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Oct 5 (OPTA) – Final Rounds and Seeds Progress from the WTA 125K Series, Suzhou WTA 125 Women's Singles matches on Sunday .. Final Rounds .. Seed Round Rslt Opponent Score 6 Viktorija Golubic (CHE) final won Katie Volynets (USA) 4-6 6-4 6-4 semi won 2-Tatjana Maria (DEU) 6-3 6-3 final s qtr won 4-Alexandra Eala (PHI) 2-6 6-2 7-6(0) final s 1/16 won Q-Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE) 6-2 6-0 final 1/32 won Rebeka Masarova (CHE) 6-2 6-3 final – Katie Volynets (USA) final lost 6-Viktorija Golubic (CHE) 4-6 6-4 6-4 semi won LL-Victoria Jimenez 7-5 6-2 final Kasintseva (AND) s qtr won Q-Caroline Dolehide (USA) 3-6 6-2 7-5 final s 1/16 won 3-Suzan Lamens (NLD) 7-5 6-1 final 1/32 won WC-Chenting Zhu (CHN) 6-0 6-3 final 2 Tatjana Maria (DEU) semi lost 6-Viktorija Golubic (CHE) 6-3 6-3 final s qtr won 5-Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) (Walkover) final s 1/16 won Leolia Jeanjean (FRA) 6-2 6-4 final 1/32 won WC-Saisai Zheng (CHN) 6-3 6-2 final LL Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (AND) semi lost Katie Volynets (USA) 7-5 6-2 final s qtr won LL-Kyoka Okamura (JPN) 6-3 6-1 final s 1/16 won SE-Lulu Sun (NZL) 2-6 6-4 6-2 final 1/32 won Talia Gibson (AUS) 7-6(2) 7-5 final quali lost Q-Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 7-6(3) 6-3 fying final quali won Mai Hontama (JPN) 6-3 6-2 fying 1st 5 Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) qtr lost 2-Tatjana Maria (DEU) (Walkover) final s 1/16 won Dalma Galfi (HUN) 3-6 6-3 7-5 final 1/32 won Diane Parry (FRA) 6-1 6-7(4) 6-1 final 4 Alexandra Eala (PHI) qtr lost 6-Viktorija Golubic (CHE) 2-6 6-2 7-6(0) final s 1/16 won Greet Minnen (BEL) 7-6(5) 6-7(3) 7-5 final 1/32 won Katarzyna Kawa (POL) 6-3 3-6 7-5 final LL Kyoka Okamura (JPN) qtr lost LL-Victoria Jimenez 6-3 6-1 final Kasintseva (AND) s 1/16 won Q-Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 6-1 7-6(2) final 1/32 won Kimberly Birrell (AUS) 6-2 6-4 final quali lost Q-Janice Tjen (IDN) 7-6(3) 6-2 fying final quali won LL-Maddison Inglis (AUS) 6-4 6-4 fying 1st Q Caroline Dolehide (USA) qtr lost Katie Volynets (USA) 3-6 6-2 7-5 final s 1/16 won LL-Joanna Garland (TPE) 6-4 6-4 final 1/32 won Moyuka Uchijima (JPN) 4-6 6-4 7-6(5) final quali won LL-Arianne Hartono (NLD) 6-3 6-2 fying final quali won Destanee Aiava (AUS) 6-3 6-3 fying 1st – Leolia Jeanjean (FRA) 1/16 lost 2-Tatjana Maria (DEU) 6-2 6-4 final 1/32 won LL-Maddison Inglis (AUS) 6-2 7-5 final – Greet Minnen (BEL) 1/16 lost 4-Alexandra Eala (PHI) 7-6(5) 6-7(3) 7-5 final 1/32 won WC-Han Shi (CHN) 6-4 6-0 final – Dalma Galfi (HUN) 1/16 lost 5-Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) 3-6 6-3 7-5 final 1/32 won Yuliia Starodubtseva (UKR) 6-2 6-2 final Q Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE) 1/16 lost 6-Viktorija Golubic (CHE) 6-2 6-0 final 1/32 won Anastasia Zakharova (RUS) 2-6 6-0 6-2 final quali won LL-Joanna Garland (TPE) 7-6(3) 6-2 fying final quali won Clervie Ngounoue (USA) 6-1 6-3 fying 1st Q Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 1/16 lost LL-Kyoka Okamura (JPN) 6-1 7-6(2) final 1/32 won Q-Janice Tjen (IDN) 6-4 1-6 7-6(2) final quali won LL-Victoria Jimenez 7-6(3) 6-3 fying Kasintseva (AND) final quali won Tatiana Prozorova (RUS) 7-6(9) 4-6 6-1 fying 1st SE Lulu Sun (NZL) 1/16 lost LL-Victoria Jimenez 2-6 6-4 6-2 final Kasintseva (AND) 1/32 won 1-Iva Jovic (USA) 6-4 7-6(3) final LL Joanna Garland (TPE) 1/16 lost Q-Caroline Dolehide (USA) 6-4 6-4 final 1/32 won 7-Lucia Bronzetti (ITA) 6-3 7-5 final quali lost Q-Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE) 7-6(3) 6-2 fying final quali won Wushuang Zheng (CHN) 6-1 6-4 fying 1st 3 Suzan Lamens (NLD) 1/16 lost Katie Volynets (USA) 7-5 6-1 final 1/32 won WC-Xinxin Yao (CHN) 6-2 6-3 final WC Saisai Zheng (CHN) 1/32 lost 2-Tatjana Maria (DEU) 6-3 6-2 final WC Xinxin Yao (CHN) 1/32 lost 3-Suzan Lamens (NLD) 6-2 6-3 final – Katarzyna Kawa (POL) 1/32 lost 4-Alexandra Eala (PHI) 6-3 3-6 7-5 final – Diane Parry (FRA) 1/32 lost 5-Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) 6-1 6-7(4) 6-1 final – Rebeka Masarova (CHE) 1/32 lost 6-Viktorija Golubic (CHE) 6-2 6-3 final – Kimberly Birrell (AUS) 1/32 lost LL-Kyoka Okamura (JPN) 6-2 6-4 final – Talia Gibson (AUS) 1/32 lost LL-Victoria Jimenez 7-6(2) 7-5 final Kasintseva (AND) 7 Lucia Bronzetti (ITA) 1/32 lost LL-Joanna Garland (TPE) 6-3 7-5 final – Moyuka Uchijima (JPN) 1/32 lost Q-Caroline Dolehide (USA) 4-6 6-4 7-6(5) final Q Janice Tjen (IDN) 1/32 lost Q-Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 6-4 1-6 7-6(2) final quali won LL-Kyoka Okamura (JPN) 7-6(3) 6-2 fying final quali won Yihan Qu (CHN) 6-2 6-1 fying 1st – Anastasia Zakharova (RUS) 1/32 lost Q-Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE) 2-6 6-0 6-2 final 1 Iva Jovic (USA) 1/32 lost SE-Lulu Sun (NZL) 6-4 7-6(3) final WC Chenting Zhu (CHN) 1/32 lost Katie Volynets (USA) 6-0 6-3 final WC Han Shi (CHN) 1/32 lost Greet Minnen (BEL) 6-4 6-0 final – Yuliia Starodubtseva (UKR) 1/32 lost Dalma Galfi (HUN) 6-2 6-2 final LL Maddison Inglis (AUS) 1/32 lost Leolia Jeanjean (FRA) 6-2 7-5 final LL Arianne Hartono (NLD) quali lost Q-Caroline Dolehide (USA) 6-3 6-2 fying final quali won Whitney Osuigwe (USA) 4-6 7-5 4-2 (Retired) fying 1st ………………………………………….. .. Seeds .. Seed Round Rslt Opponent Score LL Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (AND) semi lost Katie Volynets (USA) 7-5 6-2 final s qtr won LL-Kyoka Okamura (JPN) 6-3 6-1 final s LL Kyoka Okamura (JPN) qtr lost LL-Victoria Jimenez 6-3 6-1 final Kasintseva (AND) s Q Caroline Dolehide (USA) qtr lost Katie Volynets (USA) 3-6 6-2 7-5 final s LL Kyoka Okamura (JPN) 1/16 won Q-Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 6-1 7-6(2) final LL Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (AND) 1/16 won SE-Lulu Sun (NZL) 2-6 6-4 6-2 final LL Joanna Garland (TPE) 1/16 lost Q-Caroline Dolehide (USA) 6-4 6-4 final Q Caroline Dolehide (USA) 1/16 won LL-Joanna Garland (TPE) 6-4 6-4 final Q Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 1/16 lost LL-Kyoka Okamura (JPN) 6-1 7-6(2) final Q Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE) 1/16 lost 6-Viktorija Golubic (CHE) 6-2 6-0 final SE Lulu Sun (NZL) 1/16 lost LL-Victoria Jimenez 2-6 6-4 6-2 final Kasintseva (AND) LL Kyoka Okamura (JPN) 1/32 won Kimberly Birrell (AUS) 6-2 6-4 final LL Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (AND) 1/32 won Talia Gibson (AUS) 7-6(2) 7-5 final LL Joanna Garland (TPE) 1/32 won 7-Lucia Bronzetti (ITA) 6-3 7-5 final LL Maddison Inglis (AUS) 1/32 lost Leolia Jeanjean (FRA) 6-2 7-5 final Q Caroline Dolehide (USA) 1/32 won Moyuka Uchijima (JPN) 4-6 6-4 7-6(5) final Q Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 1/32 won Q-Janice Tjen (IDN) 6-4 1-6 7-6(2) final Q Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE) 1/32 won Anastasia Zakharova (RUS) 2-6 6-0 6-2 final Q Janice Tjen (IDN) 1/32 lost Q-Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 6-4 1-6 7-6(2) final SE Lulu Sun (NZL) 1/32 won 1-Iva Jovic (USA) 6-4 7-6(3) final WC Xinxin Yao (CHN) 1/32 lost 3-Suzan Lamens (NLD) 6-2 6-3 final WC Chenting Zhu (CHN) 1/32 lost Katie Volynets (USA) 6-0 6-3 final WC Han Shi (CHN) 1/32 lost Greet Minnen (BEL) 6-4 6-0 final WC Saisai Zheng (CHN) 1/32 lost 2-Tatjana Maria (DEU) 6-3 6-2 final LL Arianne Hartono (NLD) quali lost Q-Caroline Dolehide (USA) 6-3 6-2 fying final LL Kyoka Okamura (JPN) quali lost Q-Janice Tjen (IDN) 7-6(3) 6-2 fying final LL Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (AND) quali lost Q-Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 7-6(3) 6-3 fying final LL Joanna Garland (TPE) quali lost Q-Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE) 7-6(3) 6-2 fying final Q Caroline Dolehide (USA) quali won LL-Arianne Hartono (NLD) 6-3 6-2 fying final Q Janice Tjen (IDN) quali won LL-Kyoka Okamura (JPN) 7-6(3) 6-2 fying final Q Varvara Lepchenko (USA) quali won LL-Victoria Jimenez 7-6(3) 6-3 fying Kasintseva (AND) final Q Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE) quali won LL-Joanna Garland (TPE) 7-6(3) 6-2 fying final LL Arianne Hartono (NLD) quali won Whitney Osuigwe (USA) 4-6 7-5 4-2 (Retired) fying 1st LL Kyoka Okamura (JPN) quali won LL-Maddison Inglis (AUS) 6-4 6-4 fying 1st LL Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (AND) quali won Mai Hontama (JPN) 6-3 6-2 fying 1st LL Joanna Garland (TPE) quali won Wushuang Zheng (CHN) 6-1 6-4 fying 1st LL Maddison Inglis (AUS) quali lost LL-Kyoka Okamura (JPN) 6-4 6-4 fying 1st Q Caroline Dolehide (USA) quali won Destanee Aiava (AUS) 6-3 6-3 fying 1st Q Janice Tjen (IDN) quali won Yihan Qu (CHN) 6-2 6-1 fying 1st Q Varvara Lepchenko (USA) quali won Tatiana …

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(Adds Nepal floods in paragraphs 5 and 6) SHANGHAI, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Rescue efforts were underway on Sunday to clear access to campsites on Tibet's eastern slope of Mount Everest, where nearly 1,000 people have been trapped by a blizzard that has blocked roads, according to Chinese state media reports. Hundreds of local villagers and rescue teams have been deployed to help remove snow blocking access to the area, which sits at an altitude above 4,900 metres (16,000 feet), according to a report in Jimu News. Some tourists on the mountain have already been brought down, it added. The snowfall began on Friday evening and continued throughout Saturday, according to notices on the official WeChat accounts of the local Tingri County Tourism Company, which said ticket sales and entry to the Everest Scenic Area were suspended from late Saturday. Just across the border in Nepal, heavy rains triggered landslides and flash floods that have blocked roads, washed away bridges and killed at least 47 people since Friday, police said. Thirty-five people died in separate landslides in the eastern Ilam district bordering India. Nine people were reported missing after being swept away by floodwaters and three others were killed in lightning strikes elsewhere in the country. (Reporting by Casey Hall; Editing by Lincoln Feast and Louise Heavens)

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Oct 5 (Reuters) – Eight OPEC+ countries agreed on Sunday to raise oil production by 137,000 barrels per day (BPD) in November, the group said in a statement. OPEC+ has reversed its strategy of output cuts from April to boost market share and in response to pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, seeking lower oil prices. (Reporting by Ahmed Tolba in Cairo Editing by David Goodman )

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ANKARA, Oct 5 (Reuters) – British singer Robbie Williams said city authorities called off his upcoming Istanbul concert “in the interests of public safety” after Turkish NGOs and social media users campaigned for the event to be cancelled and protested against his appearance. The October 7 concert was scheduled to take place on the second anniversary of the Hamas attack on southern Israeli communities that led to Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. For days, Turkish social media accounts and pro-Gaza NGOs had been calling for the event to be scrapped, accusing Williams of being "Zionist". The 51-year-old singer has faced renewed scrutiny in predominantly Muslim Turkey over his family’s Jewish heritage and his 2015 performance in Israel, which drew criticism from pro-Palestinian groups. Bubilet, the ticketing company, said it had cancelled the concert at the request of the Istanbul Governor’s Office. The governor's office was not immediately available for comment. Williams wrote on Instagram late on Saturday that the safety of his fans “comes first,” adding he was deeply sorry for the cancellation, which he said was “beyond our control.” (Reporting by Ece Toksabay, Editing by Louise Heavens)

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* Gay "conversion therapy" case to be argued on Tuesday * Court will examine laws banning transgender athletes * Justices to hear challenge to Hawaii handgun limits * Voting Rights Act provision imperiled in Louisiana case By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court is set to wade back into the nation's culture wars during its new nine-month term that begins on Monday with a series of contentious cases on issues including transgender athletes, gay conversion therapy, guns and race. The first of these goes before the court on the second day of its term. Arguments are slated for Tuesday over the legality of a Democratic-backed Colorado law banning "conversion therapy" aimed at changing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. Republican President Donald Trump's administration is supporting the Christian professional counselor who challenged the law. "Like last year, this term the Supreme Court again will face issues that arise from the culture wars and the Trump presidency that deeply divide our country," said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, during its last term that ended in June upheld Tennessee's Republican-backed ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors and let parents keep their children out of classes when storybooks with LGBT characters are read. Acting on an emergency basis, it also allowed Trump's ban on transgender people in the military. The Colorado case plaintiff challenged the state's law as a violation of the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protections against government abridgment of free speech, saying it unlawfully censors her communications with clients. While lower courts upheld the measure, the First Amendment argument is expected to find a receptive audience in the Supreme Court's conservative justices. "I predict a 6-3 vote in favor of the counselor," Georgetown University law professor Stephanie Barclay said at an event sponsored by the Federalist Society legal group. Barclay said the case centers on client-led talk therapy, not coercive methods. "There is no evidence that the state has marshaled that this type of talk therapy, with client-directed goals, would be harmful," Barclay said. "Colorado might be continuing its losing streak when it comes to these First Amendment cases." The Supreme Court in recent years has ruled in favor of Christian plaintiffs who challenged state anti-discrimination measures in Colorado – a website designer who did not want to provide custom web designs for same-sex weddings and a baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. It backed the website designer on First Amendment free speech grounds and the baker on First Amendment religious freedom grounds. Colorado's law subjects mental health professionals to discipline if they perform on children any treatment that "attempts or purports to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity," even when the client seeks out treatment and desires that change. Democratic Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said in a court filing that conversion therapy is associated with increased depression and suicide attempts, and "the First Amendment allows states to reasonably regulate professional conduct to protect patients from substandard treatment, even when that regulation incidentally burdens speech." Twenty-two other states also have banned conversion therapy. TRANSGENDER ATHLETES In another case, Idaho and West Virginia are seeking to enforce Republican-backed state laws banning transgender athletes from female sports teams at public schools. Federal appeals courts ruled against the two states. The Trump administration is supporting the states in the litigation. "Nothing is more central to the culture wars than transgender athletes participating in sports," Chemerinsky said. The litigation implicates the Constitution's 14th Amendment promise of equal protection, a provision that often has been invoked in combating discrimination based on race, gender and other traits. U.S. District Judge David Nye ruled that Idaho's treatment of transgender athletes likely violated the equal protection provision. The "incredibly small percentage of transgender women athletes in general," coupled with weak evidence that they actually have physiological advantages, "suggest the act's categorical exclusion of transgender women athletes has no relationship to ensuring equality and opportunities for female athletes in Idaho," Nye wrote. A federal appeals court upheld Nye's decision. The Supreme Court seems likely to give states broad leeway to regulate the participation of transgender athletes in school sports, much as it did in its landmark 2022 ruling in the case called Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that returned the authority to regulate or ban abortion to the states, Bradley University law professor Taraleigh Davis said. "They're continuing this post-Dobbs federalism framework of returning any type of contested moral social issues back to the democratic process at the state level," Davis said. HAWAII GUNS LAW A case from Hawaii gives the conservative justices a chance to further expand gun rights. The court will hear a challenge to a Hawaii law restricting the carrying of handguns on private property that is open to the public such as most businesses. A lower court found that Hawaii's measure likely complies with the Constitution's Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The issue of race also returns to the court, which in 2023 rejected race-conscious collegiate admissions policies. The justices on October 15 will hear arguments in a dispute over a Louisiana electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts in the state from one to two – out of a total of six districts in the state – after a judicial ruling that an earlier map violated the Voting Rights Act. The case gives the conservative justices an opportunity to gut a key provision of this landmark 1965 law that bars racial discrimination in voting. The plaintiffs in the case are 12 Louisiana voters who identify themselves in court papers as "non-African American." They claimed the map violated their equal protection rights. Black people comprise nearly a third of Louisiana's population. The case "could very well affect the drawing of districts" when electoral maps around the United States are reconfigured, according to Widener University Commonwealth Law School professor Michael Dimino Sr. (Reporting by Jan Wolfe; Editing by Will Dunham)

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