Scholarship table
Were fans excluded from the tournament if they weren't vaxed?
Spectators for the 2022 Australian Open were required to be double-vaccinated, just like the players and tournament officials.https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/sports-news-australian-open-2022-novak-djokovic-gets-call-from-serbia-thanks-fans-for-support/408743Australia took Covid very seriously. It didn't even lift its ban on unvaccinated people traveling into the country until July 2022.
Thanks for the Australian info, I was too lazy to look. What about the US Open, though? Wasn't it a government ban on unvaxed foreigners?
Nadal conceded in an interview that Djoker is the GOAT. He essentially said numbers are numbers. However, when you look at their head to head numbers Rafa is 11-7 vs Novak in Majors and 5-4 in Major Finals. I will admit to being a Rafa guy but if nothing else it's really, really, close.
Thats heavily slanted to the Clay however. Novak leads 5-3 in Majors on all other surfaces. Further, Nadal hasn't beaten Novak off of the clay in LITERALLY a decade. Nadal is the best clay courter of all time by a mile and its Novak's weakest surface. Novak has won more Aussies than Nadal has won the other 3 majors combined. Hell, he's one off of that at Wimbledon too. Ive always found Rafa to be a classy guy but his recent comments on Novak in recent years have seemed pretty petty and bitter.
Emiliana Arango, first Columbian to reach a WTA 1000 quarterfinal. (Mexico) Dubs over Potapova, Stephens, Townsend.
A deal has been reached to keep the WTA/ATP Cincinnati tourney in Cincinnati for the next 25 years. 125 year old event, same location since 1979. $260 million in renovations split between owner ($130 million) local, state, (around $50 million) other, funding. Charlotte had proposed and approved some public money ($65 million) for a $400 million complex in its River District. The event, a Masters 1,000 event, (which is big words for 1 of 9 biggest just below a slam) will move to a 2 week schedule beginning in 2025.The event is owned by the investment firm of Ben Navarro. Navarro also owns several tennis facilities in South Carolina, including the WTA Charleston professional tour stop. His daughter Emma won the NCAA Singles title at Virginia and is an emerging top 50 WTA player.Long live the Mason, Ohio Applebee’s. (RIP, iykyk)
This tournament was always going on when we were driving out to Cincinnati to move the daughter into Xavier for the school year. It was one of the benchmarks after 10.5 hours of driving to see a parking lot full of cars and a full stadium of people watching a late afternoon match.
Former USC All American Dick Leach passed away at home in Laguna Beach.
Was he in the movie Stand by Me?