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  • Associated Press

    Olympic tennis champion Belinda Bencic announces the birth of her daughter

    Olympic tennis champion Belinda Bencic has become a mom for the first time, she announced Wednesday. The 27-year-old Bencic and her partner Martin Hromkovič, who is also her fitness coach, posted a photograph on their Instagram accounts with the message “Bella, our love” and Tuesday's date that she was born. The replies included congratulations from top-ranked Iga Swiatek and Viktorija Golubic, who played doubles with Bencic when they won silver for Switzerland at the Tokyo Olympics placed in 2021.

  • The Independent

    Emma Raducanu vs Maria Lourdes Carle LIVE: Madrid Open result and reaction as Brit suffers surprise defeat

    Raducanu suffered a shock defeat in the first-round of the Madrid Open

  • AFP

    USA's Blanch, 16, 'obviously nervous' ahead of Nadal match

    American teenager Darwin Blanch will play just the second ATP Tour match of his career against Rafael Nadal on Thursday at just 16 years old in the Madrid Open first round.Nadal was also 16 when he played the event in the Spanish capital for the first time, in 2003, four years before Blanch was born.

  • Ottumwa Courier, Iowa

    Girls tennis: Bulldogs fall in the wind at East

    Apr. 24—DES MOINES — The Ottumwa High School girls tennis team took a tough Iowa Alliance south division loss on Tuesday on a windy night in Des Moines. The Bulldogs fell, 10-1, to Des Moines East as the Scarlets swept through five of six singles matches dropping just one game in the process. East added five more wins in doubles play, including four sweeps in which the Scarlets dropped just ...