
Claire Liu and Carlos Alcarras qualify for the tennis tournaments, and the Caribbean Football Confederation backs Gianni Infantino for a new term at FIFA.
American Claire Liu qualified for the final of the Hong Kong Tennis Championship, and Spaniard Carlos Alcaras qualified for the semi-final of the Paris Masters Tennis Championship, while the Caribbean Football Association announced its support for Gianni Infantino for another term as FIFA president.
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International tennis tournaments are underway in several cities, while FIFA prepares for presidential elections scheduled for next March.
American Claire Liu qualified for the final of the Hong Kong Open Tennis Championship, after defeating Russian Alexandra Shubladze, the qualifier, with a score of 7/5, 6/4 in the semi-finals, on Saturday.
Liu, ranked 102nd in the world, needed an hour and 58 minutes to settle the match, after she broke her opponent’s serve five times, to reach her first final in the World Association of Women’s Tennis Professionals tournaments since the Rabat Championship in 2022, when she lost to Italian Martina Trevisan.
The 26-year-old American player is waiting for the winner of her match against Greek Maria Sakkari, seeded fourth, and Alexandra Ayala of the Philippines, seeded second, in the final, where she will seek to win her first title in singles competitions in the World Association of Women's Tennis Professionals (WTA) tournaments.
In the quarter-finals, Liu defeated Turkish Zeynep Sonmez with a score of 6/1, 6/4, while Shubladze, ranked 136th in the world, made a remarkable journey, after she passed the qualifiers by defeating Chinese Ying Zhang and Australian Emerson Jones, before beating her compatriots, Lyudmila Samsonova and Yelena Predankina, and then Romanian Sorana Cirstea in the quarter-finals.
Spaniard Carlos Alcarras, ranked third in the world, qualified for the semi-finals of the Paris Masters Tennis Championship, with an exciting and dramatic victory over American Taylor Fritz in two sets to one.
The match witnessed great excitement, as the results of the rounds were 6/7 (11/12), 7/5 and 6/3, making Alcarras advance to the semi-finals awaiting the winner of the confrontation between the Norwegian Caspor Ruud and the Portuguese Nuno Borges.
With this victory, Alcarras reaches the semi-finals of the Masters 1000 tournament, for the fifteenth time.
The Caribbean Football Association announced, on Friday, its support for Gianni Infantino for another term as President of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), in the elections scheduled for next March.
Infantino recently made two visits to the Caribbean region, one of them this week, with the aim of ensuring support for this bloc, despite the continuing controversy over his investment plan for the World Cup, which was not successful.
The federation said in a statement: “The Caribbean Football Association confirms that it has reached its collective position through consultation with its member associations. In the same spirit, the federation continues to call for enhanced transparency, good governance, and fundamental reforms within the football family.”
The Caribbean Football Association has 31 member states, 25 of which have voting rights.
This is the second major voting bloc to publicly announce its support for Infantino. Last month, the Asian Football Confederation, which represents 47 member associations, announced its support for him for another term.
The deadline for submitting candidate nominations is November 18. Infantino's first competitor appeared on Thursday, when Kozo Tashima, a member of the FIFA Council, who worked alongside Infantino for about 11 years, announced his intention to run for president of the federation.
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