Aug 30, 2024; Flushing, NY, USA; Coco Gauff (USA) after beating Elina Svitolina (UKR) on day five of the 2024 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Mandatory Credit: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports Coco Gauff continued in her pursuit of recording back-to-back U.S. Open titles on Friday by rallying to…
Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva swings back during her match against USA’s Coco Gauff. Putintseva won the match. Four of the top nine seeds, including defending champion and second-seeded Coco Gauff, were eliminated on Thursday on the second round of the Cincinnati Open in Mason, Ohio. Gauff fell to Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 in…
Jul 5, 2024; London, United Kingdom; Emma Navarro (USA) reaches for a forehand against Diana Shnaider (not pictured) in a ladies’ singles match on day five of The Championships Wimbledon 2024 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports No. 19 seed Emma Navarro continued her breakout season Sunday…
Before the war and during the Occupation, Arletty and Chanel were part of an extraordinary social set from across the arts and political spectrum. Right-wing and antisemitic views dominated the politics of this group. The French journalist Boulos Ristelhueber reported in 1940 that Chanel had gone into “into a long tirade against the Jews” during…
Women’s tennis hasn’t had a great rivalry in some time. The tour was dominated by Serena Williams for so long and no one could have managed to look her in the eye for very long. The closest was her sister Venus, yet matches between the two regularly and mostly were hard on the eyes, because…
Photo: Getty Images Coco Gauff was brought to tears at the 2023 Australian Open following a fourth-round loss to Jeļena Ostapenko. A year later she was in danger of another early exit in the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. Unforced errors were piling up and Gauff was forced to rally to pull out…
