافس قوي بين المنتخبات، إلا أن المنتخب القطري نجح في حسم الصدارة بفضل الأداء الجماعي المتوازن والنتائج المميزة التي حققها سباحوه في مختلف الفئات.

ونجحت السباحة القطرية في تصدرها لجميع المنافسات لترفع رصيدها إلى 26 ميدالية متنوعة بواقع 13 ميدالية ذهبية و9 ميداليات فضية و4 ميداليات برونزية، لتعتلي الصدارة عن جدارة، مؤكدة مكانتها كواحدة من أبرز القوى الخليجية في الرياضات المائية خلال السنوات الأخيرة.

وجاءت الحصيلة القطرية نتيجة سلسلة من العروض القوية التي قدمها السباحون في مختلف السباقات، حيث نجح عدد من اللاعبين في حصد أكثر من ميدالية، بينما برزت أسماء شابة إلى جانب العناصر صاحبة الخبرة، في مؤشر يعكس نجاح برامج الإعداد والتطوير التي ينتهجها الاتحاد القطري للرياضات المائية لبناء قاعدة قادرة على المنافسة إقليميا وقاريا.

ولم تقتصر الأفضلية القطرية على عدد الميداليات فقط، بل امتدت إلى نوعية الأداء والمستويات الفنية التي ظهرت بها المنافسات، إذ تمكن السباحون القطريون من تحقيق أزمنة مميزة في عدد من السباقات، مع المحافظة على نسق ثابت من النتائج الإيجابية على مدار أيام البطولة، الأمر الذي منح المنتخب أفضلية واضحة في الترتيب العام.

كما شكلت سباقات التتابع إحدى أبرز المحطات التي عززت التفوق القطري، بعدما أظهر السباحون انسجاما كبيرا وقدرة على إدارة السباقات تحت الضغط، في وقت شهدت فيه المنافسات تقاربا واضحا في المستويات بين عدد من المنتخبات الخليجية، ما أضفى مزيدا من الإثارة على المنافسات حتى يومها الختامي.

وسجل السباحون القطريون سعد الدين سامي سعد الدين ومحمد محمود وإيميل فوزي وعبد الله الغمري وتميم الحمايدة وحمزة شعلان ومحمد عزيز إسماعيل حضورا قويا في المنافسات، بعدما قدموا مستويات مميزة وأسهموا بصورة مباشرة في تعزيز الحصيلة القطرية من الميداليات الملونة، مؤكدين تطور السباحة القطرية وقدرتها على المنافسة بقوة في البطولات الإقليمية والقارية.

وبرز السباحون القطريون بشكل لافت في سباقات 1500 متر سباحة حرة، و200 متر صدرا، و400 متر سباحة حرة، إلى جانب سباقات 100 متر فراشة و50 مترا ظهرا، في ظل منافسة قوية بين نخبة سباحي دول الخليج، فيما شهدت البطولة تسجيل رقم قياسي خليجي جديد، في دلالة واضحة على المستوى الفني المرتفع الذي ظهرت به المنافسات طوال أيام البطولة.

بدوره، قال السيد مبارك علي النعيمي رئيس الاتحاد القطري للرياضات المائية، إن المنافسات جاءت قوية ومميزة من الناحية الفنية، مشيدا بالمستويات التي قدمها السباحون القطريون والروح التنافسية العالية التي ظهروا بها طوال البطولة.

وأضاف النعيمي في تصريحات لوكالة الأنباء القطرية قنا أن الحصيلة التي حققتها قطر تعكس حجم الجهود المبذولة خلال الفترة الماضية، سواء على مستوى إعداد المنتخبات أو تطوير برامج التدريب، مؤكدا أن تحقيق 26 ميدالية متنوعة يعد مؤشرا إيجابيا قبل الاستحقاقات المقبلة، وفي مقدمتها النسخة العشرون من دورة الألعاب الآسيوية المقررة في اليابان آيتشي- ناغويا 2026.

وأشار النعيمي إلى أن البطولة الخليجية مثلت فرصة مهمة لاختبار جاهزية السباحين والوقوف على مستوياتهم الفنية في أجواء تنافسية قوية، مبينا أن المرحلة المقبلة ستشهد مواصلة العمل من أجل تعزيز النتائج ورفع مستوى الأداء بما يتناسب مع طموحات الرياضة القطرية في المحافل القارية والدولية.

وعكست المنافسات الاهتمام الكبير الذي توليه دولة قطر للرياضات المائية، من خلال توفير منشآت متطورة وبرامج إعداد متقدمة، ما أسهم في بروز جيل جديد من السباحين القادرين على تمثيل الرياضة القطرية بصورة مميزة في البطولات الكبرى.

ومع ختام منافسات سباقات السباحة، عزز المنتخب القطري صدارته للمنافسات بعدما حصد 26 ميدالية متنوعة، مؤكدا التطور المتواصل الذي تشهده السباحة القطرية وقدرتها على المنافسة بقوة في الاستحقاقات الخليجية والقارية.