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Tennis could be on the verge of massive structural change if one of two separate proposals formulated by the four Grand Slam tournaments and the WTA and ATP professional tours ends up moving forward

Bucchigiri?!, which stars the likes of Genki Okawa, Masafumi Kobatake, Makoto Furukawa, Nozomu Sasaki and others, releases its 8th episode, and can be viewed by fans globally on Crunchyroll and Amazon Prime Video.

Every time farmers agitate in Delhi to cut a deal with the government, I wait for a slew of comments that say the “real issue" is that “farming is unremunerative." This is said by those who have compassion for farmers and also those who dismiss their demands. What they mean, in modern parlance, is that farming has a bad revenue model. If the world’s most popular consumer behaviour, eating, cannot make food production “remunerative," it makes me wonder what exactly is lucrative.

Tennis giants Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal had an unexpected reunion, sharing a flight to the United States for the upcoming spring hard-court season. Djokovic posted a selfie with Nadal, creating a buzz online and showcasing their 46 combined Grand Slam titles. They are gearing up for the Sunshine Double, with Djokovic aiming for a sixth title at Indian Wells. The Sunshine Double consists of consecutive tournaments at the Indian Wells Open and the Miami Open, known for their tough conditions. Djokovic, along with Steffi Graf and Roger Federer, is among the few to have won the Sunshine Double multiple times.

World Table Tennis Team Championships campaign on a winning note here on Saturday. Star Indian paddler Sharath Kamal, ranked 95, started off the proceedings in dominant fashion, racing to a 11-5 11-8 11-6 win over world number 53 Nicholas Burgos. India's top-ranked paddler and reigning national champion Harmeet Desai continued the momentum, beating the lowly-ranked Gustavo Gomez for a facile 11-8 11-7 11-6 win. G Sathiyan was stretched in the first game by Olivares Felipe but the Indian paddler battled it out to seal the tie with a 12-10 11-8 11-8 victory.

Community star Alison Brie's new thriller Apple Never Fall's latest trailer has been released. Apples Never Fall which is based on the best-selling novel by Liane Moriarty with the same name, is following the story of Joy and Stan Delaney, a married couple who are about to be enjoying the best years of their life after the adult children of theirs leaving home and they sell their successful tennis academy.

Bounce—The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice, he recounts an interesting experience of playing tennis with Michael Stich, a German tennis player who won Wimbledon in 1991. Syed wanted to use this occasion to carry out a little experiment. He asked Stich to serve at maximum pace.

Simona Halep has been fighting “the hardest match” of her life. Now, the former World No 1 and Wimbledon champion awaits the verdict of a three-person independent panel at the Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) in Switzerland. If Halep loses, her career will be all but over, and tennis will have its biggest doping scandal since Maria Sharapova tested positive for meldonium in 2016. Halep is appealing a four-year ban imposed by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) after testing positive for the banned substance Roxadustat at the 2022 US Open, while investigators also found irregularities in her biological passport. Halep denies wrongdoing and has blamed contaminated nutritional supplements for the findings. The charges brought before the CAS panel are serious, however. Roxadustat is used for the treatment of anaemia, but in a sporting context is prohibited because of its capacity to boost the production of red blood cells in the body. Its effect is similar to EPO, the doping product that has plagued major endurance sports such as cycling’s Tour de France.

The NBA has struck a multiyear partnership deal with Emirates, one where the airline will become the title sponsor of the league’s in-season tournament — which will have a new name — and have its logo on referee jerseys in the NBA, WNBA and G League

The Nord Stream 1, the biggest single pipeline carrying Russian gas to Germany, starts annual maintenance today, with flows expected to stop for ten days. 

Swiss geologists monitor a mountain peak at risk of collapsing and damaging a village below.

The Ukrainian army headquarters reported numerous Russian bombings but almost no ground assaults by Moscow's forces on Sunday, as on the previous day.

Rafael Nadal pulled away to beat Casper Ruud 6-3, 6-3, 6-0 in the French Open final on Sunday for his 14th championship at Roland Garros and 22nd Grand Slam title overall, adding to two records he already owned.

Tennis superstar Novak Djokovic flew out of Australia on Sunday after a court upheld the government's decision to cancel his visa, capping days of drama over the country's COVID-19 entry rules and his unvaccinated status.