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Team AEW Overcomes 6-On-5 Advantage To Win Men’s Blood & Guts Match

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The men’s Blood & Guts match main evented the “AEW Dynamite” special of the same name on Wednesday, and it was the babyfaces, Team AEW, to come out on top after a brutal battle in both rings surrounded by the cage. It was Darby Allin and Wheeler Yuta to start out the bout, first around the ring rather than in it, and it was Yuta to bleed first in the match after Allin raked his forehead with his skateboard that had thumb tacks glued to the bottom.

Next out was Orange Cassidy for the babyfaces, who had won the advantage thanks to a Roderick Strong victory on “AEW Collision,” and Daniel Garcia followed for the Death Riders. Mark Briscoe was set to follow, but it was revealed he was taken out in the back and was being tended to by officials, so Strong took his place, and was soon busted open. As the teams battled in the ring, Claudio Castagnoli made his entrance into the cage, and it was Kyle O’Reilly out next.

When Jon Moxley entered the fray, he came armed with a fork and stabbed O’Reilly, Strong, and Allin, before passing the utensil off to Garcia to scrape the back of Allin. Moxley then left the cage and grabbed a barbed wire bat and a more weapons. The timer clicked down to one once again, but Briscoe was nowhere to be seen. Renee Paquette confirmed from backstage that Briscoe was attacked by the Don Callis Family and would likely not be participating in the match.

Garcia hit a piledriver onto Allin ontop of a pile of broken glass. The final man to enter the match was PAC, and the men were off to the races and the match officially began, with The Death Riders at a five on four advantange.

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Orange Cassidy clings on to the back of Claudio Castagnoli to put him in a sleeper hold during a match on

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Briscoe was able to recover enough to enter the match, and he stormed down the ramp and opened the door to the cage with bolt cutters, armed with plenty of weapons. He got himself up to the very top of the cage and looked to send Garcia through a table below, but the Death Rider got out of the way. Yuta met Briscoe up top and the pair traded blows with chairs until Briscoe hit Yuta with a Jay Driller.

Gabe Kidd appeared at ringside and took out Allin, dragging him to the stage. Back in the ring, Moxley stapled Cassidy’s hands in his pockets, while Kidd doused some tables near the stage with gasoline and lit them on fire before PAC dropped Allin through the burning table. The chaos both in and around the ring continued with the babyfaces sending members of The Death Riders through tables to take them out, leaving Moxley as the only man standing for his team.

In the end, it was a bloodied O’Reilly to make Moxley tap with the ankle lock in a pile of broken glass, for Team AEW to get the victory over The Death Riders.

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Coco Gauff overcomes double faults; will face Pegula in Wuhan final

Oct 11, 2025, 09:34 AM ET

Coco Gauff had more struggles with her serve but overcame seven double faults to beat Jasmine Paolini 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday and reach the Wuhan Open final.

Gauff will face Jessica Pegula in Sunday’s title match after her fellow American came from behind to oust top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2).

The third-ranked Gauff edged Paolini by winning the battle of converted breaks 7-5 as both top-10 players struggled with their service games.

Gauff fought back from three breaks in the second set, which included a run of five consecutive double faults, and won the final four games to advance to the final.

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“I did what I needed to do to get through,” Gauff said.

Gauff, 21, who changed her serving coach in August, leads the women’s circuit this season with 378 double faults, over 120 more than the next player.

But she also excelled in another stat: Her 13 career wins over top-10 players at WTA 1000 events are the most by any player before turning 22 since 2009, the circuit said.

The fifth-ranked Paolini had eliminated Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek in the quarterfinals and had won her previous three matches against Gauff, all played this season.

Pegula’s win set up only the third all-American WTA 1000 final since its inception in 2009, having also contested the last one in 2024 in Toronto when she defeated Amanda Anisimova in three sets.

Sabalenka was the three-time defending champion and boasted a 20-match winning streak at the tournament.

The Associated Press and PA contributed to this report.

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Djokovic overcomes fatigue, humidity to reach Shanghai quarters

SHANGHAI — Novak Djokovic needed medical attention after losing the second set but recovered to beat Jaume Munar 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 in hot and humid conditions at the Shanghai Masters on Tuesday.

After losing a long rally by sending a forehand wide to end the second set, Djokovic slumped to the ground and remained sprawled on his back with his forearm over his eyes for several seconds. He then slowly sat up and rested his head between his legs before he was helped back to his chair by a trainer.

He was given medical treatment in his chair before the start of the third set but then broke Munar straight away after his opponent missed a simple overhead when leading 40-15.

The 38-year-old Djokovic declined to do the traditional on-court interview after the match but wrote on X: “Tough day at the office. Very challenging physically.”

The win made Djokovic the oldest man to reach the last eight at an ATP Masters 1000 event — two months older than Roger Federer was when he reached the quarterfinals in Shanghai in 2019.

Djokovic is chasing a record-extending 41st Masters title.

He will next face Zizou Bergs of Belgium.

Tenth-seeded Holger Rune also came through a tough challenge, defeating big-serving Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-3.

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Iga ÅšwiÄ…tek overcomes serving errors to win Korea Open title

Sep 21, 2025, 09:08 AM ET

SEOUL, South Korea — Top-seeded Iga ÅšwiÄ…tek overcame a poor first set to beat No. 2-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova 1-6, 7-6 (3), 7-5 and win the Korea Open on Sunday.

ÅšwiÄ…tek dropped her own serve five times, was edged out 6-2 in aces, had nine double-faults and even won fewer points than Alexandrova during a tight contest at Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center lasting close to three hours.

Even ÅšwiÄ…tek could not believe how she did it.

“First of all, I want to congratulate Ekaterina for an amazing week and an amazing final,” said the No. 2-ranked ÅšwiÄ…tek. “Honestly, I don’t know how I won it because you were playing great and I just tried to stay alive.”

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She praised the performance of No. 11-ranked Alexandrova, who came out blazing to take the first set in 30 minutes.

“Hopefully we’re going to play more finals because it’s always tough against you,” ÅšwiÄ…tek said. “But it’s also entertaining.”

ÅšwiÄ…tek’s vast experience saw her through. It was the six-time Grand Slam champion’s third title of the year and 25th overall. The 24-year-old Pole won the Cincinnati Open title last month and clinched her first Wimbledon title in July.

She improved to 25-5 overall in WTA finals and chalked off a personal milestone.

“I’m happy that I could win here because of the family history,” she said. “My dad couldn’t win the Olympics [here], but at least I won this tournament. So hopefully he’s going to come next year to enjoy everything.”

Tomasz ÅšwiÄ…tek, her father, competed as a rower for Poland at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul.

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