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In the NHL, Quinn Hughes and the Minnesota Wild are closing in on a three-year contract extension, and the length of that deal is deliberate. Both sides see a shorter window as the smarter play right now, giving Hughes flexibility and Minnesota room to manage its cap as the roster evolves around their franchise cornerstone on the blue line.
Over at Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic survived a scare in round one, grinding past China's Yibing Wu in four sets in what the thirty-nine-year-old himself called a really challenging match. Wu had Djokovic at zero-forty on serve at three-two in the fourth, but the twenty-four-time grand slam champion saved all six break points he faced and found a way through. Not the statement opener he wanted, but he is through.
And the feel-good story from the All England Club belongs to Katie Swan, who became the first British player to win a match at this year's Wimbledon, beating Romania's Irina-Camelia Begu to reach round two. Swan once nearly walked away from the sport entirely, which made her moment on Court Sixteen, dropping to her knees after converting match point five, something genuinely worth stopping for.
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