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Angel Reese has landed in a major controversy after posting bold New Year’s Eve outfit.

The Chicago Sky player also got candid about feeling uncomfortable when fans approach her at gas stations.

In a viral clip, the 22-year-old confessed, “See, this is why I don’t like going to the gas station, ’cause people always roll up on my car.”

Angel added, “That was a little scary. Especially the world we’re living in right now-people get killed every day. I was a lil scared cause people be acting crazy when I am at the gas station.”

She made her United States national team debut at the 2023 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup in Mexico.

Angel Reese deletes Instagram account:

After receiving backlash on her bold choice of clothing, Angel Reese deleted her Instagram account.

Since her Instagram account is no longer accessible, her fans could not help but wonder what made her take this drastic decision.

A conservative commentator Tomi Lahren called Angel’s a stunt for attention.

“She wore that and posted that so people would talk about her because she doesn’t want people talking about Caitlin Clark,” he said.

Notably, Angel’s TikTok and X (formerly Twitter) accounts are still active.

Emma Raducanu is gearing up for a pivotal 2025 season after an injury setback delayed her start to the year. The 22-year-old Brit, currently ranked world No. 56, has announced her participation in the Singapore Tennis Open, a WTA 250 event set to take place from January 27 to February 2, marking the return of top-tier women’s tennis to Singapore for the first time since 2018.

A Welcome Return to the Tour

Raducanu was originally slated to begin her season at the ASB Classic in Auckland but withdrew due to a back injury. The setback also limited her participation in late 2024, as she pulled out of multiple events following a Seoul injury during the Asian swing.

“Tried my best to be ready,” Raducanu told the WTA. “I love Auckland and the fans here but unfortunately picked up a back niggle and won’t be ready in time.”

Now, the Singapore Tennis Open provides her with a fresh opportunity to jumpstart her campaign after the Australian Open, where she is expected to make her season debut.

Raducanu will face stiff competition in Singapore, with world No. 14 Anna Kalinskaya, 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin, Elise Mertens, and Wang Xinyu among the notable names on the entry list. The tournament, staged at the Kallang Tennis Hub, replaces the Thailand Open and promises a strong player field, according to co-tournament director Laura Ceccarelli.

“The player field is looking good for the tournament, and I believe we are going to see some great matches in both singles and doubles,” Ceccarelli stated.

A Focus on Fitness and Longevity

Raducanu’s injury history has been a recurring theme since her meteoric rise to win the 2021 US Open. To address her physical challenges, she has brought on renowned trainer Yutaka Nakamura, who has worked with Maria Sharapova and Naomi Osaka, to enhance her athleticism and durability.

Emma Raducanu

Speaking at the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Malaga last November, Raducanu outlined her commitment to staying healthy and on court for longer stretches.

“I think my goal next year is to stay on court longer,” she explained. “This year I came to top 60 in the world, but I played I think less than 15 events. I know if I’m on court and healthy and competing, I can go even higher and further.”

Raducanu also highlighted her athleticism as an area with untapped potential, adding:

“It’s nowhere near its full potential. I’m just looking forward to exploring that further, and ready to commit to doing that.”

Aiming for a Breakthrough in 2025

Raducanu enters 2025 with the aim of building consistency and climbing back up the rankings. Her participation in the Singapore Tennis Open, along with a renewed focus on fitness, reflects a strategic approach to managing her schedule and maximizing her performance.

The Brit’s last WTA semifinal appearance was in Seoul in 2022, and a strong showing in Singapore could signal her resurgence as a serious contender on the tour.

WNBA star Angel Reese faces backlash, resulting in her deleting her Instagram.

The Chicago Sky forward has had an impressive run from starting a viral podcast in 2024 to her stunning style evolution. Although she’s known for handling issues classily, it appears Reese has hit her wits end — and understandably, if so.

After sharing her New Year’s Eve outfit on Instagram, the WNBA star faced incessant backlash in the comments. The dress was none other than that viral dress circulating on TikTok (see below). Shortly after, Reese deleted her Instagram page. Since, headlines referring to her clothing as “ultra-revealing.”

The move shows just how negatively shaming impacts women — yet according to headlines, people still haven’t learned. From the 2024 Olympics to the music industry and beyond, people are becoming more unapologetic with shaming women.

Unfortunately, it appears to be a holiday trend to shame women. SZA also recently responded to body shamers on Twitter highlighting a repulsive trend of people still commenting on women’s bodies. In 2024, Keke Palmer was publicly shamed, as well.

In other news, the GOAT Simone Biles may not compete in the 208 LA Olympics. Here’s why. Elsewhere, Bad Bunny releases a short film for his upcoming album.

Battling Iga Swiatek took Poland into a United Cup semifinal against Kazakhstan as last year’s runners-up beat Britain in the mixed-teams tournament on Thursday.

The five-time Grand Slam champion and world No 2 Swiatek fought back to beat Katie Boulter 6-7 (4/7), 6-1, 6-4 and give Poland an unassailable 2-0 lead in the quarterfinal in Sydney.

With the Australian Open just over a week away, Swiatek has now won all three of her singles matches at the United Cup to launch her season.

“I am just exhausted,” Swiatek, who required a medical timeout in the deciding set and had strapping on one thigh, said after prevailing in just under three hours.

“This match was crazy, so many changes in momentum.”

A relieved Swiatek added: “I took four painkillers, a lot hurt, but happy we won.”
It was a first-ever meeting between Swiatek and Boulter, who is ranked 24 in the world, but they did practise together before the United Cup.

Swiatek, at her first event since news broke in late November that she served a one-month ban for a doping violation, roared back in the second set after Boulter won a tight first.

The former No 1 Swiatek took a medical timeout at 2-1 down in the final set as the duo went toe-to-toe in a tense encounter.

Iga Swiatek 

Swiatek, 23, finally wrapped it up on the first match point when Boulter fired into the net, before running over to the rest of the Poland team courtside.

Before that, the 16th-ranked Hubert Hurkacz, who had not been at his best to start the season and had a new coach, defeated Billy Harris 7-6 (7/3), 7-5 in the men’s singles.

The victory against a player ranked 109 places below him gave Poland one foot in the last four.
It was also a badly needed victory on a personal level for Hurkacz, who had lost both his previous singles matches at the United Cup.

“Super-pleased with myself. Today was a really difficult battle with Billy,” said Hurkacz. “Definitely happy to get through this one.”

The 27-year-old added: “This win is crucial for me to build confidence and get another match in.”
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Emma Raducanu delivers philosophical injury update ahead of Australian Open

Concerns about Emma Raducanu’s readiness for the Australian Open have been partly assuaged by social-media images of an intense training session in Melbourne.

Raducanu had planned to be participating in the Auckland Open this week, only to withdraw on the eve of the tournament on account of the niggling back trouble that had dogged her off-season.

But she was pictured moving freely on one of Melbourne’s blue practice courts in a hitting session with her close friend Fran Jones, the British No 5.

In a separate series of images, Raducanu is shown hurling a medicine ball into the floor in an exercise that was presumably prescribed by her new fitness trainer, Yutaka Nakamura.

Since joining the Raducanu camp for the first time in November, Nakamura – who supervised Maria Sharapova’s training regime for eight years – has been trying to improve his new charge’s patchy fitness record. But the recent issues with Raducanu’s back have underlined how much work still needs to be done.

Raducanu labelled her latest Instagram photo-dump with the caption “being grateful for health & channelling into growth”. She also attached an image of a WhatsApp message that read: “It’s funny you forget how much for granted you take being fit is & only remember when you’re on the sidelines again.”

While Raducanu’s non-appearance in Auckland was not a significant disappointment, given the fact that it is only a 250-point event with a modest field, the Australian Open is one of the four most prestigious events of the year.

Emma Raducanu

Starting on Jan 12, the first major of the season will bring the world’s best players together in pursuit of a first prize approaching £2 million, not to mention the 2,000 rankings points – enough to put the winner on the verge of the world’s top 20 even if they did not play another event all year.

The British No 1, Katie Boulter, should go into Melbourne with some confidence after scoring two dominant victories at the United Cup in Sydney over the past few days.

Having defeated Nadia Podoroska of Argentina and Australia’s Olivia Gadecki, both in straight sets, Boulter went up against world No 2 Iga Swiatek on Thursday and pushed her all the way in a narrow 6-7, 6-1, 6-4 defeat.

With Hubert Hurkacz also defeating Billy Harris in the men’s match, Great Britain were eliminated by Poland at the quarter-final stage.

WNBA star Angel Reese closed out 2024 by breaking the internet with an incredibly stunning selfie.

Reese, the No. 7 pick from the 2024 WNBA Draft, had an excellent rookie season with the Chicago Sky. The national champion from LSU averaged 13.6 points and 13.1 rebounds per game, earning All-Star honors in the process. If she wasn’t in the same draft class as Caitlin Clark, she most likely would’ve been named Rookie of the Year. Nonetheless, she still has an awful lot to be proud of.

Angel Reese certainly knows how to make a fit statement as she saved her best look of 2024 for last.

The Chicago Sky All-Star and double-double queen had quite the year with her different looks from her Wild ‘n Out bootylicious slay, to her jaw-dropping Poison Ivy Halloween costume where she was painted fully green, to riding a camel in Dubai while hilariously wearing a luxury fit.

The 22-year-old Reese hit Miami where she will participate in the new 3×3 Unrivaled league in January for the Rose Basketball Club. From there, she dropped her boldest and best fit of the year with a skimpy stunner selfie on New Year’s Eve.

That’s Bad Barbie right there. There’s a reason Rihanna wanted to pose for a picture with Reese in 2024. That’s a South Beach-worthy look if there ever was one — that fit may carry over and win 2025 as well.

Reese certainly knows how to enjoy herself in December. On Christmas, she went “Big Mama” with her tiny shorts and danced around.

It’s been an amazing year of fashion for Angel Reese, but she came through before the buzzer in 2024 with the year winner.

Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from this week’s WTA event in Auckland because of a back problem.

The 22-year-old was due to play Robin Montgomery of the United States in the first round of the ASB Classic on Tuesday.

Raducanu will now fly to Melbourne to continue her preparations for the Australian Open, which begins on 12 January.

“Tried my best to be ready,” she said. “I love Auckland and the fans here, but unfortunately I picked up a back niggle and won’t be ready in time.”

The 2021 US Open champion sprained ligaments in her foot in Seoul in September and could only play three further matches last season.

She won them all, on national duty for Great Britain at the Billie Jean King Cup Finals, but will now head into the first Grand Slam of the season with no match practice.

Raducanu suffered fewer injury problems last season but only played 10 matches after Wimbledon, and she also missed March’s Miami Open with a back issue.

She has hired the renowned fitness trainer Yutaka Nakamura, who has been in Auckland with her.

“I just needed a more tailored approach and I needed someone more dedicated to me alone as an individual and I’m looking forward to what comes with this,” Raducanu told reporters earlier this month.

“It definitely adds another dimension to the way me and [coach] Nick [Cavaday] work,” she added.

“It’s all become, in a very positive way, integrated and together and connected, and we can see already things transfer on to the tennis court that we do in the gym.”

Emma Raducanu

Raducanu is currently ranked 56th in the world and so will not be seeded for the Australian Open.

Burrage ‘makes most’ of Auckland opportunity

Despite Raducanu’s absence, there was a British presence in the Auckland singles when Jodie Burrage was given a spot in the draw as a late lucky loser.

The world number 179, who missed large chunks of last season with wrist and ankle injuries, made the most of her opportunity with a 6-3 6-3 win over New Zealand wildcard Vivian Yang.

Burrage lost in qualifying but moved into the main draw after Belgium’s Elise Mertens withdrew on Monday through injury.

“It was a crazy day, I stuck around and didn’t think I’d be getting in. It was very last minute and I’m very happy to make the most of the match,” said Burrage, who plays American Hailey Baptiste next.

Former US Open champion Emma Raducanu pulled out of the Auckland Classic on Tuesday with a “back niggle” in a blow to her Australian Open preparations.

Britain’s Raducanu will now fly to Melbourne to begin rehabilitation ahead of the year’s first major starting on January 12.

The 22-year-old has suffered a series of injuries since bursting onto the scene with her New York triumph in 2021.

“I’ve tried my best to be ready. I love Auckland and the fans here,” the 56th -ranked Raducanu said. “But unfortunately I’ve picked up a back niggle and I won’t be ready in time.”

Raducanu is travelling with renowned fitness coach Yutaka Nakamura in an attempt to better withstand the rigours of professional tennis.

Raducanu missed a chunk of 2023 following wrist and ankle surgery, and was recently side-lined for two months by a foot injury.

Former Australian Open semi-finalist Elise Mertens also withdrew hours before the second seed’s first-round match in Auckland.

The tournament has been shorn of four of its eight seeds in the first round.

Third-seeded American Amanda Anisimova was upset in three sets by compatriot Alycia Parks to join Raducanu, Mertens and fourth-seeded New Zealander Lulu Sun in an early exit.

Emma Raducanu

Errors crept into Anisimova’s game after winning the first set, going down 2-6, 6-2, 6-3.

Top seed Madison Keys defied blustery conditions to win her first-round match in straight sets over Lucia Bronzetti.

American world number 21 Keys was relieved to start her season with a solid 6-4, 6-4 outing against the Italian.

“I feel like we all come out, we’re a little bit nervous, but it’s obviously so much fun to be back out here,” she said. “Lucia is one of those players who’s just going to make you keep on having to play shots. So it’s great for the confidence this early in the season.”

The 29-year-old will next play unseeded Romanian Jaqueline Cristian after her Ukrainian opponent Yuliia Starodubtseva retired during their second set.

Former Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin beat China’s Wang Xiyu 7-6 (7⁄5), 6-1, the American setting up a second-round match against fifth-seeded Dane Clara Tauson.

Rafael Nadal is spending his first Christmas as a retired man with the people that matter most to him. In new photos shared on Instagram, Nadal shared a look at his holiday season, one he has spent with his wife and child and also his cousins, aunts, and uncles.

The photos were shared earlier this week, and show Nadal participating in some of his favorite activities. It kicks off with a photo of his entire family, with all of them smiling brightly for the camera as they completed a hike.

Nadal wears a white cap and a matching shirt from his sports brand, known for its logo of a black bull. He’s accompanied by his father, Sebastian Nadal, his mother, Ana Maria Perera, and his sister, Maribel. Some of his aunts, uncles, and cousins are also in the picture, including Marta Nadal.

Rounding out the group are Nadal’s wife, Mery Perello, and their son, Rafa, who’s two years old. His face is covered by a heart emoji, with Nadal guarding his privacy.

Nadal shared photos with his different family members, including one of himself and two younger men on the beach. The three are hugging, with their feet dipped in the water, enjoying the stunning views that Mallorca has to offer.

Rafael Nadal

“Time to be with family,” Nadal captioned the post, adding a heart emoji.

Will Nadal’s son also play tennis?

Over the past year, Nadal has discussed his career and his role as a father, something he confessed he’d been looking forward to his whole life. He also discussed the possibility of his son playing tennis in the future.

He described himself as “a person who loves kids,” to the Spanish outlet El Objetivo. “All my life I’ve been clear that I want to be a father. It hurts to say this, because of everything this sport has given me… if he wants to play tennis, I’ll support him one hundred percent. But I would never stop him from doing anything. If he plays another sport, better.”