Tommy Fleetwood finishes with monster putt to move to within three shots of leader Rory McIlroy at the Dubai Invitational. Fleetwood won the inaugural title last year.
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MODEL Abbey Clancy was taken to hospital on her Dubai break after she broke a nail.
The mum of four even had to be put on a drip after the acrylic attachment was ripped off when she hugged a friend.
Abbey, 40, was away for New Year with ex-England footie star husband Peter Crouch and their family.
But a night out with pals ended in disaster.
She said: “I had a serious injury. I ended up in hospital. I broke my nail. It sounds insane and I was so embarrassed going to hospital.
“We’d been out for a lovely meal. Tom and Kaz came back to our room, had a quick glass of wine. As she was going to bed at 11pm, I gave her a hug, and my acrylic nail bent right back. My whole nail came off.
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“It was pouring with blood. Then it stopped and this nerve throbbed, which was going down my whole arm, down my shoulder, up my neck.”
She could not sleep due to the pain, but was unable to initially go to hospital as her kids were asleep in the suite.
She added: “The doctor came to the room at 3am, put me on a drip for painkillers. When we were calling down to hotel reception, I was like ‘Can we have some paracetamol?’.
“They said ‘We can’t give you paracetamol, we can’t give you ibuprofen’. So we had to wait for a doctor — that was two hours. Then the doctor came, and said, ‘I’m going to put you on a drip’.
“Then my friend picked me up at 8am, took me to the hospital. They injected my hand. I had to numb it.
“I’d been up from 11pm to 7am crying. It sounds ridiculous. The doctor was like ‘No form of painkiller will stop this — you need nerve blocker’. They removed my nail.”
Husband Peter, 44, told their Therapy Crouch podcast: “I had golf the next day. I went ‘Lads, I’m not going to be able to play, we’ve been up all night. Abs is in the hospital’. They said ‘Oh my God, what’s up?’
“I said ‘She’s broken a nail’. They said, ‘Are you actually joking?’”.
Abbey was later pictured partying with a bandaged finger beside daughter Sophia.
Cynics have wondered exactly what the point of the event is.
Sabalenka and Kyrgios insist it is to attract a different audience to the sport, with an emphasis on fun, entertainment and celebrity culture.
“There are question marks – and that scares people,” Kyrgios said.
“For us, it is exciting and gives us that thrill. I think events like this need to happen more in the tennis world.”
The event, being held at the 17,000-seater Coca-Cola Arena, is on track to be sold out.
Tickets range from about £100 in the upper tier stands to upwards of £600 on courtside benches.
“Sport and entertainment is the same thing – people come to watch sport for the unknown, that’s why it is not played on paper,” Kyrgios said.
“Whether it’s good or bad, they want to remember something they are going to see in everyday life.”
Billie Jean King, who beat Bobby Riggs in the second Battle of the Sexes match in 1973, hopes it will be a “great” match but says it is “not the same” as her era-defining event.
King’s victory over former Wimbledon champion Riggs – a 55-year-old self-proclaimed chauvinist – was a landmark moment in the fight for gender equality and laid the path for equal pay at the top of the game.
“Ours was about social change; culturally, where we were in 1973. This one is not,” King told BBC Sport.
