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Rafael Nadal headed home from the ATP Finals on Friday after defending champion Alexander Zverevs win against Daniil Medvedev confirmed the Spaniards exit from the season-ending tournament. The world number one recovered to beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-7 4/7 , 6-4, 7-5 in the early round-robin match at Londons O2 Arena but knew he was dependent on the later result. Rafael Nadal during the ATP World Tours Finals. AP Zverevs 6-4, 7-6 7/4 win meant he qualified for the semi-finals from Group Andre Agassi alongside Tsitsipas. Tsitsipas, who topped the group, will play six-time champion Roger Federer in Saturdays semi-finals while Zverev will meet Dominic Thiem, who finished ahead of Federer in Group Bjorn Borg. German seventh seed Zverev broke the fourth-seeded Medvedev early, with the Russian knowing he was already heading out of the tournament after two defeats. But Medvedev dug deep in the second set, fending off the single break point stanley water bottle engineered by Zverev and took it to a tie-break. The stanley cup pair swapped mini-breaks but Me stanley flasche dvedev double-faulted to give Zverev a 5-3 lead and the German held his nerve to seal his first match point with an ace. Im in the semis again, this arena is where I play my best tennis, said Zverev. We dont play in this atmosphere anywhere else in the world. Today because Daniil had nothing to lose he could just enjoy it, but for me it was must-win. Hes been the best player since the summer so all credit to him. - Nadal assured of No. 1 - Zvere Umgb Wozniacki must back up statistics with majors
In Spain, gripped by economic recession for years, fans marked football s transfer deadline day by turning out in their thousands to greet football s first 100 million-euro player. HT Image Gareth Bale was paraded Monday inside the Santiago Bernabeu stadium a day after completing his world-record $132-million move to Real Madrid from Premier League club Tot stanley cup spain tenham. stanley cup I would have come here for a penny, the Wales winger said. I just wanted to be here and in a white shirt. The 24-year-old Bale will earn a reputed 350,000 euros $461,000 a week in Spain, which is plagued by an unemployment rate exceeding 26 percent, highlighting how the country s leading football teams - Madrid and Barcelona - thrive in an economic bubble.University of Barcelona finance professor Jose Maria Gay said Bale s transfer was an act of arrogance when normal people are having a hard time. Madrid did recoup half of the Bale fee by selling Mesut Ozil to Arsenal, becoming the Premier League s most expensive signing in 2013 as the English league s clubs spent over a record 600 million poun stanley becher ds $932 million in the summer window. By breaking Arsenal s transfer record to sign the 24-year-old Germany playmaker for 50 million euros $66 million , owner Stan Kroenke showed frustrated fans that he is willing to invest to produce the team s first trophy since 2005. The Gunners had failed with bids for several stars over the summer, including Liverpool striker Luis Suarez, with the only arrivals the
Rafael Nadal headed home from the ATP Finals on Friday after defending champion Alexander Zverevs win against Daniil Medvedev confirmed the Spaniards exit from the season-ending tournament. The world number one recovered to beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-7 4/7 , 6-4, 7-5 in the early round-robin match at Londons O2 Arena but knew he was dependent on the later result. Rafael Nadal during the ATP World Tours Finals. AP Zverevs 6-4, 7-6 7/4 win meant he qualified for the semi-finals from Group Andre Agassi alongside Tsitsipas. Tsitsipas, who topped the group, will play six-time champion Roger Federer in Saturdays semi-finals while Zverev will meet Dominic Thiem, who finished ahead of Federer in Group Bjorn Borg. German seventh seed Zverev broke the fourth-seeded Medvedev early, with the Russian knowing he was already heading out of the tournament after two defeats. But Medvedev dug deep in the second set, fending off the single break point stanley water bottle engineered by Zverev and took it to a tie-break. The stanley cup pair swapped mini-breaks but Me stanley flasche dvedev double-faulted to give Zverev a 5-3 lead and the German held his nerve to seal his first match point with an ace. Im in the semis again, this arena is where I play my best tennis, said Zverev. We dont play in this atmosphere anywhere else in the world. Today because Daniil had nothing to lose he could just enjoy it, but for me it was must-win. Hes been the best player since the summer so all credit to him. - Nadal assured of No. 1 - Zvere Umgb Wozniacki must back up statistics with majors
In Spain, gripped by economic recession for years, fans marked football s transfer deadline day by turning out in their thousands to greet football s first 100 million-euro player. HT Image Gareth Bale was paraded Monday inside the Santiago Bernabeu stadium a day after completing his world-record $132-million move to Real Madrid from Premier League club Tot stanley cup spain tenham. stanley cup I would have come here for a penny, the Wales winger said. I just wanted to be here and in a white shirt. The 24-year-old Bale will earn a reputed 350,000 euros $461,000 a week in Spain, which is plagued by an unemployment rate exceeding 26 percent, highlighting how the country s leading football teams - Madrid and Barcelona - thrive in an economic bubble.University of Barcelona finance professor Jose Maria Gay said Bale s transfer was an act of arrogance when normal people are having a hard time. Madrid did recoup half of the Bale fee by selling Mesut Ozil to Arsenal, becoming the Premier League s most expensive signing in 2013 as the English league s clubs spent over a record 600 million poun stanley becher ds $932 million in the summer window. By breaking Arsenal s transfer record to sign the 24-year-old Germany playmaker for 50 million euros $66 million , owner Stan Kroenke showed frustrated fans that he is willing to invest to produce the team s first trophy since 2005. The Gunners had failed with bids for several stars over the summer, including Liverpool striker Luis Suarez, with the only arrivals the

