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Date: 19 January 2022. Tournament: Australian Open 2022. Round: Second round (Round of 64). Venue: Melbourne, Australia. Category: Grand Slam. Surface: Outdoor Hardcourt. Prize money: $75,000,000. Live telecast: USA - Tennis Channel | UK - Eurosport | India - Sony Six, Sony Liv. Belinda Bencic vs Amanda Anisimova preview 22nd seed Belinda Bencic and Amanda Anisimova are set to square off in the second round of the 2022 Australian Open on Wednesday....

Following a successful opening day and strong figures in the first week, that goal could be well and truly smashed come January 29. A total of 77,944 patrons came through the gates on day one, surpassing the previous record in 2017 (72,424). The attendance for both day (49,274) and night (28,670) also beat past numbers which were set in 2015 and 2017 respectively. Australian Open 2023 crowd figures Data via AusStadiums...

Next up for the 2017 Singapore Open Superseries champion is the seventh seeded Lee Cheuk Yiu. The World No. 17 Indian is looking to reach a semi-final at a BWF tournament for the second week in a row. Last week, he was the best performing Indian shuttler at the New Zealand Open. The fourth seeded Verma too was equally impressive against the former World No. 12 Takuma Ueda. The Swiss Open champion got the better of the Japanese 21-16, 21-12 to set up a quarter-final showdown with the 165th ranked Lu Guangzu of China....

In 2021, the total purse will be $61.95 million with the men’s and women’s singles champ taking home $2.13 million. Last year’s winners were awarded $3.12 million. Still a handy payday, but a significant haircut nonetheless. Tournament director Craig Tiley says the more even distribution was to help offset the significant costs incurred by players coming to Australia amid a pandemic. “We have significantly reduced the winners’ prize money cheques, but players like Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams all agreed with spreading the prize money more evenly, providing the up-and-coming players an opportunity to earn more because it has been a difficult year,” Tiley told The Hindu newspaper....

Phil Walsh, 55, was in his first season as coach of the Australian Football League’s Adelaide Crows. His 26-year-old son, Cy, has been detained for a psychiatric assessment and will face a bedside hearing later Friday, the Guardian reported. MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2015 Ambulance crews were called to the Walsh family home in the Adelaide suburb of Somerton Park about 2 a.m. local time after reports of a domestic dispute....

But with the recent release of the DJI Mini 3, does the Nano+ still offer enough to stand out? If you prioritize filming in low light, want excellent video quality with minimal editing, and don’t mind some half-baked smart features, then the answer is yes. Autel Evo Nano+ vs Nano Not to be confused with the Evo Nano, the Nano+ looks nearly identical but is a more expensive upgrade that features a larger image sensor....

Cunningham believes that home-cooked meals are the “magnets” that bring families together. Next month she will publish “Cooking with Children” for future Fannie (and Freddie) Farmers. She hopes to turn out a generation of “little missionaries” dedicated to stamping out the “gobble and go” meal of delivered or prepackaged food. Unlike Moro’s lasagna, prepared frozen entrees will never lead to shared family memories. Says Cunningham: “Can you picture anybody saying, ‘Do you remember that Lean Cuisine that we had?...

When hives are long-lasting without a known cause, it is called chronic idiopathic urticaria (CIU) or chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU). About half of the people who experience CIU are believed to have hives related to an autoimmune disease (when the immune system attacks healthy cells). Learn about hives related to autoimmune activity, symptoms, treatment, and more. Do Autoimmune Diseases Cause Chronic Hives? The relationship between autoimmune disease and chronic hives is not fully understood....

Still, Avalanche Studios isn’t adverse to the idea of dropping a hint or two about Just Cause 3, in fact many of their discussions typically circle back to the open world franchise in some way, and that’s just what they did this week. In a 5-minute video Avalanche took gamers along on their trip to Costa Rica, where the developer was out looking for inspiration. That inspiration included snapping photos that, as they revealed, will be used for the developer’s upcoming Mad Max game, as well as future projects....

The Avalanche made easy work of the Predators in the first round, sweeping Nashville in four games and outscoring the Preds 21-9. Colorado scored at least five goals in three of those contests and twice put up a seven-spot. Cale Makar led the way with 10 points in four games, including the OT winner in Game 2. The Avs had to clinch the series without starting goaltender Darcy Kuemper, who was injured in Game 3....

Despite Avatar being immensely popular among Chinese moviegoers, the film’s release coincided with one of the country’s worst pandemic waves of the last two years as new COVID variants have surfaced in China, thus triggering a national health crisis. After this past weekend, The Way of Water had only earned $190m China, a number that pales in comparison to the first movie’s $261.82 total, and one that will surely have Disney executives unhappy about its performance....

In an age when involuted political scandals and celebrity lawsuits often stand as the principal issues of the day, it is amazing to consider that a mere three decades ago, American public discourse was seized by a slow-reading technical volume from a former staff biologist of the sleepy Fish and Wildlife Service. As galleys of ““Silent Spring’’ circulated, chemical companies threatened lawsuits to block publication. Once in stores, the book was an overnight best seller, extremely rare for a serious work....

A.D. 565 Adamnan’s “The Life of St. Columba” provides the earliest known account of Nessie. “He was obliged to cross the river Nesa [the Ness]; and when he reached the bank of the river, he saw the inhabitants burying an unfortunate man … He was swimming and bitten most severely by a monster that lived in the water.” 1933 Bertram Mills, a circus owner, offers a 20,000-pound reward to anyone who can capture the new monster for his traveling tour....

Cricket Australia (CA) boss James Sutherland, under mounting pressure to come down hard on what Australian media has dubbed a “rotten” team culture, was due in Johannesburg Tuesday where he will meet up with the body’s head of integrity, Iain Roy. They are expected to update a shocked Australian public on Wednesday morning, with reports saying they could throw the book at Smith and his vice-captain David Warner by banning both for 12 months and sending them home in disgrace....

With no less than four awful matches and a fair share of bad booking decisions, the event came close to being a total disaster, if not for two matches and a funny, but ultimately meaningless, Elias segment. Did anyone manage to come out of this train wreck with the wind in their sails? Loser: Bayley More wheel spinning. That’s what this match was, though it wound up being one of the better-worked matches of the night....

Fan Chants: Earlier at the WWE NXT TV tapings in Full Sail University, Triple H did not make an appearance in front of the rowdy crowd. The fans continued chanting for Punk even during other wrestlers matches and entrances. WWE security officials had to confiscate banners et al of Punk from fans before they entered the building. 0 votes

Date: 24 June 2021 Tournament: Bad Homburg Open 2021 Round: Quarterfinals Venue: Bad Homburg, Germany Category: WTA 250 Surface: Grass Prize money: $235,238 Match timing: Not before 6 pm local time, 4 pm GMT, 12 pm ET Petra Kvitova vs Nadia Podoroska preview Petra Kvitova fended off a spirited challenge from American youngster Ann Li in her second-round encounter at the 2021 Bad Homburg Open. The Czech needed nearly two hours to eke out a 6-2, 6-7(4), 6-1 win....

One of these challenges that players will face in chapter two is the infamous Crocodile, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea and a notorious antagonist in the anime the game is based on. Crocodile makes his return in the game and may prove to be a bit more challenging than other enemies in the game up to chapter 2. Preparations for Fighting Crocodile Once players have reached the scheming pirate captain by going through the Royal Mausoleum dungeon in Chapter 2, they may find him to be a tad more challenging than most other enemies they have had to face so far....