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It will see top Tennis players from all over the world participate and get their hands on the prestigious trophy. The draw will be taken between the top 32 seeds in both men’s and women’s singles categories. The remaining places will be filled by the players who make it to the tournament after the ongoing qualifiers. Defending champion and the current World No.2 Novak Djokovic will be in search of his record seventh title in Melbourne as he takes the court next week....

Date: 20 January 2022. Tournament: Australian Open 2022. Round: Second round (Round of 64). Venue: Melbourne, Australia. Category: Grand Slam. Surface: Outdoor Hardcourt. Prize money: $75,000,000. Live telecast: USA - Tennis Channel | UK - Eurosport | India - Sony Six, Sony Liv. Danielle Collins vs Ana Konjuh preview 2019 semifinalist Danielle Collins will look to return to the third round of the Australian Open when she takes on the 58th-ranked Ana Konjuh on Thursday....

Date: 20 January 2022 Tournament: Australian Open Round: Second round (Round of 64) Venue: Melbourne Park Category: Grand Slam Surface: Hard Match timing: 7 p.m. local time, 8 a.m. GMT, 1.30 p.m. IST Prize Money: $75,000,000 Live telecast: USA - Tennis Channel | UK - Eurosport | India - Sony Six, Sony Liv Daniil Medvedev vs Nick Kyrgios preview World No. 2 Daniil Medvedev and Nick Kyrgios will face off in one of the most eagerly-awaited second-round clashes at this year’s Australian Open....

Disgraced former vice-captain Warner is serving a year-long suspension for his part in the plan to use sandpaper to tamper with the ball during the third Test in South Africa in March. He was considered the mastermind of the scandal that rocked the sport and also saw former captain Steve Smith and batsman Cameron Bancroft suspended. Respected News Corp cricket writer Robert Craddock this week questioned whether Warner could fit back into a team under the leadership of new coach Justin Langer given “half the players can’t stand him”....

Yen, aged 27, is originally from Taiwan but has lived in Brisbane, Australia, since she was eight years old, and normally speaks with an Australian accent. But two weeks ago, Yen woke up sounding Irish, despite having never even been to Ireland. Yen first started speaking with an Irish accent 10 days after she had surgery to remove her tonsils. She went to the hospital the same day but as she wasn’t showing any other signs of illness, Yen was sent home and told to rest....

Avatar: The Last Airbender has been noted as a groundbreaking television suitable for both children and adults, not only for its strong messages but for its skillful world building. The expansive universe of Avatar has resulted in a call for an open-world video game series as well as other mediums for fans to explore the world around Aang and his gang. Now, a tabletop roleplaying game led by Magpie Games will make that experience possible....

Rome: Total War was initially released in September of 2004 for Windows and later for Mac as well as Apple and Android portable devices. While there has since been an additional twelve games in the Total War series, Rome: Total War remains among the most popular, partially because of the large modding community surrounding the title. RELATED: Check Out the Original Pilot for Avatar: The Last Airbender The new mod, dubbed The Last Airbender: Total War, was created by moddb user KurdishNomad and contains character reskins that make the armies in the game look like the heroes and villains from the Avatar world....

The intro of Avatar: The Last Airbender famously shows Avatars bending the four elements: water, earth, fire and wind. The 3D video created by a group of seven talented fans has amassed over 3 million views. The 3D animation matches the show’s original movements with Aang’s graceful bending and the perfect flow of the elements around him. Aang’s bending has become so iconic that fans have recreated his intro moves in real life videos that show off the extreme athleticism needed to perform them....

RELATED: Movie Characters That Are Literally Perfect This trend is particularly noticeable in multi-entry, drawn-out franchises, but even some standalone movies are carried by the performance or writing of a single character. Whether it’s the lack of nuance in the plot or a larger-than-life performance, something about average movies with great characters just keeps audiences glued to the screens. 10 Joe Brody – Godzilla Fresh off the success that was Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston was probably drowning in role offers for big-budget movies....

Attachment theory was proposed by psychoanalyst John Bowlby in the 1940s and was aided in development by developmental psychologist Mary Ainsworth. Based on attachment theory, attachment can either be secure or insecure. Secure attachments are considered healthy, while insecure ones can cause dysfunctional effects. Read on to explore the avoidant attachment style in more depth. What Is Avoidant-Insecure Attachment? The avoidant attachment style is one of three insecure attachment styles identified in attachment theory....

In game development, narrative designers are an absolutely vital role and one that is sometimes overlooked. What a narrative designer does is make sure the narrative weaves in and out of every other element of the game, often working across departments to make sure that, for example, a certain gameplay beat doesn’t undermine the story. It pairs the gameplay verbs with the narrative beats, meaning that understanding the narrative allows them to better immerse players in terms of gameplay....

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The two Congress members made the vow during an online video panel on Monday regarding efforts to address police brutality and systemic racism organized by advocacy group Violence in Boston, Inc. Garner, Clark and Kearse, all black men, died in encounters with police. George Floyd, a black man, died on May 25 after white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes during an arrest uttering the same words as Garner during his final moments of life: “I can’t breathe....

SCIRI was founded in the early 1980s to export Iran’s fundamentalist revolution to Baghdad. The group, which has a large militia called the Badr Brigade, says that is no longer its goal–Iraq has been too secular for too long. Still, it must decide whether to work with the United States or not. Likewise, the United States must decide whether it wants the SCIRI inside or outside Iraq’s inchoate political tent....

Mundine won the super welterweight title fight at the Sydney Super Dome, reported Xinhua. Mosley, 42, retired just ahead of the seventh round due to severe back spasms. Mundine, 38, was well above Mosley before the American pulled out after the sixth round. “My heart goes out to Shane. I know he’s winner. He’s not one to pull out for nothing. He’s one of the greatest fighters to have ever lived,” Mundine said after the win....

The Bryans, the tops seeds and defending champions, lost in the third round Monday to American Eric Butorac and South African Raven Klaasen 7-6 (9), 6-4. MORE: Australian Open photo gallery | Sharapova loses "We like coming down here and starting the year hot and I don't think we played terribly," Mike Bryan said. "It's just the margins are really small." The brothers have been practically invincible at the Australian Open — six of their 15 Grand Slam titles have come here, and they've reached the final nine of the last 10 years....

Nick Kyrgios [14] vs Andreas Seppi Andreas Seppi of Italy has been a giant-killer at the Australian Open. In 2015, he caused the biggest upset of the tournament when he took out Roger Federer in the third round to hand the Swiss great one of his earliest losses at Melbourne Park. In the succeeding match, Seppi played some great tennis but eventually lost to local boy Nick Kyrgios 8-6 in the final set....

Barty was looking to become the first Australian woman to reach the decider in Melbourne since Wendy Turnbull in 1980, but the top seed wasted chances on a day the temperature approaching 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). Kenin, who saved a pair of set points in each set, spoiled the party to become the first American other than a Williams sister to progress to the Australian Open final since Lindsay Davenport in 2005....

Djokovic leads their head-to-head 26-23, and it stands at 10-6 when the all-time greats have met at majors. It is also 3-1 for Djokovic at the Australian Open. AUSTRALIAN OPEN: TV channels, dates for every match Djokovic, whose 16 major titles are four shy of Federer’s 20, will head into Thursday’s semifinal in Melbourne (3:30 a.m. ET) as the favorite. Ahead of their meeting, Omnisport looks at five of the classics they have delivered:...

Date: 17 January 2022 Tournament: Australian Open 2022 Round: First round (Round of 128) Venue: Melbourne, Australia Category: Grand Slam Surface: Outdoor Hardcourt Prize money: $75,000,000 Live telecast: USA - Tennis Channel | UK - Eurosport | India - Sony Six, Sony Liv Sofia Kenin vs Madison Keys preview 2020 champion Sofia Kenin will take on Madison Keys in an all-American first-round clash at the 2022 Australian Open on Monday....