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Mar302021 by adminNo Comments

Florida’s attributes prompt surge in women’s tennis stars

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MIAMI, March 30 (UPI) -- Florida has long been known as a tennis factory, churning out elite women's players regularly. Many of those stars returned to compete in the ongoing Miami Open, and they credited the state's attributes for their rise to fame. "I always have really fond memories whenever I come back to Florida and play this tournament," Naomi Osaka told reporters last week in a Zoom video conference. Advertisement "I think playing on the public courts with my sister shaped me in the way that I was very tolerant just because we would play for hours on end." Osaka was born in Osaka, Japan, but moved to New York with her family at age 3. She later settled in Pembroke Pines, Fla., and tuned up her world-class game at Evert Tennis Academy in Boca Raton. Chris Evert, brother John and t...

Feb222021 by adminNo Comments

Covid-19 lockdown: Football, golf and tennis to return from 29 March

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Outdoor sports including football, golf and tennis will be allowed to resume in England from 29 March, according to vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi.Zahawi said outdoor sports - including organised adult and children's sport - would return, but declined to say when gyms would reopen."Outdoor is safer and therefore we prioritise versus indoor," he told LBC."Outdoor sports - tennis, golf, outdoor organised team sports, grassroots football - will go back on 29 March."When asked whether gyms and fitness centres could reopen, Mr Zahawi added: "At the moment, it's outdoors versus indoors. Outdoors is the priority because it's where the transmission rates are much, much, much lower."The prime minister is expected to share his finalised road map to lift lockdown in an address to MPs at 15:30 GMT be...

Feb162021 by adminNo Comments

Australian Open tennis: Three American women battle for semifinal spots

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Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Twenty-three time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams leads a trio of American female tennis players who each are one win away from clinching a spot in the semifinals at the 2021 Australian Open. Williams entered the tournament as one of the favorites to advance in Melbourne. No. 24 Jennifer Brady and No. 61 Jessica Pegula never advanced to the quarterfinals at the Grand Slam and were not expected to be contenders -- but they are. Advertisement "We have all really pushed each other over the past year," Pegula told reporters Monday. "Maybe we haven't said it to each other, but I think we all can feel it. "We are all pushing each other to get to that next level."[embedded content] Pegula battles Brady in a quarterfinal match Wednesday, which ensures that at least one Amer...

Nov252020 by adminNo Comments

Andy Murray says tennis players should ‘probably’ be required to take Covid vaccine

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Andy Murray thinks tennis players should "probably" be required to take a Covid-19 vaccine to be able to continue to play on the tour.World number one Novak Djokovic said in April he "wouldn't want to be forced to take a vaccine to be able to travel".But Murray hopes players would "do that for the good of the sport, providing everything has proved to be safe"."I'm confident that players would be into it if it meant the tour going back to normality," said the Briton, 33."I guess we're not going to know the long-term effects potentially for a while. But what I've been hearing on the TV and on the news is that there shouldn't really be any long-term effects."Djokovic, who tested positive for Covid-19 in June, accepted he would have a difficult decision to make should taking the vaccine ever b...

Nov202020 by adminNo Comments

Football, men’s tennis, MLS playoffs pack weekend sports schedule

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Nov. 20 (UPI) -- More than 50 college football and NFL games, the ATP men's tennis season finale and the MLS Cup Playoffs fill up the weekend sports schedule, plus UFC bouts, European soccer and a golf tournament. The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in 30 canceled or postponed college football games over the last two weeks. Forty-two games are on the schedule from Friday through Saturday, featuring several matchups between ranked teams. Advertisement The full NFL schedule continues with Week 11, highlighted by divisional matchups. A dozen games are scheduled for Sunday. Football matchups Some of the top-ranked teams in the country start Saturday's college football schedule. Indiana takes on Ohio State in the Big Ten at noon EST on Fox. Clemson battles Florida State in an ACC game at no...