Auger-Aliassime bumps slump to beat qualifier at Barcelona Open
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When Corey Conners collected the Valero Texas Open in 2019 he got a pair of cowboy boots instead of a trophy. Sometimes, especially during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, he would wear them…
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The Canadian men’s Para hockey team opened its three-game series versus rival United States with a narrow loss on Wednesday night, falling 1-0 in overtime on home ice at the Woolwich Memorial Centre in Elmira, Ont. Star…
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Canadian national champions Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Soerensen collected silver in the ice dance event at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships on Sunday in Colorado Springs, Colo. The Montreal duo were second after Friday’s rhythm dance and…
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Pascal Siakam scored a career-high 52 points and the Toronto Raptors snapped the New York Knicks’ NBA-leading eight-game winning streak 113-106 Wednesday night. “It’s cool,” Siakam said of posting his first 50-point game at Madison…
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Inconsistent serves, poor service reception and too much Ebrar Karakurt. That was the Canadian women’s volleyball team’s downfall in its first loss in five matches, a three-set sweep at the hands of Turkey in Phase…
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Despite Canada’s ability to control much of the match versus a formidable opponent, it was the missed opportunities that stung most. Canada suffered a 2-0 loss at the hands of No. 13 Uruguay in its…
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Since winning gold at last summer’s Tokyo Olympics, the Canadian women’s crew has been walking around with a rather large bull’s-eye on its back. Every adversary now brings their “A game” whenever they face Canada,…
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Canadian women’s team goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan can’t stop smiling these days. Last week, the 26-year-old from Pickering, Ont., got engaged to her long-time girlfriend, with the couple expecting to get married late next year. Things…
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Felix Auger-Aliassime fought back from two sets down to defeat Peru’s Juan Pablo Varillas on Sunday and move into the second round at Roland Garros. The unseeded Varillas took the first two sets, 6-2, before…
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Canada’s Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant won their final preliminary matches Thursday at the world mixed doubles curling championship to finish second in their group and set up a playoff showdown with Norway. Peterman and…
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Three-time national champion Lisa Weagle plans to step back from women’s team curling next season to focus on the mixed doubles discipline. Weagle, who represented Canada at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games and at last month’s…
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Canada’s Jennifer Jones saw a three-match winning streak halted by an extra-end, 11-9 defeat to China’s Wang Rui in women’s curling on Wednesday. The Canadians will take a 4-4 record into their round-robin finale versus Denmark’s…
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Adam Tambellini had two goals, including one on a penalty shot, and three assists as Canada survived an early scare Tuesday to defeat China 7-2 in the qualification round of the men’s hockey tournament at…
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Canada’s Jennifer Jones and her team now sport a 3-3 record in Beijing after edging Great Britain’s Eve Muirhead 7-3 in Olympic women’s curling action on Monday. With the hammer in the fifth end, Canada took the lead…
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Felix Auger-Aliassime clinched the ATP Cup title for Canada on Sunday with a 7-6 (3), 6-3 singles triumph over Roberto Bautista Agut to give his country an insurmountable 2-0 lead versus Spain. Denis Shapovalov opened…
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Justin Kripps piloted his crew of brakemen Ryan Sommer, Cam Stones, and Ben Coakwel to a silver medal at a World Cup event on Sunday in Altenberg, Germany. The Canadian four-man bobsleigh team concluded with a time of…
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Volleyball Canada has named Ben Josephson as coach of Canada’s senior indoor men’s team. Josephson will begin his new role April 1. He has been the head coach of the Trinity Western University men’s program since…
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Before any matches were played, Elias Ymer didn’t hesitate to say Sweden could succeed at the Davis Cup Finals despite being one of the lowest-ranked nations in the competition. He backed up his words with a great…
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Sarah Fillier scored twice, including the go-ahead goal with 3:58 left, and Canada defeated the United States 3-2 in Game 2 of the rivals’ nine-game pre-Olympic series on Monday night in Hartford, Conn. Victoria Bach…
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Canadian Leylah Fernandez rallied from an error-filled first set to beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in a marathon match in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open Sunday night. Fernandez advanced to the round of 16…
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Canadian duo Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes opened with two consecutive straight-sets triumphs at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Finals in Sardinia, Italy on Wednesday. In their first competition since a disappointing Olympics, the fifth-ranked Canadians and reigning world champions…
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Canada’s women’s hockey team will play a pair of games versus male Junior A teams in B.C. next month. The national women’s team, currently centralized in Calgary to prepare for the 2022 Beijing Olympics, will…
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Canada’s Rebecca Marino pulled off her biggest victory since returning to tennis, upsetting World No. 26 Madison Keys of the United States in consecutive sets on Monday at the National Bank Open. The 30-year-old Marino…
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Roger Federer pulled out of the upcoming hard-court tournaments in Toronto and Cincinnati on Thursday, citing lingering issues with his surgically repaired knee and shedding doubt on his status for the US Open. The withdrawals by…
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Andre De Grasse just keeps getting faster at the Olympics. And now he’s eyeing his second medal in Tokyo and the fifth of his Olympic career. The 26-year-old from Markham, Ont., burned up the Olympic…
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Penny Oleksiak is now Canada’s most decorated Olympian, captivating her seventh medal — a bronze — in the women’s 4×100-metre medley relay Sunday morning in Tokyo. But in the celebration and excitement of the historic moment,…
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Five years ago at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Penny Oleksiak won gold in the women’s 100-metre freestyle with a time of 52.70 seconds. In Tokyo on Friday morning, she set a Canadian record…
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Maude Charron has won a gold medal in the women’s 64-kilogram weightlifting. She lifted 105 kg in the snatch, and 131 in the clean and jerk to collect Canada’s second gold medal of the Tokyo Games. Charron…
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Kylie Masse capped a unforgettable Sunday for Canada’s swim team. The two-time world champion set an Olympic record in the women’s 100-metre backstroke, winning in 58.17 seconds, only to see American rival Regan Smith (57.96)…
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After waiting 689 days since its last international softball game and enduring a pandemic, the Canadian women’s softball team didn’t miss a beat, defeating Mexico 4-0 on Wednesday in the opening game of the 2020…
