Author: Joan Igbava
Benjamin Davis penned a two-year contract at Fulham in July with the Under-18s and U-23s after just one year of playing with Fulham, he was not granted permission to miss National Service.
The 23-time major champion Serena Williams returned to top 10 in tennis rankings for the first time since taking a break to have her first child, she dropped to 491st upon her return to competition in March 2018.
NAOMI OSAKA (Japan) Tennis Aged 21, Naomi won her and Japan’s first ever Grand Slam, defeating 23-time major champion Serena Williams 6-2, 6-4, in the US Open final. Her second Grand Slam title came in January 2019, when she won the Australian Open, becoming the first Asian player to be the WTA world’s number 1. With the victory, Osaka became the first player to win two consecutive Grand Slam trophies since Serena Williams in 2015, and the first player to back up her maiden major title at the next Grand Slam since Jennifer Capriati won the Australian and French Opens…
Elise Mertens started her 2019 tennis season with three losses from all three tournaments, But a huge turnaround came on 16th February after Unseeded Elise Mertens claimed the biggest title of her career by earning three Top 10 wins in a row and beating top seed Simona Halep to win the Qatar Open.
Italian professional racing driver and paracyclist, Alex Zanardi, won the Cart championship in 1997 and 1998 in North America. He also had a less successful career as a Formula One driver.
“You get to understand what it means to fight every week – not just for the fans but a bigger cause…That’s the mentality I have and have had, throughout my career – I’m a fighter and that won’t change.” – Ashley Cole At 38, Ashley Cole got his first ever goal in the FA Cup after 49th appearances and first goal in English football in almost 7 years since September 2012 (for Chelsea vs Stoke). Ashley Cole who played in a record eight different post-war FA Cup finals made his first FA Cup appearance in 1847 days, since playing alongside…
When Venus Williams was diagnosed with Sjögren’s syndrome in 2011, Sjögren notoriously difficult to diagnose as it presents symptoms common with many other ailments, also incurable, her tennis career almost came to a grinding halt.
The doctor, having carried out his routine checks, told Adriana (Aguero’s mother) “this child was born con un pan debajo del brazo” – with bread under his arm, an old saying meaning the baby would bring the family luck.
“Tennis is hard, you lose every week unless you are the best player in the world. For this reason, it is very nice to have your best friend at your side. We would have stopped the competition for a long time if there was not this link between us”.
Amateur cricket player, Billy Cookson was seriously injured in a head-on car crash in October 2018 he suffered punctured lungs, a torn liver, a broken leg, and both ankles, and a shattered right arm in Australia left the hospital for the first time in January 2019.
