A summary of Wednesday's action at the US Open on Day 3.
After reaching the semi-finals of the women's doubles event in Toronto with Madison Keys, Sania also played at last week's Cincinnati Open.
Inspired Garcia goes from Cincinnati qualifier to champion
Petra Kvitova overcame a sluggish start and 10 double faults to beat Madison Keys 6-7(6), 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday and advance to the final of the Cincinnati Open, where she will face Caroline Garcia, the first qualifier to reach the final of a WTA 1000 tournament.
Madison Keys swept past Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina 6-2, 6-4 at the Cincinnati Open on Friday, setting up a semi-final clash with Petra Kvitova after the Czech defeated Ajla Tomljanovic.
Medvedev suffered a jarring early exit from the Canadian Masters last week but overcame some initial problems in a tricky tie against Shapovalov to edge both sets and book a meeting with American Fritz.
The 76kg category had eight wrestlers while the 68kg class featured nine wrestlers, where minnows like Bangladesh, Mauritius, Cameroon, Tonga and New Zealand were part of the field.
A fly-past by a 220-ft-long majestic Indian tricolour, made of khadi, over the iconic Hudson river and the display of a giant billboard at Times Square are among the highlights of the grand celebrations planned to mark 75 years of India's Independence in New York this week.
Indian athletes' performance on Day 9 of the Commonwealth Games.
An intimidating Vinesh Phogat pounced on her rivals to complete a hat-trick of Commonwealth Games gold medals while Ravi Dahiya too went unchallenged as India's wrestlers wrapped up their campaign with a rich haul of 12 medals, in Birmingham on Saturday.
A long and bitter funding winter in the start-up world is beginning to take its toll on start-up advertising across properties. Earlier this week, Mastercard replaced Paytm as the title sponsor for all international and domestic cricket matches organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). But this is just one part of the story. The other side is that organisers of high-impact shows and events on Hindi general entertainment channels, too, are feeling the winter chill.
Swimmer Emma McKeon became the most successful Commonwealth Games athlete of all-time on Sunday, leading an Australian sweep of the women's 50 metre freestyle to claim a record 11th gold medal.
Uganda's Victor Kiplangat took a wrong turn but still found his way to marathon gold at the Commonwealth Games on Saturday, providing some late drama to what had been an uneventful race.
Ariarne Titmus and Elijah Winnington led podium sweeps as Australia got the Commonwealth Games swimming competition off to an explosive start on Friday, scooping 11 medals in total including five golds
Former United States president Donald J Trump and family attended the funeral of Ivana Trump, Trump's first wife, at the St Vincent Ferrer Church in New York City, July 20, 2022.
Olympic champion Katie Ledecky stormed to a fifth straight 800m freestyle title at the swimming World Championships in Budapest on Friday while home favourite Kristof Milak added to his 200m butterfly crown with victory in the 100m butterfly.
Olympic silver medallist Katie Ledecky powered to victory in the women's 400 metres freestyle event on the opening day of the swimming World Championships in Budapest on Saturday to capture a record-extending 16th gold medal in the competition.
10 Interesting Glimpses from the French Open.
IMAGES from Day 9 of the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris on Monday.
Images from Day 7 of the 2022 French Open at Roland Garros in Paris on Saturday.
Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus and Paula Badosa of Spain, earned second-round wins
Maria Sakkari knocked out reigning champion Paula Badosa in Friday's Indian Wells semi-finals and will take on Iga Swiatek in the title decider after the world number four fought back from a break down in each set to overpower Simona Halep.
Rafael Nadal toppled big-serving American Reilly Opelka to remain perfect on the year while unseeded Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic stunned world number six Matteo Berrettini.
Badosa beats Fernandez; Swiatek, Halep storm into quarter-finals
Top-seeded Elina Svitolina of Ukraine, wearing her national colors of blue and yellow, won on "a special night for me," beating Russia's Anastasia Potapova 6-2, 6-1 on Tuesday in the first round of the Abierto GNP Seguros in Monterrey, Mexico.
Next up for the 35-year-old will be another American in 39th-ranked Tommy Paul with a potential semi-final clash against top-seeded Russian Daniil Medvedev, who he defeated in the Australian Open final from a two-sets deficit.
It was Novak Djokovic's first match this year after his Australian Open hopes were dashed when he was deported following an 11-day saga revolving around his decision not to have a COVID-19 vaccination.
Olympians at the 'closed-loop' Beijing Games have had to be creative to express their feelings of love
No more Games for Americans Hubbell and Donohue
Digital canvassing is expected to benefit from political money looking for alternative blow horns.
Stars made their way to the Australian Open to cheer on Rafael Nadal.
Ash Barty ended Australia's 44-year wait for a home winner at the Australian Open when the world number one staved off a fightback from American Danielle Collins to complete a 6-3, 7-6(2) win.
Ashleigh Barty may have the spectators at Melbourne Park under her spell with some awe-inspiring tennis, but seems like cricket is her go to for training and warm-ups.
Barty is primed to become the first local since Chris O'Neil in 1978 to win the Australian Open.
Ash Barty has become the first local woman to reach the final of an Australian Open in 42 years.
Images from Day 9 of the 2022 Australian Open, at Melbourne Park, on Tuesday.
Images from Day 8 of the 2022 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Monday.
Images from Day 7 of the 2022 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Sunday.
IMAGES from Australian Open matches played at Melbourne Park on Friday
Images from Day 3 of the 2022 Australian Open in Melbourne on Wednesday.
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