by admin | Aug 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Australian Open runner-up Jennifer Brady has withdrawn from the US Open because of an injury. Brady, a semifinalist last year in Flushing Meadows, has not played competitively since being forced to retire from her second-round match against Jelena Ostapenko in...
by admin | Aug 26, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
When King won her first Wimbledon in 1966, she received less than half of the prize money her male counterpart did. “I didn’t have any idea we were going to get different prize money,” she said on the 2013 PBS documentary “American...
by admin | Aug 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sisters Serena Williams and Venus Williams said Wednesday that they will not play in the upcoming U.S. Open tennis tournament because of injuries. They join standouts Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in their withdrawals, marking the first major tournament since 1997...
by admin | Aug 19, 2021 | Representation, SEW
This week Camila Giorgi won the National Bank Open, Canada’s most prestigious tennis tournament, and it was a milestone for two reasons. First, it was the first major title win in the 29-year-old’s career, and a huge upset — she was ranked 71st in the world before...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Naomi Osaka, preparing to compete in her first tennis tournament since the Tokyo Olympics, briefly took a break during a pre-tournament news conference on Monday after she started crying. The Western & Southern Open news conference in Mason, Ohio, began with Osaka...
by admin | Aug 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The tennis star Naomi Osaka has announced that she will donate prize earnings from her next tournament to support relief efforts in Haiti, where a 7.2 magnitude earthquake killed at least 1,297 people over the weekend and injured more than 5,700. Osaka, who is of...
by admin | Aug 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
As the 2020 Tokyo Olympics approached, fans around the world struggled to balance their excitement with a general uneasiness surrounding the Games. These included high-profile firings, volunteers quitting, abnormally high temperatures, low vaccination rates as well as...
by admin | Aug 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Coco Gauff was 9 or 10, as she recalls, when her mother gave her a journal, explaining that it was important she have a private place to write down her feelings or anything she wanted. Gauff has kept a journal ever since, scribbling a few sentences when she has the...
by admin | Aug 4, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Competing in sports is one of the most empowering vehicles for coming into your own as a young woman – and 23-time Grand Slam singles title winner Serena Williams knows this. Williams, who is featured in Secret Deodorant’s new Just #WatchMe Olympics...
by admin | Jul 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
From her vantage point inside the Olympic village, Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski fully recognizes and appreciates the words and actions of fellow tennis player Naomi Osaka and gymnast Simone Biles that have become a hot topic in Tokyo. Dabrowski says she, like most...
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