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India Today
3 days ago
- Sport
- India Today
Aryna Sabalenka reaches 3rd straight French Open quarterfinal, to face Qinwen Zheng
Aryna Sabalenka overcame a stiff challenge from Amanda Anisimova to make it to her third consecutive French Open quarter-final on Sunday, June 1. Sabalenka will take on Qinwen Zheng in the final eight stage but had to dig deep in the first set to overcome Anisimova. Coming into the contest, Sabalenka had lost five of her seven previous meetings with Anisimova. One of them was at Roland Garros in 2019, as a young Anisimova went to the semi-finals. However, the Belarussian star was able to show the form that has helped her claim the top spot in the rankings and held off the American to win the match 7-5, 6-3 in one hour and 32 minutes. advertisementFrench Open 2025 Day 8 Updates During the match, it felt that Sabalenka was going to run away with the match as she grabbed an early 4-1 lead and she held her first set point at 5-3. But Anisimova decided to bring some of her best play at that point, putting Sabalenka on the back foot. She quickly levelled things up and held two break points at 6-5. However, the World No.1 quickly thwarted it away with a couple of good serves and an ace to hold at 6-5. This proved to be the crucial point as Sabalenka was able to break Anisimova to claim the first set. Sabalenka raced to a 5-2 lead quickly, but Anisimova came in once again to save a total of six match points. advertisementThe World No.1 was able to regroup and get the win in the end. Sabalenka praised Anisimova for the challenge on the day and said she was happy with the win. "She is a great player, a tough one," Sabalenka said in a post-match interview."We had tough battles in the past. Honestly I was so focused, put as much pressure on her, change some rhythm. I am super happy with the win. She challenged me a lot."Sabalenka, who hasn't gone past the semi-final round Roland Garros, said that she is super hungry this time around and wants to be there till the very last day. "I am super hungry for this tournament. I want to stay until the very last day," said Sabalenka. The World No.1 will face Zheng, who overcame an early wobble to beat Russia's Liudmila Samsonova 7-6(5) 1-6 6-3 and reach the quarterfinals for the first time in her career.
Time of India
26-05-2025
- Sport
- Time of India
French Open: Sabalenka provides opening day colour
Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus hits a forehand against Russia's Kamilla Rakhimova. (AP Photo) PARIS: Roland Garros 2025 didn't get off to the brightest of starts weather-wise. The sky was overcast and a persistent drizzle was a damper. The mistral, blowing across the grounds, was stiff and sharp, forcing fans to layer-up. The matches on Court Philippe Chatrier, the tiered show court of this sprawling venue, however, got off to a roar under the roof. Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW! World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka in a crisp peppermint onepiece, with strategic cut-off at the back, put the spark in the schedule with a rapid-fire performance against Russian Kamilla Rakhimova. Who's that IPL player? The Belarussian, who claimed 12 of the 13 games played in the first-round match, in a major where she is yet to make it past the semifinals, picked clay as the surface that forced her to work the hardest. The 27-year-old didn't sweat in the 60-minute workout in which she slammed 30 winners, using the chalked lines for target practice. China's Qinwen Zheng, the eighth seed, who followed the world No.1 on court, shut out the tricky Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-4, 6-3 in 83 minutes. Sabalenka, whose USP is her supreme ability to blow out opposition, noted that power alone couldn't win her the day on red clay. 'Sometimes you have to build the point three or four times in one point, so you have to physically be ready, mentally be ready,' she said. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Giao dịch CFD với công nghệ và tốc độ tốt hơn IC Markets Đăng ký Undo 'You have to have variety in the game to be able to compete on clay court. Physically and mentally, clay court makes me work really hard.' More Than a Team: The Rise of CSK & the Whistle Podu Army Sabalenka, who made the semi-finals here two years ago, then last year lost in the quarterfinals when she was laid low by a stomach bug, leans on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to build her core. 'The Jiu-Jitsu (teaches you) to have control over your body,' she said. 'We use a lot of exercises from JiuJitsu for the core when we do fitness, also for control over the body. My trainer brought a lot of stuff from Jiu-Jitsu to my training sessions. ' Sabalenka, who is coming into her second successive Grand Slam as the world No.1, said she enjoys the pressure of leading the pack. 'I take it as a challenge if someone is chasing me or that there is a target on my back,' she said. 'Every time I go out there, I feel let's go. Let's see who is ready for the pressure moments. It helps me stay in the moment and to fight, no matter what.' Get IPL 2025 match schedules , squads , points table , and live scores for CSK , MI , RCB , KKR , SRH , LSG , DC , GT , PBKS , and RR . Check the latest IPL Orange Cap and Purple Cap standings.
New Straits Times
04-05-2025
- Sport
- New Straits Times
Aryna Sabalenka beats Coco Gauff for record-tying third Madrid title
Previous Next World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka withstood a second-set charge from No. 4 Coco Gauff to win 6-3, 7-6 (3) and earn her record-tying third Mutua Madrid Open title on Saturday. Sabalenka started out strong, winning four straight games without conceding a point and building a dominant 4-1 lead. Gauff battled back with a break before the Belarussian broke again with her second set point to finish off the first set, 6-3, in 35 minutes. The second set proved more of a challenge for Sabalenka. Gauff switched up her serve more and secured a break for a 3-1 advantage before saving two break points for a 4-2 lead. However, when Gauff had a chance to put away the set at 5-4, she twice double faulted, allowing Sabalenka to break back and ultimately win in a tiebreak on Gauff's eighth double fault. "I'm super happy that I was able to handle my emotions at the end of the second set. It was really intense and it was a real fight over there," Sabalenka told the Tennis Channel after the match. "I'm very happy I was able to close this match in two sets. It was Sabalenka's fourth Madrid final in the past five years, having won in 2021 and 2023 and falling last year to Iga Swiatek, who was dominated by Gauff in a 6-1, 6-1 semifinal loss Thursday. Sabalenka tied Czech Petra Kvitova for most Madrid titles. Kvitova won in 2011, 2015 and 2018. Sabalenka's win marks her third WTA title of the year. She also won in Brisbane and Miami, joining Serena Williams (2013) as the only players to win Miami and Madrid in the same season. "I saw she (Gauff) was struggling a bit in the beginning of the year and I'm happy that she made it to the finals and I'm happy she's finding her rhythm," Sabalenka said. Gauff and Sabalenka now have an even head-to-head record with five wins apiece. Gauff beat Sabalenka in their only other meeting on clay, in 2021 in Rome. "I'd like to congratulate Aryna on an incredible tournament. You're always tough to face," Gauff said after the match. "Congrats to your team. ... Congrats on all the success you've been having." It was the first Madrid final for the 21-year-old who is looking for her first title of 2025. That will have to wait, but Gauff said, "I think this is a step in the right direction."
Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Physicists create a black hole bomb for the first time
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Researchers have created a "black hole bomb" in the lab for the first time. In 1972, physicists William Press and Saul Teukolsky described a theoretical phenomenon called a black hole bomb, in which mirrors enclose, reflect and exponentially amplify waves emanating from a rotating black hole. Now, in a new study, physicists from the University of Southampton, the University of Glasgow, and the Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies at Italy's National Research Council experimentally verified the theoretical black hole bomb. This breakthrough will help astrophysicists better understand how black holes spin. The paper was published to the preprint server Arxiv on March 31 and has not yet been peer-reviewed. The ideas underpinning this and the original 1972 paper trace back to foundational work laid by two other physicists. In 1969, British mathematical physicist and Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose proposed a way to extract energy from a rotating black hole, which became known as black hole superradiance. Then, in 1971, Belarussian physicist Yakov Zel'dovich sought to better understand the phenomenon. In the process, he realized that under the right conditions, a rotating object can amplify electromagnetic waves. This phenomenon is known as the Zel'dovich effect. In their new research, the scientists harnessed the Zel'dovich effect to create their experiment. They took an aluminum cylinder rotated by an electric motor and surrounded it with three layers of metal coils. The coils created and reflected a magnetic field back to the cylinder, acting as a mirror. As the team directed a weak magnetic field at the cylinder, they observed that the field the cylinder reflected was even stronger, demonstrating superradiance. Related: Black holes may obey the laws of physics after all, new theory suggests Next, they removed the coils' initial weak magnetic field. The circuit, however, generated its own waves, which the spinning cylinder amplified, causing the coils to amass energy. Between the cylinder's rotational speed and amplified magnetic field, the Zel'dovich effect was in full swing. Zel'dovich had also predicted that a rotating absorber — like the cylinder — would change from absorption to amplification if its surface moves faster than the incoming wave, which the experiment verified. "Our work brings this prediction fully into the lab, demonstrating not only amplification but also the transition to instability and spontaneous wave generation," study co-author Maria Chiara Braidotti, a physics research associate at the University of Glasgow, told Live Science in an email. RELATED STORIES —Evidence for Stephen Hawking's unproven black hole theory may have just been found — at the bottom of the sea —Could Earth be inside a black hole? —Unproven Einstein theory of 'gravitational memory' may be real after all, new study hints "We sometimes pushed the system so hard that circuit components exploded," study co-author Marion Cromb, a researcher at the University of Southampton, told Live Science in an email. "That was both thrilling and a real experimental challenge!" While the team didn't create a real black hole, this analog demonstrates the crucial idea that rotational superradiance and exponential amplification are universal and don't only apply to black holes. This model will also help physicists understand black hole rotation as well as concepts at the intersection of astrophysics, thermodynamics and quantum theory, Braidotti said. Their research is being reviewed for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Embrace free markets, or expect more mass immigration
The Belarus Telegraph Agency has reported that the country is open to taking up to 150,000 Pakistani immigrant workers, equivalent to 1.5 per cent of the Belarussian population. They would work in agriculture and cotton manufacture, where Belarus needs more workers to make up for their low fertility rate. Although Belarus, which has been ruled by President Lukashenko since 1994, is seen as an authoritarian ally of Russia, it has proven unable to resist the lure of supposed easy economic growth through immigration. We've witnessed a demographic slowdown across the world, driven by causes as varied as urbanisation and increasing choices for women outside of the home. Even countries which are popularly thought of as teeming with young people, like Brazil, now have below-replacement fertility rates. The dependency ratio between those of working age and those of non-working age is narrowing. For countries with any kind of welfare state, this fact is enough to ring major alarm bells. How can it ask its young citizens to support a larger and larger proportion of the population who are out of work? Such a dire future makes the panicked drive towards mass migration somewhat understandable. That includes countries like Japan, which some on the Right have praised for maintaining its homogeneity. They point to its incredibly low levels of crime, high levels of trust, and thriving culture as evidence that mass immigration isn't necessary. Between 2000 and 2023, the number of foreign nationals has more than doubled as the country aged, although levels are still relatively low and most immigrant workers come from elsewhere in East Asia. In the last few years the UK, Canada, and Australia have all heavily increased immigration. Those coming were supposedly skilled workers and students, exactly the kind of immigrants who are said to drive economic growth. Yet in all three countries growth has been anemic, while the scale of immigration has led to major problems. In Canada this has included not only a housing crisis but a spate of deadly crashes involving poor driving by Indian truck drivers and even a diplomatic spat after Indian intelligence were accused of involvement in the assassination of a Sikh separatist leader. At the root of this is what some have called the Economist's Fallacy, the idea that people are simple economic units which can be substituted for one another without affecting the rest of society. Therefore if your population is ageing and your birth rate is low, then all you need to do is add immigrant workers to return to a manageable dependency ratio between workers and non-workers. This assumes, as the economist George Borjas pointed out in his book We Wanted Workers, that millions of immigrants from undeveloped countries can be imported without bringing the dysfunctional elements of their own economies and cultures with them. The evidence is clearly against that, as we can see by looking at the impact of Pakistani biraderi clan politics on our political system, the rape of thousands of largely white girl by predominantly Asian gangs, or the high levels of economic inactivity in many of our most diverse and immigrant-dominated areas. It seems unlikely, if Belarus does go ahead with importing 150,000 Pakistani workers, that it will deliver the growth they want. Nor will it solve the issue of an ageing society: immigrants age too. Instead, countries in the developed world need to move away from their old social model, with the assumption that people of pension age should stop working entirely. As better healthcare has extended lifespans, it has also made it easier for the elderly to keep working. At the same time, many of those of working age are in higher education for several years or out of or in limited work, with an explosion since the Covid pandemic in the numbers claiming disability benefits like PIP. A 2019 Office of National Statistics paper argued that an increase in the number in work would have more impact on the issue of dependency than an increase in immigration. While immigrants can bring negative aspects of their home culture with them, reducing our economic productivity, it is also true that poor domestic policy can do the same. Britain suffers under various self-inflicted economic wounds. The near-closure of British Steel was less the fault of its Chinese owners than of support for net zero by British politicians. Countries seeking to offset the effects of ageing societies should therefore focus more on free market reforms than on mass immigration. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
