For the Australian duo of John Friends and Rinky Hijikata – who defeated the Murray brothers 7-6(6) 6-4 – the expertise was simply as significant.

“To have the ability to step out and share it with Andy was one thing actually particular,” Friends mentioned. “It was Andy’s evening, however sadly, we upset it for him.”

Fellow Aussie Storm Hunter spoke on The AO Present Weekly in regards to the enormity of the event, and going up towards one in every of Nice Britain’s greatest-ever athletes of their home-Slam swansong.

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“I’m positive they grew up watching Andy and admiring Andy too, and nearly in a approach, not desirous to be those that finish Andy’s profession,” mentioned Hunter, the ladies’s doubles world No.6.

“What an incredible alternative for Peersy and Rinky to exit and play their first-round doubles on Centre Court docket at Wimbledon.”

The federal authorities has named Lt.-Gen. Jennie Carignan as defence chief.

As CBC Information first reported final week, Carignan’s appointment makes her the primary lady to carry the Canadian Armed Forces’ high job. She is presently the navy’s chief {of professional} conduct and tradition, a place created following the sexual misconduct disaster.

A number of high-ranking leaders had been compelled to step down from their posts after they had been accused of sexual misconduct in 2021.

The ensuing scandal prompted a damning exterior report by former Supreme Court docket justice Louise Arbour that made a collection of suggestions to vary the poisonous tradition throughout the Armed Forces. Carignan has been the face of the efforts to reform that tradition, offering updates to the general public about efforts to implement these suggestions.

Carignan joined the navy in 1986. She has commanded fight engineer regiments and led troops responding to floods in Quebec.

In 2008, she turned the primary lady to guide a fight pressure within the Canadian navy.

She acquired the Meritorious Service Medal and the Governor Common’s Order of Army Advantage, and her deployments included Afghanistan, Bosnia and Syria. She led a yearlong NATO mission in Iraq that resulted in late 2020.

Her official biography additionally notes that she has 4 youngsters, together with two who’re members of the Armed Forces.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau instructed reporters in Montreal on Wednesday that naming the brand new defence chief was an “terribly necessary selection.”

“Notably in these moments of difficult geopolitics and elevated threats, notably to our Arctic,” he stated.

“Ensuring that we’ve got the correct individual to guide our Armed Forces on this pivotal time was one thing that I believe Canadians appropriately felt that we wanted to take critically, which we did.”

Army struggling to recruit

Carignan takes over a navy in transition, amid the continued tradition change efforts and the pressing job of attempting to rebuild its ranks after years of declining recruitment and poor retention.

The Armed Forces is brief roughly 16,000 troops and for a number of years it has didn’t recruit extra members than it has misplaced to retirement or launch, one thing that Defence Minister Invoice Blair known as a “dying spiral” again in March.

That has been a supply of pressure between the federal government and navy management.

In the meantime, the Armed Forces face elevated calls for to answer weather-related emergencies in Canada and increase the nation’s presence in japanese Europe as warfare rages in Ukraine.

In a current interview, the outgoing defence chief stated the navy is “beginning to sense a turnaround” in recruitment.

Gen. Wayne Eyre stated Canada’s allies are dealing with related challenges in recruitment and the issue is just not absolutely understood.

He cited the “very tight labour market” as one problem, together with altering demographics.

Eyre stated there are additionally points with Canadians’ readiness to serve, with “elevated incidence of medical challenges, mental-health challenges.”

The Armed Forces is experimenting with modifications to its medical admissibility for folks with sure situations like allergy symptoms, or those that are taking remedy for ADHD.

“Now we have began a pathway for important change throughout the establishment,” he stated, including that an upcoming inner technique will element efforts to enhance the navy’s total readiness.

Eyre was appointed in 2021 when Adm. Artwork McDonald stepped down weeks into his tenure as defence chief after being accused of sexual misconduct.

He stated stabilizing the group amid that scandal was the highest precedence.

“It is a work in progress, and so that is what I go away for my successor: unfinished work, however work that may by no means be completed as a result of it continues to evolve,” he stated.

Carignan is about to formally take over command of the Armed Forces in a ceremony on July 18.

Lt.-Gen. Frances Allen, who was the primary lady to be named vice-chief of the defence workers, additionally plans to retire this yr and can be changed in an early August change-of-command ceremony. Her alternative has not been named publicly.

On America’s Independence Day, Kendrick Lamar simply made issues private for Canadian basketball followers.

The rapper dropped his much-anticipated music video for “Not Like Us” tonight (July 4), which is stuffed with thinly veiled visible photographs at Drake. The diss monitor’s video was filmed in Compton, and it appears like the entire metropolis got here out to have a good time at Drake’s expense.

For followers in Toronto, although, there’s one cameo that cuts particularly deep: DeMar DeRozan.

The NBA participant seems on the 2:43 mark throughout this line: “I am glad DeRoz’ got here dwelling, y’all did not deserve him neither.”

For many who did not catch the reference initially, or who thought he was by some means referring to D-Rose (one other NBA participant, Derrick Rose), it is now painfully apparent who it is about.

The Compton-born skilled basketball participant is now a member of the Chicago Bulls, however was drafted by the Toronto Raptors — Canada’s lone NBA staff, for which Drake serves as the worldwide ambassador.

He was traded in 2018 for Kawhi Leonard, who then led the Raptors to their first NBA championship that season. In a number of interviews since then, DeRozan has talked about how he felt betrayed by the commerce and had wished to play his complete profession in Toronto. However he by no means had a nasty phrase for the town or the followers, who proceed to deal with him like a hometown hero each time he returns.

DeRozan was as soon as shut sufficient to Drake that he unintentionally spilled the beans on an upcoming mixtape, so it is laborious to not interpret this as him choosing his hometown rapper Kendrick Lamar’s aspect.

DeRozan additionally appeared onstage at Kendrick’s Juneteenth “Pop Out” live performance in Los Angeles, so this does not come totally out of nowhere. However his temporary cameo trying into the digital camera within the “Not Like Us” video feels one other direct hit.

Matteo Berrettini’s run by means of the Wimbledon draw to his maiden grand slam ultimate in 2021 felt like a big second. Regardless that he misplaced to Novak Djokovic within the decisive match, Berrettini had already established himself as one Italy’s best tennis gamers. After his defeat, Berrettini travelled straight from Wimbledon to Wembley the place spent that night time and the next days toasting to his success with the Italian crew that had conquered Euro 2020.

Three years later, Berrettini’s success is a distant reminiscence, a consequence of accidents, depressing luck and the flourishing greatness of his sensible opponent on Centre Court docket. Jannik Sinner, who turned the primary ever Italian ATP No 1 final month, has since taken tennis of their nation to unprecedented heights and on Wednesday afternoon, he bolstered the brand new establishment in a tense, high-quality tussle by producing three flawless tie-breaks below stress to defeat Berrettini 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4), 2-6, 7-6 (4) and attain the third spherical.

“We’re superb pals, we play Davis Cup collectively, generally we practise collectively,” Sinner mentioned afterwards. “It’s clearly very, very robust that we needed to play one another in such an necessary event. At present was a really excessive stage match, I believed we each performed rather well. In three tie-breaks, I bought generally a bit fortunate, however I take it for as we speak.”

Since changing into the primary Italian man to achieve a grand slam ultimate since Adriano Panatta in 1976 and rising as excessive as No 6 within the ATP rankings, the previous three seasons of Berrettini’s profession have been ravaged by accidents and he fell as little as No 154 this yr. Whereas Berrettini fell out of relevance, Sinner has grown to turn into the most effective participant on the earth. This week marks his first grand slam event because the world no 1. Nonetheless, he continues to take his success in his stride.

Unseeded and susceptible, Berrettini’s brutal draw was additionally a particularly tough problem for Sinner. Together with his huge serve and forehand complemented by his depraved backhand slice and the weird really feel across the courtroom, Berrettini has turn into among the finest grass-court gamers over the previous few years.

Each gamers entered Centre Court docket serving extraordinarily nicely and frantically trying to take the primary strike with their forehands. The primary set tie-break, nonetheless, underlined the numerous extra choices that Sinner has in his recreation. His far larger defence, return of serve and backhand marked the distinction between them as he locked down his recreation and repeatedly drew out unforced errors from Berrettini to take a snug tie-break.

However after such a high-quality set, Berrettini’s confidence grew. He continued to eviscerate forehands and he annoyed Sinner together with his backhand slice, which skidded low on the grass. It was Berrettini who took the primary break of the match, establishing a 4-2 second-set lead.

However within the decisive moments, Sinner once more simply had extra margin and potentialities in his recreation. After retrieving the break, he opened the tie-break with a devastating backhand down-the-line winner and it set the tone as he dominated from contained in the baseline, suffocating Berrettini’s backhand and taking a two-set lead.

After two property of supreme focus, Sinner’s stage lastly dropped at first of the third set and the No 1 fully misplaced timing in his forehand. Berrettini continued to serve extremely nicely, shutting Sinner out of his service video games and drawing errors together with his slice because the match shifted. The 28-year-old rolled by means of the third set and broke for a 2-1 lead within the fourth set.

Nonetheless, Sinner didn’t panic. He returned brilliantly to instantly retrieve the break and as he rolled by means of his personal service video games, the stress on Berrettini’s shoulders grew. Down match level at 5-6, 40-advantage although, Berrettini responded by spectacularly recovering to carry serve with an unreturned serve, an ace and a forehand winner in fast succession. As soon as once more, Sinner saved his greatest tennis for probably the most decisive moments, his sensible return of serve the distinction between them as he closed out a wonderful battle late on Wednesday night time.

“I knew that I needed to elevate my stage as we speak if I wished to play in opposition to him,” he mentioned. “He performed ultimate right here, he’s a grass-court specialist. I used to be trying ahead to it. It was a problem for me to return on the courtroom. I used to be very proud of how I dealt with the scenario.”

Having been dealt a tough hand so early within the event, Sinner left Centre Court docket emboldened by how he managed the difficult moments in opposition to a wonderful participant. He’s shifting higher on grass than ever earlier than, he’s bodily sturdy after his current hip points and, most of all, he seems to be decided so as to add to his grand slam depend as quickly as potential.

After the defending champion Carlos Alcaraz had booked his place within the third spherical, he was instructed instantly afterwards that his subsequent opponent, Frances Tiafoe, mentioned he’s “coming after you”.

Alcaraz simply smiled. “I’m going for him,” he mentioned. The Alcaraz smile has turn into nearly as well-known as his forehand, a function of his exhilarating run to the title right here final yr. On Wednesday, the Spaniard improved because the match went on to see off Aleksandar Vukic 7-6 (5), 6-2, 6-2.

Ranked 69, the Australian made life uncomfortable for Alcaraz and served for the primary set however couldn’t shut it out. That was his final probability because the French Open champion gained the tie-break, earlier than pulling away to arrange his third-round assembly with Tiafoe.

“We performed a extremely good match on the US Open,” Alcaraz mentioned of the American. “I do know he’s a extremely gifted participant, a high one on grass. It’s going to be a extremely tough match however I’m able to take that problem, play a excessive stage of tennis and hopefully take him.”

The fifth seed, Daniil Medvedev, was being pushed so laborious by the Frenchman Alexandre Müller of their second-round match that he fully misplaced monitor of the rating.

After dropping some extent to path 6-3 in a tie-break, the Russian sat down on his chair pondering he had already misplaced the opening set to his 102nd-ranked opponent. He was then knowledgeable by the umpire that he was truly nonetheless alive within the first set and he returned to the baseline, solely to lose the following level anyway and fall behind.

Regardless of dropping that tie-break all of it turned out OK for Medvedev as he hit again to achieve the third spherical by successful the following three units.

“I believed it was 6-4 [not 5-3], I went somewhat loopy,” the 28-year-old mentioned. “I believed the set was gone. I heard the referee speaking to me. At one second I begin listening to: ‘Daniil, it’s 6-3.’ I’m like: ‘What are you speaking about? Then I see the rating. Don’t know if it ever occurred to me earlier than. Thought it was fairly humorous.”

Casper Ruud, seeded eight, was crushed in 4 units by Fabio Fognini. The Norwegian, who has solely just lately recovered from the after-effects of a parasite-related sickness, hit again from 5-2 down within the third set to increase the match however Fognini held on to win 6-4, 7-5, 6-7 (1), 6-3.

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SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas – A number of beachgoers on South Padre Island have been attacked by the identical shark on Independence Day, a time when the island is filled with locals and out-of-town guests for the vacation.

4 individuals injured

Texas Sport wardens confirmed two individuals have been bitten, a 3rd particular person was grazed and a fourth man was injured heading off a shark on South Padre Island on Thursday.

CNN reported two off-duty U.S. Border Patrol brokers pulled a sufferer from the water and utilized a tourniquet to the particular person’s leg.

Rayner Cardenas instructed KRGV his son-in-law was pulled underwater by the shark.

“Began swimming in direction of him, and he jumped out of the water and began saying, ‘Shark! Shark!’ And that’s when adrenaline kicked in, and I went proper after him.”

Cardenas saved his son-in-law by carrying him out of the water onto shore.

Brian McDaniel, who witnessed the aftermath, instructed KRGV, “How is that this really taking place proper now? It was very surreal.”

Nereyda Bazaldua instructed CNN she noticed her 18-year-old daughter, Victoria, and her different kids run out of the water.

Victoria had blood operating down her leg after a number of of the shark’s tooth scratched her leg, CNN reported. Bazaldua stated her daughter’s wound was minor and never deep. They plan on getting Victoria a tetanus shot.

The entire assaults have been believed to have been related to the identical shark, in response to Texas Sport Warden Captain Chris Dowdy.

Shark assault response

South Padre Island police have been first referred to as to the 4100 block of Gulf Boulevard round 11 a.m. on Thursday for a extreme shark chunk to a person’s leg.

Police and hearth division personnel supplied first support on the scene earlier than the person was transported to a Brownsville hospital.

In all, state park and wildlife officers stated two victims have been taken to the hospital. One of many victims acquired remedy in Brownsville, whereas the opposite was airlifted to an unknown location for additional remedy.

“Native sport wardens and members of the Texas Sport Warden Marine Tactical Operations Group assisted in patrolling the seaside by boat and land patrol whereas DPS patrolled the realm by helicopter and SPI PD and Cameron County rangers assisted with crowd management on the seaside,” Texas Parks and Wildlife Division stated in a information launch.

TPWD stated shark encounters of this nature are usually not widespread in Texas, and sharks might mistake individuals for meals.

What occurs subsequent

Dowdy stated the shark escaped to open waters, and there have been no plans to comprise it.

TPWD stated in case you encounter massive faculties of bait close to the shore, it may point out a predator is close by. It is best to stay calm and exit the water to attend for the animal to move.

Cameron County Decide Eddie Trevino Jr. stated the county could be working with the Metropolis of South Padre Island, and state and federal companies to patrol the seashores.

“This can be a horrendous occasion, the County will proceed to supply all sources wanted to maintain our households protected to one of the best of our skills. We drastically respect the help of our metropolis, state, and federal companions on this effort,” Trevino stated.

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Vladimir Tarasenko, who simply received his second Stanley Cup with the Florida Panthers, signed a two-year contract Wednesday with the Detroit Purple Wings price $4.75 million yearly.

Signing Tarasenko is the most recent transfer in what’s been a gentle offseason for the Purple Wings. It began June 30 once they re-signed three-time Stanley Cup winner and 2016 Hart Memorial Trophy recipient Patrick Kane to a one-year deal. Then, they introduced again Christian Fischer and Tyler Motte earlier than signing Jack Campbell, Erik Gustafsson and Cam Talbot in free company.

Nevertheless it additionally noticed the Purple Wings, a workforce that had 13 gamers with greater than 10 objectives, lose a few of their firepower. Jake Walman was traded to the San Jose Sharks, Shayne Gostisbehere signed with the Carolina Hurricanes and David Perron joined the Ottawa Senators.

The multitude of strikes left the Purple Wings with greater than $24 million in projected wage cap area and the truth they might do one thing later.

Come Wednesday, they added Tarasenko.

The 32-year-old winger will likely be enjoying for his fourth workforce since leaving the Blues, the workforce that drafted him sixteenth in 2010, in a commerce with the New York Rangers forward of the commerce deadline within the 2022-23 season. The Rangers additionally acquired Kane in a commerce with the Chicago Blackhawks that very same season.

His time with the Rangers noticed him rating eight objectives and 21 factors in 31 video games earlier than scoring three objectives and 4 factors in seven playoff video games.

Tarasenko then signed a one-year deal price $5 million with the Senators in free company. He was a part of an offseason haul that was designed to assist the Senators attain the playoffs for the primary time for the reason that 2016-17 season.

He scored 17 objectives and 41 factors in 57 video games solely to look at the Senators battle for consistency. They completed with the third-fewest factors within the NHL however traded Tarasenko to the eventual Stanley Cup champion Panthers.

Tarasenko’s influence was on the spot. He scored six objectives and 14 factors in 19 common season video games. That led to him scoring 5 objectives and 9 factors in 24 playoff contests with the Panthers warding off the Edmonton Oilers to win the primary title in workforce historical past.

Now Tarasenko heads to one of many NHL’s Authentic Six franchises that is on the lookout for a manner again into the playoffs.

From the 1990-91 season to the 2015-16 season, the one time the Purple Wings missed the playoffs got here throughout the 2004-05 lockout. Since then, the Purple Wings have gone eight straight years with out making the playoffs.

However they virtually made it this season. They completed with 91 factors and have been tied with the Washington Capitals. However the Capitals clinched the ultimate Jap Convention wild-card spot by way of a tiebreaker that noticed them have 32 regulation wins versus the Purple Wings’ 27.

With Tarasenko, the Purple Wings now have a ahead group that options J.T. Compher, Andrew Copp, Alex DeBrincat, Dylan Larkin, Lucas Raymond, and Kane whereas having what CapFriendly tasks is $20.042 million in cap area.

Shortly after they signed Tarasenko, the Purple Wings cleared $4 million in cap area after buying and selling winger Robby Fabbri and a conditional 2025 fourth-round choose to the Anaheim Geese in change for prospect goaltender Gage Alexander.

LONDON — A change election in the UK has taken place because the center-left Labour Social gathering received an enormous landslide, placing a crushing finish to the 14-year rule of the Conservative Social gathering, which suffered a document devastating defeat — maybe the worst in its historical past.

Voters have inflicted a historic wipe out on the Tory get together that led Britain by Brexit and, with virtually all outcomes known as, Labour has received over 400 seats, gaining an enormous majority of greater than 190, similar to Tony Blair’s sweeping victory in 1997. The Tories in the meantime have misplaced a whole lot of seats, on observe for the worst outcome for the reason that get together’s founding within the 1830s.

Labour’s Keir Starmer grew to become prime minister Friday morning after Rishi Sunak resigned in entrance of King Charles III and Starmer met him instantly after to ask for permission to type a authorities, a formality that was granted by the reigning monarch.

Starmer is now the the primary Labour chief to win an election since Tony Blair.

The result’s notable as a win for centrist progressives amid the far-right populist surge within the U.S. and plenty of different main Western nations because the British citizens voted overwhelming to comb out the Tories, blaming their anger on the crumbling state of Britain’s public companies and years of political chaos following Brexit.

Starmer solely grew to become the Labour chief in 2019 and has dragged his get together again to the middle floor, wrestling it away from the affect of Bernie Sanders-like left-wing former chief Jeremy Corbyn.

Starmer ran on a platform to “finish the chaos” and to start slowly reinvigorating Britain’s companies and infrastructure. He has additionally promised to maneuver away from tradition warfare debates, together with Brexit, saying the U.Okay. is not going to rejoin in his lifetime.

The Tories, in the meantime, are actually enduring what one in every of its main figures described final night time as an “electoral apocalypse.”

Lots of the get together’s best-known figures misplaced their seats on Thursday, together with a document variety of cupboard ministers, together with former Prime Minister Liz Truss who was unceremoniously swept apart, in addition to a lead campaigner of Brexit, Jacob Rees-Mogg.

Outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak held his personal seat however led a weak marketing campaign after selecting to name the snap election six weeks in the past, making repeated gaffes — most damagingly returning dwelling early from D-Day commemorations to do a TV interview. Sunak, the final of 5 consecutive conservative prime ministers since 2016, lasted simply 18 months within the job.

Labour has quite a lot of challenges in entrance of them now as they try to manipulate the nation because the Tories suffered such a large defeat, partially due to the rise of a far proper anti-immigrant populist get together, Reform, led by Brexiteer-in-chief, Nigel Farage, who lastly was elected to parliament, took big chunks of the Tory vote.

Additionally regarding for Labour, regardless of their monumental majority, the get together received a record-low proportion of the whole standard vote, solely round 35%. That means regardless of a powerful want for change and to offer Labour an opportunity, there may be little general enthusiasm for Starmer.

Starmer now faces a problem to satisfy the potential of his big majority. In contrast to when Blair got here to energy, the U.Okay. is dealing with a much more troublesome financial outlook and ominous state funds, making fixing Britain’s struggling public companies daunting.

Starmer, nevertheless, has acknowledged as a lot, saying all through the marketing campaign — and following his victory — that enchancment will probably be sluggish and arduous at first. He has promised to hit the bottom working, pledging to chop brief parliament’s summer time recess to start out work on his agenda, with Labour saying they are going to focus instantly on points like housing, in addition to confronting an pressing disaster of overcrowding in prisons.

The extra modest guarantees replicate the tougher realities Britain faces, however can be a marked change in tone from proper wing populist forces rising elsewhere throughout Europe.

(Bruxelles) Eddy Merckx, dépossédé de son report de victoires d’étapes sur le Tour de France après le 35^e succès de Mark Cavendish mercredi à Saint-Pulvas, a félicité le Britannique pour sa « prestation historique ».

« Félicitations Mark pour cette prestation historique. Un bon gars qui a battu mon report sur le Tour », a écrit le « Cannibale » sur son compte Instagram, accompagnant son message d’un cœur jaune.

L’été dernier, alors que Mark Cavendish venait de se briser la clavicule sur une route de Dordogne, Merckx avait été l’un des premiers à lui souhaiter un immediate rétablissement, exprimant sa tristesse de le voir quitter le Tour de France sur une chute.

Merck, 79 ans depuis quelques jours, s’était ensuite félicité du revirement de Cavendish lorsque le sprinteur avait in positive rempilé pour une ultime saison.

Les deux hommes nourrissent une réelle admiration l’un pour l’autre.

Mercredi le « Cav » a également témoigné son respect envers Merckx lors de ses interviews d’après-course.

« J’aime Eddy. Il a toujours été très gentil avec moi. Je n’ai rien enlevé au grand Eddy Merckx. Ce n’est qu’un chiffre. Eddy Merckx reste Eddy Merckx », a confié le coureur de l’équipe Astana.