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2018 PDC World Darts Championship
2018 PDC World Darts Championship, the William Hill World Darts Championship, held 14 December 2017 to 1 January 2018 at Alexandra Palace, London. Debutant Rob Cross beat retiring 16-time champion Phil Taylor 7-2 in the final, averaging 107.67.
2018 PGA Championship
The 2018 PGA Championship, the 100th edition, was held August 9–12 at Bellerive Country Club, St. Louis. Brooks Koepka won at 16-under 264, a PGA Championship scoring record, two shots over Tiger Woods.
2018 Premier League Darts
2018 Premier League Darts: PDC invitational league, February 1 to May 17, 2018, ten players, first Berlin night. Michael van Gerwen beat Michael Smith 11-4 (112.37 average) for a fourth title.
2018 Roger Federer tennis season
2018 Roger Federer tennis season: Swiss player's ATP season with 20th Grand Slam at Australian Open (beat Cilic), Rotterdam and Stuttgart titles, oldest world No. 1 at 36, year-end No. 3 behind Djokovic and Nadal.
2018 Ryder Cup
2018 Ryder Cup, 42nd edition at Le Golf National, Guyancourt near Paris, 28–30 September 2018. Europe beat the USA 17½–10½, Molinari 5-0 clinching, Bjørn's wildcards 9½ points vs Furyk's 2.
2018 Thomas & Uber Cup
2018 Thomas & Uber Cup Finals: badminton world team championships, 20–27 May 2018, Bangkok, Thailand. China won the Thomas Cup beating Japan 3-1; Japan won the Uber Cup over host Thailand.
2018 US Open (tennis)
2018 US Open (tennis): Grand Slam hard-court event, 27 Aug–9 Sep 2018, New York. Naomi Osaka beat Serena Williams 6-2, 6-4 in a controversial final; Djokovic won his 14th major; record $53 million prize money and 800,000+ attendance.
2018 Wimbledon Championships
2018 Wimbledon Championships, July 2–15 at the All England Club: Djokovic beat Anderson for the men's title, Kerber beat Serena Williams for the women's, and the 6h36m Anderson–Isner semifinal prompted the 2019 final-set tiebreak.
2018 World Cup of Golf
2018 World Cup of Golf (ISPS Handa Melbourne World Cup of Golf): 59th and final edition, November 21-25, 2018, Metropolitan Golf Club, Melbourne. Belgium's Thomas Pieters and Thomas Detry won at 265 (-23), three strokes clear, for Belgium's first title.
2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, held April 21–28, 2018 at Östersund Arena, Sweden. Switzerland beat Russia 9-6 for gold; Canada's Crocker and Muyres took bronze; 40 teams competed.
2018 WTA Tour
2018 WTA Tour: 45th season of women's professional tennis, 55 tournaments plus four Grand Slams in 32 countries, $139 million prize money; Halep year-end No. 1, Svitolina won the final Singapore WTA Finals.
2019 ATP Finals
The 2019 ATP Finals, played at The O2 Arena in London, was the year-end men's tennis championship won by Stefanos Tsitsipas, who defeated Dominic Thiem in three sets.
2019 ATP Tour
2019 ATP Tour: men's professional tennis season of 63 tournaments in 31 countries plus four Grand Slams; Nadal year-end No. 1 (fifth time, oldest ever), Djokovic won Australian Open and Wimbledon, Nadal took Roland Garros and US Open, Tsitsipas won the ATP Finals.
2019 Australian Open
2019 Australian Open, Melbourne Park, 14-27 January 2019: Djokovic beat Nadal for a record seventh men's title, Osaka won her first AO, attendance record 796,435, 10-point final-set tiebreak and Heat Stress Scale debuted.
2019 Davis Cup
2019 Davis Cup: first edition of the reformed Davis Cup Finals, 18 teams at La Caja Mágica, Madrid, 18–24 November 2019, backed by Gerard Piqué's Kosmos. Spain beat Canada 2-0 for a sixth title, Nadal and Bautista winning the final rubbers.
2019 Davis Cup Finals
2019 Davis Cup Finals (Davis Cup by Rakuten Madrid Finals): inaugural restructured Davis Cup Finals, 18 teams at La Caja Magica, Madrid, 18-24 November 2019; Spain beat Canada 2-0 for a sixth title, led by Nadal.
2019 European Curling Championships
2019 European Curling Championships (Le Gruyère AOP ECC 2019), 15–23 November 2019 in Helsingborg, Sweden; 26 nations; Sweden won both titles, Hasselborg's women beating Scotland 5-4 and Edin's men beating Switzerland 9-3.
2019 European Tour
The 2019 European Tour, also called the Race to Dubai season, ran November 2018 to November 2019 with 48 tournaments in 31 countries. Abu Dhabi joined the Rolex Series; Jon Rahm won the Race to Dubai on the final hole in Dubai.
2019 French Open
2019 French Open (Roland-Garros 2019), Grand Slam clay tournament in Paris, 26 May–9 June 2019. Rafael Nadal won a 12th men's title over Dominic Thiem; Ashleigh Barty won the women's singles; record 520,000 attendance; Chatrier rebuilt.
2019 Masters Tournament
The 2019 Masters Tournament, held April 11-14 at Augusta National Golf Club, was won by Tiger Woods at 275, his fifth green jacket and 15th major, ending an 11-year major drought; Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, and Xander Schauffele tied second.
2019 Open Championship
The 148th Open Championship, Royal Portrush 2019: Shane Lowry won by six at 15-under 269, the first Open in Northern Ireland since 1951, with a course-record 63 and record 237,750 attendance.
2019 PDC World Darts Championship
The 2019 PDC World Darts Championship, the twenty-sixth PDC world title, ran at Alexandra Palace, London, ending with Michael van Gerwen beating Michael Smith 7-3 in the final.
2019 PGA Championship
The 2019 PGA Championship, played May 16-19 at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, New York, was won wire-to-wire by Brooks Koepka at 272 (8 under), two ahead of Dustin Johnson.
2019 Presidents Cup
2019 Presidents Cup, Royal Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, December 9-15, 2019: United States beat the International team 16-14 after trailing 10-8 into Sunday singles; playing captain Tiger Woods went 3-0-0 against Ernie Els's side.
2019 Roger Federer tennis season
The 2019 Roger Federer tennis season was the Swiss player's twenty-first season on the ATP Tour, in which he won four titles and finished the year ranked No. 3.
2019 US Open – Women's singles
2019 US Open women's singles: Bianca Andreescu beat Serena Williams 6-3, 7-5 in the final, becoming the first Canadian Grand Slam singles champion and first Open-era US Open debut champion.
2019 US Open (tennis)
2019 US Open (tennis), Grand Slam hard-court event, Aug 26-Sep 8, 2019, Flushing Meadows, New York. Rafael Nadal beat Daniil Medvedev for his fourth title; Bianca Andreescu beat Serena Williams for her first; record 737,872 attendance and $57.2 million prize money.
2019 Wimbledon Championships
2019 Wimbledon Championships (1–14 July 2019), 133rd edition of the grass-court Grand Slam. Novak Djokovic beat Roger Federer 13-12 in the first final-set tie-break Grand Slam final; Simona Halep beat Serena Williams 6-2, 6-2 for her first Wimbledon title.
2019 WTA Tour
The 2019 WTA Tour, the 46th season of women's professional tennis, ran 55 tournaments across 28 countries, opened with 18 different champions in 18 events, and ended with Ashleigh Barty as year-end No. 1.
2020 ATP Cup
2020 ATP Cup: inaugural edition of the ATP Cup men's team tennis event, 3-12 January 2020 in Brisbane, Perth, and Sydney; 24 countries, $15 million prize money; Serbia beat Spain 2-1 in the final; abolished after 2022.