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I don’t know if I’m going to finally wake up or something. It just doesn’t seem real, the past 48 hours has been a complete whirlwind from going from being ready to go back home, booking a flight, packing my bags. I was supposed to leave yesterday. Andy Murray of Great Britain reacts during the change over in their round two singles match against Thanasi Kokkinakis of Australia during day four of the 2023 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 19, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Andy Murray left fuming as hes not allowed to use toilet during five-set marathon at Australian Open.

Michael Mmoh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Singles, more than ever, are open to free dates, they are mindful of the time, energy and money that they’re spending on those initial encounters.

Rachel DeAlto

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every year, we survey and interview singles, and every year, we find the same recurring theme : single parents are having a hard time dating, they felt stigmatized in the dating world, like it is a turn-off to disclose they have children. We also saw that single parents naturally gravitate towards other single parents because they didn't have to explain their constraints as they were in the same stage of life.

Thi Bui

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I should have been at like 30 or 32( grand slam singles titles), i should have had it( the record), really, I've had many opportunities to have it. But I'm not giving up.

King Richard

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm upset and a little embarrassed, i guess I felt a lot of pressure because I know everybody in China was pretty surprised with the selection for ladies' singles and I just really wanted to show them what I was able to do, but unfortunately I didn’t.

Yi Zhu of Team China

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm upset and a little embarrassed, i guess I felt a lot of pressure because I know everybody in China was pretty surprised with the selection for ladies' singles and I just really wanted to show them what I was able to do but unfortunately I didn't.

Beverly Zhu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison're keeping him in captivity. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison're stomping all over Novak to stomp all over Serbia and Serbian people, morrison and his like have dared attack Novak to bring Serbia to its knees. Serbia has always shown that he comes from a proud nation. Novak Djokovic holds the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup after defeating Russia's Daniil Medvedev in the men's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. ( AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File) Novak Djokovic SUPPORTERS SHOW UP AT MELBOURNE HOTEL WHERE HE'S BELIEVED TO BE HELD.

Srdjan Djokovic

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think Jordan Spieth was the one guy that challenged me to singles, and he got what he knew he was going to get.

Matt Kuchar

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

After the first-inning run, Woodruff allowed a pair of third-inning singles in six innings, striking out 10 and walking two. Edman generated a run for The Cardinals in the first. He worked a nine-pitch walk to lead off, stole second, took third on a groundout and scored on Tyler O’Neill’s sacrifice fly. The Cardinals made The Cardinals 2-0 in the eighth when pinch-hitter Lars Nootbaar walked with one out, stole second and scored on Edman’s second hit of the game. ’ The Cardinals’s impressive, they know they have to continue to win to get to the postseason. They’ve been playing really good ball. They’re doing the little things and I think that’s why they’ve been so good right now. Jake Woodford -LRB- 3-3 -RRB-’ve to give credit to them.

Willy Adames

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Everyone was thinking about the singles, when he said he wanted to play mixed, I was like, ‘OK, (if) it means that much to him and he wants to prove that he’s ready and in the mixed matches he’s giving everything, he’s 100% focused on going all the way, then OK.’.

Viktor Troicki

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don’t dwell on any of them, but it was eight singles, balls that were hit in holes, it was just one of those starts that could have went either way.

Marcus Stroman

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Justin Turner said. They sure did. Seager homeredagain, Buehler pitched six scoreless innings and The Dodgers beat The Braves 3-1 on Saturday to send the NL Championship Series to a winner-take-all finale. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON Los Angeles avoided elimination for the second time in less than 24 hours, staying alive in Los Angeles pursuit of a third pennant in four years. Los Angeles hasnt won a championship since 1988. Im still sort of recovering from this one, but already thinking about Game 7, The Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. Thats what you live for. Justin Turner also homered for Los Angeles, and Kenley Jansen threw a six-pitch ninth for Kenley Jansen 18th career postseason save. The NL West and East champions play again Sunday night, with the potential for two rookie starters in a Game 7 for the first time in big league history. Roberts was keeping his options open for his starting pitcher while The Braves plan to go with rookie right-hander Ian Anderson, who has thrown 15 2/3 scoreless innings in Ian Anderson three postseason starts. Tony Gonsolin and three-time NL Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw are among the possibilities for Los Angeles. Shoot, well go out there and let er fly. A Game 7 is another baseball game, Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said. You have to treat it as such. The Braves were hoping to celebrate Snitkers 65th birthday Saturday with the franchises first World Series berth since 1999. But Max Fried took Max Fried first loss all year, working into the seventh inning after surrendering three runs during a rocky first. Buehler, using Stans Rodeo Ointment to deal with bothersome blisters, threw 65 of his 89 pitches for strikes. He allowed seven hits while striking out six without a walk. After Atlanta loaded the bases with three singles in a row to start the top of second the last hit by his Vanderbilt roommate Dansby Swanson the right-hander really brought the heat, with 10 consecutive fastballs to get out of the jam. Austin Riley struck out on a 98.7 mph pitch before Nick Markakis took a called third strike on 99.7 mph. Cristian Pache, the 21-year-old rookie who had an RBI in each of Cristian Pache first four NLCS starts, was retired on an inning-ending groundout. Cristian Pache mound presence is just unbelievable.

Justin Turner

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

LGBTQ people, particularly transgender people, have been under constant attack by the Trump administration, we applaud today's decision and look forward to continuing our fight against this rule that unlawfully targets and singles out LGBTQ people for discrimination during their most critical time of need, when seeking health care. Our communities deserve better.

Carl Charles

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I could have made different choices in the singles today, i can take The United States on my shoulders. The United States is what The United States is. The questions will come from you guys and the public that I made mistakes in the selection of where I put my players.

South African Els

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

2019 Singles Day was clearly a major success.

Brendan Ahern

Found on CNN
4 years ago

What's happened is that you've had a lot of consumers this year being a little bit more careful about their purchasing because the economy's slowing down, i think this year especially, people were kind of waiting for Singles' Day and kind of waiting to make some of those medium-sized purchases that they didn't want to pay full price for.

Ben Cavender

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's an incredible group of players, I think, it's very special being here in singles, having had a bit of a taste it in the doubles the last two years. It was really nice.

Karolina Pliskova

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We know how successful the Hopman Cup was last year with Serena playing for the United States and Roger Federer representing Switzerland, when they played the mixed doubles it filled the stadium with over 15,000 fans. Any tournament would love to have that even for their singles final.

David Haggerty

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated. By all appearances, the President's brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden is wrong and appalling.

Mitt Romney

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated.

Mitt Romney

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated, by all appearances, the president's brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling.

Mitt Romney

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think that's actually going to prepare me for Naomi Osaka, because doubles to me is more faster paced than singles, naomi Osaka actually hits the ball pretty hard. I think it will prepare me well for Saturday's match.

Coco Gauff -LRB- @CocoGauff -RRB-

Found on CNN
4 years ago

What I need now is matches. I want to get myself back on the singles court and keep testing myself.

Andy Murray

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I'm not going to play doubles at the U.S. Open, my goal is to get back playing at the level that I want to on the singles court, and I've decided that I need to focus all my energies on that right now.

Andy Murray

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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