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Tea-drinking Chwalinska reaches final

PARIS — Sipping tea every night is working wonders for Maja Chwalinska. The Polish player became just the second qualifier to reach a Grand Slam singles final in the Open Era when she beat Diana Shnaider of Russia 7-6 (4), 6-4 on Thursday. The 24-year-old Chwalinska can match Emma Raducanu's title run at the 2021 U.S. Open when she plays Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva in Saturday's final at Roland Garros. Nothing will change Chwalinska's routine for the biggest match of her life. "I'm going to drink my tea," she said. Chwalinska and Raducanu, according to stats provider ...

Fleetwood part of 4-way tie at Memorial

DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Scottie Scheffler never thought two straight victories in the Memorial would be of any value when he began his bid for three in a row. It sure felt that way Thursday in a tough start that left him exasperated by the wind and six shots behind a four-way share of the lead. Wyndham Clark, coming off a victory in the Byron Nelson, U.S. Open champion J.J. Spaun, Tommy Fleetwood and the Ryan Gerard were each at 5-under 67, among only 22 players who broke par at Muirfield Village. Scheffler was poised to be among them until a bad wedge led to a careless bogey on the ...

Every Democrat sent to Washington will hurt the country

Polls are not like a weather forecast. We can't do anything about the weather. If the prediction is rain, the only thing to do is get ready for it. Polls measure public sentiment. But that sentiment can be influenced. Current polling seems to justify handwringing on the part of Republicans regarding the outlook for November. RealClear Polling's latest general congressional poll shows Democrats leading Republicans 47.9% to 40.3%. However, again, it's not the weather. We've got months. and this can be influenced. The overall sentiment in the country is not good. RealClear ...

Trump stuck in a box of his own making

Normally, I worry that events may overtake a column. But not so with the Iran war. I don’t worry about running afoul of a headline or Truth Social post from the president because what is said about the situation is no longer very relevant to the reality. On April 8, Nick Catoggio, my Dispatch colleague, dubbed an earlier stoppage with Iran “Schrödinger’s ceasefire.” This was a reference to the famous thought experiment by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger, who was trying to explain the weirdness of “superpositionality” in quantum physics. A cat in a box is both dead ...

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Brunson leads Knicks past Spurs in Game 1

SAN ANTONIO — The New York Knicks' winning streak lives on, and they struck first in the NBA Finals. Jalen Brunson scored 30 points, Karl-Anthony Towns finished with 18 points and 12 rebounds, and the Knicks erased a 14-point second-half deficit to beat the San Antonio Spurs 105-95 in Game 1 of the finals on Wednesday night. OG Anunoby had 17 points for New York — which has won 12 consecutive playoff games, the seventh team to have such a streak in NBA history. And the Knicks, who finished on an 11-0 run, made a little more history. They became the first team to beat San Antonio ...