Malinin’s technical scores led the field in both the short program and free skate. That’s a big if, as no one ever has done six clean quads in a free skate.Īnd the energy needed for those quads, physical and mental, hurts Malinin’s chances of closing another big gap with the world leaders: the difference in their “artistic” marks, known as component scores. 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. Open Women’s Singles DrawĪt 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. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit, before falling to Ajla Tomljanovic.Ĭoco Gauff, the French Open runner-up and, at 18, the youngest player in the top 100, lost in the quarterfinals to Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia.
She won her first two matches at what is expected to be her last tournament, including over No. Open after announcing plans to soon retire from tennis. Serena Williams, the Open Era record 23-time major singles champion, was the story of the first week of the U.S. Tunisia’s Jabeur was bidding to become the first African woman to win a Grand Slam singles title in the Open Era, two months after taking runner-up at Wimbledon. She was the lone major champ to reach the quarterfinals. Open title to her French Open crowns in 20. At 21, she is the youngest player to win three majors since Maria Sharapova earned the third of her five in 2008. 1, joined Lindsay Davenport as the only women in the Open Era (since 1968) to win their first three major finals all in straight sets. Open women’s singles final, a match between the world’s two best players in 2022, for her third Grand Slam singles title
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