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Football great Lionel Messi led his side to the final of the US Open Cup final on August 23, Wednesday. On the other hand, NBA star Jimmy Butler tried his hands at tennis and showed the world what it takes to defeat Carlos Alcaraz. In another corner of the world, the Indian women’s shuttler pair of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly got knocked out of the BWF World Championships 2023. A lot more and more happened in the on-the-go sporting industry. Here are the top headlines.
Jimmy Butler ‘defeats’ World Number 1 Carlos Alcaraz in U.S. Open 2023
NBA star Jimmy Butler, who made his debut as a ball boy in the US Open 2023 on Wednesday, August 23, ‘defeated’ Carlos Alcaraz. The Miami Heat star took down the World Number 1 tennis player and US Open Champion while they jokingly played a point. The incident took place when World Number 1 Alcaraz was taking on World Number 10 Frances Tiafoe, where Butler was serving as a ball boy.
BWF World Championships 2023: India’s rising pair Gayatri Gopichand-Treesa Jolly gets knocked out
India’s promising combination of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly was knocked out of the BWF World Championships 2023. The Indian shuttlers locked horns with the Chen Qing Chen-Jia Yi Fan pair of Chinese Taipei 2023. Gayarti-Treesa gave a tough fight to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Silver Medallists, but their efforts fell short and they lost the game 14-21, 9-21.
Messi assists twice and converts penalty to take Inter Miami to the US Open Cup final
Football great and Inter Miami captain Lionel Messi assisted twice and converted a penalty kick to lead his side to the U.S. Open Cup final. Riding on Messi’s heroics, Miami took down MLS-leading Cincinnati 5-4 in penalties in the U.S. Open Cup semifinal on August 23, Wednesday. The game started with Cincinnati taking an early lead 2-0 before Messi assisted two goals to Leonardo Campana.
With it, the score between both the teams reached 2-2. However, soon after it, Josef Martínez scored three minutes into the first extra period, only to get the score tied after Yuya Kubo’s 114th-minute goal. In the penalty shootout, Messi made the first attempt, and after four perfect rounds, Benjamin Cremaschi made his penalty kick and led his side to the win.
Magnus Carlsen defeats R Praggnanandhaa to win FIDE World Cup 2023
The world's number one chess player, Magnus Carlsen from Norway, defeated one of the youngest grandmasters in the history of chess, R Praggnanandhaa from India, to win the FIDE World Cup 2023 trophy, in Baku, Azerbaijan. The 32-year-old clinched the tournament for the first time in his career with the score of 3-1 in the tiebreaker on August 24, Thursday.
Abhinav Tejan and Ibrahim Gulrez to represent India in World Esports Championships 2023 in Tekken 7 and eFootball 2023
Two of India’s biggest Esports talents, Abhinav Tejan and Ibrahim Gulrez are set to proudly carry the nation’s flag and fight for glory at the 15th World Esports Championships (WEC) in Iasi, Romania from August 26. While Tejan will be competing in the Tekken 7 title, Gulrez will battle it out in eFootball 2023 for a share of the whopping prize pool of $500,000 (INR 4.12 crore).
