New York (dpa)
Norwegian tennis star Casper Ruud said that he does not expect to be as popular as his compatriot soccer star Erling Haaland in his country, even if he beat Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz and crowned the US Open title “Flushing Meadows” and topped the world rankings.
Casper Rudd will compete with Alcaraz for the US title, the fourth of the four Grand Slam tournaments, tomorrow, Sunday, and winning the first title of either of them in the Grand Slam tournaments will determine the top spot in the ATP rankings.
Ruud is already the best tennis player in Norway’s history, and he gained his love for the game from his father Christian, who was in the top 50 in the world rankings in the 1990s.
This is an exceptional period in the sporting history of Norway, as the athletes of that small country have not only achieved the lead in traditional winter sports, but also achieved advanced positions in the athletics titles, triathlons, as well as tennis.
Football stadiums are also witnessing a huge brilliance for Haaland, the former Borussia Dortmund star, who is currently the scoring machine for Manchester City.
“He’s been having an amazing season so far,” Rudd said of compatriot Haaland. We all hope that he will continue to do so. It’s fun to watch him score one goal following another.”
He added: “He is, of course, the most prominent star in Norway at the moment. It may remain so for many years to come.”
Rudd continued, “My focus is only on my professional career. Of course, I hope to win more championships during my career. I would like to represent Norway well and raise Norway’s position on the tennis map even more than it has been in past years.”
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Halland’s brilliance is a continuous show – Al-Ittihad newspaper
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Berlin (DPA)
Norwegian international sniper Erling Haaland continued his amazing start with his new team, Manchester City, and led him to a 4-0 victory at the Spanish stadium of Seville, in the first round of the Group G matches of the Champions League.
The German Borussia Dortmund also started his career in the new version of the tournament in a wonderful way, and beat its Danish guest Copenhagen 3-0.
And at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium, Haaland scored two goals once morest Sevilla, following scoring ten goals in six matches in the English Premier League, in the best possible start with Manchester City following coming from the ranks of Borussia Dortmund this summer.
Halland opened the scoring in the 20th minute, following receiving a pass from Kevin De Bruyne and meeting it with a neat shot into the Spanish net.
Philip Foden added the second goal for City in the 58th minute, following a pass from Joao Cancelo inside the penalty area, which Foden handled well, as he managed to deceive the Spanish defense and hit a crawling ball into the left corner of the Sevilla goal.
The referee canceled a goal scored by Ilkay Gundogan for City in the 64th minute due to an offside by Philip Foden.
Haaland returned and scored his second and third goal for Manchester City in the 68th minute, following a follow-up to Philip Foden’s shot from inside the penalty area, which goalkeeper Yassin Bono kept away from the Norwegian sniper easily from six yards away into the empty goal.
Robin Diaz concluded City’s goals in added time for the match, following a pass from Joao Cancelo, Diaz met with a shot from inside the penalty area into the net.
City and Dortmund shared the top spot in Group G with three points each, but City are ahead on goal difference.
At the Signal Iduna Park, the first half ended with Dortmund leading with two goals, as captain Marco Reus opened the scoring in the 35th minute, and seven minutes later the Portuguese Rafael Guerreiro added the second goal.
In the second half, young Englishman Jude Bellingham confirmed Dortmund’s victory by scoring the third goal seven minutes before the end.
Dortmund had more public support than usual in the European championships, due to the application of the experience of fans standing behind the goal.
Rios and Anthony Modeste missed the opportunity to open the scoring early for Dortmund, in the presence of Ivorian striker Sebastian Haller on the field, as he continued to recover from testicular cancer.
Copenhagen rarely managed to threaten Dortmund goalkeeper Alexander Mayer, who replaced the injured main goalkeeper Gregor Kopel.
He comes, SEES and hits.
Record start for ex-BVB striker Erling Haaland (22) in England! Two blitz hat-tricks once morest Crystal Palace (in 19 minutes) and Nottingham (in 26 minutes), nine goals in total in the first five Premier League games – no one has managed that before the new Man City striker.
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A “tone” appeared on social media a few weeks ago, saying that Erling Haaland would need time to adapt to the “Premier League” because it differs from the “Bundesliga”, but the “Norwegian missile” responded strongly to start early “manipulating” the history of the Premier League, as Guardiola did. Years ago.
Halland reached his ninth goal following only 5 rounds of the “Premier League”, to confirm that he does not stop scoring goals no matter how different the tournaments, but that his current “amazing” statistics make the English Premier League “a picnic” for him, compared to what he presented in Germany, Austria and even Norway, Manchester City’s “goal machine” has so far scored an average of 1.8 goals per game in the “Premier League”, which is “double” what it achieved with Dortmund in the “Bundesliga”, where its average ranged between 0.86 and 0.96 goals per match, and it is true that he is still in The beginning, but the difference is “terrifying”!
Norway’s best “rocket” rate with Austrian Salzburg years ago was 1.14 goals per game, and of course its numbers in the Norwegian League were less than that, and it seems that the “wave of ridicule” that underestimated what he had done in most tournaments once morest the strength of the “Premier League” had reversed in a way In reverse, all the goals of the “smiling killer” came inside the penalty area, including 5 inside the 6 yards, and he used his head twice to score once morest a goal in his right and 6 in his left. Penalty.
There is no dispute that Guardiola found the “scoring monster” he searched for with “Blomon”, so that “City Pep” continues to destroy all the constants that English football has known for years, and as some have previously bet that the “genius” will not impose his “philosophy” in England, but what happened It is the opposite, as Pep’s “possession” of the ball on the field was not limited to rates that the “Premier League” did not know before, but extended to absolute control of the title of the same championship by winning 4 cups in the last 5 years, which has not happened since the era of “legendary” Alex Ferguson. With United, the “philosopher” also turned tactical matters upside down and left his mark on the England team’s performance, as he did in Spain and Germany previously. It was not surprising that he broke dozens of records in the history of the league, such as the largest number of points and the highest scoring rate with 100 points and 106 goals. In the 2017-2018 edition, just one season following his move to England!