News about Angelique Kerber

Emma Raducanu landed in Washington DC, nearly 4,000 miles away from Paris, on Friday to prepare for next week's Mubadala Citi DC Open. The former US Open champion documented her arrival with an Instagram post by uploading a photograph of herself near the Washington Monument. Her image was captioned: 'Love this place'. 

Former grand slam champions Emma Raducanu, Naomi Osaka, Caroline Wozniacki and Angelique Kerber have all been awarded wildcards for Wimbledon. Raducanu will return to the All England Club, where she made her breakthrough by reaching the fourth round in 2021, for the first time in two years following wrist and ankle surgery last year. The former US Open champion reached the semi-finals of the Rothesay Open in Nottingham last week in an encouraging start to her grass-court campaign.

Emma Raducanu has lost in straight sets to Iga Swiatek in the quarter-finals of the Stuttgart Open.

Barty hasn't revealed what would make her pick up a racquet again after impressing her fans with her super-fit appearance at the Australian Open last Sunday, asking nearly 1000 times about returning to the tour after her surprise retirement in March 2022. (pictured, right).

MIKE DICKSON: Serena Williams won the 2017 Australian Open for the first time, but it was discovered that she had been pregnant at the time. Alexis was born in September in the United States, but Williams was never to win a Grand Slam as a mother after losing four major finals.

Sam Billings, an England cricketer, has revealed that he underwent two operations to remove a malignant melanoma on his chest, as he warned his fellow cricketers of the dangers of skin cancer. During last year's white ball tour of Australia, Wicketkeeper Billings, 31, left his England colleagues stunned by his 'gory and bloody' six-inch scar and stitches after he took his shirt off in the changing rooms. He acknowledges being fortunate to have the skin cancer diagnosed during a routine screening in his Kent county, before it progressed into something worse.

Angelique Kerber and her partner Franco Bianco have welcomed her first child, a baby girl, to their household. The tennis star, 35, took to Instagram on Monday to share the good news that they've named their baby girl Liana. Angelique published a black and white snapshot of the tot's hand resting on her parents' fingers, with the sportswoman gushing over the 'beautiful and overwhelming' feeling of being a parent.

Manuel Neuer, a goalkeeper for Bayern Munich, has confirmed he had skin cancer on his face, which required him to have surgery three times. According to reports in Germany, the goalkeeper is not in danger for the World Cup after his three operations. Neuer took to Instagram on Wednesday to announce that he has been suffering from skin cancer and that he has now invested in a sun cream with tennis player Angelique Kerber.

Andre Agassi, a former tennis pro, was married to Andre Agassi from 1997 to 1999. Brooke Shields seemed to be in a playful mood on Saturday as she posed beneath a poster of her ex-husband at the US open. The actress, 57, took to Instagram to post the picture shortly before assisting Iga Swiatek in her third Grand Slam women's singles title.

Iga Swiatek has screamed Paris twice before, and last night she travelled to New York to win the US Open in her clay court Grand Slam titles. Even if she was more fallible in the second set, Swiatek has maintained some order at the top of the women's game. She becomes the first woman to win Grand Slam titles in the same year since Angelique Kerber in 2016.

Novak Djokovic was the subject of outrage as he waited until the last minute to determine whether or not he would remain in the US Open draw, which took place on Thursday. Despite being on the invitation list, Liam Broady of the United Kingdom will not have been alone in his dread of Djokovic's emergence, even though his chances of entering America look bleak. Broady, a participant in this week's qualifier, pointed out that if the Serb does not enter, someone is out of a main draw slot.

The 34-year-old German, who won at SW19 in 2018, announced the news on the eve of this year's US Open - a tournament she won in 2016 - meaning she will miss out at Flushing Meadows. On Twitter, she said, 'I really wanted to play the US Open, but ultimately, I decided that two against one isn't a fair sport.' For the next months, I will take a break from travelling the globe as a tennis player but then again, I believe it's for the best possible reason! I'll be missing all of you.