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Former Pakistani <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=cricket">cricket</a> captain <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=wasim+akram">Wasim </a><a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=wasim+akram">Akram</a>’s car was attacked by an unidentified gunman in Karachi and luckily the cricketer escaped unhurt.<br />
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The incident happened when he was on his way to National Stadium in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Karachi">Karachi</a> and a gunman opened fire at his car.<br />
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Akram told reporters that no one was hurt, saying, “A car hit my vehicle and when we asked the driver to pull over, he stepped out and opened fire. He definitely looked like an official. If he can do this to me, what will he do to the common man?"<br />
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This is not the first time when a sportsperson has been attacked. In the past, there have been instances where <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=sportspersons">sports personalities</a> and sporting teams have come been attacked either by fans or by <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=terrorists">terrorists</a>. Here is the list!<br />
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Wasim Akram is not alone, many sportspersons have faced attacks in the past. Here’s our list

<ul class="summary-list"><li>World No. 1 <keyword id="14099650" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="iga-swiatek" source="Orion">Iga Swiatek</keyword> beat American Coco Gauff in straight sets to win the 2022 <keyword id="6388398" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="french-open" source="Orion">French Open</keyword>.</li><li>With the victory at Roland-Garros, Swiatek broke <keyword id="11947343" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="serena-williams" source="Orion">Serena Williams</keyword>' 34-game win streak from 2013.</li></ul><p>Iga Swiatek won her second career Grand Slam title after steamrolling the competition at the 2022 French Open.</p><p>But her straight-set win over American Coco Gauff in Saturday's final secured more than the iconic Suzanne-Lenglen Cup. It also gave the World No. 1 her 35th consecutive victory, which officially bests Serena Williams' 34-match win streak from 2013 and ties <keyword id="12003351" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="venus-williams" source="Orion">Venus Williams</keyword>' 35-match win streak at the turn of the century.</p><p>And while she swears breaking those streaks "wasn't my target" because she didn't "have full control over doing that," Swiatek admits that matching the Williams sisters — particularly one with 23 Grand Slam singles trophies on her mantle —  is surreal.</p><div type="image" title="Serena Williams poses with her trophy after winning the 2017 Australian Open." height="1655" width="2206" msid="92045645" hostid="261"></div><p>"It may seem pretty weird, but having that 35th win and doing something more than Serena did, it's something special," Swiatek told reporters after Saturday's victory. "Because I always wanted to have some kind of a record. In <keyword id="11897437" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tennis" source="Orion">tennis</keyword>, it's pretty hard after Serena's career. So basically that really hit me."</p><p>Swiatek later told <a href="https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2640187/champions-corner-swiatek-in-search-of-new-goals-after-french-open-triumph">WTA Insider Courtney Nguyen</a> that "doing something better than Serena kind of, it's the best thing you can get in tennis, basically, after what she's done for so many years."</p><p>"No one is going to take it from me, you know?" she added. "I'm pretty happy I could achieve that."</p><div type="image" title="Iga Swiatek." height="1666" width="2222" msid="92045649" hostid="261"></div><p>The 21-year-old Polish superstar joins elite company with her win streak, which dates all the way back to February. Only six women have enjoyed unbeaten streaks longer than Swiatek's and Venus Williams' 35-straight in the Open Era, and all six — Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Margaret Court, Chris Evert, Martina Hingis, Monica Seles — are bona fide legends of the sport.</p><p>While Swiatek has allowed for the possibility that her current streak could extend even further, she's admitted she's less confident heading into the upcoming stretch of the year. Grass season starts up immediately following Roland-Garros, and the surface has never been Swiatek's specialty.</p><p>"Honestly, grass is always tricky," Swiatek <a href="https://www.tennis365.com/news/french-open-champion-iga-swiatek-eyes-refreshing-stint-on-tricky-grass-but-first-some-rest/">said after her win in Paris</a>. "I actually like the part that I have no expectations there. It's something kind of refreshing."</p><div type="image" title="Iga Swiatek." height="1763" width="2350" msid="92045652" hostid="261"></div><p>The champ intends to spend a few days back home recovering before finding her footing on grass courts. With Wimbledon less than a month away, Swiatek's continued dominance will depend on it.</p>

Iga Swiatek says winning the French Open was extra spectacular after 'doing something better than Serena'

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Matthew Stockman/Getty</span></p></div><p></p></div></div>It's been over a decade since the last time an American woman other than Serena Williams won a Grand Slam tournament, but that streak will end this week.</p><p>For the first time in over 30 years, the US Open semifinals will feature four American players, setting up what could be one of the most memorable finishes in the event's history.</p><p>World No. 9 Venus Williams, the last non-Serena American to take a Grand Slam, is the main fan draw out of the remaining group. This is her 24th year as a professional, a lifetime in WTA years, but the seven-time major champion has made an incredible return to form over the past few seasons, reaching six Grand Slam semifinals since the start of 2015.</p><p>She's hardly the only big name among this week's group, however. Madison Keys, ranked 16th in the world, is a powerful player who reached the semifinals at the Rio Olympics last summer, while CoCo Vandeweghe, a two-time winner, made the quarterfinals in three out of four Slams this year. Then there's Sloane Stephens, the injury-prone Floridian with an eye-catching resume in the game's biggest events.</p><p>Still, while Keys, Vandeweghe and Stephens have all enjoyed their moments of glory, they haven't accomplished as much as the USA's top players from 20 years ago, when stars like Monica Seles, Lindsay Davenport and Jennifer Capriati, along with the Williams sisters, ruled the game's top ranks. Keys and Stephens have been hampered by injuries in recent years, while Vandeweghe's career has been marked more by steadiness than star power.</p><p>But none of that mattered this week. On Tuesday, Williams knocked off two-time Slam winner Petra Kvitova in a marquee quarterfinal match, while Stephens dug deep to outlast world No. 17 Anastasija Sevastova. Both matches required a third-set tiebreaker, making them all the more compelling for the fans at home.</p><p>On Wednesday, Keys and Vandeweghe made short work of their quarterfinal matches. Keys knocked off the unseeded Kaia Kanepi, while Vandeweghe defeated Karolina Pliskova, the game's top-ranked player and a finalist at last year's US Open, in one of the upsets of the tournament.</p><p>While it's too soon to predict whether Stephens, Keys and Vandeweghe - all of whom are 25 or younger - can follow in the Williams' footsteps and win multiple Slams, this week has been an undeniable step forward for American tennis. Slowly but surely, the USA is churning out more players who are capable of making deep Grand Slam runs and inspiring the women's game's next generation. The fact that four Americans are enjoying such tremendous success at the same tournament encapsulates a trend that's been <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/tennis-open-americans/tennis-improving-american-women-making-up-for-mens-decline-idUKL4N0AK5XL20130115" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ongoing</a> for the last decade.</p><p>Both semifinal matches will take place on Thursday night in Arthur Ashe Stadium. Williams will play Stephens at 7:00, while Keys and Vandeweghe are set to get underway at 8:15.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/floyd-mayweather-vs-conor-mcgregor-fighters-match-up-boxing-mma-sports-showtime-stats-2017-8">Mayweather vs. McGregor: Here's how the world's best fighters match up</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

American women took all 4 spots in the final four of a major for the first time in 3 decades and it is a great sign for the state of the sport in the US

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><ul><li><strong>The Showtime documentary "Love Means Zero" (airing Saturday) looks at the career of tennis coach Nick Bollettieri.</strong></li><li><strong>But the main focus of director Jason Kohn's movie is the relationship Bollettieri had with his star student, Andre Agassi.</strong></li><li><strong>Kohn talked to Business Insider about why he had to have a confrontational relationship with the coach to get the movie he wanted.</strong></li></ul><p><br>In the 1990s, there was no bigger coach in tennis than Nick Bollettieri. A charismatic motivator with an oversized ego, he also had a gift for molding raw talent into champions.</br></p><p>At his lauded tennis academy, he launched the careers of tennis legends like Jim Courier, Monica Seles, Mary Pierce, Serena and Venus Williams, Maria Sharapova, and Anna Kournikova. By his count, 180 grand slam titles would come out of players he coached.</p><p>But his crown jewel was Andre Agassi.&#xa0;</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Coming to Bollettieri's school as a teenager, Agassi instantly caught the coach's eye because he was different. His attitude, his game, it all just shouted superstar. Bollettieri, yearning to be a star himself, put Agassi under his wing and the two became inseparable as his pupil became the hottest thing in the sport.&#xa0;<p>However, the good times didn't last forever. Following two grand slam wins with Agassi, in 1993 Bollettieri shockingly left the player he said he loved like a son. And if that wasn't heartbreaking enough for Agassi, Bollettieri didn't give a passionate face-to-face goodbye but instead ended it all via a letter to his star. The two have not been on speaking terms since.&#xa0;</p><p>Now decades later, at the age of 86, Bollettieri agreed to sit down with documentary filmmaker Jason Kohn ("Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)") to talk about it all. But "Love Means Zero" (airing on Showtime Saturday) is hardly a conventional sports documentary that looks back on the highlights of a legendary career. It's hard hitting and full of confrontation - just like its subject.&#xa0;</p><p>Kohn admits he didn't have major aspirations for the project. In many ways he saw it as an opportunity to practice storytelling. Unlike his debut feature film, 2007's "<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0912590/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Manda Bala (Send a Bullet),</a>" a complex telling of corruption and kidnapping in Brazil (it won the documentary grand jury prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival), Kohn could see from the start how to tell the story of Bollettieri: be as real as possible.</p><p> "The biggest learning opportunity was figuring out how do I make this into a real story," Kohn told Business Insider. "How do I make this into a protagonist who has really clear specific goals and desires with very clear moments of conflict?"</p><p>And that was the initial challenge for Kohn: getting Bollettieri to come on board with his idea.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div> "I was extraordinarily concerned that if I wasn't able to get something real with Nick that this was just going to be a conventional sports documentary, and that was a genuine fear," Kohn said. "Even though I knew what the story was I didn't mention to Nick that I knew exactly what the story was I wanted to tell. Rather than say, 'I want to exclusively tell the story about his relationship with Andre,' what I told him is I wanted to tell a family story and that I wanted to tell a story about surrogate fathers and sons and the relationships between his players. At that point Nick said to me, 'Well, what about French Open 1989 when I chose [to coach] Andre [Agassi] over Jim [Courier]? They were both my boys.' And I was like, 'Nick, that's a wonderful idea!' Meanwhile, that was the treatment that I had written."<p>With Bollettieri on board with the story, the other challenge was figuring out if Agassi would participate in the movie. Initially, Kohn had the project set up as a "30 for 30" documentary at ESPN. But it became clear that the network was only interested in the movie if Agassi was involved. After a year of back-and-forth discussions with Agassi's manager, Kohn finally got the "no" - Agassi would not be in the movie (Showtime snatched it soon after).&#xa0;</p><p>What Kohn realized in that moment was he had been free of a major restriction: working with a temperamental superstar. He changed his story treatment from a 60-minute documentary to a 90-minute feature doc and began tracking down Bollettieri's former students.  </p><p>Kohn's confidence in the project came from knowing how he wanted to structure the storytelling of Bollettieri and Agassi's relationship - using the battle sequences from the Akira Kurosawa samurai classic "<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089881/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ran</a>" as a model for how to showcase three key Agassi matches - and capitalizing on the on-camera personality that Bollettieri would bring. </p><p>But the latter turned out to be more than what Kohn bargained for. In an attempt to get Bollettieri out of his usual soundbite speak, the result was constant arguments caught on camera between the two that aren't just entertaining to watch, but a refreshing subplot to the movie. As most sports documentaries are helmed by directors too busy gushing over their subjects to get them to be revealing, Kohn can be heard off camera pleading with Bollettieri to give him genuine answers to his questions.</p><p>Kohn said the key to the whole movie was that his producer Amanda Branson Gill had Bollettieri agree to sit down for two days of interviews. It was vital, because what Kohn realized was almost the entire first day was the famous coach doing the shtick he'd done for interviews for decades. </p><p>"I was getting very frustrated," Kohn said. "Nick is self-mythologizing and when you're taking to people who are good storytellers and who have told the same story over and over and over again the actual story becomes extraordinarily detached from what actually happened. It was pretty boring."</p><p>With visions of a conventional sports doc flashing before his eyes, Kohn at the end of the first day finally began to get Bollettieri out of his interview speak by confronting his subject on camera. Kohn said at the end of filming the first day Bollettieri got out of his seat and said to the crew, "You see that? Jason and I are fighting, it's great!"</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>"I saw how well he responded to that so the second day of the interview I just went in with the idea that we're going to fight now," Kohn said. "And that was great, I felt really liberated." <p>The result is one of the most powerful sports documentaries you'll see this year. Through the pressing by Kohn, Bollettieri opens up about the controversial decision to sit in Agassi's box when he played fellow Bollettieri protégé Jim Courier at the 1989 French Open, why he sent Agassi the letter ending his time as his coach, and why his world-renowned academy ended up not making any money.&#xa0;</p><p>But where we find the macho coach's most revealing moment is when Kohn asks Bollettieri to read a passage from Agassi's autobiography, "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Open-Autobiography-Andre-Agassi/dp/0307388409" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Open,</a>" in which the star writes an emotional letter directly to his old coach. It shows a rare vulnerable side of Bollettieri leading to him finally saying how he feels about his protégé: that he still cares deeply for Agassi.&#xa0;</p><p>Kohn said he offered Agassi a chance to see "Love Means Zero" at a private screening when it was completed, but the tennis legend declined. Though he would have liked to have known what Agassi thought of the movie, it was more important for Kohn to find out what Bollettieri thought. The director admitted showing the movie to his subject for the first time was a strenuous ordeal.</p><p>The small screening included some of Bollettieri's friends, and at the end it seemed the coach liked it, as he then held court and told stories. Kohn snuck out feeling it all worked well. Then around 10:30 that evening, Bollettieri called Kohn.</p><p>"I'm thinking, s---, this is when Nick is going to pull his mafia persona," Kohn said. "And then he game me a world class Coach Bollettieri 'I'm proud of you' speech and I was extraordinarily moved. The fact that I was moved was the most surprising thing to me because I wasn't looking for Nick's approval with this picture. I wasn't looking to make him happy. But that was the last thing about Nick's power as a coach and a motivator that I couldn't grasp until it happened to me. To give me the kind of speech I can only imagine he gave some of his players, I loved it."&#xa0;</p><div></div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-insects-trained-for-tv-and-movies-spiders-cockroaches-butterflies-mosquitos-hollywood-steven-kutcher-2018-6">How insects are trained for TV and movies</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div></hr>

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