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Shelby Rogers
Shelby Rogers (born 1992, Mount Pleasant, SC) is a retired American tennis player, career-high WTA No. 30 in 2022, three WTA finals, 2016 French Open and 2020 US Open quarterfinalist, beat No. 1 Barty at the 2021 US Open, retired after the 2024 US Open.
Sherry Middaugh
Sherry Middaugh (born Sherry Scheirich, 1966) is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario; seven-time Scotties competitor for Saskatchewan and Ontario, 2013 Olympic Trials finalist, 2025 Canadian senior champion and 2026 world senior bronze medalist.
Shi Yuqi (石宇奇)
Shi Yuqi (石宇奇), born 1996 in Nantong, is a Chinese men's singles badminton player, 2025 World Champion, 2018 and 2025 All England winner, and world No. 1 from June 2024.
Shingo Kunieda (國枝慎吾)
Shingo Kunieda (國枝慎吾), Japanese wheelchair tennis player, born 1984; most decorated men's player with 50 Grand Slam titles, 582 weeks at No. 1, four Paralympic golds across five Games; retired January 2023.
Shinnecock Hills Golf Club
Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Southampton, New York: private club founded 1891, USGA founding member, William Flynn's 1931 course, six-time U.S. Open host (1896-2026), consensus No. 3 course in America.
Shintaro Mochizuki (望月 慎太郎)
Shintaro Mochizuki (望月 慎太郎), Japanese tennis player from Kawasaki; 2019 Wimbledon boys' champion and former junior world No. 1; career-high ATP 92; 2026 Wimbledon fourth round as qualifier, losing to Sinner.
Shuttlecock
Shuttlecock: the feathered or synthetic projectile of badminton, descended from battledore and shuttlecock; 16 feathers, 4.74–5.50 g, high drag, steep descent.
Sid Waddell
Sid Waddell (1940–2012), British darts commentator known as "the Voice of Darts" and "the Geordie Lip"; BBC then Sky Sports, Indoor League producer, Sid Waddell Trophy namesake.
Simon Whitlock
Simon Whitlock, "The Wizard" (born 1969, Cessnock, Australia), Australian darts player; BDO world finalist 2008, PDC world finalist 2010, 2012 European Championship winner, and 2022 World Cup of Darts champion with Damon Heta.
Simona Halep
Simona Halep, Romanian tennis player, 2018 French Open and 2019 Wimbledon champion, WTA world No. 1 for 64 weeks, 24 singles titles; career ended by 2022 roxadustat doping case and 2025 retirement.
Six Kings Slam
The Six Kings Slam is a six-player men's tennis exhibition held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during Riyadh Season since 2024, offering the largest prize money in tennis.
Skins game
Skins game: golf format where each hole is a "skin" won by the outright lowest score, with ties carrying over. Also The Skins Game, the 1983–2008 TV event revived on Prime Video in 2025.
Skittles (sport)
Skittles, a traditional European pin game and ancestor of ten-pin bowling, played with nine wooden pins in a diamond, rolled or thrown at with balls or cheeses; pub league sport of western England with many regional variants.
Sloane Stephens
Sloane Stephens (born 1993) is an American tennis player, 2017 US Open champion and 2018 French Open finalist who reached a career-high No. 3 ranking and won eight WTA singles titles including Miami 2018.
Smylie Kaufman
Smylie Kaufman (Carter Smylie Kaufman, born 1991), American golfer from Birmingham, Alabama; 2015 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open winner with a final-round 61, later an NBC Sports and Golf Channel on-course analyst and host of The Smylie Show.
Sofia Kenin
Sofia Kenin, also known as Sonya, American tennis player born 1998 in Moscow; 2020 Australian Open champion, 2020 French Open runner-up, career-high No. 4, 2020 WTA Player of the Year.
Solheim Cup
Solheim Cup, biennial women's team match-play golf contest between 12-player US (LPGA) and European (LET) teams, founded 1990 by Karsten Solheim of Ping; 28 points, 14.5 to win; 2026 won 15-13 by Europe in the Netherlands.
Somdev Devvarman
Somdev Devvarman (Somdev Kishore Devvarman), Indian tennis player; two-time NCAA singles champion at Virginia (2007, 2008), career-high ATP rank 71, Commonwealth and Asian Games singles gold 2010, Arjuna Award 2011.
Sonay Kartal
Sonay Kartal, British tennis player (born 2001, Sidcup), WTA pro from Brighton. One WTA title (Monastir 2024), career-high No. 44, Wimbledon 2025 fourth round, coached by Julie Hobbs and Ben Reeves.
Sora Matsushima (松島輝空)
Sora Matsushima (松島輝空, born 2007) is a Japanese left-handed table tennis player who became world No. 1 in October 2026 and won the All Japan Championships singles in 2025 and 2026.
Sorana Cîrstea
Sorana Cîrstea (Sorana Mihaela Cîrstea), Romanian tennis player born 1990 in Bucharest; four WTA singles titles (Tashkent 2008, Istanbul 2021, Cleveland 2025, Cluj-Napoca 2026), seven doubles titles, career-high No.15, retiring after 2026.
Spaghetti racquet
The spaghetti racquet was a double-strung tennis racket invented by Werner Fischer around 1971 that imparted nearly twice the spin and was banned by the ITF in 1977.
Squash (sport)
Squash: indoor racket sport, born at Harrow School c. 1830 from a punctured rackets ball; 9.75 x 6.40 m enclosed court, ball to 11 scoring, Olympic debut at LA28.
Srikanth Kidambi
Srikanth Kidambi (శ్రీకాంత్), born 1993, Indian men's singles badminton player; first male Indian BWF world No. 1 (April 2018), four 2017 Superseries titles, 2021 Worlds silver, 2022 Thomas Cup winner.
St Andrews Links
St Andrews Links, the Home of Golf in Fife, Scotland: public links including the Old Course, New, Jubilee, Eden, and Himalayas courses, run by the St Andrews Links Trust since 1974 and host of 28 Open Championships.
St. Paul Curling Club
The St. Paul Curling Club is a curling club at 470 Selby Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, described as the largest in the United States, with over 1,200 members.
Stableford
Stableford, a golf scoring format invented by Dr Frank Barney Gorton Stableford (1898, Wales; popularized at Wallasey 1932), awards points per hole against net par: bogey 1, par 2, birdie 3, eagle 4; highest total wins, bad holes score zero.
Stade Roland Garros
Stade Roland Garros, Paris tennis stadium opened in 1928 and named after aviator Roland Garros; hosts the French Open, the only clay-court Grand Slam, on 8.5 hectares with Court Philippe-Chatrier and its 2020 retractable roof.
Stadium 17
Stadium 17, formerly Court 17 and nicknamed "The Pit", is a sunken 2,800-seat general-admission show court at the US Open's USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, opened in 2011, smallest of four show courts, known for its loud atmosphere.
Stan Smith
Stan Smith (born 1946, Pasadena, CA) is an American tennis player, 1971 US Open and 1972 Wimbledon champion, world No. 1 in 1972, and namesake of the best-selling Adidas Stan Smith shoe; Hall of Fame president since 2011.