Summit of emotions, flamboyant Italy, unexpected finale and Red Devils: News on a platter

What you might have missed between last night and this morning

1. Tennis – Roland-Garros: A unique moment

2. Football – Euro 2020: And the Team assures

With the support of tifosi deprived of a stadium for more than a year and a huge desire, Italy launched its Euro perfectly, largely dominating Turkey (3-0) on Friday night in the opening match in Rome. This reborn Italy, rebuilt three years ago by Roberto Mancini on the ruins of the failed qualification for the 2018 World Cup, has kept its promises by winning in its own way: with enthusiasm, that of captain Giorgio Chiellini not hesitating to attacking, play and goals.

3. Rugby – Top 14: Racing at the meeting point of the half

Without mercy. Racing 92, surgical in the first period but more borrowed then, dominated its Parisian neighbor, the French Stadium, swallowed 38-21, Friday in the Top 14 play-off. The Ile-de-France will face La Rochelle, on June 18 in Lille, in half. final. The winner of the other dam, between Bordeaux-Bègles and Clermont on Saturday, will find Toulouse on the 19th, there also in the North. The Racingmen have scored five tries to get out of Stade Français and regain the last four for the sixth time since 2010.

4. Basketball – NBA: Paul wears the Suns

The Phoenix Suns are just one success away from the Conference Finals after beating the Denver Nuggets (116-102) on the night of Friday through Saturday. Chris Paul was once again excellent with 27 points and 8 assists. Joel Embiid in the lead, with 27 points scored, the entire Philadelphia team worked to win in Atlanta (127-111) and take the lead two wins to one in their Eastern Conference semi-final. This deserved success, which rewarded a real collective effort, allows the 76ers to recover the advantage of the floor, lost in match 1.

We have also retained for you

• Basketball – Jeep Elite : Villeurbanne won on the floor of Gravelines 94 to 61 Friday night in a late match and glued to the top of the Elite standings, tied with JDA Dijon.

• Volleyball – League of Nations: The French had to work hard to win against Canada 3 sets to 1 (20-25, 25-21, 25-22, 25-18) for their ninth match of the League of Nations on Friday night in Rimini. The Blues are still in the race for one of the four tickets for the semi-finals of this 2021 Nations League.

• Golf – Palmetto Championship : The American Chesson Hadley, second the day before with Dustin Johnson, took sole control of the Palmetto Championship in front of the world No.1 on Friday after the second round played at Ridgeland.

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What you are sure to follow today

1. Tennis – Roland-Garros: The final we weren’t expecting

It is an unexpected and unprecedented final which will pit Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (32nd) against Barbora Krejcikova (33rd) at Roland Garros on Saturday and will allow one of them to suddenly expand a rather meager record until then. . While the table was quickly depopulated of its headliners, the two players were able to take advantage. Experience and solidity prevailed with regard to Pavlyuchenkova (29 years old, twelve titles on the clock). Krejcikova (25), she has to date only one WTA title, conquered this year in Strasbourg just before Roland-Garros. This Saturday, the fate of one of them will definitely change.

2. Football – Euro: Belgium enters the arena

If the Wales Dragons and Gareth Bale, a semi-finalist five years ago, will enter the big European theater against Switzerland (3 p.m.), in a day also marked by the first scores of Finland in a big competition , against Denmark (6 p.m.), it is the entry into contention of Belgium against Russia that will focus attention. Third in the last World Cup, the Belgians are among the favorites but without De Bruyne, Witsel and, no doubt Hazard at least at kick-off, this first match looks like a trap.

3. Rugby – Top 14: A derby to lose your mind

For more than a century, the derbies between Biarritz and Bayonne have left no one indifferent in the Basque Country. The 113th, played Saturday in Aguilera, with a place in the Top 14 at stake, will necessarily have a particular taste with the immense stake it covers. In the other meeting of the day, the rookie Bordeaux-Bègles will live his first final phase of Top 14 Saturday (9 p.m.) against a reference in the matter, Clermont, with a sawtooth course but sure of his strength.

4. Handball – Champions League: Paris and Nantes at the rendezvous of their history

Two weeks after the Hungarian Final 4 of the Brest girls, it is the turn of Paris and Nantes to fight to wear their colors on the roof of Europe. For these four teams, this Final 4 necessarily has a very special meaning. For Paris, which will live its 5th final square in 6 years, participation is obviously not an objective in itself, and the players of the capital will do everything to secure a title that still eludes them. In a completely different context, Nantes will advance, during the second semi-final, against great Barça, favorite of the plateau. If the Catalans are regulars of these meetings, the same cannot be said for the Violets who were not necessarily expected at this stage of the competition.