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Diamars 9 augustus 2022

Serena Williams earns first win of season in Toronto

Diaz 6-3, 6-4 at the wom- string suffered after slipping power and putting shot after
en's National Bank Open. on the grass surface. shot out of Parrizas-Diaz's
Williams' first victory since reach.
It's just the second tour- the 2021 French Open sent
nament of the season for her to face the either Belinda Williams' effort had the fans
the 40-year-old Williams, Bencic or Tereza Martincova. on their feet roaring and
who returned to competi- some even bowing.
tion at Wimbledon just over Williams started out strong,
a month ago. The 23-time taking the first two games Williams won the final three
Grand Slam champion fell in with relative ease. games to take the first set,
the first round to Harmony then surged ahead in the sec-
Tan in three sets at the All Parrizas-Diaz tied it 2-2, but ond after the 57th-ranked
England Club. despite Williams' struggles at Parrizas-Diaz took a 4-3 lead.
certain points, the 31-year- She endured a nine-deuce
Before then, she last com- old Spaniard couldn't find game to hold serve and even
peted at the 2021 Wimbledon enough of a consistent flow the set, then broke in the next
tournament, where she re- to get ahead. Williams found game before serving out the
(AP) — Serena Williams more than a year Monday, tired in the middle of her first her rhythm, mixing solid victory.
earned her first win in beating Nuria Parrizas- match due to a torn ham- touch with her signature

Argentina defender Senesi joins Bournemouth from Feyenoord

(AP) — Argentina defender
Marcos Senesi signed for Bour- Another defender aiming to earn se-
nemouth on Monday two days lection to the World Cup in Qatar in
after the newly promoted club November moved between league
made a winning start in the Eng- clubs.
lish Premier League.
Everton said it agreed on a season-
Bournemouth said the 25-year-old long loan to sign Wolverhampton
Senesi signed a four-year contract but captain Conor Coady, who has played
did not state the transfer fee it paid 10 times for England.
Feyenoord. The price was reported as
15 million euros ($15.3 million). The 29-year-old Coady started his
career across the city with Liverpool,
Senesi made his debut for Argentina but said he was "desperate to come
in June, in a friendly against Esto- here, to play for this club. I've got
nia, after helping Feyenoord reach family and friends who are massive
the Europa Conference League final Evertonians."
which the Dutch club lost to Roma.
Everton's need for a central defend-
Bournemouth is back in the Premier er grew when Ben Godfrey, another
League after a two-year absence and England international, injured his
opened with a 2-0 home win against right leg on Saturday in a 1-0 home surgery on a fractured fibula and is ton said.
Aston Villa on Saturday. loss against Chelsea. Godfrey had set to be out for three months, Ever-

Oklahoma's Gundy out after saying 'racially charged' word

(AP) – A day after Okla- nounced his resignation, cially charged word mul- versity or our football pro- of pain felt by a room full of
homa assistant head foot- the school said Monday tiple times during a film gram. This is not acceptable. young men I am charged to
ball coach Cale Gundy an- that Gundy uttered a ra- session last week. Period." protect, lead and love," Ven-
ables said.
Gundy, who had been with Gundy apologized in his post
the program as an assistant and explained his resigna- Former Sooners player Joe
since 1999, announced his tion. He said he noticed a Mixon, who now plays for
resignation in a social me- player was distracted while the Cincinnati Bengals, was
dia post late Sunday, and the he was supposed to be tak- among those who defended
school confirmed it with a ing notes, so he picked up the Gundy on Twitter.
statement shortly thereafter. athlete's iPad and read aloud
Oklahoma sent out another the words on the screen. He Gundy — whose brother is
statement on Monday giving acknowledged that he said a Oklahoma State head coach
more details about the inci- word that he "should never Mike Gundy — was on
dent. — under any circumstance staff for all 14 of the Soon-
— have uttered," and said he ers' Big 12 titles and the na-
"Coach Gundy resigned was "horrified" when he real- tional championship season
from the program because ized what he had done. in 2000. He spent the last
he knows what he did was seven seasons coaching wide
wrong," first-year Sooners Venables said it tough to see receivers after spending the
coach Brent Venables said Gundy to leave, but worse for previous 16 seasons coaching
in the statement. "He chose the players to hear that word running backs.
to read aloud to his players, from one of their coaches.
not once but multiple times, Venables said L'Damian
a racially charged word that "As painful as it has been Washington, who had been
is objectionable to everyone, dealing with coach Gundy re- an offensive analyst, will
and does not reflect the atti- signing from the program, it coach receivers on an interim
tude and values of our uni- doesn't touch the experience basis.