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Amazing game live on BBC if you’re looking for some football to watch - Queen’s Park v Dundee, the top two meeting in the final game of the Scottish Championship season. Winner goes up. It’s 3-3 at half-time
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Rafael Nadal confirms that he is also out of Rome despite "an improvement" in recent days. Unless he plays one of the ATP 250 events in Geneva or Lyon starting May 21, he will go into the French Open without playing a match on clay this year.
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Small update on this... Forty-eight hours after undergoing surgery on her right hand, Emma Raducanu had a minor procedure on her left ankle this morning. The left hand to follow in two weeks.
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Should be time for the others to shine in the absence of Emma Raducanu. Instead, no Brits in the WTA top 100 for the first time since 2008. And if none come through French Open qualifying, it’s the first slam since the 2009 US Open without a British woman.
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Something about Madrid scheduling is off. It feels like there's more time off than actual tennis being played, which is not common for tennis tournaments to say the least... IW and Miami don't feel like this at all but I don't know what it is they do. It's so dragged out.
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Further details on Raducanu's three operations here. One on her right hand today, the other to come on her left hand in a couple of weeks and another in between on her left ankle. All said to be straightforward procedures. But the US Open is unlikely.
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Emma Raducanu is having a "minor procedure done on both hands" to resolve a recurring injury. Sidelined for "the next few months", meaning that she is out of Wimbledon and the French Open. She is also using the time to have another "minor procedure" on her ankle.
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Not sure the expansion of Masters events beyond a week is a good thing. Used to enjoy the short and sharp Madrid-Rome clay court double over a fortnight (big names in action just about every day). Now it drags on. A four-week advance commitment for the players.
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Murray : "Les Masters 1000 sur 13 jours je ne suis pas, a priori, un grand fan. Ça fait plus de temps passé en tournoi alors que ça fait des années qu'on entend des joueurs dire que la saison de tennis est déjà très longue. Ça réduit les temps de détente."
lequipe.fr/Tennis/Article
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With hindsight, the 2021 Indian Wells Open was an ominous sign of what was to come for Emma Raducanu on tour. Injuries and missteps have contributed to her fall out of the world's top-100, but few believe she won't climb back up the rankings at some point.
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Wimbledon organisers hosting their annual spring press conference today. Only two and a bit months to go…
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Down to world No 85 today, Emma Raducanu likely needs two wins in Madrid this week to remain inside the world's top-100. Not ideal then that her second-round opponent is the world No 1 (if she comes through the first round vs a qualifier).
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Dan Evans faces the mighty task of Carlos Alcaraz on Spanish soil after reaching his second clay-court semi-final in three weeks at the Barcelona Open
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A half-hour pre show before a best of five set clay-court match (when men’s singles is scheduled) starts at 8:30pm 🤔
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Night sessions to start 15 minutes earlier (8.30pm) this year at Roland Garros, with a 30-minutes pre show before... twitter.com/ericsalliot/st…
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In 9 renewals of Grand National since fence modifications, fallers / unseats over first two fences: 023322212 (17 total). Today: 8.
Very hard to believe significant & untimely delay caused by protesters played no part in this
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Sandy Thomson quoted in the Racing Post after the death of Hill Sixteen today. The 10-year-old had previously run 26 times and never fallen (unseated once when badly hampered), plus twice run well over the Grand National fences.
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"Sport can be brutal." Five successive tie-break setbacks for Boulter and Dart leave GB needing to win all three matches to progress in BJK Cup today
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Very diplomatic of the ITF to “welcome” a WTA announcement that overshadowed yesterday’s media promotional activities for the Billie Jean King Cup. A shame that the WTA couldn’t have chosen another day to release the news of their return to China…
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Confirmed in this remarkable piece by on site at Augusta that a female spectator was between the trees when they came down (as video footage suggested). A miracle that no one was killed or even injured. aapnews.com.au/news/pine-tree
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EXCLUSIVE: The DP World Tour has won the Sports Resolutions arbitration hearing against LIV players, whose £100,000 fines for playing in the inaugural LIV London event have been upheld. They will be eligible for further fines and suspensions going forwards. More
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NEW: Wimbledon and Lawn Tennis Association drop ban on Russian and Belarus players
(as reported here in December)
lta.org.uk/news/statement
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The kid who hit this insane trick shot in ’s St. Andrew’s YouTube video last summer is literally playing in the Masters next week😂😂
Harrison Crowe is 21, from Australia, and he won the Asia-Pacific Am in October to punch his ticket to Augusta
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As Wimbledon prepares to lift the ban on players from Russia and Belarus, the Princess of Wales still plans to present the trophies regardless this summer. This is despite some concern over the optics during the ongoing Ukraine invasion. With
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Visited Carlos Alcaraz’s academy near Alicante recently and spoke to the coaches - Ferrero, Cascales and López - who have overseen his rise from a gangly teenager to world No1... and still a teenager.
“Magic”, “fantasy”, and comparisons to an F1 car.
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GERRARD SCORES AND GIVES IT TO THE CELTIC FANS!😂
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I'd like to tell you about an extraordinary family who I've got to know in recent weeks. This is Anatoly Bakulin. He played as a striker for Ukrainian second-tier clubs like Kryvyi Rih and Enerhiya. Here he is (in green) leading out Enerhiya against Dynamo Kiev (1/9)
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The parallels between Emma Raducanu and Bianca Andreescu are quite striking: born in Canada with Romanian heritage, teenage US Open champions, struggled for consistency since because of physical problems...
They play each other in Miami today at 4pm UK.
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The replies 🙈 Another Scottish football shambles
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Martina Navratilova was told last week that she is free of cancer three months after starting a trial proton therapy treatment. The full interview by Piers Morgan will be shown at 8pm on TalkTV tomorrow.
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The broadcast host now urging viewers of the ATP draw to mute their microphones because of random interruptions while he is trying to explain what we can't see on the big screen. No "fart noises" yet, thankfully...
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I mean, look at this.… How do organisers and sponsors consider this acceptable in a professional international sport? 🤷♂️
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These two paragraphs on yesterday’s Miami Open WTA draw (via ) perfectly sum up the state of draw ceremonies in tennis…
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The scale of the Rafael Nadal top-10 record (912 consecutive weeks) really becomes clear when you consider that Carlos Alcaraz would have to remain there until October 2039 to beat it. Extraordinary longevity.
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Carlos Alcaraz took full advantage of Novak Djokovic’s absence at Indian Wells by winning the tournament to secure a return to world No 1
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World No 5 Caroline Garcia leads the France team coming to Coventry for the BJK Cup qualifiers. World No 109 Harriet Dart is the Great Britain No 1 after Emma Raducanu declared herself unavailable for the tie on April 14-15. thetimes.co.uk/article/emma-r
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Episode 6 is out now! The two Jamie’s and I sat down and talked The Players, The USGA and R&A announcement, golf swing and answered your questions. Additionally, tune in to the YouTube episode for a few bonus clips at the start of the episode of the new Darmor Club development!
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