Monday’s Top 5 Games: The Biggest Game of the NBA Finals and Roland Garros
Mikhail Georgiev June 4, 2023, 23:00 Moscow time
Tight schedule June 5th.
See all the events on June 5 at the Championship Match Center
The time in the material is in Moscow. Program in summary:
🏀 3:00 AM: Denver Nuggets vs. Miami Heat Playoffs – NBA Final Series Game 2 🎾 1:30 PM*: Nicholas Harry (Chile) vs. Kasper Ruud (Norway 4), Roland Garros, fourth round 🎾 15:30* : Iga Swiatek (Poland, 1) – Lesya Tsurenko (Ukraine), Roland Garros, fourth round 🎾 21:15*: Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria, 28) – Alexander Zverev (Germany, 22), Roland Garros, fourth round ⚽️ 21:45: Hamburg Stuttgart, Bundesliga, transition matches, second leg
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🏀 3:00 a.m.: Denver Nuggets vs. Miami Heat Playoffs – Game 2 of the NBA Finals
Intrigue: the hosts won the first match, this is natural. Maybe the guests will please us this time?
In the first game, the Denver Nuggets’ all-star duo Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray scored more than 50 points for two, while the Serbian basketball player set a series of records for players who reached the final series of the nba. One way or another, we didn’t see a serious response from the Miami Heat. Special attention deserve the changes that the head coach of the Florida team, Eric Spoelstra, will resort to. Will the Nuggets make the most of home court? Still, in the current playoffs, Mike Malone’s guys have never lost at home: 9-0. Or will Spoelstra come up with something?
Denver Nuggets-Miami Heat
Photo: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images
🎾 13:30*: Nicholas Harri (Chile) vs Kasper Ruud (Norway, 4), Roland Garros, fourth round
*Important: game times are subject to change and will be confirmed
Intrigue: Will last year’s finalist be able to break the Chilean’s winning streak?
Chilean Nicholas Harry approached RG in great shape: he won the tournament in Geneva, leaving Grigor Dimitrov, Alexander Zverev and Kasper Ruud out of the grid, all of whom are now playing very well in Paris. At the French Open, the Chilean continued his victorious pace and led a series of successful matches to seven. Will last year’s TBS finalist Kasper Ruud get his revenge on this upstart?
Nicholas Harry (Chile) – Kasper Ruud (Norway, 4)
Photo: Clive Mason/Getty Images
🎾 15:30*: Iga Swiatek (Poland, 1) – Lesya Tsurenko (Ukraine), Roland Garros, fourth round
*Important: game times are subject to change and will be confirmed
Intrigue: will the world’s first racket hang on another rival’s “shuttlecock”?
The current Roland Garros champion, Iga Sviontek, is moving too easily on the grid of the current tournament. During the first three rounds, she hung up to four “flyers” over her opponents. Iga needs to confirm last year’s points to maintain her lead in the WTA rankings. And the forces of her saved in previous matches of hers should help her in this. But will Lesya Tsurenko accept such an unenviable role?
Iga Swiatek (Poland, 1) — Lesya Tsurenko (Ukraine)
Photo: Clive Mason/Getty Images
🎾 21:15*: Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria, 28) – Alexander Zverev (Germany, 22), Roland Garros, fourth round
*Important: game times are subject to change and will be confirmed
Intrigue: Will Zverev make it to the first TSH quarterfinal of the year?
At last year’s RG, Alexander Zverev was in great shape, but a ridiculous injury in the semi-finals wiped out all his hopes. After a long recovery, the German with Russian roots seems to have found his game and is close to reaching the first TBSh quarterfinal of the year. However, the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov is unlikely to surrender without a fight.
Alexander Zverev
Photo: Clive Mason/Getty Images
⚽️ 21:45: Hamburg vs. Stuttgart, Bundesliga, transition match, second leg
Intrigue: Will Hamburg surprise everyone and return to the Bundesliga after five years?
To be honest, it’s hard to believe: Stuttgart knocked out the opponent in the first match – 3:0. Right now it is difficult to find arguments in favor of Hamburg, but this team has always known how to surprise. His departure from the elite in 2018 came as a shock, as before that the club had been continually cut back in the Bundesliga since its founding in 1963.
As for the rival, in recent years it has become a rising team. The three-time German champions have been knocked out of the Bundesliga twice in the last seven seasons and returned to it just as many times. Probably, the third fall will not happen today – the victory in the first match became too strong. And only a miracle will help Hamburg.
Hamburg – Stuttgart
Photo: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images
