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Hady Habib Becomes 1st Man Representing Lebanon to Win Grand Slam Singles Match

Lebanon's Hady Habib hits a shot against China's Bu Yunchaokete during their men's singles match on day one of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 12, 2025. (Photo by Paul Crock / AFP)
Lebanon's Hady Habib hits a shot against China's Bu Yunchaokete during their men's singles match on day one of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 12, 2025. (Photo by Paul Crock / AFP)
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Hady Habib Becomes 1st Man Representing Lebanon to Win Grand Slam Singles Match

Lebanon's Hady Habib hits a shot against China's Bu Yunchaokete during their men's singles match on day one of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 12, 2025. (Photo by Paul Crock / AFP)
Lebanon's Hady Habib hits a shot against China's Bu Yunchaokete during their men's singles match on day one of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 12, 2025. (Photo by Paul Crock / AFP)

Hady Habib's history-making run at the Australian Open will continue after the first man to represent Lebanon in a Grand Slam singles tournament in the Open era became the first to win a match, defeating Bu Yunchaokete of China 7-6 (4), 6-4, 7-6 (6) on Sunday.
The 26-year-old Habib won three matches in qualifying rounds just to get into the field of 128 players.
Now he'll be one of the 64 to make it into the second round after his victory on Day 1 at Melbourne Park, which was achieved with the help of 61 winners, 36 more than his opponent, The Associated Press reported.
Habib, who is ranked outside the top 200, was born in Houston, Texas; his father is Lebanese.
Habib went to Texas A&M University.
He represented Lebanon at the Paris Olympics last year, losing to four-time Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz in the first round.

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Klopp Smiles Broadly as Leipzig Defeats Werder Bremen 4-2 in Bundesliga

Jurgen Klopp (5thL), new global head of football at Red Bull, arrives next to Saxony's State Premier Michael Kretschmer (R) prior to the German first division Bundesliga football match between RB Leipzig and SV Werder Bremen in Leipzig, eastern Germany on January 12, 2025. (Photo by Ronny HARTMANN / AFP)
Jurgen Klopp (5thL), new global head of football at Red Bull, arrives next to Saxony's State Premier Michael Kretschmer (R) prior to the German first division Bundesliga football match between RB Leipzig and SV Werder Bremen in Leipzig, eastern Germany on January 12, 2025. (Photo by Ronny HARTMANN / AFP)
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Klopp Smiles Broadly as Leipzig Defeats Werder Bremen 4-2 in Bundesliga

Jurgen Klopp (5thL), new global head of football at Red Bull, arrives next to Saxony's State Premier Michael Kretschmer (R) prior to the German first division Bundesliga football match between RB Leipzig and SV Werder Bremen in Leipzig, eastern Germany on January 12, 2025. (Photo by Ronny HARTMANN / AFP)
Jurgen Klopp (5thL), new global head of football at Red Bull, arrives next to Saxony's State Premier Michael Kretschmer (R) prior to the German first division Bundesliga football match between RB Leipzig and SV Werder Bremen in Leipzig, eastern Germany on January 12, 2025. (Photo by Ronny HARTMANN / AFP)

Jürgen Klopp watched with a broad smile as Leipzig defeated Werder Bremen 4-2 to reclaim fourth place in the Bundesliga on Sunday, The Associated Press reported.
Klopp, the former Liverpool, Borussia Dortmund and Mainz coach, took over his new duties as Red Bull’s head of global soccer on Jan. 1 and he took the first opportunity to see the energy drinks manufacturer’s German representative in competitive action.
Klopp can have had few complaints as he watched the 21-year-old Xavi Simons open the scoring and then cancel Mitchell Weiser’s response, before Benjamin Šeško, also 21, made it 3-1 with a brilliant strike from distance after the break.
Both Xavi and Šeško fit the profile of highly talented young players that Klopp will be expected to develop and attract to the growing Red Bull stable of clubs.
Leipzig substitute Christoph Baumgartner scored in the final minute before Bremen's Oliver Burke scored in stoppage time.
Klopp was in Paris on Saturday to see second-tier Paris FC beat Amiens 1-0. Among his tasks there is turning the club into one of France’s best under the ownership of the country’s richest family, the Arnaults of luxury empire LVMH. The family’s takeover of the second-tier club includes bringing Red Bull on board as a minority stakeholder.
Leipzig has struggled so far this season, losing all its games in the Champions League and dropping points in seven of its 16 games in the Bundesliga.
Stuttgart, last season’s runner-up, was playing at Augsburg later to conclude the round.