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5-Time Grand Slam Tennis Champ Maria Sharapova Says She Is Pregnant
The five-time Grand Slam tennis champion, who retired from the sport in February 2020, delivered the news via a social media post on Tuesday — her 35th birthday.
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Judge in Russian Olympic Doping Worked on Sharapova Case
Three judges from the Court of Arbitration for Sport will sit on the panel to hear the doping case against Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva on Sunday at the Beijing Olympics.
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Sharapova Announces Retirement From Pro Tennis
Maria Sharapova announced on Wednesday that she is retiring from professional tennis. Sharapova won five grand slam titles during her career.
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Sharapova Retires From Tennis at Age 32 With 5 Slam Titles
Maria Sharapova is retiring as a professional tennis player at age 32 after a career that includes five Grand Slam titles and 21 weeks at No. 1 in the rankings
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Australian Open: Players Struggle on Court Due to Bushfire Smoke
Smoke haze and poor air quality caused by wildfires temporarily suspended practice sessions for the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Tuesday, but qualifying began later in the morning in “very poor” air quality.
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Back at US Open, Serena Beats Sharapova for 19th Time in Row
Serena Williams was not about to let Maria Sharapova make a match of this. So facing a break point early in the second set, Williams conjured up a backhand passing shot so good, so powerful, so precise, that Sharapova had no chance to reach it. Williams watched the ball land, and then raised a clenched left fist toward the night...
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Williams vs. Sharapova Highlights Day 1 as US Open Starts
The year’s last Grand Slam tennis tournament gets started with quite a matchup: Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova are scheduled to face each other at the U.S. Open for the first time.
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Serena Williams Turns Match Around to Win at French Open
This was one mistake too far for Serena Williams. Sure, the bad backhand put her behind only 15-30 at the outset of the second set of her opening match at Roland Garros on Monday. What made the miscue so bothersome? She’d already dropped the first set against 83rd-ranked Vitalia Diatchenko — and Williams’ unforced error total already was at 15...
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Serena Williams Set to Return From Injury at Italian Open
Serena Williams is set to return from injury at the upcoming Italian Open. Tournament director Sergio Palmieri told The Associated Press on Friday that he spoke with Williams’ agent and that Williams “has already reserved her rooms and should be here a few days early” for the May 13-19 event. Williams has not played since withdrawing from her third-round match...
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Serena Williams Loses Game for Arguing During US Open Loss to Osaka
The events and the arguing and the booing that would make this a U.S. Open final unlike any other began when Serena Williams’ coach made what she insisted was an innocent thumbs-up, but the chair umpire interpreted as a helpful signal. It was the second game of the second set Saturday, in a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium, and Williams’ bid...
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Djokovic in ‘Survival Mode' at Steamy US Open; Federer Wins
With the temperature topping 95 degrees and the humidity approaching 50 percent, nearly everything became a struggle for every player across the grounds on Day 2 of the U.S. Open, so much so that no fewer than six quit their matches, with five citing cramps or heat exhaustion.
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Simona Halep Becomes First No. 1 Seed to Lose 1st US Open Match; Serena Wins
Some players, like top-ranked Simona Halep, freely acknowledge they don’t deal well with the hustle-and-bustle of the U.S. Open and all it entails. Others, like 44th-ranked Kaia Kanepi, take to the Big Apple and its Grand Slam tournament. Put those two types at opposite ends of a court at Flushing Meadows and watch what can happen: Halep made a quick-as-can-be...
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Simona Halep Wins French Open, Tops Sloane Stephens
Simona Halep kept telling everybody who would listen: She was a different player. She was stronger mentally. She wanted so much to finally win a Grand Slam title and was sure that, one day, she would. After three losses in major finals, maybe Halep was trying to convince herself as much as anyone else she actually could do it. Either...
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Simona Halep Wins French Open, Tops Sloane Stephens
Simona Halep kept telling everybody who would listen: She was a different player. She was stronger mentally. She wanted so much to finally win a Grand Slam title and was sure that, one day, she would. After three losses in major finals, maybe Halep was trying to convince herself as much as anyone else she actually could do it. Either...
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Female Athletes Shut Out of List of 100 Highest-Paid Athletes
For the first time in eight years, not a single woman made it onto Forbes’ annual list of the world’s 100 top paid athletes, NBC News reported. Boxer Floyd Mayweather topped off the list at $275 million, while NBA players make up the majority of the list, followed by football and baseball players. Combined, they racked up $3.8 billion in...
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Venus Williams Ends Sister Serena's Comeback Tournament
An unwanted rivalry with roots going back 20 years had its latest chapter Monday night at the BNP Paribas Open, with Venus Williams beating sister Serena 6-3, 6-4 in the third round for her first win over her younger sibling since 2014.
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Serena Williams Wins 1st Match in Comeback at Indian Wells
Walking on court for the first match of her latest comeback, Serena Williams allowed herself a rare smile. This time, tennis is different for the 23-time major winner. What didn’t change is Williams winning.
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‘My Comeback Is Here': Serena Williams Set for 1st Match Since Giving Birth
Serena Williams makes her return to the pro tour after a 14-month absence with a first-round match at the BNP Paribas Open on Thursday, which she noted in an Instagram post marking the occasion is International Women’s Day.
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Curling World Stunned by Olympic Doping Charge
The curling world was floored when word broke that Russian Olympic curler Aleksandr Krushelnitsky was facing a doping charge....
On Monday, Krushelnitsky’s fellow curlers were trying to make sense of the scandal, with some openly questioning whether he had been slipped a banned substance without his knowledge....
Russian women’s curling coach Sergei Belanov said he didn’t believe that a young and “clever... -
Meldonium: What Is It and Why Is It Banned From Olympics?
Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky has been charged with a doping offense at the Pyeongchang Olympics.
Krushelnitsky, who won bronze in mixed doubles with his wife Anastasia Bryzgalova, tested positive for meldonium, Russian officials said Monday.
Here are some of the key issues surrounding meldonium.