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The 28-year-old Keys began the match in typically aggressive fashion, firing off powerful returns and groundstrokes to break serve and go 2-0 ahead. The breaker seemed to take the wind out of Andreeva's sails. Keys stormed into an early 2-0 lead in the third set after the Russian double faulted in her opening service game, before finishing off her opponent in a shade over two hours. In her second quarter-final at Wimbledon, Keys will face either second-seeded Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka or another Russian in Ekaterina Alexandrova, the 21st seed. Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Ken FerrisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Madison Keys, Russia's Mirra Andreeva, Toby Melville LONDON, Anna Kournikova, Keys, groundstrokes, Andreeva, Ekaterina Alexandrova, Aadi Nair, Ken Ferris Organizations: Lawn Tennis, Croquet Club, Madison, Wimbledon, Thomson Locations: London, Britain, Russian, Bengaluru
Nick Bollettieri, famed tennis coach, dies aged 91
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
CNN —Nick Bollettieri, the famed tennis coach who taught the likes of the Williams sisters, Andre Agassi and Maria Sharapova, has died aged 91. Bollettieri’s death was confirmed by the IMG Academy, which Bollettieri is the founder of, in a statement sent to CNN. In 1977, he founded the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy – now the IMG Academy – after borrowing $1 million from a friend to build a live-in tennis academy for his students. During over 30 years as a coach, Bollettieri became one of the most sought-after teachers in world tennis due to the success players had under him. Bollettieri outside his tennis academy.
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