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By Homero De la Fuente, CNN Twenty-two-time grand slam champion Rafael Nadal outlasted eleventh seed Taylor Fritz, 3-6 7-5 3-6 7-5 7-6 (10-4) in a five-set thriller on Centre Court at Wimbledon on Wednesday. The match started well for the Spaniard as he broke the serve of his American opponent early in the first set.

By George Ramsay, CNN Simona Halep said she’s playing her best tennis since winning Wimbledon in 2019 as she reached the semifinals at SW19 with a 6-2 6-4 victory against Amanda Anisimova. Halep, who had to take an extended break from the sport last year while she recovered from a calf injury, looked to be

By Issy Ronald, CNN At last year’s London Marathon, Switzerland’s Marcel Hug and Manuela Schär set course records in the men’s and women’s wheelchair races respectively. This year, organizers are setting records before the race has even begun, announcing on Wednesday that the 2022 London Marathon will host the richest wheelchair races in history. The

By Ben Morse, CNN He came in with a lot of hype and expectation, and in his first professional outing, Chet Holmgren shone. The No. 2 overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft by the Oklahoma City Thunder donned the blue jersey for the first time on Tuesday in the NBA Summer League. The Summer

By Ben Morse, CNN Ons Jabeur made history on the grass courts of Wimbledon Tuesday as she became the first Arab or North African woman to reach the semifinals of a grand slam. The world No. 3 rallied from a set down, overcoming a nervy start, to beat Marie Bouzková 3-6 6-1 6-1 on Centre

By Kevin Dotson, CNN Former NFL player Demaryius Thomas was suffering from stage 2 CTE when he died late last year, according to his parents. Katina Stuckey Smith and Bobby Thomas said the diagnosis came after an examination of their son’s brain following his death in December, according to a news release from the Concussion

By David Close, CNN Mike Grier has been named the San Jose Sharks new general manager. Grier’s hire is historic as he becomes the National Hockey League’s (NHL) first Black general manager, according to the team. The Sharks say Grier, who has spent nearly a lifetime around the game as a player and later as

By George Ramsay, CNN At 8:30 a.m., a few hours before play starts at Wimbledon, Tatjana Maria heads to practice. It’s a daily ritual that has served her well throughout the tournament so far, even though she won’t end up hitting a ball. That’s because her eight-year-old daughter, Charlotte, is a budding tennis star who

By Matias Grez, CNN Euro 2022 looks set to be the crescendo for a record-breaking wave of support for women’s football in Europe this season. Around 450,000 tickets have already been sold for the 16-team tournament — including a sellout 73,200 for England’s opener against Austria at Old Trafford and 87,200 for the Wembley final

By Ben Morse, CNN Northern Irish golfer Graeme McDowell said that he’s received death threats telling him to “go die” having joined the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour. Golfers have been criticized heavily for joining the breakaway tour, which is backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) — a sovereign wealth fund chaired by Mohammed

By Ben Morse, CNN Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has said he supports the cause of environmentalist group Just Stop Oil, but not some of its methods after group members invaded the track during the British Grand Prix. At Sunday’s Grand Prix at Silverstone, a group of protesters wearing orange T-shirts sat on

By George Ramsay, CNN Nick Kyrgios and Stefanos Tsitsipas have both been fined following their fiery third-round match at Wimbledon on Saturday. World No. 5 Tsitsipas was handed a $10,000 fine for unsportsmanlike conduct — the joint-highest single fine of the tournament so far. After the match, he apologized for hitting a ball into the

By Issy Ronald, CNN As he has done so many times before, Roger Federer stepped onto Centre Court at Wimbledon. But clad in a suit and tie, rather than traditional Wimbledon whites, the 40-year-old was attending the tournament’s Centre Court Centenary Celebration on Sunday. Predictably, he received a raucous welcome from fans. “This court has

By Matias Grez, CNN Formula One driver Zhou Guanyu has credited his car’s halo protection device for saving his life after he was involved in a horrific high-speed crash during the first lap of Sunday’s British Grand Prix. Zhou was one of several drivers involved in the turn one crash, which resulted in his Alfa

By Ben Church, CNN Carlos Sainz secured his first victory in F1 during a dramatic British Grand Prix on Sunday where Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu survived a huge crash on the first lap. The race had to be restarted after Zhou’s car was flipped upside down and crashed into a fence having been clipped shortly

By Ben Church, CNN Stefanos Tsitsipas said Nick Kyrgios has an “evil side” to his character after losing to the Australian in a feisty match at Wimbledon on Saturday. Kyrgios beat Tsitsipas in four sets — 6-7(2) 6-4 6-3 7-6(7) — in an action-packed, controversial game on Court One but the pair continued the feud