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8/30/2022 10:53:30 AM
Serena Williams swept into the US Open second round on Monday on an emotional night in New York in what is expected to be the 23-time Grand Slam title winner's final tournament.
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8/29/2022 10:24:31 AM
Serena Williams will take centre stage as the US Open gets under way on Monday with the 23-time Grand Slam winner preparing to bid an emotional farewell to tennis.
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8/10/2022 11:11:46 AM
A couple of days before Serena Williams claimed the 22nd of her 23 Grand Slam singles titles at Wimbledon in 2016, she was asked what she makes of it when people refer to her as one of history's greatest female athletes.
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8/9/2022 6:27:00 PM
Saying ``the countdown has begun,'' 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams announced Tuesday she is ready to step away from tennis so she can turn her focus to having another child and her business interests, presaging the end of a career that transcended sports.
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8/9/2022 6:26:20 PM
Serena Williams announced on Tuesday the countdown to her retirement had begun from tennis after a career which brought her 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
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8/3/2022 10:50:25 AM
Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka made a triumphant return from a two-month layoff by defeating Chinese teen Zheng Qinwen on Tuesday at the WTA San Jose hardcourt tournament.
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8/2/2022 10:51:35 AM
Venus Williams lost to Canadian Rebecca Marino on Monday in her return to singles play after more than a year away, a defeat the seven-time Grand Slam champion chalked up to being rusty
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7/10/2022 6:51:23 PM
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7/10/2022 6:25:00 PM
Novak Djokovic has won his 7th Wimbledon title and 21st Grand Slam title, beating Nick Kyrgios 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3).
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7/9/2022 5:39:21 PM
Elena Rybakina beat Ons Jabeur 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 in the Wimbledon final on Saturday to become the first tennis player from Kazakhstan to win a Grand Slam singles championship.
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7/7/2022 5:25:15 PM
Ons Jabeur's steady progress from year to year _ up the tennis rankings, through the draws of various tournaments and, now, at Wimbledon _ has carried her to a Grand Slam singles final, the first woman from Africa to make it that far in the professional era.
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7/6/2022 12:02:26 AM
To the many ``firsts'' filling Ons Jabeur's resume, add a new one: First Arab woman to reach the semifinals at a Grand Slam tournament.
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7/4/2022 9:46:01 AM
Even knowing what an unusual Wimbledon this has been, what with so many unexpected results and new faces popping up, and so few top seeds _ and major champions _ remaining, surely Novak Djokovic would not lose to a wild-card entry making his Grand Slam debut, would he?
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7/3/2022 11:40:03 AM
Nick Kyrgios cursed at the Wimbledon chair umpire and asked, ``Are you dumb?'' He demanded to see a Grand Slam supervisor after questioning why his opponent, Stefanos Tsitsipas, didn't forfeit their ever-contentious, never-boring match for angrily hitting a ball into the stands after dropping the second set.
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6/28/2022 10:26:08 AM
Serena Williams returns to singles tennis at Wimbledon after a year away on Tuesday as Rafael Nadal begins his quest to win the third leg of a potential calendar Grand Slam.
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6/27/2022 2:11:43 PM
Wimbledon chief executive Sally Bolton said Monday she was relieved the world's top stars had showed up at the Grand Slam even though no ranking points will be on offer.
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6/25/2022 9:12:26 PM
Novak Djokovic repeated his hardline refusal to get a Covid-19 vaccination Saturday as he resigned himself to sitting out the season's last Grand Slam at the US Open.
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6/25/2022 5:04:33 PM
Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova tuned up for the Grand Slam tournament by overpowering Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 6-2 to win the Eastbourne title on Saturday.
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6/23/2022 12:04:25 PM
The U.S. Open will double the size of its men's and women's wheelchair singles and doubles tournaments, and add a junior championship at this year's tournament.
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6/18/2022 6:14:41 PM
Naomi Osaka pulled out of Wimbledon on Saturday, citing a lingering problem with her left Achilles tendon and marking the second consecutive year she's decided to sit out the grass-court Grand Slam tournament.
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