The UEFA Europa League is an annual football club competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. It is the second-tier competition of European club football, ranking below the UEFA Champions League and above the UEFA Europa Conference League after being the third-tier competition from 1971 to 1999 before the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was discontinued. Clubs qualify for the competition based on their performance in their national leagues and cup competitions.
The Coppa Italia is an Italian football annual cup competition. Its first edition was held in 1922 and was won by Vado. The second tournament, scheduled in the 1926–27 season, was cancelled during the round of 32. The third edition was not held until 1935–36 when it started being scheduled annually. The events of World War II interrupted the tournament after the 1942–43 season, and it did not resume again until 1958. Since then, it has been played every year.
Anastasia Sergeyevna Pavyluchenkova is a Russian professional tennis player. She is currently the Russian No. 1 player in singles. A junior prodigy, Pavlyuchenkova won three junior Grand Slam titles and became the junior world No. 1, in January 2006, at the age of 14. She continued her success after turning professional, reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 13 on 4 July 2011.
Horacio Zeballos Jr. is an Argentine professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 39, and his career-high doubles ranking is world No. 3. In doubles, he has reached the men's doubles finals at the 2019 US Open and Wimbledon 2021 alongside Marcel Granollers. In singles, he has reached the fourth round at the French Open, doing so in 2017.
Irina-Camelia Begu is a Romanian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 22 in the world, in August 2016. Two years later, she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking, also No. 22. Begu has won four singles titles and nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She also has won one singles title on the WTA 125K series, as well as, 12 singles and 19 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
Camila Giorgi is an Italian professional tennis player. Giorgi has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 26 on 22 October 2018. She is currently the No.1 Italian female tennis player.
Kiki Bertens is a Dutch former professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking is world No. 4, which she reached on 13 May 2019, becoming the highest ranked Dutch female player ever. Her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 16, she achieved in April 2018. She won ten singles and ten doubles titles on the WTA Tour including 2018 Cincinnati Open and 2019 Madrid Open. Bertens was widely regarded as a clay court specialist, but also was successful on hardcourt.
Yulia Antonovna Putintseva is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. She is a three-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist, and she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 27 in February 2017. So far, she has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour. Before June 2012 she played for her country of birth, Russia.
Kyle Anderson was an Australian professional darts player who played within the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) from 2012 to 2021. He won the 2017 Auckland Darts Masters tournament. He was the brother of fellow darts player Beau Anderson.
Kateřina Siniaková is a Czech professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles.
Viktorija Golubic is a Swiss professional tennis player. Golubic has won one singles title on the WTA tour, two singles WTA Challenger titles, as well as nine singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit so far. On 12 July 2021, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 48. On 15 January 2018, she peaked at No. 63 in the doubles rankings.
Barbora Krejčíková is a Czech professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9, reached on 23 August 2021, and on 22 October 2018, she became world No. 1 in the WTA doubles rankings.
Nao Hibino is a professional tennis player from Japan. She has been ranked as high as singles No. 56 and doubles No. 43 in the world by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Hibino has won two singles and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour and eight singles and eight doubles on the International Tennis Federation Women's Circuit (ITF).
Casper Ruud is a Norwegian professional tennis player. He is the first Norwegian to win an ATP title and to reach the semifinals of ATP Tour Masters 1000 events. He is the highest ranked Norwegian player in ATP history with a career-high ranking in singles of world No. 11, achieved on 16 August 2021, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 133, achieved on 12 July 2021. Ruud is considered one of the most promising young players of his generation, and among the best currently active clay-court players in the world.
The 2020–21 UEFA Europa League was the 50th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 12th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.
The 2020–21 UEFA Champions League was the 66th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 29th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.
The 2021–22 UEFA Champions League is the 67th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 30th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.
The 2021–22 UEFA Europa League is the 51st season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 13th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.
The 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League is the inaugural season of the UEFA Europa Conference League, Europe's tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA.
The 2021 All England Open was a badminton tournament which took place at Arena Birmingham in England from 17 to 21 March 2021. It had a total purse of $850,000.
