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Is there a Netflix curse on Australian Open tennis players?
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tennis is abuzz with tongue-in-cheek speak about a “Netflix curse” throughout the Australian Open, drawing a line from the streaming service’s new docuseries concerning the sport to the latest tough instances for Season 1 protagonists.
Of the ten gamers featured prominently throughout the 5 episodes launched final week, proper earlier than the beginning of play at Melbourne Park, just one stays within the singles competitors heading into Saturday: Felix Auger-Aliassime, a 22-year-old from Canada.
The No. 6-seeded Auger-Aliassime, a U.S. Open semifinalist in 2021, stated he wasn’t conscious this was even a subject of dialog till Friday, when his girlfriend clued him in.
“I assumed it was humorous,” he stated after beating Twenty eighth-seeded Francisco Cerundolo 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 to succeed in the fourth spherical. “I don’t know; I don’t assume it’s linked. … Perhaps the gamers that misplaced, perhaps they do really feel prefer it’s linked, by some means. I don’t assume they do. I don’t assume it’s linked, anyhow.”
Nicely, in fact it isn’t.
There isn’t a such factor as a “curse” on the earth of sports activities, though people certain do like to concoct and talk about them. The Curse of the Bambino, for one. The Sports activities Illustrated cowl jinx was one other.
It’s value noting that nobody is drawing any form of comparable foolish connection between lively participation within the filming of Netflix’s widespread “Method 1: Drive to Survive” — made by the identical government producers as “Break Level” — and F1′s on-track outcomes.
Contemplate: Lewis Hamilton has taken half in interviews and managed to win the motive force’s championship in every of the primary three years of that sequence. Max Verstappen, in the meantime, didn’t sit for the Netflix cameras and picked up the previous two titles.
Nonetheless, only for enjoyable, let’s run down the roster of what’s been launched from “Break Level”:
— Episode 1: Nick Kyrgios (withdrew earlier than the match as a result of he wants surgical procedure on his left knee); Thanasi Kokkinakis (misplaced to 35-year-old Andy Murray within the second spherical in a five-setter that lasted 5 hours, 45 minutes and ended at 4:05 a.m. on Friday)
— Episode 2: Matteo Berrettini (misplaced to Murray within the first spherical in a five-setter that lasted 4 hours, 49 minutes); Ajla Tomljanovic (withdrew earlier than the match due to an injured knee)
— Episode 3: Maria Sakkari (misplaced to 87th-ranked Zhu Lin within the second spherical Friday in a three-setter); Taylor Fritz (misplaced to 113th-ranked Australian wild-card entry Alexei Popyrin within the second spherical in a five-setter)
— Episode 4: Ons Jabeur (misplaced to Marketa Vondrousova within the second spherical in a three-setter); Paula Badosa (withdrew earlier than the match with an injured thigh)
— Episode 5: Auger-Aliassime (performs Jiri Lehecka within the fourth spherical Sunday); Casper Ruud (misplaced to Jenson Brooksby within the second spherical)
Sure, one in every of these is just not just like the others.
“Humorous how issues work out typically,” Auger-Aliassime stated.
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Comply with Howard Fendrich on Twitter at https://twitter.com/HowardFendrich
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Clashes erupt between university students and riot police outside Egyptian embassy in Beirut
Clashes erupted on Monday between pro-Palestinian university students and riot police outside the Egyptian embassy in Beirut. Dozens of university students gathered outside the embassy, holding Palestinian flags and calling on the Egyptian government to open the Rafah border crossing and allow humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip.
Clashes erupted on Monday between pro-Palestinian university students and riot police outside the Egyptian embassy in Beirut. Dozens of university students gathered outside the embassy, holding Palestinian flags and calling on the Egyptian government to open the Rafah border crossing and allow humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli excavators discover 2,300-year-old gold ring at City of David site
Israeli researchers digging in Jerusalem’s City of David archeological site have uncovered an “exceedingly well-preserved” 2,300-year-old gold ring that is believed to have belonged to a boy or girl that lived in the area during the Hellenistic period.
The piece of jewelry, which is “made of gold and set with a red precious stone, apparently a garnet,” has “accumulated no rust nor suffered other weathering of time,” the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Monday.
“I was sifting earth through the screen and suddenly saw something glitter,” Tehiya Gangate, a City of David excavation team member, said in a statement. “I immediately yelled, ‘I found a ring, I found a ring!’ Within seconds everyone gathered around me, and there was great excitement.”
“This is an emotionally moving find, not the kind you find every day,” she added. “In truth I always wanted to find gold jewelry, and I am very happy this dream came true – literally a week before I went on maternity leave.”
EXPEDITION TO ‘HOLY GRAIL’ SHIPWRECK FULL OF GOLD, EMERALDS BEGINS IN CARIBBEAN SEA
The Israel Antiquities Authority says the ring was “recently found in the joint Israel Antiquities Authority-Tel Aviv University excavation in the City of David, part of the Jerusalem Walls National Park, with the support of the Elad Foundation.”
It will be put on display to the public in early June during Jerusalem Day.
“The ring is very small. It would fit a woman’s pinky, or a young girl or boy’s finger,” the IAA cited Dr. Yiftah Shalev and Riki Zalut Har-Tov, Israel Antiquities Authority Excavation Directors, as saying.
Tel Aviv University Professor Yuval Gadot and excavator Efrat Bocher added that, “The recently found gold ring joins other ornaments of the early Hellenistic period found in the City of David excavations, including the horned-animal earring and the decorated gold bead.”
WOMAN OUT FOR A WALK STUMBLES UPON ONCE IN A DECADE DISCOVERY
“Whereas in the past we found only a few structures and finds from this era, and thus most scholars assumed Jerusalem was then a small town, limited to the top of the southeastern slope (“City of David”) and with relatively very few resources, these new finds tell a different story: The aggregate of revealed structures now constitute an entire neighborhood,” they said.
“They attest to both domestic and public buildings, and that the city extended from the hilltop westward. The character of the buildings – and now of course, the gold finds and other discoveries, display the city’s healthy economy and even its elite status. It certainly seems that the city’s residents were open to the widespread Hellenistic style and influences prevalent also in the eastern Mediterranean Basin,” the researchers added.
The IAA says “Gold jewelry was well-known in the Hellenistic world, from Alexander the Great’s reign onward” as “his conquests helped spread and transport luxury goods and products.”
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The Take: Why all eyes are on Rafah
PodcastPodcast, The Take
The aftermath of a deadly Israeli attack on a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah.
Days after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop its operation in Rafah, Israel hit a tent camp there, killing more than 45 displaced people. As the world condemns the attack, Israel’s war on Gaza continues.
In this episode:
- Akram Al Satarri, freelance journalist
- Imran Khan, (@ajimran) Al Jazeera senior correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by David Enders and Khaled Sultan, with Manahil Naveed, Catherine Nouhan and our host Malika Bilal.
It was edited by Amy Walters.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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