Chris Jones is in Bucharest with Canada’s men’s soccer team ahead of Friday’s game vs. Romania as it continues preparations for next year’s FIFA World Cup. Building a national team during brief international windows is like building armour between battles: You need to make something bulletproof in a hurry. Jesse Marsch, the head coach of the Canadian men’s soccer…
Felix Auger-Aliassime is into the semifinals of the U.S. Open, exactly four years after the first and only time the 25-year-old Canadian had reached the final four at a Grand Slam tournament. Seeded 25th, Auger-Aliassime upset No. 8 seed Alex de Minaur of Australia 4-6, 7-6 (7), 7-5, 7-6 (4) in Wednesday’s quarterfinal to advance….
Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe are one step closer to a second U.S. Open women’s doubles title. The third seeds rallied Tuesday to defeat the 11th-seeded Timea Babos of Hungary and Brazil’s Luisa Stefani 0-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the quarterfinals. In a later quarterfinal match, the wild-card ride finally ended for the…
As Felix Auger-Aliassime moves on to the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first time since 2021, don’t call him “Felix 2.0”. He’s not reinvented as much as he is refreshed, healthy again, and with the passing of the years, more experienced and mature. “It feels even better than the first time,” a beaming Auger-Aliassime said…
Courtney Sarault earned two more wins to extend her gold-medal streak to nine and finish as the women’s short track speedskating national champion on Sunday. The Moncton native’s 30,000 points across her top six distances gave her a comfortable lead over the next closest competitor, Kim Boutin (21,760). Sarault won Sunday’s 1,500-metre event with a…
Canada’s Denis Shapovalov was ousted from the U.S. Open following a 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 third-round loss to top-ranked Jannik Sinner of Italy on Saturday in New York. The Richmond Hill, Ont., native leapt out to a 5-2 lead until Sinner stormed back to knot things up at 5-5 before the 27th-seeded Shapovalov took the…
Whatever happens the rest of the way at the Rugby World Cup in England, Canadian fullback Julia Schell has already had a tournament to remember. The 29-year-old from Uxbridge, Ont., who had just three tries in her first 26 outings for Canada, scored six in the second-ranked Canadian women’s 65-7 romp over No. 14 Fiji…
Keegan Messing’s return to competitive skating comes as little surprise to those who’ve followed him closely since his retirement. For the past two years, Messing has been performing in rinks around the world on show tours with Kurt Browning, and the Canadian figure skating legend says if anything, his triple axels look cleaner. “I’ve just…
For the second contest in a row at this U.S. Open, Novak Djokovic appeared a bit sluggish, a bit off, for a stretch. This time, he even dropped the opening set. And then, as always at Flushing Meadows, the 24-time Grand Slam champion progressed to the third round. Djokovic improved to 36-0 across the first…
Denis Shapovalov and Felix Auger-Aliassime moved on to the second round of the U.S. Open after the seeded Canadians each posted a straight-sets victory Tuesday. Shapovalov, seeded 27th in the men’s draw, won his first-round match in convincing style by downing Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics 6-4, 6-4, 6-0. The 25th-seeded Auger-Aliassime got a little more fight…
