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...“Everywhere you look in Saudi Arabia, you can see growth and progress and I’m excited to be part of that,” Nadal said....
...She also toured intensively as a performer, leading the Carla Bley Band with Mantler, Swallow, the trombonist Roswell Rudd and drummer D Sharpe....
...I’m saying nothing....
...A feeling shared by Lester Sloan, a black American veteran photojournalist, who revisited Saint-Paul in 2022 after first photographing Baldwin’s house in 1990....
...“I’d score two, he’d score three; I’d score three, he’d score four. It was so crazy that I talked to Ousmane [Dembélé, Mbappé’s friend who plays for Barcelona]: ‘It’s not possible!...
...I would walk and walk and try to get to know this city I’d moved to. I remember walking the length of the Thames....
...Things might have been smoother if he’d won his first title when he was 20 or 23. But he never had the relentless drive of Djokovic, Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer....
...“If that had been a five-month-long grass-court season, I’m sure he would have ended up winning Wimbledon at the end of it.”...
...“I’d be surprised if that relationship survives,” says one commentator. Remarkably, it did, and Auger-Aliassime now shrugs off the incident....
...Nadal has missed 11. How many could he have won if he’d been consistently healthy? Nadal would detest the question. He doesn’t do hypotheticals....
...N Nadal Half-machine, half-medical miracle, Rafael Nadal has been battling pain for years. Is it finally over? Will the sport ever see anyone pick their wedged shorts with such style again?...
...Ibrahimović reflects: “I used to be pure adrenaline, but now I’m adrenaline and balance.”...
...“I would prefer not to be called A, B, C, D at any time but if I am, I’m not going to respond the way I might on a bus or on a street.”...
...And then you get Wimbledon and people like Nadal come down. All the footballers come. And it’s because the food’s fantastic. The wine’s great. The owner’s a fantastic guy....
...I’d like to say [the spark] was because she’s married to me, but it isn’t true!” Lester and Chakrabarti met at Rada and have been married since 1997....
...has worked with (and strapped its watches on – the drivers wear the RM-007, the first ladies’ watch that Mille made) a roster of the world’s leading sporting figures for many years – among them Rafael Nadal...
...She’s careful and measured, and I’m sure it makes her a good trade negotiator and probably a great lawyer. But for a reporter, she’s a nightmare. I have some sympathy....
...Lauded in 1971 by rock critic Lester Bangs as cutting “a swath through the music of our time wider and more far-reaching than any guitarist since Eric Clapton”, he has mastered numerous different genres,...
...This week Harris gave a disastrous interview to NBC’s Lester Holt in which she tripped up over the fact that she has not yet visited the US-Mexico border....
...Rafael Nadal, who despite being best on clay always saw winning on grass as his bigger achievement, is absent through injury....
...The overlord of one of the weirdest experiments in trade policy just got in a helicopter and flew off to the strains of “Y.M.C.A.”....
...For HBO’s The Undoing, production designer Lester Cohen used wallpaper to convey a complex set of social signifiers as well as to set the mood....
...So, Muhammad Ali; Nadal and Federer for tennis; and in basketball, Kobe Bryant – rest in peace – and LeBron James. The grooming staple I’m never without is Jo Malone Velvet Rose & Oud Cologne Intense....
...“I think it’s appropriate for the world that I’m trying to see for sneakers — which is recognition as a piece of art,” he says....
...I’m thankful to these guys, to make me a better player.” Federer and Nadal have set a tone of niceness in the locker room....
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