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At Roland-Garros, the men's quarterfinals are underway and the clay is getting serious. Number two seed Alexander Zverev steps onto court against Spain's Rafael Jodar, ranked twenty-seven in the world, with a ten a.m. Eastern tee time. With injuries and upsets reshaping the draw, both the men's and women's titles are wide open for first-time champions.
Shifting to the transfer market, Manchester City are making moves off the pitch. Sporting director Hugo Viana has reached out to Bournemouth about nineteen-year-old French talent Eli Junior Kroupi, and City aren't alone — PSG and Arsenal are circling too. The Cherries are holding firm at around eighty million pounds, so this one's going to get expensive fast.
And over in baseball, the Seattle Mariners keep rolling. Cole Young delivered a broken-bat bloop single in the bottom of the tenth inning to walk off the New York Mets and extend Seattle's winning streak to seven straight. The Mariners are quietly building something dangerous in the American League West, and the rest of the league is starting to take notice.
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