Adelaide, Victoria Mboko and Mirra Andreeva
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The Australian tennis swing is heating up with the last major tournament before the grand slam - the Adelaide International.
One year after Victoria Mboko’s breakout season delivered titles across three levels, the 19-year-old Canadian is already one win from completing another line on her rapidly growing résumé in Adelaide.
If anyone was still questioning whether the hype around Mirra Andreeva was real, they got their answer in Adelaide. In a quarterfinal clash that felt more like a glimpse into the future of women’s tennis than a standard warm-up match,
Adelaide United has denied claims of homophobia made by the club's former player Josh Cavallo. Cavallo came out in 2021, making him the only openly gay active top-flight male professional soccer player.
It's not how you start, but how you finish. That's the lesson Mirra Andreeva taught everyone in the Adelaide final, as she dropped the first three games, but won nine in a row between the first and second sets to carry her to a straight-sets win over Victoria Mboko and capture her fourth career title.
Adelaide Writers' Week has been canceled after most of the writers quit in protest of the festival's disinviting a Palestinian-Australian author.
The ATP 250 in Adelaide has reached the semifinal stage, and a new name will be etched on the trophy. Only one of the four men in that conversation has never lifted an ATP title.
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Palestinian author accepts Adelaide festival apology: 'A vindication of collective solidarity'
Randa Abdel-Fattah is still considering festival organisers' invitation to 2027 Adelaide Writers' Week after this year's cancellation