Miami Open organizers don’t remember Sofia Kenin winning the 2020 Australian Open. Or the fact that she reached the finals at the French Open. In a tone-deaf press release promoting the tournament, the organizers emphasized that grand slam champions such as Iga Swiatek, Simona Halep, and Bianca Andreescu were playing at the tournament but forgot to mention that Kenin was also a grand slam champion.

Why did a Miami tournament ignore one of its own – Sofia Kenin is a Florida native. She is the only American grand slam champion in recent years.

Kenin and her team had felt for some time that she doesn’t get the respect she deserves. She hasn’t been able to sign up lucrative sponsorship deals despite fantastic success on the court. Players such as Amanda Anisimova, who have far fewer accomplishments have signed blockbuster sponsorship contracts.

It was not always this way. Miami Open promoted Kenin for many years. Here she is with Kim Clijsters when was only six.

Doing laundry can be frustrating. As you pick up your clothes from the dryer, you realize that they are all wrinkled up and still not fully dry.  You should try adding a couple of tennis balls to the dryer.

Dropping a couple of tennis balls in your dryer can improve your drying dramatically. This is particularly true if your laundry load includes comforters, coats, and pillows. As the tennis balls move around in the dryer, they create space between your clothes and prevent them from bunching up. This allows hot air to circulate more freely and improves drying time.

Another benefit of using tennis balls in the dryer is that you don’t need to use a fabric softener. The surface of tennis balls is soft and will fluff up your clothes just like a fabric softener would.

Tennis balls, which are made of rubber, can stink after moving around in a hot dryer for an hour. To overcome this, you can put your tennis balls in a sock. Putting your tennis balls in a sock will also reduce the noise the balls generate in the dryer.