Maria Sharapova, Venus Williams among stars who honor science achievement at Breakthrough Prize Ceremony

When the new rankings are released, there will be 3 teenagers in the top-100:
19 yo Nick Kyrgios
18 yo Borna Coric
18 yo Hyeon Chung
— Parsa (@Parsa_Nemati) April 26, 2015

But wait, wasn't Kyrgios himself driving his own proverbial bandwagon? Just ahead of his 20th birthday, he's surmounted by a potential new star:

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What’s Swedish for “all aboard the bandwagon?”…..[WC] E. Ymer (SWE) d. [WC] N. Kyrgios (AUS) 26 75 76(7) - saved 2 M.P.
— Jon Wertheim (@jon_wertheim) April 22, 2015

Now, about rankings, a moment of silence ...

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20 years ago today, USA had the 1st, 2nd and 4th best ranked ATP players.. Today they have the 18th, 36th and 38th best ATP players @Tennis
— Chris Goldsmith (@TheTennisTalker) April 27, 2015

What's that you say, It Gets Better? Aye, and it gets worse:

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20 years ago today there were 39 USA players combined in the ATP/WTA top 100 and today there are just 19...
— Chris Goldsmith (@TheTennisTalker) April 27, 2015

Caroline Wozniacki has gone from clay-court pretender to bona fide contender, ousting Simona Halep and others in reaching the Stuttgart final, and there's a short answer as to why:

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Didn't take long for Arantxa to make a difference in Caroline's game.3-time French Open champ knows footwork, strategy and mentality 4 clay.
— Tracy Austin (@thetracyaustin) April 26, 2015

It doesn't take a psychologist to note that something's always brewing below the surface for Maria Sharapova. Turns out she's certain that, one sweet day, she will have it out with (on) her racquet. And surely her Head sponsors, in truth, will be quite happy about it.

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“It’s in me. I know it. It’s going to happen one day.” - Sharapova on not breaking rackets.
— Courtney Nguyen (@FortyDeuceTwits) April 26, 2015

Victoria Azarenka and Sascha Bajin are in cahoots these days in more ways than one:

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I need decorations for my house👀Me and @BigSascha stealing stuff from museum😂😂😂 #wecouldnteventhowetried#tooheavy pic.twitter.com/cD5zzg8jb6
— victoria azarenka (@vika7) April 23, 2015

I thought we were just gonna try to borrow it... 😳 https://t.co/16k2bHDJcB
— sascha Bajin (@BigSascha) April 23, 2015

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From Pete Holtermann, communications chief extraordinaire, we've all been here:

That moment when a match is no longer in “Live Scores” but not yet in “Completed Matches” #tennisproblems
— Pete Holtermann (@peteholtermann) April 22, 2015

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Agnieszka Radwanska confirmed this past week what most observers expected was the case:

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— Aga Radwanska (@ARadwanska) April 24, 2015

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Last, Roger Federer has officially brought Emoji on as the fifth language he can speak fluently:

☕️✈️💺🗻⛅️🇹🇷😃🚙🍝💨🏃🎾💦☀️😀👊✨🚿🚙🍝😍🇹🇷 pic.twitter.com/fWGVmRuPQ0
— Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) April 26, 2015

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