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Fed Cup event moved from China due to coronavirus
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Sunday, 26 January 2020 05:57
A Fed Cup tennis tournament has become the latest sporting event in China to be moved or postponed because of coronavirus.The Asia/Oceania Group I event was scheduled for the city of Dongguan from 4-8 February.Instead it will now be played in Nur-Sultan in Kazakhstan on the same dates. Football, boxing and basketball are among the other sports to be affected.Group…
Australian Open: Nick Kyrgios v Rafael Nadal in a 'super salty' fourth-round grudge match
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Sunday, 26 January 2020 07:15
Mocking impressions, underarm serves, and verbals - Nick Kyrgios and Rafael Nadal have one of the most personal rivalries in tennis.And the latest edition lands on Monday, with the two facing off at the Australian Open for a place in the quarter-finals.Kyrgios is the polarising 24-year-old Australian with a penchant for rubbing up his illustrious opponent - world number one…
Australian Open: Roger Federer reaches quarter-finals with win over Marton Fucsovics
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Sunday, 26 January 2020 04:47
Six-time Australian Open champion Roger Federer came from behind to reach the quarter-finals in Melbourne with victory over Marton Fucsovics.The Swiss, 38, beat the Hungarian 4-6 6-1 6-2 6-2 and will play American Tennys Sandgren in the last eight.After losing the first set, Federer breezed through the second and third, winning seven successive games. He twice broke Fucsovics in the…
Murray & Mattek-Sands knock out top seeds in heated encounter
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Saturday, 25 January 2020 23:29
Jamie Murray and Bethanie Mattek-Sands won a heated mixed doubles first-round match against Barbora Strycova and Marcelo Melo which featured a 10-minute delay over a disputed umpire's call.Strycova called a decision "a joke" as the players argued in the second game of the match.Murray and Mattek-Sands went on to win 3-6 6-4 10-7 against the top seeds. In the men's…
Kiki Bertens column: ‘How I overcame my fear of playing on the big courts’
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Sunday, 26 January 2020 02:47
Kiki Bertens, the Dutch world number 10, is the latest WTA Tour star to feature in a BBC Sport column. In her piece from the Australian Open, the ninth seed talks about why she used to be scared of playing on the world's biggest courts, facing two-time Grand Slam champion Garbine Muguruza in the last 16 and how changing her…
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