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The tennis world is reeling tonight. World number one Jannik Sinner, the man everyone had circled as the favorite to finally claim Roland Garros, is gone in the second round. Struggling with injury in sweltering Paris heat, Sinner dropped eighteen of the last twenty games against fifty-sixth-ranked Argentine Juan Manuel Cerundolo. A seismic collapse from a four-time Grand Slam champion who had everything to play for.
Shifting to the hardwood, the NBA Finals are nearly here, and MSG is finally hosting a Finals game again — but someone inside that Knicks locker room has been speaking out of turn. A current player reportedly made comments about Madison Square Garden that the fanbase is not going to sit well with. Timing could not be worse, right as New York is on the doorstep of something historic.
And across the Atlantic, Police Scotland's chief constable Jo Farrell is drawing a hard line on fan violence in Scottish football. After Celtic supporters stormed the pitch following a win over Hearts, Farrell told the Scottish Police Authority that clubs whose fans cause trouble are being let off too easily, and she wants tougher sanctions enforced at the highest levels of the game.
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