Golubic is eliminated in Australia

Ice hockey: Meier and Josi score in the NHL

(sda) The Nashville Predators win their third straight win in the NHL with a 4-2 win at the Los Angeles Kings. Roman Josi contributes the assists to 1-0 and 3-0.

The 31-year-old from Bern scored 32 points (11 goals, 21 assists) in 32 games he played, cementing his status as one of the best defenders in the NHL. In terms of loss points, the Predators take 1st place in the Western Conference.

On the night of Friday, other Swiss mercenaries achieved personal successes. Timo Meier scored his 14th goal of the season. It was the 2-0 win for the San Jose Sharks in a 3-2 away win over the Buffalo Sabers. Kevin Fiala assisted the Minnesota Wild equalizing 1-1 in Boston. Minnesota finally won 3-2. In a direct duel, Janis Mosers and Philipp Kuraschew were each credited with one assist point. Moser’s Arizona Coyotes recently defeated Kuraschew’s Chicago Blackhawks 6: 4.

Tennis: Golubic loses in three sets

(sda) Viktorija Golubic is eliminated from the quarter-finals of the Australian Open preparatory tournament in Melbourne. The Zurich woman is defeated by the Romanian Simona Halep 2: 6, 7: 5, 4: 6.

Against the former world number one Halep, Golubic kept up in the game, which was characterized by many breaks, up to 4: 4 in the third set, before serving for the ninth time. Then she could have found her way back into the match, but with the score of 4: 5 she did not know how to use two break chances.

Soccer: Hefti celebrates debut with Genoa, Milan wins against AS Roma confidently

(sda) Silvan Hefti made his Serie A debut just three days after the Young Boys announced he would join Genoa. The 24-year-old right-back was on the field for a 1-1 draw with his new employer at Sassuolo until he was substituted for 64 minutes. After the second draw in a row, Andrei Shevchenko’s team remains in 19th place.

AC Milan have meanwhile consolidated their second place with a 3-1 win against AS Roma. Olivier Giroud, Junior Messias and Rafael Leao met for the “Rossoneri”. Just before the break, Tammy Abraham was only able to shorten the game for the Romans, who had to finish the game ninth after two yellow-red cards against Rick Karsdorp (74th) and Gianluca Mancini (93rd). The fact that substitute Zlatan Ibrahimovic missed a penalty in the final minute did not matter to Milan.

In the duel between Juventus Turin and Napoli there was no winner. Dries Mertens gave the Neapolitans the lead after 23 minutes, and Federico Chiesa equalized for the Turin team nine minutes after the break. This 1: 1 does not help either of the two teams to keep up with the top Milan duo Inter and Milan. Napoli’s deficit is 6 and 5 points, respectively, while Juventus is 11 and 10 points behind in fifth.

The league was hit by the Corona variant Omikron at the start of the second half of the season. Four games had to be canceled on Thursday due to various positive tests, including the game of champions Inter Milan at Bologna and the home game of Remo Freuler’s Atalanta Bergamo against Torino.

Sassuolo – Genoa 1: 1 (0: 1). – Gates: 7. Destro 0: 1. 55. Berardi 1: 1. – Genoa up to 64th with Hefti, without Behrami (injured).

Spezia – Hellas Verona 1: 2 (0: 0). – Gates: 59. Caprari 0-1. 70. Caprari 0-2. 85. Erlic 1: 2. – 87. Red card against Agudelo (Spezia), Hellas Verona without Rüegg (substitute).

AC Milan – AS Roma 3-1 (2-1). – Gates: 8. Giroud (hand penalty) 1-0. 17. Messiah 2-0. 40. Abraham 2: 1. 82. Leao 3: 1. – 74th yellow-red card against Karsdorp (AS Roma). 93. Yellow and red card against Mancini (AS Roma). 94. Ibrahimovic (AC Milan) misses a foul penalty.

Juventus Turin – Napoli 1: 1 (0: 1). – Gates: 23. Mertens 0: 1. 54. Chiesa 1: 1.

Series A. 20th round: Sampdoria Genoa 1-2 Cagliari. Lazio – Empoli 3: 3. Spezia – Hellas Verona 1: 2. Sassuolo – Genoa 1: 1. AC Milan 3-1 AS Roma. Juventus 3-1 Napoli. – Ranking list: 1. Inter Milan 19/46. 2nd AC Milan 20/45. 3. Napoli 20/40. 4. Atalanta Bergamo 19/38. 5. Juventus Turin 20/35. 6. Fiorentina 19/32. 7. Lazio 20/32. 8. AS Roma 20/32. 9. Empoli 20/28. 10. Bologna 19/27. 11. Hellas Verona 20/27. 12. Torino 19/25. 13th Sassuolo 20/25. 14. Udinese 18/20. 15. Sampdoria Genoa 20/20. 16. Venezia 19/17. 17th Specia 20/16. 18. Cagliari 20/13. 19. Genoa 20/12. 20. Salernitana 18/8.

Ice hockey: Ambri-Piotta signs the top scorer in the Czech league

(sda) Ambri-Piotta has signed Czech striker Filip Chlapik for the next two seasons. The 24-year-old wing, who is currently under contract with Sparta Prague in his home country and will play the season there too, is currently the top scorer in the Czech extra league with 20 goals and 22 assists from 32 games.

Football: St. Gallen, Lausanne and GC are also foregoing training camps abroad

(sda) The FC St. Gallen waived the planned training camp in Spain. The club management considers the risk due to the Corona situation to be too high. And Lausanne-Sport will not prepare for the second half of the season abroad either. The Vaudois canceled the trip to Tunisia. Likewise the Grasshoppers, who canceled the trip to Jerez. FC Basel, Young Boys, Servette, Sitten, Lucerne and Lugano had previously announced that they would forego a training camp abroad. This means that only FC Zurich currently has a trip abroad in its program. The trip to Belek in southern Turkey is on the brink.

Alpine skiing: No slaloms in Zagreb and Flachau – new women’s slalom in Schladming

(sda) The men’s World Cup slalom in Zagreb has to be canceled after 19 riders. One day after the weather-related shift, the battered slope cannot withstand the strain. Ramon Zenhäusern was in 2nd place behind the Norwegian Sebastian Foss-Solevaag at the time of the interruption. Loïc Meillard and Daniel Yule followed behind in 7th and 8th place. The result is not counted.

As for the drivers who entered the race later, it was already practically impossible for Meillard and Yule to achieve the best times. With start number 17, Luca Aerni lost 3.22 seconds on the fastest time without major mistakes and compared the conditions to a mogul slope.

The women’s night slalom planned for next Tuesday in Flachau will not be relocated to Schladming due to the corona. Because of the high number of cases in Flachau, the state of Salzburg has spoken out against holding the World Cup race, said the Austrian Ski Association. For the first time since the 2013 World Cup and for the first time ever, women’s World Cup competitions are taking place in Schladming. The other World Cup races in the Salzburg region in the coming week – Downhill and Super-G women in Zauchensee (January 15 and 16) – should take place as planned.

Ice Hockey: Five Friborg-Gottéron games postponed

(sda) Friborg-Gottéron’s five National League games have been postponed after the team had to be quarantined. Affected are the games against Lausanne on Friday and at Ambri-Piotta on Saturday and next week the games against Geneva / Servette, Davos and away against Biel. In addition, the league has rescheduled the match between Geneva / Servette and Ambri-Piotta, which was postponed last Tuesday. It will take place on Friday, January 7th.

Tennis: Nadal and Golubic win, Laaksonen eliminated

(sda) Rafael Nadal has returned to the tour with a win after a five-month absence. At the ATP 250 tournament in Melbourne he beats Ricardas Berankis from Lithuania 6: 2, 7: 5 in his first singles since last August thanks to Nadal, who had already played doubles with Jaume Munar the day before, showed no problems against Berankis, even if he lost a break advantage in the second set.

Viktorija Golubic moves confidently into the quarter-finals in Melbourne and meets the two-time Grand Slam winner Simona Halep. Golubic (WTA 43) showed no nakedness in the 2nd round of the WTA 250 tournament against the Dutch woman Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove (WTA 158) and won 6: 3, 6: 0 in 70 minutes. The Zurich player will play against Halep for the second time on Friday. The first duel with the 30-year-old world number 20. from Romania she lost in the Fed Cup in 2018.

Henri Laaksonen, meanwhile, failed in the round of 16. The 29-year-old Swiss is defeated by the Spaniard Jaume Munar after a late rearing up 1: 6, 5: 7. Only in the final phase was Henri Laaksonen (ATP 98), who came into the main draw as a lucky loser, world number 77. Demand Munar. He made up a 1: 4 in the second set and fended off five match points before he had to admit defeat after 83 minutes.