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(Reuters) - Two-time NBA champion and former league Most Valuable Player Kevin Durant on Thursday became the latest high-profile athlete to buy a Major League Pickleball (MLP) expansion team.
Since the Open era started in 1968, 16 professional tennis players have won back-to-back US Open singles titles. Roger Federer leads the men's field with five consecutive victories, taking home top honors from 2004 to 2008. Chris Evert tops the women's list, with four consecutive victories from 1975 to 1978.
Russian teen Mirra Andreeva ended defending champion Iga Swiatek's bid for an unprecedented third Indian Wells women's title, toppling the world number two 7-6 (7/1), 1-6, 6-3 on Friday to reach the final. Andreeva, 17, ended Swiatek's 10-match Indian Wells winning streak, beating the Polish star for the second time in three weeks after toppling her in the quarter-finals at Dubai on the way to becoming the youngest ever WTA 1000 champion. She'll have a chance at another of the prestigious titles on Sunday when she takes on the winner of another semi-final grudge match between world number one Aryna Sabalenka and Australian Open champion Madison Keys.
Pregnant players on the women's tennis tour now can receive 12 months of paid maternity leave, and those who become parents via partner pregnancy, surrogacy or adoption can get two months off with pay, under a program sponsored by the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia and announced Thursday by the WTA.
NEW YORK : Former world number one Venus Williams will not compete at next month's Indian Wells tournament despite the WTA 1000 event giving the 44-year-old American a wild card.
Venus Williams will return to singles action at the age of 44 next month after being handed a wild card for Indian Wells.
Venus Williams will return to singles action at the age of 44 next month after being handed a wild card for Indian Wells.
Venus Williams has been awarded a wild card to play in next month's BNP Paribas Open, which would mark her first tournament play in a year.
NEW YORK : Former world number one Venus Williams has been given a wildcard for this year's Indian Wells tournament, organisers said on Wednesday, allowing the 44-year-old American to compete at the WTA 1000-level event for the 10th time.