The women's doubles pair of Sania Mirza and Nadiia Kichenok will now face Australian duo of Ashleigh Barty and Storm Sanders in the semi-finals of Adelaide International 1 WTA event.
Ash Barty also was the WTA Player of the Year in 2019. This season, she led the tour with five titles, including her second Grand Slam championship at the All England Club.
The IOC's two video calls are the only reported contacts Peng Shuai has had with people outside China since Nov. 2 when she sent a social media post alleging she was sexually assaulted by a former top Communist Party official.
The women’s professional tour threatened to pull events out of China unless the safety of the former No. 1 doubles player was assured.
Chinese officials have said nothing publicly since the accusation about two weeks ago by Peng Shuai that she was sexually assaulted by a former top government official.
The combined men’s and women’s tournament will be played Oct. 4-17 in the Southern California desert, a move from its usual March date because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Unseeded left-hander Leylah Fernandez grabbed the last five games to eliminate 2016 title winner Angelique Kerber 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2
Andreescu, 21, seemingly picked up where she left off in 2019 when she pulled out a 6-3, 7-5 victory over Serena Williams to win the US Open.
Rogers rallied from down 5-2 in the third set to upset Barty 6-2, 1-6, 7-5 (5) at Arthur Ashe Stadium for the biggest win of the 28-year-old’s career.
Naomi Osaka’s title defense at the US Open was over in the third round with a 5-7, 6-7 (2), 6-4, loss to Canada's Leylah Fernandez
After a tight start to her first-round US Open, Osaka secured a 6-4, 6-1, victory over 87th-ranked Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic
Williams hasn't competed since injuring her right leg in the first set of her first-round match at Wimbledon in late June.
Osaka, who has a Haitian father and Japanese mother, decided to donate the prize money for relief work post the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti
Giorgi, who was unseeded and came in ranked 71st, won 6-3, 7-5
Sabalenka, ranked No. 3, trailed 4-2 in the second set before winning four games in a row
The stock of Japanese tennis racket maker Yonex, one of her major corporate sponsors, plunged Tuesday, just Osaka lost to Marketa Vondrousova
Barty is the first Australian woman to win the singles trophy at the All England Club since Evonne Goolagong in 1980.
Catch the match and telecast details of the women’s singles final between Ashleigh Barty and Karolina Pliskova here
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.