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Showing posts with label tennis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tennis. Show all posts
Monday, May 29, 2023

Sloane Stephens says racist abuse of athletes has 'only gotten worse'

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Racist behavior directed at athletes is getting worse, and even software designed to protect them from it has little impact, tennis player...
Monday, September 05, 2022

Coco Gauff advances to U.S. Open quarterfinals for 1st time

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Coco Gauff reached the quarter-finals of the US Open for the first time on Sunday with a 7-5, 7-5 victory over China's Zhang Shuai. ...
Saturday, September 03, 2022

Watch Tennis Icon Serena Williams Final On Court the 2022 US Open

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Watch tennis icon Serena Williams on court interview following her loss to Ajla Tomljanovic in Round 3 of the 2022 US Open in what was po...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

New York City honors tennis legend Althea Gibson with street renaming

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New York City is honoring tennis legend Althea Gibson with a street renaming on what would have been her 95th birthday. West 143rd Street...
Thursday, June 02, 2022

Coco Gauff reaches first Grand Slam final at French Open

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American Cori "Coco" Gauff clinched her first appearance in a Grand Slam final with a straight-sets victory over Italian Martina...
Saturday, January 08, 2022

Naomi Osaka withdraws from Australian Open due to injury

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Defending Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka withdrew from her semifinal match Saturday at a WTA tournament with an abdominal injury, al...
Sunday, August 15, 2021

Naomi Osaka will donate prize money to Haitian earthquake relief efforts

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Naomi Osaka has pledged to donate her earnings from next week's Western & Southern Open to support earthquake relief efforts in...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Coco Gauff upsets defending champion Naomi Osaka at Australian Open

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American Coco Gauff became the youngest player in the professional era to eliminate the reigning women's champion at the Australia...
Sunday, October 13, 2019

Coco Gauff wins first WTA tour title

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American teenager Coco Gauff won her first WTA tour title by beating Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 on Sunday to lift the Linz Open trop...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Althea Gibson sculpture unveiled on Day One of the 2019 US Open

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In a long overdue tribute to the first African American to break international tennis' color barrier, a new statue of Althea Gibson ...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

Historic marker to honor African American tennis club

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A tennis club for African American players that hosted International Tennis Hall of Famers Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe is being honor...
Monday, July 01, 2019

15 year-old Cori Gauff defeats Venus Williams at Wimbledon

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Fifteen-year-old American qualifier Cori Gauff caused a stunning upset by defeating five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams in the...
Sunday, June 30, 2019

15 year-old Cori Gauff youngest to qualify for Wimbledon

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[Related story: 15 year-old Cori Gauff defeats Venus Williams at Wimbledon! ] Fifteen-year-old Cori Gauff of the United States made hi...
Sunday, April 29, 2018

Althea Gibson to be honored with a statue at U.S. Open Site

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The United States Tennis Association has announced that Althea Gibson, the first African American tennis player to win a Grand Slam sing...
Friday, July 07, 2017

Florida police say Venus Williams entered intersection lawfully before crash

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Florida police said on Friday that a newly surfaced video shows that tennis star Venus Williams was acting lawfully when she drove her s...
Friday, May 19, 2017

Shoe company accused of racism towards Serena Williams

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Managers for the luxury shoe company Gianvito Rossi called tennis star Serena Williams "disgusting" and refused to give her th...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Serena Williams is not the best female tennis player, she's one of the best period!

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Serena Williams won her 23rd grand slam title by beating her sister Venus at The Australian Open. Many say she is the best female player...
Monday, December 14, 2015

Serena Williams is Sports Illustrated's 2015 Sportsperson of the Year

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Sports Illustrated's 2015 Sportsperson of the Year is not Stephen Curry, Lebron James, Tom Brady, Ronda (you got knocked the f*ck ou...
Wednesday, September 09, 2015

James Blake, former tennis star, slammed to ground and handcuffed by NYPD cops

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Former tennis great James Blake was slammed to the ground, handcuffed and detained by five plainclothes city cops Wednesday outside his ...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Serena chases calendar Slam, history at US Open

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World number one Serena Williams feels the pressure of chasing history at the US Open, but she accepts the intensity as the price for...