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Rublev Beats Top-seeded Defending Champion Sinner to Reach Montreal Semifinals

MONTREAL, CANADA - AUGUST 10: Andrey Rublev celebrates a 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 victory against Jannik Sinner of Italy in the Men's Singles quarterfinals round match during Day Five of the ATP Masters 1000 National Bank Open at Stade IGA on August 10, 2024 in Montreal, Canada. Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images/AFP
MONTREAL, CANADA - AUGUST 10: Andrey Rublev celebrates a 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 victory against Jannik Sinner of Italy in the Men's Singles quarterfinals round match during Day Five of the ATP Masters 1000 National Bank Open at Stade IGA on August 10, 2024 in Montreal, Canada. Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images/AFP
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Rublev Beats Top-seeded Defending Champion Sinner to Reach Montreal Semifinals

MONTREAL, CANADA - AUGUST 10: Andrey Rublev celebrates a 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 victory against Jannik Sinner of Italy in the Men's Singles quarterfinals round match during Day Five of the ATP Masters 1000 National Bank Open at Stade IGA on August 10, 2024 in Montreal, Canada. Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images/AFP
MONTREAL, CANADA - AUGUST 10: Andrey Rublev celebrates a 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 victory against Jannik Sinner of Italy in the Men's Singles quarterfinals round match during Day Five of the ATP Masters 1000 National Bank Open at Stade IGA on August 10, 2024 in Montreal, Canada. Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images/AFP

Fifth-seeded Andrey Rublev outlasted top-seeded defending champion Jannik Sinner 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 on Saturday night to reach the semifinals in the rain-delayed National Bank Open, The Associated Press reported.
Rublev beat Brandon Nakashima 6-2, 6-2 earlier Saturday, while Sinner also was playing his second match of the day after topping beat Alejandro Tabilo 6-4, 6-3 in the afternoon.
Rain washed out play Thursday night and all of Friday as remnants of Tropical Storm Debby rolled through, putting the event set to end Monday behind schedule.
Sinner missed the Olympics because of tonsillitis after a quarterfinal loss at Wimbledon. In January, the Italian star won the Australian Open final for his first Grand Slam title.
Rublev has victories this year in Madrid and Hong Kong. The 26-year-old Russian will face Matteo Arnaldi in the semifinals. Arnaldi beat Kei Nishikori 6-4, 7-5 in the late match.
The other two quarterfinals were pushed back to Sunday. Second-seeded Alexander Zverev was set to face Sebastian Korda, the winner last week in Washington, while fourth-seeded Hubert Hurkacz was scheduled to play Alexei Popyrin.
Zverev beat 13th-seeded Holger Rune 6-3, 7-6 (5).
Korda topped ninth-seeded Taylor Fritz 6-4, 7-6 (4) in a second-round match that was originally scheduled for Thursday night, then moved on after sixth-seeded Casper Ruud withdrew because of illness.
Popyrin beat seventh-seeded Grigor Dimitrov 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3. Hurkacz beat Thanasi Kokkinakis 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (6) in the second round, then topped Arthur Rinderknech 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.

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It Was Stressful, but We Did It, Paris 2024 Olympics Organizers Say

A worker takes down Olympic signage from the pontoon used for swim events along the Seine River ahead of tomorrow's closing ceremony at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP)
A worker takes down Olympic signage from the pontoon used for swim events along the Seine River ahead of tomorrow's closing ceremony at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP)
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It Was Stressful, but We Did It, Paris 2024 Olympics Organizers Say

A worker takes down Olympic signage from the pontoon used for swim events along the Seine River ahead of tomorrow's closing ceremony at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP)
A worker takes down Olympic signage from the pontoon used for swim events along the Seine River ahead of tomorrow's closing ceremony at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP)

What started with a major security scare and torrential rain that threatened the smooth running of the elaborate opening ceremony and swimming events being held in the Seine, ended with the river playing its expected central part in the Olympics.

Paris 2024 organizing committee president Tony Estanguet said it had been stressful and adjustments had had to be made, but the triple Olympic champion was beaming with pride as he reflected on Saturday on a successful Games.

"The ambition we had was worth fighting for, we made strong choices, bold choices that are not always the easiest ones," Estanguet told a press conference a day before the Games end.

The Games, with iconic Parisian landmarks integrated in many urban competition venues, have scored strong ratings in key markets, including in the United States for rights holder NBCUniversal, the biggest single source of revenues for the International Olympic Committee.

Organizers had decided marathon swimming and the swimming legs of the triathlon would take place on the Seine, just like the globally acclaimed opening ceremony - the first time one had been held outside a stadium.

And while training sessions and were delayed and the men's triathlon was pushed back due to concerns over the water quality after heavy rain, the events that had been due to happen in the river did go ahead.

"Swimming in the river Seine, we have faced challenges but we did it, we delivered this ambition, that's why it's a fantastic success so far," Estanguet said.

"We've had so much rain (on opening ceremony day), it was not the plan. We had anticipated some rain but we've had to adjust in the final hours and change a lot of things so that this ceremony could happen.

"Yes, I was stressed because I did not know to what extent the artists would manage to adapt to these crazy condition. It was quite an achievement from them."

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The weather complicated the ambition to swim in the Seine.

"We had no guarantees on storms, some of them were not anticipated and happened, others were anticipated and did not happen," Estanguet said.

"We were not spared," Paris 2024 CEO Etienne Thobois said. "We had contingency plans and every time we were ready. There were moments of stress but everyone reacted with professionalism. The preparation work was perfect."

Security was another major challenge. Saboteurs struck France's TGV high-speed train network in a series of pre-dawn attacks across the country, causing travel chaos on the morning of the opening ceremony.

"Let's remember those attacks, we responded swiftly, the accreditation system was impacted (by a cyber attack) but we solved the problem within four hours," Thobois said.

The Games were also rated as a success by the IOC, with the Paris Games coordination commission chief Pierre-Olivier Beckers-Vieujant praising organizers for the venues, full stadiums and satisfying global ratings.

"If there had been an audacious, daring script for these Games it would have read like that. These Games have set a high benchmark," Beckers-Vieujant told the IOC session on Saturday.

"The Games have truly been embraced by Parisians ... Indeed by the whole world. More than half of the worldwide population will have followed in some form the Olympic Games over the past two weeks."