Repressed sexuality dampens every page of Federico Garcia Lorca’s 1936 play, as five sisters rage, sob and stew in their house in rural Spain. Here, her house feels like something between a prison and an operating theatre, with Merle Hensel’s bold set design turning the stage into a three-storey doll’s house in sickly shades of surgical-scrub green. Playwright Alice Birch’s …
American title favourites Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff had convincing third-round wins on Friday at the Australian Open. “I thought I just didn’t give away a lot of free points,” said Pegula, who will meet Barbora Krejcikova, the 2021 French Open champion, in the next round. Krejcikova was the first player to advance to the fourth round after a 6-2, …
American player Bernarda Pera stunned top-seeded Anett Kontaveit 6-2, 6-4 to win the Hamburg European Open on Saturday for her second title in seven days. The 81st-ranked Pera, who won her first WTA title in Budapest last week, saved three of the four break points she faced and took four of the six she created to beat Kontaveit, the world …
In a largely unchanged Top 10, American Jessica Pegula moved up one place to a career-high seven. Paris: Poland’s Iga Swiatek continues to dominate the WTA rankings released on Monday with almost twice the points of second-placed Estonian Anett Kontaveit. Croat Petra Martic jumped 30 spots to 55 after winning her second title in Lausanne on Sunday with American Bernarda …
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