The Face of Women’s Tennis Returns to a Country Where She Doesn’t Lose

The challenge of creating impossible-angle chances discourages most players from attacking the back-of-the-net problem.

In 2014, Beckham Jr. was a talented rookie. Then he became a “celebrity overnight.”

M.L.B. has had a consistent presence in the country for more than 25 years, but Shohei Ohtani has become its accelerator.