{"id":1248,"date":"2022-03-22T20:37:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T20:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/sports-news-roundup-tennis-medvedev-makes-winning-start-in-the-quest-for-top-rank-nadal-sails-through-atp-roundup-jannik-sinner-advances-will-face-andy-murray-in-dubai-and-more-devdiscourse\/"},"modified":"2022-03-22T20:37:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T20:37:02","slug":"sports-news-roundup-tennis-medvedev-makes-winning-start-in-the-quest-for-top-rank-nadal-sails-through-atp-roundup-jannik-sinner-advances-will-face-andy-murray-in-dubai-and-more-devdiscourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/22\/sports-news-roundup-tennis-medvedev-makes-winning-start-in-the-quest-for-top-rank-nadal-sails-through-atp-roundup-jannik-sinner-advances-will-face-andy-murray-in-dubai-and-more-devdiscourse\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports News Roundup: Tennis-Medvedev makes winning start in the quest for top rank, Nadal sails through; ATP roundup: Jannik Sinner advances, will face Andy Murray in Dubai and more &#8211; Devdiscourse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is a summary of current sports news briefs.<br \/><strong>Tennis-Medvedev makes winning start in the quest for top rank, <a href=\"\/news?tag=Nadal\">Nadal<\/a> sails through<\/strong><br \/>Russia&#8217;s <a href=\"\/news?tag=Daniil+Medvedev\">Daniil Medvedev<\/a> defeated <a href=\"\/news?tag=Benoit+Paire\">Benoit Paire<\/a> of <a href=\"\/news?tag=France\">France<\/a> 6-3 6-4 in the first round of the Abierto Mexicano tournament in <a href=\"\/news?tag=Acapulco\">Acapulco<\/a> on Tuesday to get his quest for the world number one ranking off to a winning start. World number two Medvedev is looking to ascend to the top ranking for the first time by displacing <a href=\"\/news?tag=Serbian\">Serbian<\/a> <a href=\"\/news?tag=Novak+Djokovic\">Novak Djokovic<\/a>, who is competing at the <a href=\"\/news?tag=Dubai\">Dubai<\/a> Tennis Championships.<br \/><strong>ATP roundup: <a href=\"\/news?tag=Jannik+Sinner\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> advances, will face <a href=\"\/news?tag=Andy+Murray\">Andy Murray<\/a> in Dubai<\/strong><br \/>Jannik Sinner saved three match points and came from behind to topple Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-3 on Tuesday in the opening round of the <a href=\"\/news?tag=Dubai\">Dubai<\/a> Duty-Free Tennis Championships in the United Arab Emirates. Sinner was down a set and faced three match points at 6-3 in the second set tiebreaker before he rattled off five straight points to win the set and even the match against the Spaniard.<br \/><strong>NFL-Stafford apologizes for reaction to photographer&#8217;s fall during victory parade<\/strong><br \/>Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew <a href=\"\/news?tag=Stafford\">Stafford<\/a> said he wished he had had a &#8220;better reaction&#8221; to seeing a photographer fall from a stage during the team&#8217;s <a href=\"\/news?tag=Super+Bowl\">Super Bowl<\/a> victory <a href=\"\/news?tag=parade\">parade<\/a> last week. In a video of the incident, <a href=\"\/news?tag=Stafford\">Stafford<\/a> turned his back and walked away when he saw photographer Kelly Smiley fall from the platform as she backed up to take a photograph of <a href=\"\/news?tag=Stafford\">Stafford<\/a> and his wife.<br \/><strong>Golf-Mickelson apologises for &#8216;reckless&#8217; comments on Saudi-backed league<\/strong><br \/>Phil <a href=\"\/news?tag=Mickelson\">Mickelson<\/a> apologised on Tuesday for comments he made about the proposed Saudi-backed <a href=\"\/news?tag=Super+Golf+League\">Super Golf League<\/a> that set off a firestorm of controversy and said he planned to take &#8220;time away&#8221; from the sport. In a November interview that was published on the firepitcollective.com last weekend, <a href=\"\/news?tag=Mickelson\">Mickelson<\/a> criticized the government of <a href=\"\/news?tag=Saudi\">Saudi<\/a> Arabia for its &#8220;horrible record&#8221; on human rights, which he said included the 2018 killing of journalist <a href=\"\/news?tag=Jamal+Khashoggi\">Jamal Khashoggi<\/a> and the execution of gay people.<br \/><strong>UK&#8217;s <a href=\"\/news?tag=Johnson\">Johnson<\/a> says it&#8217;s &#8216;inconceivable&#8217; that <a href=\"\/news?tag=Russia\">Russia<\/a> hosts <a href=\"\/news?tag=Champions\">Champions<\/a> League final<\/strong><br \/>Russia should not be allowed to host soccer events such as the <a href=\"\/news?tag=Champions\">Champions<\/a> League final after <a href=\"\/news?tag=Russian\">Russian<\/a> President <a href=\"\/news?tag=Vladimir+Putin\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> recognised two breakaway regions in eastern <a href=\"\/news?tag=Ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a>, <a href=\"\/news?tag=British\">British<\/a> Prime Minister Boris <a href=\"\/news?tag=Johnson\">Johnson<\/a> said on Tuesday. <a href=\"\/news?tag=Britain\">Britain<\/a> said that it would discuss the location of the <a href=\"\/news?tag=Champions\">Champions<\/a> League final, which is scheduled to take place in <a href=\"\/news?tag=St+Petersburg\">St Petersburg<\/a> in May, with the relevant governing bodies.<br \/><strong>NBC draws lowest Olympic ratings with <a href=\"\/news?tag=Beijing\">Beijing<\/a> games<\/strong><br \/>The 2022 <a href=\"\/news?tag=Winter+Olympics\">Winter Olympics<\/a> in <a href=\"\/news?tag=Beijing\">Beijing<\/a> attracted the smallest prime-time audience since <a href=\"\/news?tag=NBCUniversal\">NBCUniversal<\/a> began broadcasting the games, according to viewership figures released by the network, amid a period of changing TV viewing habits. NBC said its nightly coverage of the <a href=\"\/news?tag=Beijing\">Beijing<\/a> games attracted an average of 11.4 million prime time viewers, a 42% drop from the 2018 <a href=\"\/news?tag=Winter+Olympics\">Winter Olympics<\/a> in <a href=\"\/news?tag=Pyeongchang\">Pyeongchang<\/a>, which brought a total average audience of 19.8 million viewers.<br \/><strong>Soccer-USWNT players and <a href=\"\/news?tag=U.S.\">U.S.<\/a> Soccer settle equal pay dispute<\/strong><br \/>The <a href=\"\/news?tag=U.S.\">U.S.<\/a> women&#8217;s national soccer team (USWNT) and governing body <a href=\"\/news?tag=U.S.\">U.S.<\/a> Soccer said on Tuesday they have agreed to resolve a years-long dispute over equal pay on what the players described as a landmark day for the sport. The settlement will see $22 million distributed in a manner proposed by the players and approved by a district court.<br \/><strong>Tennis-Emotional discipline helps <a href=\"\/news?tag=Rublev\">Rublev<\/a> start strong in Dubai<\/strong><br \/>Andrey <a href=\"\/news?tag=Rublev\">Rublev<\/a> was afraid he would suffer an early exit at the <a href=\"\/news?tag=Dubai\">Dubai<\/a> Championships after arriving late at the tournament but the <a href=\"\/news?tag=Russian\">Russian<\/a> said keeping his emotions in control helped him seal an unexpected victory over Britain&#8217;s Daniel <a href=\"\/news?tag=Evans\">Evans<\/a> on Tuesday. <a href=\"\/news?tag=Rublev\">Rublev<\/a> converted his seventh match point to defeat <a href=\"\/news?tag=Evans\">Evans<\/a> 6-4 7-5 in the first round in <a href=\"\/news?tag=Dubai\">Dubai<\/a>, two days after he won the singles and doubles titles in Marseille.<br \/><strong>Aaron <a href=\"\/news?tag=Rodgers\">Rodgers<\/a> expresses thanks, gratitude in cryptic post<\/strong><br \/>To many, Aaron <a href=\"\/news?tag=Rodgers\">Rodgers<\/a> provided potential clues about his future in a lengthy social media post-Monday night. But <a href=\"\/news?tag=Rodgers\">Rodgers<\/a> said Tuesday on &#8220;The Pat McAfee Show&#8221; that he had no announcement to make and hadn&#8217;t made a decision about his future. Instead, his reflective <a href=\"\/news?tag=Instagram\">Instagram<\/a> post was meant just to express thanks to some special people in his life, he said.<br \/><strong>Athletics-American record-setter Hall sets sights on NYC Half, says <a href=\"\/news?tag=U.S.\">U.S.<\/a> poised to dominate in 2022<\/strong><br \/>Fleet-footed Sara Hall returns to action at the New York City Half next month having claimed the <a href=\"\/news?tag=United+States\">United States<\/a> half-marathon record last month ahead of what she sees as a banner year for <a href=\"\/news?tag=American\">American<\/a> athletics. She set the <a href=\"\/news?tag=U.S.\">U.S.<\/a> record of 1:07:15 in <a href=\"\/news?tag=Houston\">Houston<\/a> last month, beating Molly Huddle&#8217;s previous best (2018) by 10 seconds, after finishing on the podium at the 2020 London Marathon and at the Chicago Marathon last year.<br \/>(With inputs from agencies.)<br \/>              Email: info@devdiscourse.com              <br \/>Phone: +91-130-6444012, +91-7027739813, 14, 15          <br \/>\u00a9 Copyright 2022<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devdiscourse.com\/article\/sports-games\/1932995-sports-news-roundup-tennis-medvedev-makes-winning-start-in-the-quest-for-top-rank-nadal-sails-through-atp-roundup-jannik-s\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is a summary of current sports news briefs.Tennis-Medvedev makes winning start in the quest for top rank, Nadal sails throughRussia&#8217;s Daniil Medvedev defeated Benoit Paire of France 6-3 6-4 in the first round of the Abierto Mexicano tournament in Acapulco on Tuesday to get his quest for the world number one ranking off to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}