If Frances Tiafoe has his way, every player lounge at an ATP Masters 1000 tournament will have table tennis and video games. There will be top-shelf food, “Not some dry chicken, but quality stuff that doesn’t taste like cardboard,” Tiafoe said in an interview in September, and tournament directors will …
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Americans flocked to the city in droves. A warm fall sun shone through the vast glass roof. The dealers brought their very best pieces. And the Art Basel brand did what it does. Art Basel Paris, which opened to V.I.P. visitors on Wednesday and runs through Sunday, is the first …
Read More »Against This Mighty Paralympic Team, a Close Loss Can Feel Like a Win
Wins over the Netherlands’ women’s wheelchair basketball team are so rare that its Paralympic opponents have been settling for moral victories. Spain, an upstart among the European powerhouses, held the team, known as the Dutch Angels, to a 3-point lead at halftime in Wednesday’s quarterfinal, but never recovered from a …
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