Tennis greats Martina Navratiolva and Chris Evert said that hosting the WTA Finals in Saudi Arabia "would be a 'step backward' for women's tennis." The WTA came close to staging the 2023 Finals in Saudi before going to Cancun, but the WTA is "still considering moving the season-ending event to Riyadh for future tournaments" (BBC.com, 1/25).
Manchester United "could be sitting on 'revolutionary' growth potential" after club revenues were shown to "surge 11 per cent year-on-year in the annual Deloitte Money League report" (MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS, 1/25).
A judge ruled that former Spanish Football Federation President Luis Rubiales "must face a criminal trial" for kissing Spanish women's national team F Jenni Hermoso without her consent after their World Cup final victory (London TIMES, 1/25).
The Queensland government's "dithering" over the redevelopment of Gabba cricket stadium has thrown Australian cricket's push for a seven-year plan "into turmoil." At a time when there is "major lobbying and intense discussions going on behind the scenes before major decisions are made on the schedule," Queensland is "powerless to make a concrete pitch" about what it wants over the next seven years (Brisbane COURIER-MAIL, 1/25).
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