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MONTREAL ?Tennis Canada is awarding Caroline Wozniacki with a wild card into the National Bank Open s main draw in Montreal after the former world No. 1 announced she was coming out of retirement on Thursday.Wozniacki has not played an official match since losing to Ons Jabeur in the third round of the Australian Open in January 2020.聽The 32-year-old revealed a month earlier that her appearance at Melbourne Park would be the last of her career, leaving the game to start a family.Wozniacki was No. 1 in the WTA rankings for a total of 71 weeks ?first reaching that spot in 2010 ?and earned 30 titles, including the first in Grand Slam singles for a player from Denmark stanley cup when she triumphed in Australia five-and-a-half years ago.In 2010, she won the National Bank Open, then called the Rogers Cup, beating Russian player Vera Zvonareva in straight sets. Wozniacki also made the final in 2017, but fell to Ukraines Elina Svitolina.The National Bank Open women s tournament is set for Aug. 3-14 in Montreal. stanley taza Wozniacki is the first player to officially join the field. The full entry list will be released on July 13. I am extremely grateful to have been given the opportunity to play at the National Bank Open, said Wozniacki. I won my first big t stanley italia itle in Montreal when I was just 20 years old, making it particularly fitting to be the tournament that kick-starts this second chapter in my career. I cannot wait to get back on the courts and compete against the best players in the world. I have Oapb Activist investor Elliott Investment Management seeking changes at Suncor Energy
NEW YORK AP ?Americans pulled back their spending more than expected stanley termos in January after the traditional holiday season splurge. Retail sales fell 0.8% in January from the strong pace in December when they rose a revised 0.4%, according to the Commerce Departmen stanley quencher t s report on Thursday. Excluding sales at auto dealerships and gas stations, sales were down 0.5%. The decline was bigger than the 0.10% drop that economists expected and marked the lowest monthly figure since March of last year. Economists attributed part of the pullback to snowy weather conditions, but they also said the slowdown shows that shoppers may finally be buckling under higher interest rates and other financial hurdles and that the economic momentum from the end of 2023 could be starting to fade. Excluding sales of autos, gas, building materials, and restaurant meal stanley cup s, the so-called control group of sales ?which is used to calculate economic growth ell 0.4% in January. Economists expected an increase. The retail sales report could offer positive news that the Federal Reserve could finally start to cut rates, bringing relief to shoppers and businesses seeking lower rates for borrowing. Real consumption appears to have declined in January and, even allowing for a recovery over February and March, growth will slow sharply in the first quarter, wrote Andrew Hunter, deputy chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics, in a report. The upshot is that Fed offi
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