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-6, 6-2.Kvitova called her medal one of the best things that happened in my career, definitely.Clearly, Puig felt the same.And she played
Manchester City are furious at their FA Cup match at Chelsea in February being moved to three days before a Champions League tie in Kiev. Sky Sports News HQ understands City have written to the Football Association and other football authorities to complain in the strongest possible terms about the schedule they now face.The FA Cup match at Stamford Bridge has been rescheduled to Sunday, February 21 (kick-off 4pm) - the day before they travel to Kiev for their Champions League last-16 first-leg encounter on the Wednesday night. A source at the Premier League side has told SSNHQ that although City are proud to be the only English side still competing in all four competitions and have always respected them all, manager Manuel Pellegrini will have no choice but to reluctantly field a weakened team at Chelsea.City will play four games in 11 days - all of them away from the Etihad. After the FA Cup tie at Chelsea and the Champions League clash away to Dynamo, they take on Liverpool at Wembley in the Capital One Cup final on Sunday, February 28 (kick-off 4.30pm) before facing Jurgen Klopps Reds again at Anfield in the Premier League on Wednesday, March 2.If results do not go Citys way, they could be out of contention in three of the four trophies available inside a week. Man City v Leicester Build-up to the top-of-the-table clash on Saturday Losing in the Champions League could also be harmful to the Premier Leagues UEFA co-efficient.The source added there is a feeling within City that the more clubs are successful, the more they are penalised with scheduling and if they were to draw with Chelsea in the FA Cup, there would be no more dates left in the calendar for a replay, or the re-arranged league game with Newcastle, which is being moved because of the Capital One Cup final. 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And she did.The unseeded and unheralded Puig capped her run of upsets with the biggest one of all Saturday, overpowering No. 2 Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 to become the Olympic champion.I did hear everybody saying, Yes, you can! Yes, you can! Yes, you can! I kept repeating it inside myself: `Yes, I can! Yes, I can! Yes, I can! Puig said. They really helped me believe and just showed me they were there for me, whether I was going to win or lose.Puigs father told her he believed, too, emailing the lyrics to the Puerto Rican national anthem a day earlier, just in case they would come in handy.And so, as the strains of that song echoed around an Olympic arena for the first time, and Puerto Ricos red-white-and-blue flag was raised to the highest level during a medal ceremony for the first time, Puig remembered what Dad had written.She recognized plenty of the words as fans belted them out.She just couldnt join in the joyous chorus, for a simple reason: too many tears.If I wouldve stopped crying, I probably would have started singing, Puig said afterward, smiling at the thought. But I couldnt. I was choking up the whole time.A 22-year-old born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and now based in Florida, Puig is also the first woman representing her country to earn a medal of any color. When she finished a tense closing game -- saving six break points and converting her fourth match point -- she flung away her racket and went over to collect a flag she paraded across the court.I couldnt really believe what just happened, she said. It was such an amazing moment.Gigi Fernandez, who is Puerto Rican, won two Olympic womens doubles gold medals in tennis, but did so while representing the United States.ddddddddddddm particularly happy for Puerto Rico, Fernandez said in a telephone interview from Connecticut. All the hurt that people felt, all the anger people felt because I played for the U.S., I couldnt be happier.Puig had shown promise in the past, reaching the fourth round of Wimbledon as a teen in 2013, but she hasnt been that far again at any major.Also notable about Puig: She is the first unseeded woman to win the singles title since tennis returned to the Olympics in 1988. Ranked 34th, she added her surprising win over Kerber -- a German who won the Australian Open and was the Wimbledon runner-up this year -- to those she picked up in Brazil against two other past major title winners, Garbine Muguruza and Petra Kvitova.Earlier Saturday, Kvitova earned the bronze for the Czech Republic by beating Madison Keys of the United States 7-5, 2-6, 6-2.Kvitova called her medal one of the best things that happened in my career, definitely.Clearly, Puig felt the same.And she played attacking tennis full of powerful shots that seemed to rattle the counter-punching Kerber.Puig smacked a down-the-line backhand -- her 18th winner to that point, 10 more than Kerber -- for a break that gave her the opening set.During the ensuing changeover, Kerber was visited by a trainer, standing on the sideline while her lower back was massaged and manipulated, before heading to the locker room for a medical timeout. Kerber said later that bothered her from the outset, but it wasnt why she lost.She played her best tennis and one of her best matches in her career, for sure, Kerber said. I tried everything.---Follow Howard Fendrich on Twitter at http://twitter.com/HowardFendrich---AP Sports Writers Jon Krawczynski and Tim Reynolds contributed. ' ' '