Wimbledon 2021 Final: Ashleigh beats Karolina to win maiden Wimbledon Trophy
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Ashleigh Barty wins Wimbledon Singles Trophy. She beat Karolina Pliskova 6-3, 6-7 (4/7), 6-3 in the women's singles final to win her maiden Wimbledon title.
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— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 10, 2021
The final between world No 1s — the current and a former one - Ashleigh Barty vs Karolina Pliskova, at Wimbledon was nail biting one, with both having a lot at stake. Since 2012, it was the first Wimbledon ladies’ singles final to go to a third set.
Barty, the ruling women’s world numero uno was aiming for her first Wimbledon singles title while Pliskova, her senior for four years had also set her target of winning very first grand slam trophy.
Meanwhile, Barty was carrying the expectation of sports lovers of her nation. After all, Australia was having a finalist at the Wimbledon women’s singles final after four long decades. Barty was following in the footsteps of Evonne Goolagong Cawley, who won Wimbledon finals in 1971 and 1980.
She was determined to live up to that expectation, as she considers Goolagong both as her idol and mentor.
“Being able to play in the final is gonna be just the best experience ever,” she said after winning the semi-final 6-3, 7-6 (7-3).
The fact that both finalists had a strong serve, was proven in the first two set. While Barty won the first set, while the second was won by Pliskova in the second set.
Actors Priyanka Chopra and Tom Cruise were spotted enjoying the thriller of a final.
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— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 10, 2021
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Bondi Beach shooting suspect conducted firearms training with his father, Australian police say
Melbourne (AP): A man accused of killing 15 people at Sydney's Bondi Beach conducted firearms training in an area of New South Wales state outside of Sydney with his father, Australian police documents released on Monday allege.
The men recorded a video about their justification for the meticulously planned attack, according to a police statement of facts that was made public following Naveed Akram's video court appearance Monday from a Sydney hospital where he has been treated for an abdominal injury.
Officers wounded Akram at the scene of the Dec. 14 shooting and killed his father, 50-year-old Sajid Akram.
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The New South Wales state government confirmed Naveed Akram was transferred on Monday from a hospital to a prison. Neither facility was identified by authorities.
The statement alleges the 24-year-old and his father began their attack by throwing four improvised explosive devices toward a crowd celebrating an annual Jewish event at Bondi Beach, but the devices failed to explode.
Police described the devices as three aluminium pipe bombs and a tennis ball bomb containing an explosive, black powder and steel ball bearings. None detonated, but police described them as “viable” IEDs.
Authorities have charged Akram with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder, 40 counts of causing harm with intent to murder in relation to the wounded survivors and one count of committing a terrorist act.
The antisemitic attack at the start of the eight-day Hanukkah celebration was Australia's worst mass shooting since a lone gunman killed 35 people in Tasmania state in 1996.
The New South Wales government introduced draft laws to Parliament on Monday that Premier Chris Minns said would become the toughest in Australia.
The new restrictions would include making Australian citizenship a condition of qualifying for a firearms license. That would have excluded Sajid Akram, who was an Indian citizen with a permanent resident visa.
Sajid Akram also legally owned six rifles and shotguns. A new legal limit for recreational shooters would be a maximum of four guns.
Police said a video found on Naveed Akram's phone shows him with his father "reciting their political and religious views and appear to summarise their justification for the Bondi terrorist attack.”
The men are seen in the video “condemning the acts of Zionists” while they also “adhere to a religiously motivated ideology linked to the Islamic State,” police said.
Video shot in October shows them “firing shotguns and moving in a tactical manner” on grassland surrounded by trees, police said.
“There is evidence that the Accused and his father meticulously planned this terrorist attack for many months,” police allege.
