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The biggest indoor women’s tennis event in the UK will kick off in Shropshire of all places next week - but do you know how many tennis balls players will get through or how many rackets will be restrung during the course of the week?

The ITF World Tennis Tour, which sees leading British and international stars compete in the W100 Women’s Tour, is now taking place (to November 6) at The Shrewsbury Club. But events of this magnitude don’t just happen, as Dave Courteen, Managing Director of The Shrewsbury Club, explains.

Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy defeated former world champions Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi of Japan in the men's doubles quarterfinals, safeguarding India's chances at the French Open 2022 BWF Super 750 badminton competition. Tenth-seeded Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy put on a brilliant performance to defeat top-seeded Japanese players Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi - the 2021 men's doubles world champions - 23-21, 21-18 in 49 minutes.

Construction has started on a brand-new motorsports park that is “unlike any other venue in the world”, according to the circuit’s Partner and President Rusty Bittle. Flatrock Motorsports Park and Motorclub will be a premium racing facility, combining both a 2.67-mile competition ‘Grand Prix’ track and a 3.50-mile ‘Club’ layout for track car owners. These two courses can be combined to create an undulating 5.9-mile, 34-turn circuit situated in beautiful, rolling Tennessee countryside.

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Patrick Vieira has called for Black players to be given more opportunities in coaching and at the executive level in football. The Crystal Palace boss is the only Black manager in the Premier League, compared to 43 percent of Black players in English football's topflight.

Players in India's men's and women's international cricket sides will receive equal match fees, the country's Board of Control for Cricket has said.

Jay Shah, Honorary Secretary for the BCCI, said: “Contracted cricketers would now be receiving the same pay in a new era of gender equality in cricket”.

The world’s first micromobility series is heading to the south of France for the title-deciding final rounds of the 2022 eSkootr Championship (eSC). The inaugural champion will be crowned in November at an exciting double-header to be held at the world-famous Circuit Paul Ricard.

The Head of Health and Safety for a leading Formula One team is set to be the next President-Elect of his global professional body.

Stuart Hughes (pictured), who is originally from Shirley in the West Midlands and works for the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team, was elected by members of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health’s (IOSH) Council when it met last week.

39 athletes have been nominated for membership to join the UK Athletics Paralympic World Class Programme (WCP) for 2022/23. The Paralympic WCP is UK Sport’s National Lottery funded initiative supporting the delivery of success at named milestone targets, namely outdoor track World and European championships, and the Paralympic Games.

Youth-led football teams from across the globe, representing some of the world's most vulnerable children, flew with Qatar Airways to participate in a sporting tournament with a call for change – The Street Child World Cup Doha 2022. In partnership with Qatar Foundation, the event was held at Oxygen Park between 7 to 15 October and brought together 28-teams representing 25 countries and provided a platform to champion the rights of street connected youth.

Barcelona will celebrate Drake becoming the first artist to surpass 50 billion streams on Spotify by wearing a special shirt in the ‘El Clasico’ clash against Real Madrid today.

The La Liga giants are sponsored by Spotify but will replace the streaming service's logo with the OVO owl logo of the Canadian rapper for El Clasico. It is part of Barcelona and Spotify's strategic aim to bring football and music together.

West Midlands charity Sport 4 Life UK has forged a new partnership with the Solihull Moors Foundation as part of a drive to help more disadvantaged young people in the town harness the power of sports-themed personal development. 

The initiative is aimed at widening access to Sport 4 Life UK’s renowned training expertise and will kick off in earnest at October half term with the launch of a Sports Leaders Qualification course for 13- to 18-year-olds.

With financially troubled Wasps being suspended from the Premiership, after announcing they are set to go into administration within days, Exeter director of rugby Rob Baxter says a 10-team Premiership could be the best way to ensure England's top tier thrives in the future.

Wasps follows Worcester who were also suspended from the division after entering administration. This comes as clubs struggle financially in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

vivo, the global leading technology company, has been announced as the Official Smartphone and the only Official Sponsor in the smartphone industry of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022TM.

The company’s new foldable device the X Fold+, which was launched in mainland China in conjunction with FIFA’s 118th anniversary, is the first official foldable smartphone and it will appear in Qatar 2022 matches to provide support for the preparation and staging of the event.

With just days to go until opening fixture of Rugby League World Cup 2021 (RLWC2021) at Newcastle United’s St James' Park, organisers have released final details of what fans can look forward to in Newcastle at the Official RLWC2021 Fan Village on the Quayside over the opening weekend. 

Opening from 14:00 to 22:00 on Friday (14th) and 11:00 to 22:00 on Saturday (15th), fans and residents will be treated a whole host of fantastic entertainment options, as the party atmosphere comes to Newcastle's Quayside.

Three more Wolverhampton clubs were inducted into the city’s Sporting Hall of Fame during a celebratory event on Saturday (8 October 2022).

Albert Lawn Tennis Club, Old Wulfrunians Tettenhall Cricket Club and Old Wulfrunians Football Club have represented the city in tennis, cricket and football respectively, and all reached their centenaries this year.

£40,000 grant awarded to help the Birmingham 2022 volunteering programme live on beyond the Games. Spirit of 2012 has announced the award of a grant of £40,000 to the Birmingham 2022 Organising Committee to help secure the future of the Commonwealth Games’ volunteering programme.

The 14,000 people, known as the Commonwealth Collective, generously volunteered their time over the summer are credited as the most diverse group of volunteers ever seen in the UK.