स्पोर्ट्स

VIDEO SHOWS: PRESS BRIEFING OF SERBIA COACH DRAGAN STOJKOVIC SAYING HE IS THE ONLY PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR LOSS TO ALBANIA, OFFERING RESIGNATION AND ALBANIA COACH SYLVIO MENDES CAMPOS JUNIOR 'SYLVINHO', SAYING THE MATCH WAS DIFFICULT AND HE IS PROUD OF THE PLAYERS COMPLETE SHOTLIST AND SCRIPT TO FOLLOW SHOWS: LESKOVAC, SERBIA (OCTOBER 11, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) STORY: (Production: Branko Filipovic, Kurt Michael Hall)

(The article has been published through a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has been published verbatim. Liability lies with original publisher.)

VIDEO SHOWS: PRESS BRIEFING OF SERBIA COACH DRAGAN STOJKOVIC SAYING HE IS THE ONLY PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR LOSS TO ALBANIA, OFFERING RESIGNATION AND ALBANIA COACH SYLVIO MENDES CAMPOS JUNIOR 'SYLVINHO', SAYING THE MATCH WAS DIFFICULT AND HE IS PROUD OF THE PLAYERS COMPLETE SHOTLIST AND SCRIPT TO FOLLOW SHOWS: LESKOVAC, SERBIA (OCTOBER 11, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) STORY: (Production: Branko Filipovic, Kurt Michael Hall)

(The article has been published through a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has been published verbatim. Liability lies with original publisher.)

VIDEO SHOWS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM IRAQ V INDONESIA WORLD CUP QUALIFYING MATCH SHOWS: JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA (OCTOBER 11, 2025) (AFC – See restrictions) IRAQ V INDONESIA (RED JERSEYS) AT KING ABDULLAH SPORTS CITY 1ST HALF 1. INDONESIA SCORING CHANCE – CORNER KICK IS HEADED WIDE BY MAURO ZIJLSTRA 2. REPLAY OF ZIJLSTRA HEADING CORNER KICK WIDE 2ND HALF 3. INDONESIA SCORING CHANCE – CENTERING PASS DEFLECTS TO KEVIN DIKS WHO TAKES SHOT THAT IS SAVED BY IRAQ GOALKEEPER JALAL HASSAN TO KEEP MATCH SCORELESS 4. REPLAY OF DIKS SHOT AND HASSAN SAVE 5. IRAQ GOAL – ZIDANE IQBAL WITH NICE MOVE AND SHOT THAT GETS PAST INDONESIA GOALKEEPER MAARTEN PAES IN 76TH MINUTE. IRAQ 1-0 INDONESIA 6. REPLAYS OF IQBAL GOAL 7. REPLAYS OF IRAQ'S ZAID TAHSEEN (#4) HITTING INDONESIA'S DIKS (#2) IN HEAD IN STOPPAGE TIME 8. REFEREE GIVING TAHSEEN HIS SECOND YELLOW CARD OF MATCH AND THEN RED CARD AND HE IS EJECTED IN 90+9 MINUTE OF STOPPAGE TIME 9. IRAQ MANAGER GRAHAM ARNOLD CELEBRATING 1-0 WIN AFTER REFEREE BLOWS WHISTLE TO END MATCH 10. FANS CELEBRATING 11. PLAYERS AFTER MATCH 12. INDONESIA MANAGER PATRICK KLUIVERT (IN MIDDLE) ON BENCH WITH ASSISTANTS AFTER LOSS STORY: Iraq sealed a 1-0 victory over Indonesia in Jeddah on Saturday (October 11) to maintain their hopes of a first World Cup appearance since 1986 as Zidane Iqbal's second-half strike eliminated Patrick Kluivert's side from Asia's qualifiers for next year's finals. Former Manchester United midfielder Iqbal, who currently plays his club football for Utrecht, netted with 14 minutes remaining after coming off the bench at the start of the second half for Graham Arnold's team. The result means Iraq will face Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, with the winners of the tie qualifying for the World Cup while the runners-up advance to another round of preliminaries. Indonesia, meanwhile, have been eliminated after two losses. The Southeast Asians had looked the more likely to pick up the victory needed to keep their own World Cup dream alive. Kevin Diks glanced his early header wide of the Iraq goal and Thom Haye was narrowly off target with a strike from distance soon after as the Indonesians made a bright start. Mauro Zijlstra was denied his first international goal by a last-ditch tackle by Manaf Younis, the Iraq defender snuffing out the opportunity at close range as the 20-year-old forward latched onto Haye's pass into the six-yard box. Sherko Karim's header that flew over the bar in the 29th minute was as close as Iraq came to troubling Indonesia goalkeeper Maarten Paes with Kluivert's side controlling the opening 45 minutes without reward. A mistake by Rizky Ridho was to cost the Indonesians, however, as the defender gifted Iraq possession and the ball eventually ended up at the feet of Iqbal, who slotted a perfect finish into the bottom corner from the edge of the area. Tempers flared as the final whistle approached, with Indonesia captain Jay Idzes acting as peacemaker when his side's fans pelted the pitch with water bottles in disgust at a disputed decision by referee Ma Ning from China. Zaid Tahseen was sent off for a second bookable offence nine minutes into stoppage time but Iraq held on to maintain their hopes of joining Japan, South Korea, Australia, Iran, Uzbekistan and Jordan as Asia's representatives at next year's finals. (Production: David Grip)

(The article has been published through a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has been published verbatim. Liability lies with original publisher.)

VIDEO SHOWS: HIGHLIGHTS OF MEN'S SINGLES SEMI-FINAL BETWEEN DANIIL MEDVEDEV AND ARTHUR RINDERKNECH AT THE SHANGHAI MASTERS FULL SCRIPT AND SHOTLIST TO FOLLOW EDITORS NOTE: WATCH OUT FOR SWEARING FROM MEDVEDEV AT THE END OF MATCH SHOWS: SHANGHAI, CHINA (OCTOBER 11, 2025) (ATP MEDIA/ IMG – see restrictions before use)

(The article has been published through a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has been published verbatim. Liability lies with original publisher.)

VIDEO SHOWS: SOUNDBITES FROM THE ON COURT INTERVIEWS WITH THE SHANGHAI OPEN FINALISTS VALENTIN VACHEROT AND HIS COUSIN ARTHUR RINDERKNECH RESENDING WITH SHOTLIST  AND SCRIPT  SHOWS: SHANGHAI, CHINA (OCTOBER 11) (ATP MEDIA/IMG – Editorial use only. No Monetisation. No resales) 1. (SOUNDBITE) (French) SHANGHAI MASTERS FINALIST VALETIN VACHEROT ON REACHING HIS FIRST MASTERS FINAL, SAYING: "Maybe it's just my moment, it's maybe everything I've done since the first day I picked up a tennis racket, and my career, in parentheses let’s say, well, it's the launch. I don't expect to hear the Monegasque anthem. It's magnificent. But like I said, I think everything has fallen into place. All the work I've done has fallen into place this week and what's great is that I'm going to be able to leave it in a corner of my head. Even if I've already done it in training. I'm going to be able to keep it in a corner of my head and try to continue to do that throughout my career." 2. (SOUNDBITE) (French) SHANGHAI MASTERS FINALIST ARTHUR RINDERKNECH ON PLAYING HIS COUSIN ON SUNDAY, SAYING: "I just want to enjoy tomorrow (October 12), we'll see, we'll see what he does tomorrow, we'll have fun like when we played when we were 12 years old and. And we'll see. I think there are two winners today, there will be two winners tomorrow night, and there will be no losers." 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SHANGHAI MASTERS FINALIST VALETIN VACHEROT ON THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED HIM BECOME A PROFESSIONAL, SAYING: "Thanks to my parents, thanks to my family already, you know, when I was growing up, my brother Benjamin, that's over there was playing on the tour and he was ranked most of his career around the 200 in the world. And for me that was already unreal to be 200 in the world. I mean, me looking and just now to be here and then just I gotta say, it's so much thank you to to Steve Denton, Kevin O'Shea and all the coaches in Texas A&M, because they taught me the same thing, just to work hard. This is  probably where I learned how to be a professional tennis player and to stop just playing for fun. You know, to really work as a professional and to be as high in the ranking and then say thank you to now that the Monaco Federation, we're such a small family and we're pushing each other." 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SHANGHAI MASTERS FINALIST ARTHUR RINDERKNECH ON PLAYING HIS COUSIN IN THE FINAL, SAYING: "I don't know. Even in the, in the best dreams, we couldn't we couldn't have dreamt about about this. So I can't even say it's a dream because I don't think even one person in our family dreamt about it. So it wasn't a dream. It's just a dream that came out of nowhere and you know, we started believing it. I'll say in the quarters maybe I was like, 'who knows?' You know, it's really hard. Maybe one guy or two can pull out or whatever can happen. And you know, now we are here and we fought through so many matches and somehow we are the both guys standing at the end, so just incredible." STORY: A storybook ending is coming to Shanghai on Sunday (October 12) as cousins Arthur Rinderknech and Valentin Vacherot meet in a highly improbable final at the Rolex Shanghai Masters. It is the first ATP Masters 1000 final for both men and Vacherot, at No. 204, is the lowest-ranked finalist in Masters 1000 history. It will also be the first head-to-head meeting between France's Rinderknech and Monaco's Vacherot. Vacherot, a qualifier, stunned four-time Shanghai champion and No. 4 seed Novak Djokovic of Serbia 6-3, 6-4 in one hour and 43 minutes in Saturday's (October 11) first semi-final. Rinderknech, also unseeded, rallied for a 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 victory against 2019 Shanghai winner and No. 16 seed Daniil Medvedev of Russia in two hours and 30 minutes. The cousins, who both played college tennis at Texas A&M, embraced courtside after Medvedev double-faulted to end the match. "In the best dreams, we couldn't have dreamt about this, so I can't even say it's a dream, because I don't think even one person in our family dreamt about it," Rinderknech said. (Production: Simon Ormiston)

(The article has been published through a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has been published verbatim. Liability lies with original publisher.)

VIDEO SHOWS: SOUNDBITES FROM THE ON COURT INTERVIEWS WITH THE SHANGHAI OPEN FINALISTS VALENTIN VACHEROT AND HIS COUSIN ARTHUR RINDERKNECH RESENDING WITH SHOTLIST  AND SCRIPT  SHOWS: SHANGHAI, CHINA (OCTOBER 11) (ATP MEDIA/IMG – Editorial use only. No Monetisation. No resales) 1. (SOUNDBITE) (French) SHANGHAI MASTERS FINALIST VALETIN VACHEROT ON REACHING HIS FIRST MASTERS FINAL, SAYING: "Maybe it's just my moment, it's maybe everything I've done since the first day I picked up a tennis racket, and my career, in parentheses let’s say, well, it's the launch. I don't expect to hear the Monegasque anthem. It's magnificent. But like I said, I think everything has fallen into place. All the work I've done has fallen into place this week and what's great is that I'm going to be able to leave it in a corner of my head. Even if I've already done it in training. I'm going to be able to keep it in a corner of my head and try to continue to do that throughout my career." 2. (SOUNDBITE) (French) SHANGHAI MASTERS FINALIST ARTHUR RINDERKNECH ON PLAYING HIS COUSIN ON SUNDAY, SAYING: "I just want to enjoy tomorrow (October 12), we'll see, we'll see what he does tomorrow, we'll have fun like when we played when we were 12 years old and. And we'll see. I think there are two winners today, there will be two winners tomorrow night, and there will be no losers." 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SHANGHAI MASTERS FINALIST VALETIN VACHEROT ON THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED HIM BECOME A PROFESSIONAL, SAYING: "Thanks to my parents, thanks to my family already, you know, when I was growing up, my brother Benjamin, that's over there was playing on the tour and he was ranked most of his career around the 200 in the world. And for me that was already unreal to be 200 in the world. I mean, me looking and just now to be here and then just I gotta say, it's so much thank you to to Steve Denton, Kevin O'Shea and all the coaches in Texas A&M, because they taught me the same thing, just to work hard. This is  probably where I learned how to be a professional tennis player and to stop just playing for fun. You know, to really work as a professional and to be as high in the ranking and then say thank you to now that the Monaco Federation, we're such a small family and we're pushing each other." 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SHANGHAI MASTERS FINALIST ARTHUR RINDERKNECH ON PLAYING HIS COUSIN IN THE FINAL, SAYING: "I don't know. Even in the, in the best dreams, we couldn't we couldn't have dreamt about about this. So I can't even say it's a dream because I don't think even one person in our family dreamt about it. So it wasn't a dream. It's just a dream that came out of nowhere and you know, we started believing it. I'll say in the quarters maybe I was like, 'who knows?' You know, it's really hard. Maybe one guy or two can pull out or whatever can happen. And you know, now we are here and we fought through so many matches and somehow we are the both guys standing at the end, so just incredible." STORY: A storybook ending is coming to Shanghai on Sunday (October 12) as cousins Arthur Rinderknech and Valentin Vacherot meet in a highly improbable final at the Rolex Shanghai Masters. It is the first ATP Masters 1000 final for both men and Vacherot, at No. 204, is the lowest-ranked finalist in Masters 1000 history. It will also be the first head-to-head meeting between France's Rinderknech and Monaco's Vacherot. Vacherot, a qualifier, stunned four-time Shanghai champion and No. 4 seed Novak Djokovic of Serbia 6-3, 6-4 in one hour and 43 minutes in Saturday's (October 11) first semi-final. Rinderknech, also unseeded, rallied for a 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 victory against 2019 Shanghai winner and No. 16 seed Daniil Medvedev of Russia in two hours and 30 minutes. The cousins, who both played college tennis at Texas A&M, embraced courtside after Medvedev double-faulted to end the match. "In the best dreams, we couldn't have dreamt about this, so I can't even say it's a dream, because I don't think even one person in our family dreamt about it," Rinderknech said. (Production: Simon Ormiston)

(The article has been published through a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has been published verbatim. Liability lies with original publisher.)

VIDEO SHOWS: SOUNDBITES FROM THE ON COURT INTERVIEWS WITH THE SHANGHAI OPEN FINALISTS VALENTIN VACHEROT AND HIS COUSIN ARTHUR RINDERKNECH RESENDING WITH SHOTLIST  AND SCRIPT  SHOWS: SHANGHAI, CHINA (OCTOBER 11) (ATP MEDIA/IMG – Editorial use only. No Monetisation. No resales) 1. (SOUNDBITE) (French) SHANGHAI MASTERS FINALIST VALETIN VACHEROT ON REACHING HIS FIRST MASTERS FINAL, SAYING: "Maybe it's just my moment, it's maybe everything I've done since the first day I picked up a tennis racket, and my career, in parentheses let’s say, well, it's the launch. I don't expect to hear the Monegasque anthem. It's magnificent. But like I said, I think everything has fallen into place. All the work I've done has fallen into place this week and what's great is that I'm going to be able to leave it in a corner of my head. Even if I've already done it in training. I'm going to be able to keep it in a corner of my head and try to continue to do that throughout my career." 2. (SOUNDBITE) (French) SHANGHAI MASTERS FINALIST ARTHUR RINDERKNECH ON PLAYING HIS COUSIN ON SUNDAY, SAYING: "I just want to enjoy tomorrow (October 12), we'll see, we'll see what he does tomorrow, we'll have fun like when we played when we were 12 years old and. And we'll see. I think there are two winners today, there will be two winners tomorrow night, and there will be no losers." 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SHANGHAI MASTERS FINALIST VALETIN VACHEROT ON THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED HIM BECOME A PROFESSIONAL, SAYING: "Thanks to my parents, thanks to my family already, you know, when I was growing up, my brother Benjamin, that's over there was playing on the tour and he was ranked most of his career around the 200 in the world. And for me that was already unreal to be 200 in the world. I mean, me looking and just now to be here and then just I gotta say, it's so much thank you to to Steve Denton, Kevin O'Shea and all the coaches in Texas A&M, because they taught me the same thing, just to work hard. This is  probably where I learned how to be a professional tennis player and to stop just playing for fun. You know, to really work as a professional and to be as high in the ranking and then say thank you to now that the Monaco Federation, we're such a small family and we're pushing each other." 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SHANGHAI MASTERS FINALIST ARTHUR RINDERKNECH ON PLAYING HIS COUSIN IN THE FINAL, SAYING: "I don't know. Even in the, in the best dreams, we couldn't we couldn't have dreamt about about this. So I can't even say it's a dream because I don't think even one person in our family dreamt about it. So it wasn't a dream. It's just a dream that came out of nowhere and you know, we started believing it. I'll say in the quarters maybe I was like, 'who knows?' You know, it's really hard. Maybe one guy or two can pull out or whatever can happen. And you know, now we are here and we fought through so many matches and somehow we are the both guys standing at the end, so just incredible." STORY: A storybook ending is coming to Shanghai on Sunday (October 12) as cousins Arthur Rinderknech and Valentin Vacherot meet in a highly improbable final at the Rolex Shanghai Masters. It is the first ATP Masters 1000 final for both men and Vacherot, at No. 204, is the lowest-ranked finalist in Masters 1000 history. It will also be the first head-to-head meeting between France's Rinderknech and Monaco's Vacherot. Vacherot, a qualifier, stunned four-time Shanghai champion and No. 4 seed Novak Djokovic of Serbia 6-3, 6-4 in one hour and 43 minutes in Saturday's (October 11) first semi-final. Rinderknech, also unseeded, rallied for a 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 victory against 2019 Shanghai winner and No. 16 seed Daniil Medvedev of Russia in two hours and 30 minutes. The cousins, who both played college tennis at Texas A&M, embraced courtside after Medvedev double-faulted to end the match. "In the best dreams, we couldn't have dreamt about this, so I can't even say it's a dream, because I don't think even one person in our family dreamt about it," Rinderknech said. (Production: Simon Ormiston)

(The article has been published through a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has been published verbatim. Liability lies with original publisher.)

VIDEO SHOWS: FIA EXTREME H WORLD CUP DAY THREE HIGHLIGHTS FULL SHOTLIST AND SCRIPT TO FOLLOW SHOWS: QIDDIYA CITY, SAUDI ARABIA (OCTOBER 10, 2025) (EXTREME H – See restrictions)

(The article has been published through a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has been published verbatim. Liability lies with original publisher.)

VIDEO SHOWS: DEMONSTRATORS IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE DEMONSTRATE OUTSIDE STADIUM WHERE ISRAEL AND NORWAY  PLAYED A WORLD CUP QUALIFIER / POLICE SPRAYING DEMONSTRATORS WITH TEAR GAS FROM SPRAY CANISTERS AS THEY PUSH THEM BACK AWAY FROM STADIUM COMPLETE SHOTLIST AND SCRIPT TO FOLLOW SHOWS: OSLO, NORWAY (OCTOBER 11, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) STORY: (Production: Tom Little, Kurt Michael Hall)

(The article has been published through a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has been published verbatim. Liability lies with original publisher.)

VIDEO SHOWS: DEMONSTRATORS IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE DEMONSTRATE OUTSIDE STADIUM WHERE ISRAEL AND NORWAY  PLAYED A WORLD CUP QUALIFIER / POLICE SPRAYING DEMONSTRATORS WITH TEAR GAS FROM SPRAY CANISTERS AS THEY PUSH THEM BACK AWAY FROM STADIUM COMPLETE SHOTLIST AND SCRIPT TO FOLLOW SHOWS: OSLO, NORWAY (OCTOBER 11, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) STORY: (Production: Tom Little, Kurt Michael Hall)

(The article has been published through a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has been published verbatim. Liability lies with original publisher.)