Italy beats Switzerland and secures a place in the knockout phase of Euro 2020

FOOTBALL

Manuel Locatelli scored two goals and Italy beat Switzerland 3-0 in Rome to advance to the round of 16 of the European Championship with one game remaining.

Locatelli’s first goal came after a textbook exchange with teammate Domenico Berardi at Sassuolo midway through the first half in Rome. The second came with a long, low shot shortly after the break that left goalkeeper Yann Sommer motionless.

Ciro Immobile scored the last distance goal in the 89th minute.

Italy leads Group A with six points. Wales are next with four points after beating Turkey 2-0 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Switzerland has one point and Turkey has zero.

• Wales received goals from Aaron Ramsey and Connor Roberts in their victory over Turkey.

Gareth Bale made a high pass over the defense and Ramsey knocked it down with his chest before knocking down goalkeeper Ugurcan Çakir in the 42nd minute.

Bale missed the penalty spot in the 61st minute, but Roberts added a second goal late in the game.

• A quick shot from Aleksei Miranchuk in added time in the first half saw Russia win 1-0 over Finland in St. Petersburg, Russia, and score their first Championship points. Europe.

Russia lost Mario Fernandes to a potentially serious spinal injury in the first half. They took him to the hospital.

SPAIN: Sergio Ramos is officially leaving Real Madrid after 16 years and four Champions League titles.

The 35-year-old defender has failed to secure a new contract and will leave as a free agent.

Ramos missed much of last season with injuries and was not selected by Spain for the European Championship.

TENNIS

OPEN ROOM: Roger Federer failed to reach the quarter-finals in Halle, Germany for the first time when Félix Auger-Aliassime rallied in a set to knock out the former champion 4-6, 6-3, 6 -2 in the second round.

Federer won the tournament a record 10 times and was looking for his 18th quarter-final in as many appearances on turf, but couldn’t cope with his young opponent’s change of tactics in the second set. Auger-Aliassime, exactly 19 years younger than Federer, aimed back with his solid serves and took three break opportunities to win in 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Auger-Aliassime will then meet US qualifier Marcos Girón, who rallied to beat German Jan-Lennard Struff 6-7 (1), 6-3, 6-4. Andrey Rublev beat Australia’s Jordan Thompson 6-4, 6-4, and veteran local favorite Philipp Kohlschreiber beat Frenchman Corentin Moutet 6-4, 7-6 (4).

WIMBLEDON : Former Wimbledon champions Venus Williams and Andy Murray will receive wild cards to compete in the Grand Slam on turf when it starts in less than two weeks. The winners in the men’s and women’s singles will each receive $ 2.4 million, a drop of nearly 28% from 2019, although the overall reduction in prize money is 5.2%, also announced on Wednesday. All England Club.

Organizers have underlined their intention to have a crowd of 15,000 on center court for the men’s and women’s finals next month, a year after the tournament was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The tournament begins June 28.

GERMAN OPEN: Madison Keys of the United States defeated seed Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 to reach the quarter-finals in Berlin.

Keys, 26, is aiming for his third turf singles title, after winning at Eastbourne in 2014 and Birmingham two years later.

QUEEN’S CLUB: Wild card player Jack Draper scored another surprising victory, beating Kazakh Alexander Bublik 7-6 (5), 7-6 (0) in a second round showdown in the turf counting event at London.

It was only the second victory in an ATP Tour match for Draper, who had previously knocked out third-seeded Jannik Sinner of Italy, also in two tie-breaks.

SCHOOLS

MEN’S BASKETBALL: Jim Phelan, the bowtie coach who won 830 games in nearly half a century at Mount St. Mary’s, has passed away. He was 92 years old.

The Mount St. Mary’s Sports Department said Phelan died in his sleep at his home on Tuesday evening.

Phelan has spent his entire 49-season career at Mount St. Mary’s. He led the school at 14 NCAA Division II tournaments, including five trips to the Final Four and a national championship in 1962.

After the program moved to Division I, his teams competed in the NCAA Tournament in 1995 and 1999. He was inducted into the National College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008.