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Italian Open leaders side with players on prize money issue and aim to become a 5th Grand Slam

ROME — Italian Open organizers are supporting tennis players who are urging a boycott unless the Grand Slam tournaments improve their prize money. Angelo Binaghi, the president of the Italian Tennis and Padel Federation, is also campaigning to turn the Rome event into a fifth Grand Slam. The players have targeted the coming French Open for reducing players' share of revenue to an alleged 14.3% — compared to the 22% at ATP and WTA events like the Italian Open this week. Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff were among players this week threatening a boycott of the Slams if ...

F1 Review

MIAMI — With an unexpected five-week break in the beginning of the season, the 11 Formula 1 (F1) teams worked feverishly on developing their cars. Each team was hoping to make improvements, whether it was a back marker team trying to get to the midfield, a midfield team trying to compete for ...

Ducks beat Golden Knights 3-1 and send series back to Anaheim at 1-1

LAS VEGAS — Beckett Sennecke, Leo Carlsson and Jansen Harkins scored, Lukas Dostal came 5.6 seconds from his first career playoff shutout and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Vegas Golden Knights 3-1 on Wednesday night to even their series at a game apiece. The Ducks head home with the chance to grab hold of the best-of-seven second-round NHL playoff series, with Game 3 on Friday night. Vegas hopes to pull off a repeat of its first-round series when the Golden Knights went to Utah at 1-1 before winning in six games. "That's not our tradition of playing that type of game, a low-scoring ...