Ali Rana

Applied AI Product at @google. Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience. Ex-@snap, Ex Kantar\@WPP. Opinions are my own. Golf and Sports mostly.

[Fore Play @ForePlayPod]

Justin Thomas. CLASS.

[Jamie Kennedy @jamierkennedy]

396-yard drive.
192-yard nine iron.
10-foot putt.

Simple.

[Scuderia Ferrari HP @ScuderiaFerrari]

P1!!!!!! @LewisHamilton 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Nike Basketball @nikebasketball]

Sleep well, NY.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

EVERYONE IN NYC IS SINGING EMPIRE STATE OF MIND

[NBA @NBA]

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆

New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

KNICKS WIN!!!
KNICKS WIN!!!
KNICKS WIN!!!
KNICKS WIN!!!

[Jamie Kennedy @jamierkennedy]

The width of Shinnecock.

You'll hear a lot about how wide the fairways are at Shinnecock now compared to the 2004 U.S. Open.

I put together these visuals showing the 2018 set-up with the 2004 fairway lines overlayed.

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

Knicks' historic 29-point comeback in full 🔥

One of the greatest games in NBA history.

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

POV: you witnessed the game winner in person 🥹

[ESPN @espn]

A PLAY NEW YORKERS WILL REMEMBER FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES ‼️

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

THE GREATEST COMEBACK IN NBA PLAYOFF HISTORY.

[Nike @Nike]

Looks like The GOATs’ Goodbye is going back to the drawing board…

@kingjames ⛔
@cristiano ⛔
@serenawilliams ⛔

[LPGA @LPGA]

NELLY'S 𝙎𝙀𝘾𝙊𝙉𝘿 MAJOR WIN OF 2026 🤯

Korda conquers the 2026 @uswomensopen at Riviera 🏆

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[Nike @Nike]

At 19 years old Mirra Andreeva is a major champion and it’s all thanks to Mirra. Mirra who put in the work, Mirra who battled for every point, Mirra who believed in Mirra.

Many thanks, Mirra.

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

KNICKS WIN!!!!!

[La Gazzetta Ferrari @GazzettaFerrari]

LEWIS HAMILTON X LOWRIDER 😎

[Serena Williams @serenawilliams]

Good news travels fast.

[Flushing It @flushingitgolf]

Bryson DeChambeau shot a final round 65 to finish 3rd at LIV Golf Korea, just 1 shot out of the playoff. He said after the round that the improvement was due to the work he did with Gemini AI after the 71 on Saturday:

“Yeah, the beginning of the first round I felt great. Golf swing felt in sync and then it started getting out of sync and it felt like my hands were getting ahead of me. It continued that way for the next two rounds, and it was very frustrating.

“I spent some long hours on the range trying to figure some stuff out and I was talking to AI quite a bit last night trying to go through some different physics principles that makes the club turn over, having some alpha torque and gamma torque put in there. I was like, what makes that possibly do that, and was talking about just grip pressure and tension.

“So I came out here today with just a little bit more freer hands, and I felt the club a lot better, and I felt like I could close the club a lot more effectively and then I started striping it.

“From then on out, I was able to kind of control it. Still missed some wedges to the right coming in, which is kind of frustrating, but that's just me holding on a little bit rather than just letting it go.

“I feel like I'm on the right path now, and I had it okay in the first round, but really felt it -- I felt really good this round. I felt better than I did in the first round, which is a good trend.

“Hopefully it continues, and I'm just continuing to learn. That's the thing; this game is so brutal. Missing two cuts at the majors and you feel like you're golden going in there, won a couple events and playing well, and this game can kick you when you're at your highest.

“It goes for all of us, not just me. It's everybody here. Everybody wants to win.

“I think that's the beautiful part about golf is that it can kick you when you're at your highest or it can bring you up when you're at your lowest, and yet we have to respect the game for that.

“So I felt great. Didn't feel great in the middle of the tournament, but then the last round today I felt a lot better.

“I'm proud of the way I persevered to finish third without really anything.”

And then spoke about the Gemini assisted practice session he had at 8pm:

“I was slamming the club in the ground trying to figure out what to do. I was frustrated. Been trying everything in my body. I didn't actually figure it out on the range. I went back and started talking to Gemini and trying to figure out just what it could be to passively make the club turn over. Hands just felt like they were moving forward like this and I couldn't get the club to turn over. Even if I tried to stop it here, it still wouldn't turn over.

“So I left kind of frustrated and learned later that night that I just needed to relax my grip pressure and let the thing just fold over naturally.

“I'm still working it out. I don't have the answer.”

The solo 3rd was a good bounce back from a disappointing missed cut at the PGA Championship. He’ll now head to Valderrama next week for LIV Golf Andalucia before attempting to win his 3rd US Open at the historic Shinnecock Hills in a few weeks.

@brysondech @Crushers_GC @livgolf_league