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Jenn Suhr, the 2012 Olympic women's pole vault gold medallist, announced her retirement on Thursday as the US outdoor championships got underway in Eugene. Suhr, who won Olympic silver in Beijing before capturing gold in London four years later, had already opted out of the national championships, which are the selection meeting for the World Championships at the same Hayward Field venue in July.
Novak Djokovic would have envisaged back in January but the former world number one will hope to find redemption at Wimbledon as he looks to defend his crown and close in on Rafael Nadal's 22 Grand Slam titles. The 35-year-old Serb has won the last three editions of Wimbledon in 2018, 2019 and last year, with the 2020 tournament cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was also on track for a rare calendar-year Grand Slam in 2021 after winning the first three majors, before losing to Russia's Daniil Medvedev in the U.S. Open final. Any hopes of a repeat performance this season were quickly dashed with his high-profile detention and deportation ahead of the Australian Open in January due to his refusal to be vaccinated against COVID-19. He then missed a string of U.S. tournaments for the same reason and only got serious match practice once the claycourt season got under way in Europe.
Medvedev was beaten 6-3, 6-2 by Bautista Agut who avenged his defeat by the Russian in last week's quarter-finals at Halle. "I had to play very good to beat Daniil. He's the number one, the last champion here in Mallorca.
BUDAPEST: Australia's Mollie O'Callaghan stormed to victory to take the women's 100 metres freestyle gold while Americans Lily King and Ryan Murphy took gold in the women's 200m breaststroke and the men's 200m backstroke at the swimming world championships on Thursday (Jun 23).
The No 1-ranked team in Europe eased their way through qualifying for the Qatar World Cup as Belgium look to improve on their efforts of 2018.
The season has not panned out as Novak Djokovic would have envisaged back in January but the former world number one will hope to find redemption at Wimbledon as he looks to defend his crown and close in on Rafael Nadal's 22 Grand Slam titles.
While the fortunes of world number one Iga Swiatek and home hope Emma Raducanu are set dominate the early headlines at Wimbledon this year, a quartet of former champions will be eagerly eyeing the wide open women's draw.