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Classic Tennis Quote: "The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall." - Mitch Hedberg

🇦🇺 Aussie Sport

🎾 Ashleigh Barty became the first home player to reach the Australian Open women's singles final in 42 years as she beat Madison Keys in straight sets on a jubilant Rod Laver Arena.

Wimbledon champion Barty, 25, won 6-1 6-3 against the unseeded American.

Now the top seed is one win away from becoming the first Australian - man or woman - to win the singles since Christine O'Neil won the title in 1978.

Barty will face American 27th seed Danielle Collins in Saturday's final.

⚽️ A masterful performance from Tom Rogic inspired Australia to a 4-0 win over Vietnam in Melbourne on Thursday, ensuring the Socceroos stay in the race for an automatic World Cup qualifying spot.

🏉 Jackson Hastings on Twitter: "4 years of hard work to pull an NRL shirt back on. Full of gratitude, can’t wait for the season to kick off. 22."

🎾 The winners of the 2022 Australian Open men’s doubles final, which will see Kyrgios and Kokkinakis face fellow Aussies Matt Ebden and Max Purcell, will split $675,000 - that’s $337,500 each.

🏏 BBL FINAL PREVIEW: There is a sense of dejavu about this year’s BBL Final with both the Scorchers and the Sixers left standing for the second year in a row. 

After last year’s disappointment, Perth made it clear early on that they were the team to beat, and it’s no surprise to find them installed as dominant favourites heading into Friday’s decider. 

The Scorchers have lost only three games throughout the course of the year, while most importantly, they’ve also been able to exact revenge on the Sixers with three wins from their three meetings.

On paper, the Sixers have what it takes to put up a decent total, but it’s not going to come easy against what is arguably one of the best bowling attacks we’ve ever seen. 

🐴 The Group 2 Australia Stakes headlines a big day of racing at The Valley on Saturday and we are set for nine excellent contests. 

Marabi is one of the most exciting mares in the country and she will face her toughest test to date in the Australia Stakes, while there are a host of interesting betting races spread right across the card. (RacingandSports)

🐴 Nicky Henderson’s duo Constitution Hill and Jonbon and the Willie Mullins-trained pair of Dysart Dynamo and Sir Gerhard are among the big names in contention for the Cheltenham Festival curtain-raiser, the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle.

🌍 World Sport

🏀 Devin Booker set a franchise record with the 16th 40-point game of his career to help the Phoenix Suns beat the Utah Jazz 105-97.

⚽️ Barcelona are working on a plan to raise €100m (AUD$157m) to fund the signing of 21-year-old Borussia Dortmund and Norway striker Erling-Braut Haaland this summer.

The 21-year-old has netted a staggering 80 goals in 79 games during two years in the Bundesliga.  (Goal)

⚽️ Frank Lampard is now the leading contender to become Everton's manager. (Independent)

🏈 The Broncos are finalizing a deal to make Packers OC Nathaniel Hackett their next head coach, per NFL Network.

⚽️ Barcelona is reportedly signing two new sponsorship deals worth ~$490 million over 5 years, per @Shlugassi

• Spotify will pay ~US$380M over 5 years

• Polkadot will pay ~$110M over 5 years

🎾 Novak Djokovic may have been deported and missed the chance to defend his Australian Open crown - but the world No.1 can expect a much warmer reception when he makes his return to action in Dubai next month.

🔫 Brazilian strawweight prospect Faelly Vitoria needs to go under the knife to fix a complete ACL tear in her left knee before finally making her Invicta FC debut — and an unusual raffle will contribute to paying the costs for the procedure.

The military police battalion of Macapa, Brazil, is raffling a Taurus G2c .40 gun on May 31

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