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Naomi Osaka: The people’s champion By Mark Keohane CAPE TOWN - THE conversation in women’s tennis has dramatically and emphatically shifted. Serena Williams, still full of pomp and panache as she steps towards the door of the 40s club, is on her way out and Naomi Osaka has very much stepped onto a stage that for nearly two decades belonged to Williams. Osaka, born to a Japanese mother and Haitian-American father, has lived in the US since the age of three, but chose Japan as the flag she would carry throughout her professional tennis career. And it’s been a career with a start unrivalle...

Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images All Blacks great Dan Carter, the rugby world's record points scorer, has been showered with praise since confirming his retirement. Jonny Wilkinson, Matt Giteau and Quade Cooper are among Dan Carter’s international rugby rivals to shower praise on the retired All Blacks superstar – and the Springboks have invited him for “a braai’’. Carter’s greatness has also been hailed by foreign rugby unions, with Australia, England, France, Japan and the British and Irish Lions posting tributes on their official social media accounts. The entire spectrum of t...