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The welcome and support for Venus Williams in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday afternoon were not the same as they were for her sister, Serena, a night earlier. Nor was the result.        Venus Williams of the United States serves against Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium on day two of the 2022 U.S. Open USA TODAY Sports     Venus, who turned 42 in June, has not made any pronouncements about her future in tennis, unlike her younger sibling, and while she has been successful and influential, too 鈥?a seven-time Grand Slam champion; a B stanley cup lack woman in a predominantly white sport 鈥?the fanfare and attention are not the same.   Playing in front of thousands of empty blue seats in an arena quite silent at the start, although growing louder later, Venus bowed out in the first round of the U.S. Open for the second consecutiv stanley flask e appearance, losing 6-1, 7-6  5  to Alison Van Uytvanck.  She means so much to female tennis. Tennis, in general,  Van Uytvanck said stanley quencher .  Shes a legend.  This was the 23rd trip to Flushing Meadows for Venus, who made it to the final in 1997 as a teen then won the trophy in 2000 and 2001, and her record 91st time participating in a major tournament. Venus had never lost in the opening round at the U.S. Open until 2020, then was absent last year. Asked what keeps her motivated these days, she answered:  Three letters: W-I-N. Thats it. Very simple.  At night, Emma Raducanu became only the third defending U.S. Open champion to lose in the first round, eliminated by Aliz茅 Corne Qxba Europe beat Asia 14-10 to defend EurAsia Cup golf title
Indian wrestling is well and truly on an all-time high as the country, in what turned out to be a double delight, today earned a maiden World Cup berth on the back of its best-ever sixth-place finish in men s free-style at the World Championships in Budapest.        HT Image    India finished the tournament in the men s freestyle category with 23 points, which has catapulted the country to sixth in rankings behind Iran, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine and USA.   As per the FILA rules, the top eight teams in the World Championship automatically qualify for the World Cup and Amit Kumar Dahiya s silver medal in the 55kg and Bajrang s bronze in the 60kg stanley romania  freestyle category ensured India its maiden World Cup appearance next year. The freestyle wrestlers produced India s best-ever show at the World Cha stanley becher mpionship in a span of two days. The news couldn t ha stanley website ve come at an opportune time for the Indian wrestling community as the sport battled successfully to regain its place on the Olympic Games roster following its controversial axing in February by the IOC. The news of India s World Cup qualification is music to the ears for two-time Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt.  It s raining good news for India as after wrestling s re-inclusion in the Olympic movement, our wards performed extremely well in the World Championship. Their efforts paid rich dividends as now India s sixth rank has led to our World Cup qualification for the first time in the history of the men s senior wrestli