The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens will be hosting the International Desert Conservation Summit this Saturday. The second annual summit will be held virtually on Nov. 20 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. with 10 guest speakers from Kenya, South Africa and the U.S. discussing the summit’s theme of “Restoring Rhinos.”
“It’s one of the best experiences I’ve had in my life,” Sebastian Bascus, a ball kid from Lima, Peru. For almost fifty years, ball kids have acted as personal assistants to tennis players. One of the first ever ball kids says it’s an experience like no other.
The competition consists of two round-robins of 4 players (8 players total), where everyone plays everyone else in the group. At the end of the round-robin stage, the 2 players at the top of both groups’ ranking qualify for the final four (semifinals + final).
The BNP Paribas Open is the first tournament to have every court with electronic line judges, which is exciting according to Philippe Dore, the marketing director for the BNP Paribas Open.
