That was McDavid’s 100th assist in 90 playoff games, the second-fastest player in NHL history to reach that mark. Wayne Gretzky had 100 assists in his first 70 playoff games, and no other player has reached the mark in fewer than 125 games.
The seventh-seeded Ruud reached at least the semifinals each of the past three years in Paris — he was the runner-up to— and this exit is his earliest at the tournament since bowing out in the second round in his debut in 2018.
He’s been taking pain-killing and anti-inflammatory pills the past several weeks, and did so again Wednesday. But Ruud said the knee began bothering him in the first set against Borges, who is ranked 41st and became the first Portuguese man to get to the French Open’s third round.Ruud said the worst shot for his knee is an open-stance backhand, in which he slides on his left foot, so he’s been avoiding it in practice.“Certain movements out there are kind of what makes it painful. Certain shots are painful to do. When you’re playing matches, you can’t really control it in the same way (as in practice). You do everything you can to get to every ball,” said Ruud, who also reached the final at the
. “Sometimes you kind of forget that this is a shot I shouldn’t go for.”He was visited by a trainer and took some pills during Wednesday’s match, but nothing seemed to help.
“It’s a Slam. I love this tournament,” Ruud said. “Looking back, I tried my best to continue (and tried) to avoid the shots that are hurting. But towards the end, there were also other movements that started hurting, so it wasn’t ideal.”
He said the problems began in his first clay event of the pre-French Open stretch, at Monte Carlo in April, and that he had medical exams a couple of weeks later in Madrid — whereto support new military outposts and developed highly advanced hypersonic and space capabilities, which are driving the United States to create its own
Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a global security conference hosted by the International Institute for Security Studies, Hegseth said China is no longer justto take Taiwan, it’s “actively training for it, every day.”
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers his speech during 22nd Shangri-La Dialogue summit in Singapore,Saturday, May 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers his speech during 22nd Shangri-La Dialogue summit in Singapore,Saturday, May 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)