Paolini Becomes 1st Italian Women’s Player to Make Miami Open Tennis Semifinals 

Jasmine Paolini of Italy returns a shot against Magda Linette of Poland during Day 8 of the Miami Open at Hard Rock Stadium on March 25, 2025 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Getty Images/AFP)
Jasmine Paolini of Italy returns a shot against Magda Linette of Poland during Day 8 of the Miami Open at Hard Rock Stadium on March 25, 2025 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Getty Images/AFP)
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Paolini Becomes 1st Italian Women’s Player to Make Miami Open Tennis Semifinals 

Jasmine Paolini of Italy returns a shot against Magda Linette of Poland during Day 8 of the Miami Open at Hard Rock Stadium on March 25, 2025 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Getty Images/AFP)
Jasmine Paolini of Italy returns a shot against Magda Linette of Poland during Day 8 of the Miami Open at Hard Rock Stadium on March 25, 2025 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Getty Images/AFP)

Jasmine Paolini is headed to the Miami Open semifinals for the first time.

The sixth-seeded Paolini defeated unseeded Magda Linette of Poland 6-3, 6-2 on Tuesday, becoming the first woman to make the tournament's final four this year.

Paolini is the first Italian woman to make the semifinals at Miami. There were six instances of Italian women making the quarterfinals there, most recently Martina Trevisan in 2023.

Paolini will face top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka in the semifinals. Sabalenka topped ninth-seeded Qinwen Zheng of China 6-2, 7-5 in their quarterfinal match on Tuesday night, capping a day where rain postponed many matches by several hours.

The other side of the women's bracket is set for quarterfinal matches Wednesday, with fourth-seeded Jessica Pegula of the US taking on Britain's Emma Radacanu, and second-seeded Iga Swiatek facing Alexandra Eala of the Philippines.



Vardy Scores Landmark Goal for Leicester in Final Game for Club

Football - Premier League - Leicester City v Ipswich Town - King Power Stadium, Leicester, Britain - May 18, 2025 Leicester City's Jamie Vardy celebrates scoring their first goal with Leicester City's Kasey McAteer. (Action Images via Reuters)
Football - Premier League - Leicester City v Ipswich Town - King Power Stadium, Leicester, Britain - May 18, 2025 Leicester City's Jamie Vardy celebrates scoring their first goal with Leicester City's Kasey McAteer. (Action Images via Reuters)
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Vardy Scores Landmark Goal for Leicester in Final Game for Club

Football - Premier League - Leicester City v Ipswich Town - King Power Stadium, Leicester, Britain - May 18, 2025 Leicester City's Jamie Vardy celebrates scoring their first goal with Leicester City's Kasey McAteer. (Action Images via Reuters)
Football - Premier League - Leicester City v Ipswich Town - King Power Stadium, Leicester, Britain - May 18, 2025 Leicester City's Jamie Vardy celebrates scoring their first goal with Leicester City's Kasey McAteer. (Action Images via Reuters)

Jamie Vardy marked his 500th and final match for Leicester with a farewell goal — his 200th for the club he has represented for exactly 13 years.

The 38-year-old striker scored in the 28th minute to put Leicester 1-0 ahead against Ipswich at King Power Stadium in the Premier League on Sunday.

Vardy ran to the corner flag, pulled it out and raised it aloft before being mobbed by his teammates.

Grabbing a landmark goal is a fitting way to go out for Vardy, a player Leicester has described as its “greatest ever” after he famously helped the team to win the Premier League title in 2016 at preseason odds of 5,000-1. In that title-winning campaign, he netted in a record 11 straight games to inspire one of the great underdog stories in sporting history.

Vardy is still going strong, scoring nine times in this campaign to back up his assertion that he can still play at the highest level. It hasn't been announced where he will play next.

Leicester still has another league game left after that — at Bournemouth on May 25 in the Premier League's final round — but Vardy’s last appearance for the team will be against Ipswich.

Vardy joined Leicester from non-league team Fleetwood Town for 1 million pounds (now $1.33 million) in May 2012 — exactly 13 years ago.