Washington, D.C
Samsonova Soars Over Kanepi for Washington, DC Title
By Erik Gudris | @ATNTennis | Sunday, August 7, 2022
Liudmila Samsonova stopped Kaia Kanepi in a steamy Washington, DC ultimate to assert her second profession WTA championship.
Photograph credit score: Citi Open
WASHINGTON, DC—Liudmila Samsonova of Russia virtually didn’t make it to the Citi Open occasion because of virtually not securing a visa in time.
Now the 23-year-old Samsonova is the occasion’s tenth WTA champion.
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Samsonova defeated veteran Kaia Kanepi 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 to win the WTA 250 occasion for her second profession title to cap off a robust week of a number of wins, together with over reigning US Open champion Emma Raducanu within the quarterfinals.
Profession title quantity ✌️@LiudaSamsonova outlasts Kanepi 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 and is your 2022 @CitiOpen champion! pic.twitter.com/WxPah5zYOr
— wta (@WTA) August 7, 2022
“It was the toughest match of the week. Kaia was serving so nicely and it was a troublesome psychological recreation too. I’m completely happy I discovered the options,” Samsonova stated after. “The important thing was to search out the answer on her serve I needed to discover a approach to be aggressive on her serve and break it.”
The sixth-seeded Kanepi sought her first title in over 9 years, Samsonova her second profession title since profitable Berlin final yr. There was little between the World No. 37 Kanepi and World No.60 Samsonova within the first set. Each gamers ripped the ball from the baseline and took care of their serves with potent strikes. A primary tiebreak regarded doubtless till Samsonova served to remain within the set at 4-5.
Kanepi took benefit of two Samsonova backhand errors to present herself a set level. Kanepi ripped a return that Samsonova couldn’t deal with to safe the set 6-4.
The second set on comparable observe to be razor shut. That was till Kanepi, serving at 3-all netted a forehand to present Samsonova her first break level of the match. Samsonova then received an prolonged rally to take the break for 4-3.
Samsonova broke Kanepi once more later whereas main 5-3 to take the set 6-3.
Kanepi appeared to labor bodily within the early levels of the ultimate set. Together with her general service velocity dropping and in addition committing extra errors, the Estonian finally took an off-court medical outing to cope with an belly problem.
After not having the ability to compete at Wimbledon, Samsonova used the month off to coach and prepare for the summer season laborious courtroom swing. She described being in DC as a “dream” week. But she admits the match might have gone both manner.
Received slightly tough on the finish 😅@LiudaSamsonova | #CitiOpen pic.twitter.com/SZ80qiC6TA
— wta (@WTA) August 7, 2022
Returning to the match, Kanepi began added a bit extra spin and selection to her photographs within the rallies. She quickly leveled for 3-all.
But serving down 3-4, Kanepi’s errors resumed and she or he quickly discovered herself down 0-40. A wayward forehand on break level gave Samsonova the 5-3 benefit. Serving for the match, Samsonova regarded able to win her second profession title. She fired down an ace for 30-15, then hit a cushty cross courtroom forehand winner for match level.
Samsonova struck a ultimate huge serve that Kanepi couldn’t deal with to safe the 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory in an hour and 46 minutes.
Samsonova struck 10 aces whole, together with six within the ultimate set, in comparison with 5 aces for Kanepi.
“It was a tremendous week for me I’ve loved every thing right here and particularly all the crowd help,” Kanepi stated through the trophy ceremony.
Later when requested about her week and simply lacking out on the title, Kanepi added, “No, it makes me actually completely happy. I feel it is higher to lose within the ultimate than in first spherical (smiling). So, yeah, general I feel the week was excellent. It is also good to get matches right here in U.S. earlier than US Open.” 
Barbra Banda scored in the 37th minute to give the Orlando Pride their first National Women’s Soccer League championship with a 1-0 victory over the Washington Spirit on Saturday night.
Banda dribbled into the right side of the box and made a move past a defender before kicking the ball on the ground with her left foot and past the goalkeeper. She became the first player in the NWSL to score in each round of the playoffs.
The Pride’s Angelina was nearly called for a push before passing it to Banda, but the VAR determined that the play was fair.
The Spirit (20-7-2) controlled the game and outshot the Pride 25-9, had two more shots on goal and held onto possession 58% of the time. Rosemonde Kouassi had Washington’s best chance in the 47 minute when she headed a ball from about 10 yards away.
Orlando’s win gave Brazilian star Marta her first NWSL title. The 38-year-old Marta, considered arguably the greatest female soccer player of all time, joined the Orlando Pride in 2017 but had never reached an NWSL championship game until this year.
“(It’s a) magic moment for me because I’ve been in this club for so long and (to) wait for this moment, you know, so it’s… I’m just enjoy every single moment,” she told CBS News Friday ahead of the game. “…This year become like the best year in my club life.”
Top-seed Orlando (21-6-2) went unbeaten in its first 23 matches, a league record. They beat the Kansas City Current in the semifinals before hoisting the trophy at CPKC Stadium, their home field.
Orlando is the first team since 2019 to win the Shield and the title in the same year.
Washington had won its last five playoff games when trailing at the half, but that streak was broken with this loss.
Washington, D.C
New mural dedicated to DC’s ‘Mayor for Life’ honors career, contributions of Marion Barry – WTOP News
Ten years to the day after his death, D.C. leaders honored the life of the late Mayor Marion Barry with a new mural hanging in his namesake building.
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Ten years to the day after his death, D.C. leaders honored the life of the late Mayor Marion Barry with a new mural hanging in his namesake building.
Mayor Muriel Bowser joined the former D.C. First Lady at the Marion S. Barry, Jr. Building in Judiciary Square on Saturday to pull the curtain down, revealing the new mural dedicated to the “Mayor for Life.”
“My husband really loved Washington, DC and its residents. The mural captures some of the major contributions he made to the City, and some of the people who worked with him to help build the City and empower its residents,” said Cora Masters Barry, Barry’s widow, in a statement.
“I was thrilled that so many residents and visitors were able to join us on this inspirational, entertaining, educational, and historical day, as we honored a man, Marion Barry Jr., whose legacy and love of this city was so deep and strong.”
The mural is broken into three parts, each with a different title and focusing on a different aspect of Barry’s life.
The first panel, titled “Big Vision,” displays Barry’s early years as a civil rights activist and his transition into politics.
The center panel, “Big Impact,” then focuses on his time in office as a Councilmember and four term mayor.
These sections emphasize Barry’s support for Black-owned businesses, summer jobs for youth, programs for seniors and leadership opportunities for women.
The last section of the mural is titled ”Big Legacy.” It highlights the influence Barry still has on the city — showcasing advocacy against apartheid, support for the Million Man March, contributions to the development of the MCI Center, and his work with the DC Control Board.
The many pictures show Barry beside the likes of President Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr.
Another focus of this panel is Barry’s political comeback after a high-profile arrest and conviction on crack cocaine possession charges in 1990. Four years later, he returned to the Mayor’s office after a commanding primary run.
“He told me a lot of things, and he taught us a lot of things, but one of the biggest ones was if you get knocked down, you get back up,” said Mayor Muriel Bowser at the unveiling.
Nabeeh Bilal, an artist based in Ward 8, created the mural.
“You’ll notice that there is not a single solo image of Marion Barry, and that’s because, with his accomplishments and achievements, it was always about others,” Bilal said.
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Friday’s event will begin with a solemn Mass celebrated by Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington, followed by an opportunity to venerate the relics.
The major relics of St. Thomas Aquinas, “The Angelic Doctor,” are on tour and scheduled to make a stop in Washington, D.C., next weekend as part of the commemoration of the 700th anniversary of his canonization.
Members of the faithful will be able to venerate the relics, including his skull, on two separate occasions: first at St. Dominic’s Church on Friday, Nov. 29, and then again on Saturday, Nov. 30, at the Dominican House of Studies. The event is co-sponsored by the Thomistic Institute.
“In a time of renewed interest in the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas, the jubilees of his canonization (700 years in 2023), death (750 years in 2024), and birth (800 years in 2025) draw our attention to the masterwork of wisdom and sanctity which God wrought in him,” Dominican Father Gregory Pine, assistant director at the Thomistic Institute, said in a press release.
“The opportunity that we have to receive and venerate his relics makes this grace all the more proximate and precious to us,” Father Pine added.
Friday’s event will begin at 12:10 p.m. with a solemn Mass celebrated by Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington, followed by an opportunity to venerate the relics of the revered theologian and philosopher from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. There will also be solemn vespers at 5:30 p.m. and night prayer at 6:45 p.m. with a Marian procession to follow.
On Saturday, the Dominican House of Studies will begin the day with solemn lauds and a votive Mass of St. Thomas Aquinas at 7:30 a.m., and veneration of the relics will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pine will also preach at 3 p.m. that day.
“‘Get wisdom, get understanding’ (Prv 4:5). One way is to study, another way is to pray for it, but an exceptional way is to pray for it in the presence of the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas,” Dominican Father James Brent, an assistant professor of philosophy at the Dominican House of Studies, also stated in the release.
The relic of St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull comes to the U.S. from the Dominicans in Toulouse, France, and is one of two skulls Church officials claim to have belonged to the 11th-century saint. The other is housed in the Italian city of Priverno. The Dominicans in France commissioned a new reliquary for the skull last year to celebrate the saint’s canonization anniversary.
After Aquinas’ death in 1274, his body was kept in Fossanova Abbey in Priverno until 1369, when his relics were moved to Toulouse, a city in southwestern France, where the Order of Preachers was established. Aquinas’ tomb rests in the Church of the Jacobins.
Researchers are currently weighing the possibility of conducting an in-depth forensic analysis of both skulls to determine their authenticity.
Where do the relics go next?
After two stops in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 29 and Nov. 30, Aquinas’ relics hit the road for their U.S. tour:
Charlottesville, Virginia: St. Thomas Aquinas on Dec. 2
Providence, Rhode Island: Providence College on Dec. 4
Cincinnati: St. Gertrude Priory on Dec. 6
Columbus, Ohio: St. Patrick Priory on Dec. 7–8
Louisville, Kentucky: St. Louis Bertrand on Dec. 10
Springfield, Kentucky: St. Rose Priory on Dec. 12
New York City: St. Vincent Ferrer on Dec. 14
Philadelphia: St. Patrick on Dec. 16
Baltimore: Sts. Philip and James on Dec. 18
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