But Sofia Kenin is not your stereotypical famous athlete. When the 21-year-old Floridian says she’ll call you at 11:00 to talk, she calls you at 11:00 to talk. Not 10:59. Not 11:01. 11:00 on the ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Back in 1987, 11 years before new Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin was born, her parents left Moscow for New York City, eager to escape the Soviet Union and live ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Back in 1987, 11 years before new Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin was born, her parents left Moscow for New York City, eager to escape the Soviet Union and live ...

Sofia Kenin’s childhood ... muttering to herself, bouncing her racquet like ... In the fifth game of the third set, with the score tied 2–2, Kenin, serving, hit a patch of loose tennis and ...

Jessica Pegula fights through fatigue to win Charleston title against Sofia Kenin By TENNIS.com Apr 06, 2025. ... even though she was little and the racket was actually bigger than her.

Sofia Kenin won the Australian Open ... By Christopher Clarey. Oct. 3, 2020. It takes grit for a tennis player at any ... never more than when she can take back her racket with both hands for a ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — At age 21, Sofia Kenin has not arrived at her numerical goal in tennis. “I want to be No. 1,” she said recently in Melbourne, as she has been saying since she was 6 ...

Kenin immediately covered her face with both hands. For quite some time, she was overlooked and underappreciated, drawing much less attention than other young tennis players from the U.S., such as ...

On Saturday, Sofia Kenin plays in the Australian Open women’s singles final against Garbine Muguruza. Kenin, the No. 14 seed, had never made it past the fourth round of a Grand Slam event until ...

Back in 1987, 11 years before new Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin was born, her parents left Moscow for New York City, eager to escape the Soviet Union and live in the United States because ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Back in 1987, 11 years before new Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin was born, her parents left Moscow for New York City, eager to escape the Soviet Union and live ...