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Serena Slam weekend: Serena wins title at Wimbledon

Serena Slam weekend: Serena wins title at Wimbledon

On Saturday, Serena Williams made history after defeating Garbine Muguruza in southwest London. Muguruza, who is a promising Spaniard lost 6-4 6-4 to Williams, giving Williams four straight major wins for the second time in her career.

“It is unbelievable that I am standing here with another Serena slam.” Williams told the crowd, emulating her 2002-2003 achievement.

Given that Serena is a three-time defending champion and without a doubt if she excels in September at the US Open, she will become the first player in history to achieve the calendar-year grand slam since Steffi Graf in 1988.

At 33, Serena beats Martina Navratilova as the oldest woman to win grand slam in the Open Era by four weeks.

21-year-old Muguruza, who was appearing on the grand slam final for the first time, wept in her chair after defeat. However, she should not feel very disappointed. This is because; it is very rare for Serena to lose at the grand slam.

However, Muguruza did not walk away submissively. In fact, she made matters fascinating after losing 5-1 in the second, winning a great number of new fans with her outstanding performance at the tennis’ grandest arena.

“I would like to congratulate Serena for showing us that is the world’s No 1,” Muguruza said.

Even though Muguruza began stronger, she did not play like it due to nervousness.

On the contrary, on the first game, Williams struck 3 of her 8 double faults and the delight of those gathered at the Centre court shattered her. In fact, Williams was troubled by Muguruza’s powerful serve and groundstrokes in early stages.

However, it was a matter of games before Williams awoke her energy as she was determined to do better than last year.

“Garbine played so well,” Williams said. “It did not occur to me that the game was over because she was fighting so hard.”

After the game, the two hugged at the net, Williams bobbled in happiness as she approached her chair.

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Yahoo brings in Fantasy football betting to their products

Yahoo brings in Fantasy football betting to their products

Yahoo Inc. seeks to boost its brand by joining fantasy sports betting, one of thesuccessful industries. This came because of its stagnant advertising revenue.

This week, the Silicon Valley giant made announcement of launching a betting service that could introduce over ten million people to legalize online sports gambling called Yahoo Sports Daily Fantasy.

Yahoo Sports Daily Fantasy is available through a mobile app. It enables users to compete either in groups or individually by placing bets on the performance of a professional athlete.

According to Eilers Research in Anaheim, the service is estimated to make $1.4 billion by 2020, with the industry for wagers growing at the rate of 41% every year. As such, this year, the service will generate around $2.6 billion in entry fee.

As said by Fantasy Sports Trade Assn, 56.8 million will be the total number of people playing fantasy sports this year.

With sites like FanDuel and Draftkings on the lead, fantasy betting has thrived since the Government passed the unlawful Gambling Enforcement Act in 2006.

The Vice president of Yahoo, Ken Fuchs said, “The move will allow Calif to expand its existence on mobile devices and create a base of steady transactional revenues by taking 19% of each wager.”

Yahoo is planning to start expanding its presence with football and baseball then later move to hockey and basketball, hoping to go international one day.

On the contrary, the managing director for Eilers Research, Adam Krejcik is disappointed that Yahoo Daily Sports Fantasy‘s platform is almost similar to its competitors FanDuel and Draftkings. Instead, Yahoo should have invested at least $100 million this year to make casual users of fantasy sports have shareable experience on social media.

On Thursday,Krejcik wrote to clients, “As much as Yahoo has the necessary resources to spend, it is uncertain to us whether the management is willing to commit to such amount of cash.”

Fuchs declined and went ahead to explain how the company was going to invest this year.

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