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Unseeded Russian Anna Blinkova shocked last year’s runner-up Elena Rybakina at the Australian Open on Thursday, winning the longest tie-break in Grand Slam history as world number one Iga Swiatek came back from the brink. The previous tie-break record at a Grand Slam was 38 points, which happened on two occasions – at the 2007 Australian Open and at last …
Top-ranked Iga Swiatek seems to be finding her groove on grass ahead of Wimbledon. Three times a French Open winner on clay and once a U.S. Open winner on the New York hard courts, Swiatek played her first tour-level, grass-court quarterfinal on Thursday against Anna Blinkova at the Bad Homburg Open. Poland's Iga Swiatek celebrates after beating Russia's Anna Blinkova …
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