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Aryna Sabalenka: ‘I thought I had to just keep going … it damaged my mental health’
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World No 2 on grief and stress after former partner’s death and her burgeoning rivalry with Iga Swiatek
Now that she has lived it, endured the struggles and fought back to once again hold a winner’s trophy aloft on the eve of the US Open, Aryna Sabalenka is able to reflect on what has been.
The past two months for the woman now the favourite to triumph at the year’s final grand slam tournament were dominated by a debilitating shoulder injury that ruled her out of playing at Wimbledon. The few weeks before that were spent battling illness, first when she was laid low in bed for days before the Italian Open, and then struck by a stomach bug that dashed her French Open hopes.
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Aid not reaching Gaza, say relief groups as ‘more than a million go without food’
Medical supplies, toothbrushes and shampoo also remain stuck in backlog of lorries unable to enter from Egypt. Relief groups have said more than a million people in Gaza will not have enough food ...36 minutes ago -
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Jude Law: ‘Playing Henry VIII messed up my back. I’m still trying to sort it out’
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By bombing Gaza’s schools, Israel is taking aim at my future. But it will not succeed | Manar Al Khodari
Among the ashes and the bodies, education goes on – and I’ve seen the kind of help the international community can offer. Manar Al Khodari is a medical student from Gaza’s Rimal neighbourhood I ...41 minutes ago - Israel
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