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MONDAY
VVV-Venlo appoints Uneken as head coach
2.05 pm: VVV-Venlo has appointed Peter Uneken as new head coach. The 53-year-old coach is the successor of the recently left John Lammers at the club from the Kitchen Champion Division. UNEKEN signed a contract until the end of the season.
“I see this as a very nice challenge,” Uneken said on the site of his new club. “VVV is a beautiful club with an authentic stadium and a nice atmosphere. I would like to be part of that. The conversations with the management have made me very enthusiastic and I am really looking forward to starting.”
UNEKEN worked at various clubs as a youth coach and assistant trainer and was head coach of Jong PSV between 2019 and 2021. In recent seasons, he was active as an assistant to Joseph Oosting at RKC Waalwijk and FC Twente. After the recent resignation of Oosting, Uneken also had to leave from Enschede.
Carlos Alcaraz in three sets to final Tokyo
1.40 pm: Carlos Alcaraz has reached the final of the Tokyo tennis tournament. The number 1 in the world from Spain beat the Noor Casper Ruud in three sets: 3-6 6-3 6-4.
Alcaraz (22) has reached the final since mid -March in every tournament that he played. In the first set against Ruud against Ruud, the six -time Grandslam winner left five breakpoints unused, after which the global number 12 from Norway struck. The Spaniard had enough for one break in the next two sets to get the win.
Alcaraz plays the final against the American Taylor Fritz. The winner of the tournament in 2022 was 6-4 6-3 too strong for his fellow countryman Jenson Brooksby.
Famous Pool player Mika Immonen (52) died
1.19 pm: At the age of 52, the well-known Finnish pool billiards Mika Immons died. Immons have a number of world titles in the 9 and 10 balls to his name and was a regular player in Team Europe for the Mosconi Cup.
In 2023 ‘The Iceman’ had to stop billiards for medical reasons.
Two -time winner Tachew returns to Marathon Amsterdam
12.01 am: Two -time winner Tsegaye Tachew will again be at the start of the Amsterdam Marathon on 19 October. The organization announced this on Monday. The 28-year-old Ethiopian won the marathon in the capital in 2022 and 2024.
Earlier, the participation of Top athlete Joshua CHITTEEI from Uganda was announced. Gabriel Geay from Tanzania, the fastest man in the field with a personal record of 2.03.00, is also present. Olympic champion Tamirat Tola reported with a stress fracture. Tola has had the course record since 2021 (2.03.39).
Khalid Choukoud is the biggest contender on the Dutch title at the marathon. After two years, the Dutch Championship returns to the capital in the year that Amsterdam has been around for 750 years and the marathon celebrates its fiftieth birthday.
Jannik Sinner on to semi -finals in Beijing
10.35 am: Jannik Sinner has qualified for the semi -finals of the tennis tournament in Beijing. The number 2 in the world defeated the Hungarian Fabian Marozsan in two sets in the quarterfinals: 6-1 7-5.
In the semi-final, the 24-year-old Italian will take on Alex de Minaur. The Australian saw his opponent Jakub Mensik from the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals.
Sinner won the tournament in China two years ago. Last year he lost the final of Carlos Alcaraz.
Arvid de Kleijn again successful in Tour of Langkawi
10.03 am: Arvid de Kleijn has won a ride in the Tour of Langkawi for the third year in a row. The 31-year-old Dutchman of Tudor Pro Cycling was the fastest after a mass sprint in the second stage of the stage race in Malaysia.
The Italians Matteo Malucelli and Enrico Zanoncello finished in second and third place after a 166 -kilometer ride between Padang Besar and Kepala Batas.
Ranking leader Malucelli won the first stage on Sunday. In the rankings he has 2 seconds ahead of the Kleijn. The stage win meant the first victory of the season for the Dutchman. In 2023 and 2024 he won a total of four stages in the Tour of Langkawi. He also won the points classification in Malaysia two years ago.
Werper Kenley Jansen (37) wants to continue in MLB for another four years
9.20 am: Werper Kenley Jansen wants to play for another four years in the American baseball competition MLB. The Oranje-International, who will be 38 on Tuesday, closed his sixteenth season in the MLB on Sunday in the service of Los Angeles Angels.
“For another four years. Absolutely, that’s the goal,” Jansen told the press after the defeat to Houston Astros (2-6). “I will be in the gym in the gym tomorrow morning in preparation for the new season.”
The Closer signed a one -year contract with the Angels of 10 million dollars in February (then 9.6 million euros). A longer stay at the club appeals to the pitcher from Curaçao, but as a ‘free agent’ a departure is also possible. “You never know where you’re in the future.”
Jansen made a name for himself from Los Angeles Dodgers from 2010. He played there for twelve seasons before he came out for Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox. There is a chance that Jansen will participate with the Dutch team next year in the World Baseball Classic, the World Cup baseball.