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Superstars to Take Part in Riyadh Season Tennis Cup in December

FILED - 22 April 2023, Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart: Tunisian tennis player Ons Jabeur in action against Poland's Iga Swiatek during their women's singles semi-final tennis match of the 2023 Stuttgart Open at Porsche Arena. Photo: Marijan Murat/dpa
FILED - 22 April 2023, Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart: Tunisian tennis player Ons Jabeur in action against Poland's Iga Swiatek during their women's singles semi-final tennis match of the 2023 Stuttgart Open at Porsche Arena. Photo: Marijan Murat/dpa
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Superstars to Take Part in Riyadh Season Tennis Cup in December

FILED - 22 April 2023, Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart: Tunisian tennis player Ons Jabeur in action against Poland's Iga Swiatek during their women's singles semi-final tennis match of the 2023 Stuttgart Open at Porsche Arena. Photo: Marijan Murat/dpa
FILED - 22 April 2023, Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart: Tunisian tennis player Ons Jabeur in action against Poland's Iga Swiatek during their women's singles semi-final tennis match of the 2023 Stuttgart Open at Porsche Arena. Photo: Marijan Murat/dpa

Riyadh Season 2023 announced that Riyadh Season Tennis Cup will be held on December 26-27, and will bring together tennis champions from around the globe.

The female competition, which will be held on December 26, will feature Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka and Tunisian Ons Jabeur, African and Arab tennis stars, the best in the history of the International Tennis Federation and the Women's Tennis Association.

In the male competition, to be held on December 27, Serbian superstar Novak Djokovic, winner of 24 major championships, will compete against Spanish professional tennis player Carlos Alcaraz, who won two major titles.

The competitions will be held at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, which has a capacity of more than 40,000 spectators. The venue is designed to host other international events, including the International Boxing Bout, to be held on the opening night of Riyadh Season, on October 28.

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Liverpool Stays Ahead of Man City by Beating Chelsea 2-1 in Premier League

20 October 2024, United Kingdom, Liverpool: Liverpool's Curtis Jones celebrates scoring his side's second goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Liverpool and Chelsea at the Anfield. Photo: Peter Byrne/PA Wire/dpa
20 October 2024, United Kingdom, Liverpool: Liverpool's Curtis Jones celebrates scoring his side's second goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Liverpool and Chelsea at the Anfield. Photo: Peter Byrne/PA Wire/dpa
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Liverpool Stays Ahead of Man City by Beating Chelsea 2-1 in Premier League

20 October 2024, United Kingdom, Liverpool: Liverpool's Curtis Jones celebrates scoring his side's second goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Liverpool and Chelsea at the Anfield. Photo: Peter Byrne/PA Wire/dpa
20 October 2024, United Kingdom, Liverpool: Liverpool's Curtis Jones celebrates scoring his side's second goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Liverpool and Chelsea at the Anfield. Photo: Peter Byrne/PA Wire/dpa

Liverpool is looking more and more like Manchester City’s main title rival after beating resurgent Chelsea 2-1 on Sunday to stay top of the Premier League table.
After City needed an injury-time header from John Stones to beat last-place Wolves 2-1 in the early kickoff, Liverpool answered with a composed performance at Anfield to hand Chelsea its first league loss since the opening round, The Associated Press reported.
Having seen third-place Arsenal lose at Bournemouth on Saturday to raise questions about the Gunners’ title hopes, Liverpool and City took full advantage to build a small gap atop the standings. Arne Slot’s team leads on 21 points from eight games, one ahead of City and four above Arsenal.
Curtis Jones orchestrated the win for Liverpool, earning a penalty for Mohamed Salah’s first-half opener and then scoring himself to restore the host’s lead in the 51st minute, shortly after Nicolas Jackson had equalized for Chelsea.
Liverpool was the last team other than City to win the title, in 2019-20, and pushed Pep Guardiola’s team to the very end several times under Jurgen Klopp before finishing just fifth two years ago and a distant third last season.
In Slot’s first season in charge, though, the Reds are looking like credible challengers again and have now won 10 of 11 games in all competitions.
And City is looking far from unbeatable, needing another last-gasp goal from Stones to avoid a third league draw in four games against a Wolves team that only has one point so far.
It also needed a VAR intervention for the goal to stand, as referee Chris Kavanagh was called to the sideline monitor to review whether Bernardo Silva was interfering with goalkeeper Jose Sa from an offside position.
“We are not used to winning games at the end,” said Guardiola, whose team has won four straight league titles by regularly overwhelming most opponents. “It is a good flavor for us.”
It also extended City’s unbeaten streak to a club-record 31 league games, beating a mark Guardiola’s team had set in 2018.
With prolific striker Erling Haaland held scoreless for a third straight league game, City’s defenders provided the goals instead after Jorgen Strand Larsen had given the hosts a surprising early lead in the seventh minute.
Josko Gvardiol curled in a superb right-foot shot from outside the area to equalize in the 33rd minute but Wolves then repelled wave after wave of City attacks before the late intervention from Stones, who also netted a last-gasp equalizer against Arsenal in the eighth minute of injury time last month.
“These moments don’t come often for us,” Stones said. “We’ve come up with a few over the years and today was one of them.”