The BulleTin • Friday, June 11, 2021 B5
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
TODAY
SATURDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
64°
LOW
48°
Mostly cloudy with a
shower this afternoon
Pleasant and warmer with
periods of sun
ALMANAC
Yesterday Normal
Record
66°
71° 92° in 1918
36°
41° 24° in 1919
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
0.03"
Record
1.61" in 2009
Month to date (normal)
0.37" (0.30")
Year to date (normal)
2.52" (5.32")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
30.12"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Rise/Set
Today
Sat.
Sun
5:22am/8:48pm 5:22am/8:49pm
Moon
6:09am/10:22pm 7:00am/11:10pm
Mercury 5:36am/8:26pm 5:31am/8:19pm
Venus
6:47am/10:21pm 6:48am/10:22pm
Mars
8:21am/11:27pm 8:21am/11:25pm
Jupiter 12:45am/11:20am 12:41am/11:16am
Saturn 11:56pm/9:41am 11:52pm/9:37am
Uranus
3:22am/5:32pm 3:18am/5:28pm
First
Full
Last
New
Jun 17
Jun 24
Jul 1
Jul 9
Tonight's sky: Mercury at inferior solar
conjunction.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
2
3
3
2
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low,
3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
POLLEN COUNT
Trees
Moderate
Weeds
Low
Source: Oregon Allergy Associates
TUESDAY
74°
51°
Periods of sun with a
t-shower in spots
EAST: A mix of clouds
and sun Friday with
a shower or two later
on. Mostly sunny and
warmer Saturday.
74°
44°
Clouds and sun with a
couple of showers
Pleasant with sunny
intervals
Astoria
61/52
Hood
River
NATIONAL WEATHER
As of 7 a.m. yesterday
Reservoir
Acre feet
Capacity
Crane Prairie
47488
86%
Wickiup
55771
28%
Crescent Lake
24551
28%
Ochoco Reservoir
8963
20%
Prineville
75536
51%
River fl ow
Station
Cu.ft./sec.
Deschutes R. below Crane Prairie
109
Deschutes R. below Wickiup
1260
Deschutes R. below Bend
128
Deschutes R. at Benham Falls
1580
Little Deschutes near La Pine
90
Crescent Ck. below Crescent Lake
16
Crooked R. above Prineville Res.
2
Crooked R. below Prineville Res.
277
Crooked R. near Terrebonne
33
Ochoco Ck. below Ochoco Res.
11
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
T-storms
Intervals of clouds and
sunshine
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
95/75/0.00
Akron
86/67/0.04
Albany
75/56/0.00
Albuquerque
96/59/0.00
Anchorage
60/51/0.00
Atlanta
85/70/0.48
Atlantic City
79/70/0.09
Austin
92/77/0.00
Baltimore
89/70/0.23
Billings
89/58/0.10
Birmingham
82/69/0.39
Bismarck
99/65/0.00
Boise
63/45/0.77
Boston
72/66/0.00
Bridgeport, CT 79/68/0.00
Buffalo
85/63/0.00
Burlington, VT
74/59/0.00
Caribou, ME
64/48/0.00
Charleston, SC 90/72/0.05
Charlotte
88/73/Tr
Chattanooga
83/73/0.09
Cheyenne
86/57/0.00
Chicago
90/66/0.00
Cincinnati
83/71/0.02
Cleveland
81/65/0.00
Colorado Springs 93/60/0.00
Columbia, MO
92/71/0.00
Columbia, SC
91/72/0.02
Columbus, GA
84/71/0.53
Columbus, OH
84/67/0.03
Concord, NH
79/52/0.00
Corpus Christi
92/78/0.00
Dallas
92/77/0.00
Dayton
85/66/0.00
Denver
95/63/0.00
Des Moines
94/72/0.00
Detroit
87/69/0.00
Duluth
89/57/0.01
El Paso
106/71/0.00
Fairbanks
67/52/Tr
Fargo
93/68/0.00
Flagstaff
77/50/0.00
Grand Rapids
88/66/0.00
Green Bay
92/67/0.00
Greensboro
84/71/0.12
Harrisburg
86/70/0.00
Hartford, CT
82/63/0.00
Helena
76/54/0.00
Honolulu
87/75/0.00
Houston
94/77/0.00
Huntsville
78/70/0.18
Indianapolis
83/71/0.06
Jackson, MS
80/73/0.04
Jacksonville
93/71/0.01
Today
Hi/Lo/W
99/72/s
80/64/t
71/55/pc
95/67/s
60/49/s
82/72/t
67/62/c
93/72/pc
72/64/t
77/51/s
82/73/t
79/50/sh
77/58/c
68/58/pc
71/60/pc
84/61/pc
69/57/c
69/44/pc
91/74/t
87/70/t
85/72/t
76/49/s
92/71/s
85/69/t
81/65/pc
80/54/s
93/73/pc
89/72/t
84/71/t
82/67/t
68/52/c
91/76/pc
92/75/pc
85/68/t
80/55/s
89/67/t
88/67/pc
60/51/t
106/74/pc
72/51/pc
80/55/t
82/41/s
90/66/pc
88/65/pc
84/68/t
66/61/sh
76/56/pc
73/48/pc
87/75/pc
93/75/pc
85/72/t
87/71/t
90/75/t
94/73/pc
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Bogota
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Dublin
Edinburgh
Geneva
Harare
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
73/60/pc
82/67/t
63/51/pc
102/77/pc
89/80/c
91/67/c
80/70/pc
81/65/pc
65/52/c
80/59/pc
58/51/pc
89/75/s
97/74/s
66/43/pc
89/79/t
65/48/pc
63/49/pc
80/59/t
68/43/pc
90/82/sh
79/64/s
80/66/s
63/45/pc
68/63/pc
78/61/s
76/56/pc
94/63/s
87/80/t
Saturday
Hi/Lo/W
99/74/s
84/67/pc
73/55/pc
96/69/s
62/49/pc
88/71/t
70/63/pc
93/71/pc
82/64/pc
88/56/pc
89/72/t
90/57/pc
83/61/pc
67/59/pc
69/58/pc
78/61/pc
78/57/pc
75/44/s
88/71/t
85/67/t
91/71/t
85/56/s
89/65/t
88/69/pc
82/66/pc
86/57/s
87/66/t
87/69/t
89/71/t
88/69/pc
74/51/pc
92/73/pc
95/77/pc
89/68/pc
91/63/s
89/62/s
85/65/t
82/59/pc
107/78/s
77/53/c
87/61/pc
86/45/s
85/59/t
84/59/t
79/66/t
81/65/pc
72/54/pc
80/54/pc
85/73/pc
95/76/pc
90/71/t
89/67/pc
91/76/t
88/72/t
City
Juneau
Kansas City
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Madison, WI
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Palm Springs
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Rochester, NY
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
Savannah
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
Springfi eld, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
57/50/0.03
93/73/0.00
88/65/0.06
87/65/0.00
82/67/0.23
96/71/0.00
92/73/0.19
75/59/0.00
86/72/0.12
92/65/0.00
82/70/0.00
89/80/0.00
83/64/0.00
97/75/0.00
86/71/0.23
91/77/Tr
84/74/0.00
85/74/0.00
88/73/0.16
92/70/0.00
97/75/0.00
94/72/0.00
97/64/0.00
91/70/0.00
84/71/Tr
101/77/0.00
84/66/0.07
70/58/0.00
77/65/0.00
86/71/0.94
92/65/0.00
69/40/0.00
87/71/0.14
78/61/0.00
76/49/0.00
92/73/Tr
69/64/0.00
90/75/0.00
73/57/0.00
69/55/0.00
71/50/0.00
95/52/0.00
91/73/0.05
65/48/0.00
99/73/0.00
69/50/Tr
91/68/0.00
92/78/0.00
102/67/0.00
94/73/0.00
88/74/0.98
92/74/0.00
73/49/0.00
98/70/0.00
Today
Hi/Lo/W
60/49/c
93/70/t
90/64/pc
97/74/s
81/68/t
83/60/t
91/75/pc
79/63/s
86/73/t
92/70/s
88/76/t
90/78/pc
84/67/s
89/65/t
86/72/t
90/76/t
74/63/pc
72/63/pc
80/72/t
93/72/s
84/63/t
94/74/t
103/75/s
92/73/pc
69/62/sh
105/75/s
75/60/t
62/54/c
72/57/pc
85/70/t
76/49/s
80/53/pc
79/67/t
79/59/t
80/58/pc
94/77/pc
82/59/s
93/75/pc
72/61/pc
70/59/pc
73/58/pc
93/58/s
94/74/t
61/53/sh
85/56/t
68/51/c
90/72/pc
91/79/pc
105/70/s
93/76/c
72/66/t
91/70/t
71/50/c
103/68/s
Saturday
Hi/Lo/W
59/48/c
90/65/pc
85/60/t
103/78/s
86/68/pc
89/60/s
92/75/t
84/64/s
91/72/pc
85/60/t
91/75/t
90/77/t
80/63/t
87/65/s
91/71/t
92/78/pc
72/61/pc
75/62/pc
77/68/pc
91/72/s
89/61/s
93/75/pc
108/79/s
90/65/t
78/62/pc
110/79/s
83/65/pc
68/54/pc
69/55/pc
77/66/t
90/59/s
87/56/s
79/65/t
76/56/pc
88/61/s
92/71/t
94/67/s
94/73/pc
73/62/pc
75/61/pc
78/61/s
92/61/s
90/72/t
71/57/c
90/60/s
73/57/c
85/67/t
89/79/s
110/74/s
91/73/s
81/67/pc
90/68/s
77/57/c
109/71/s
114/85/0.00
76/57/0.04
72/57/0.00
61/53/0.20
74/56/0.00
88/77/0.00
100/85/0.01
89/68/0.00
75/51/0.02
73/55/Tr
82/64/0.00
79/70/0.00
82/59/0.14
66/44/0.00
68/63/0.02
86/57/0.00
84/70/0.47
81/73/0.97
88/76/0.06
75/54/0.00
51/44/0.24
93/78/0.04
86/73/0.00
83/70/0.00
75/68/0.00
72/50/0.03
81/64/0.02
77/57/0.00
116/84/s
69/55/t
72/54/pc
63/60/sh
75/53/pc
87/76/s
101/83/pc
83/70/pc
70/54/pc
72/52/c
81/60/pc
79/70/r
81/61/t
73/45/s
67/57/c
83/62/pc
80/65/pc
86/74/c
86/80/c
75/56/pc
60/48/pc
97/80/pc
83/74/s
81/68/pc
75/61/pc
60/54/sh
77/61/t
75/54/pc
111/87/c
69/56/t
80/56/pc
69/58/sh
75/54/pc
87/77/s
100/79/pc
80/71/pc
70/48/pc
80/56/c
79/58/pc
72/68/c
81/62/pc
76/43/s
66/54/pc
73/61/sh
84/65/pc
87/76/t
88/79/t
64/48/sh
64/46/s
99/81/t
85/76/s
79/70/pc
75/60/c
67/55/pc
80/59/t
77/50/t
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 111°
at Roswell, NM
National low: 13°
at Bodie State Park, CA
Precipitation: 7.72"
at Greenwood, MS
FIRE INDEX
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Comfortable with plenty
of sun
NATIONAL
Yesterday
Today Saturday
Yesterday
Today Saturday
Yesterday
Today Saturday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
62/49/0.03 61/52/r
66/55/sh
La Grande
64/49/Tr
72/51/c 76/53/pc
Portland
68/52/Tr
63/57/sh 72/61/c
Baker City
65/47/Tr
72/48/c 75/50/pc
La Pine
61/34/0.00 57/44/c 67/50/pc
Prineville
64/37/0.00 68/49/c 67/52/pc
Brookings
60/46/0.00 58/53/r
60/55/sh
Medford
69/46/0.13 62/56/sh 75/61/s
Redmond
69/39/0.00 66/46/c 76/52/pc
Roseburg
72/42/Tr
64/56/sh 72/60/r
Burns
67/46/0.00 70/47/c 76/52/pc
Newport
61/45/0.00 58/52/r
61/54/sh
Eugene
71/43/Tr
64/54/sh 70/56/pc
North Bend
64/49/0.01 63/56/r
64/58/sh
Salem
69/46/0.00 64/55/sh 73/58/c
Klamath Falls
62/40/0.02 64/46/c 74/49/pc
Ontario
69/51/0.34 80/59/c 84/59/pc
Sisters
61/43/0.00 64/47/sh 74/53/sh
Lakeview
60/35/0.30 66/46/pc 77/44/pc
Pendleton
71/52/0.00 73/54/pc 79/57/pc
The Dalles
72/55/0.00 70/56/sh 79/60/c
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
-10s
83°
51°
TRAVEL WEATHER
Umatilla
77/57
Rufus
Hermiston
65/55
77/56
72/59
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
75/57
62/52 63/57
70/48
Wasco
73/48 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
CENTRAL: Mostly
Tillamook
71/47
70/55
73/54
Sandy
70/56
McMinnville
60/54
cloudy, breezy and
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
63/54
Maupin
Government
63/51
cool Friday with an
72/51
70/47
Camp
68/55 Condon 70/54
Union
Lincoln City
afternoon shower or
67/50
55/48
73/50
Salem
59/53
Spray
two. Partly sunny and
Granite
Warm Springs
64/55
Madras
72/51
Albany
61/44
warmer Saturday.
Newport
Baker City
67/50
69/50
Mitchell
58/52
63/53
72/48
WEST: Overcast and
Camp Sherman
66/50
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Yachats
Unity
cool with periods of
62/48
66/46
61/51
Day
Prineville
68/44
rain Friday, tapering to 58/52
Ontario
Sisters
68/49
Paulina
71/48
80/59
showers later Friday
Florence
Eugene 64/47
Bend Brothers 65/46
Vale
night. Damp Saturday 59/55
64/54
64/48
62/45
Sunriver
79/61
as well.
Nyssa
59/45
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
79/61
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
57/44
64/44
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
77/53
62/54
66/53
Fort
Rock
62/55
70/47
Riley
YESTERDAY
Crescent
63/42
68/48
High: 74°
56/44
Bandon
Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
at Hermiston
Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
61/55
64/56
64/43
71/49
Low: 28°
Marsh
Lake
72/50
Port Orford
55/42
63/42
at Crater Lake
Grants
Burns Junction
Paisley
60/56
Pass
75/51
Chiloquin
69/48
66/56
Rome
Medford
62/47
Gold Beach
62/56
77/50
57/53
Klamath
Fields
Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
76/49
64/57
64/46
75/48
58/53
66/46
Seaside
62/50
Cannon Beach
61/52
THURSDAY
76°
46°
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
541-683-1577
WATER REPORT
Bend
Redmond/Madras
Sisters
Prineville
La Pine/Gilchrist
WEDNESDAY
OREGON WEATHER
TEMPERATURE
Grasses
Very high
MONDAY
74°
53°
73°
52°
Partly cloudy with a
passing shower or two
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
High
Low
SUNDAY
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
Source: USDA Forest Service
77/52/0.00
82/64/0.00
63/53/0.01
103/81/0.00
90/79/0.01
88/64/0.00
82/73/0.00
82/59/0.00
64/52/0.08
76/61/0.53
68/57/0.00
95/77/0.00
99/72/0.00
54/48/0.07
88/74/0.02
71/58/0.00
70/60/0.01
79/55/0.02
68/44/0.00
90/80/0.14
82/63/0.00
86/67/0.00
59/44/0.00
67/64/0.00
81/61/0.00
73/60/0.00
95/66/0.00
93/77/0.18
67/50/pc
80/67/pc
63/54/pc
101/76/pc
91/80/c
92/70/pc
81/71/s
71/52/t
63/50/t
83/63/pc
66/54/s
85/70/s
96/73/s
69/46/pc
90/79/t
67/53/pc
63/52/s
81/61/pc
70/42/s
87/82/pc
78/63/s
83/69/s
66/43/s
68/63/pc
81/61/pc
75/56/pc
92/63/pc
92/80/t
Mecca
Mexico City
Montreal
Moscow
Nairobi
Nassau
New Delhi
Osaka
Oslo
Ottawa
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
Rome
Santiago
Sao Paulo
Sapporo
Seoul
Shanghai
Singapore
Stockholm
Sydney
Taipei City
Tel Aviv
Tokyo
Toronto
Vancouver
Vienna
Warsaw
NHL PLAYOFFS
Road-ice advantage? Fans are back, visitors quieting them
BY STEPHEN WHYNO
AP Hockey Writer
Fans gave the Carolina Hur-
ricanes a standing ovation after
their team bowed out of the
second round of the playoffs in
five games to the Tampa Bay
Lightning.
The crowd of 16,000-plus did
not get much to cheer about
on the ice before the final horn
because the defending Stanley
Cup champion Lightning kept
the Hurricanes from scoring.
“We’re slowly getting back
used to this, but I think ulti-
mately the way to try and keep
the crowd down is don’t let their
team score on you,” Tampa Bay
coach Jon Cooper said.
Fans are back at varying lev-
els for every team left in the
NHL playoffs, and yet road
teams are holding their own,
winning just under half the
games played so far. Players
and coaches are enjoying the
warmth and noise of having
fans back after the 2020 bubble
playoffs went on in cold, empty
buildings.
With that comes the natural
desire to silence a home crowd
when on the road.
French Open
Continued from B3
“It’s not like any other match.
Let’s face it, it’s the biggest
challenge that you can have
— playing on clay against Na-
dal on this court, in which he
has had so much success in his
career,” Djokovic said. “In the
final stages of a Grand Slam, it
doesn’t get bigger than that.”
It is their 58th showdown,
more than between any other
two men in the Open era,
which dates to 1968; Djokovic
leads 29-28.
Nadal is ahead 10-6 at the
Slams, 7-1 at the French Open
(including a straight-set vic-
tory in the 2020 final) and 19-7
on clay (including a win in last
month’s Italian Open final).
This one comes in the semi-
finals, rather than the final,
because Nadal recently slid
from No. 2 to No. 3 in the rank-
“If you take the fans out of
it right away, your squad gets
energy and momentum and
that’s the whole goal,” Montreal
defenseman Joel Edmundson
said Thursday. “The crowds
definitely help the home team
especially in the playoffs, so the
earlier you can take them out
of it, the better it’s going to set
up for you in the game.”
While goaltending has
played a major role in the suc-
cess of visiting teams, the big-
gest key has been scoring first.
The road team has scored first
in 23 of 32 victories through
the first two rounds and trailed
first in 22 of the 33 wins by the
home team.
“If you can do that, maybe
the crowds get a little bit ner-
vous and in anticipation and
they watch the clock wind
down,” said Cooper, whose
Lightning are 5-1 on the road.
“But (if) you let the opposing
team score goals, all it does
is amp up the energy in the
building.”
That energy doesn’t just ben-
efit the home team. After skat-
ing in eerily silent rinks with
piped-in noise for so many
ings. The tournament seedings
strictly follow the rankings,
so Nadal got no boost for his
dominance at the place, and
a random draw determined
which half of the bracket he
was placed in.
“It’s going to be a special
match,” said 10th-seeded Di-
ego Schwartzman, who lost
to Nadal in the quarterfinals
Wednesday but not before end-
ing his 36-set winning streak in
Paris. “Everyone wants to see
that.”
The women’s final Satur-
day is No. 31-seed Anastasia
Pavlyuchenkova against un-
seeded Barbora Krejcikova.
The last four women all were
first-time major semifinalists,
and Pavlyuchenkova beat Ta-
mara Zidansek 7-5, 6-3, while
Krejcikova defeated No. 17 Ma-
ria Sakkari 7-5, 4-6, 9-7.
No matter what happens
Friday, the men’s final will be
“If you take the fans out of it
right away, your squad gets
energy and momentum.
The crowds definitely help
the home team especially
in the playoffs, so the earlier
you can take them out of it,
the better it’s going to set up
for you in the game.”
David Zalubowski/AP
As members of the Vegas Golden Knights, left, celebrate a a goal by
center Jonathan Marchessault, Golden Knights fans cheer during
Game 5 of a second-round playoff series on Tuesday night in Denver.
The Golden Knights won 3-2 in overtime.
games, any crowd is a good
crowd.
“It’s just really exciting to be
around any crowd just because
of what we’ve been through,”
Boston winger Brad Marchand
said. “Typically in playoff time
it’s tough to go in an opposing
team’s building and be in front
of their crowd, but I think we
get excited for it now just as
much as the other team.”
Which team has the better
goalie sometimes makes the
difference. NBC Sports analyst
Pierre McGuire credited Min-
nesota goaltender Cam Talbot
for stealing the first playoff
game with fans at Vegas and
New York’s Semyon Varlamov
for winning a game for the Is-
landers in Boston.
“That’s the goaltending
thing,” McGuire said. “The
biggest thing now moving for-
ward will be that the crowds
— Montreal defenseman Joel
Edmundson
are electrifying.”
No matter the size. A Cana-
diens fan said in a clip that has
gone viral during their run that
“2,500 will feel like 25,000” at
Bell Centre in Montreal, and
players certainly appreciated it.
“When guys step on the ice
and the rink full of fans, oh, my
God, tears in my eyes,” Mon-
treal defenseman Alexander
Romanov said.
The Canadiens’ next game
at either Vegas or Colorado
with over 17,000 expected in
attendance will be just their
fifth game with any fans in the
building this season and by
far the biggest crowd they’ve
played in front of. That’s quite
the adjustment, though Island-
ers coach Barry Trotz wonders
if the smaller crowd in Mon-
treal will have an opposite ef-
fect on the opponent going
back into a quieter atmosphere.
“There could be quite a con-
trast,” Trotz said. “They’ll go
from packed buildings to very
few people in the building.
That could be an advantage, I
guess, for the Canadiens be-
cause they’ve gotten very used
to it.”
Either Trotz’s Islanders or
Cooper’s Lightning will only
find out what that’s like if Mon-
treal pulls the semifinal up-
set. Vegas coach Peter DeBoer
knows from his previous two
trips to the Cup Final that suc-
cess on the road is vital.
“If you’re one of those teams
left standing at the end in
the Stanley Cup Final, you’ve
found a way to win all kinds
of different ways: home, road,
coming from behind, leading,
closing it out,” he said. “That’s
the beauty of playoff hockey.”
“It’s not like any other match. Let’s face it, it’s the biggest
challenge that you can have — playing on clay
against Nadal on this court, in which he has had
so much success in his career.”
— Novak Djokovic
Old vs. New.
That’s because it will pit
someone in his 30s who is one
of the greatest ever — Nadal,
35; or Djokovic, 34 — against
someone in his 20s with plenty
of potential but zero Grand
Slam titles — Tsitsipas, 22; or
Zverev, 24.
Tsitsipas vs. Zverev offers a
glimpse of what the future of
men’s tennis could be.
Both are all-court, all-sur-
face players who are 6-foot-4
or taller. And both have now
become regulars in the latter
stages of majors.
“The Grand Slams, they’re
still a different animal. … You
got to learn how to play them,
as well. Very rarely does any-
body come in and, all of a sud-
den, perform his best at Grand
Slams. Yes, we’ve seen Rafa
do it, but Rafa is sometimes
not human,” Zverev said. “For
young guys, it is a learning
curve. Hopefully I can say that,
slowly but surely, I’m starting to
get the hang of it.”
This is his third semifinal
in the past five Slams, and he
was the runner-up to Dominic
Thiem at last year’s U.S. Open.
It’s the third major semifinal
in a row and fourth overall for
Michel Euler/AP
Novak Djokovic reacts as he defeats Matteo Berrettini in a quarterfinal
match of the French Open on Wednesday in Paris. Djokovic will have to
defeat Rafael Nadal in a semifinal on Friday if he wants a shot to win his
19th Grand Slam title and close the gap on Nadal and Roger Federer.
Tsitsipas, who is 0-3 so far.
“I feel privileged that I’m in
that position, and I feel, obvi-
ously, I’ve put in a lot of daily
hard work (that) has been a key
element of me being here,” Tsit-
sipas said after eliminating No.
2 seed Daniil Medvedev in the
quarterfinals. “But, you know,
my ego tells me I want more.”