"The Pop-Tarts Edible Mascots work tirelessly to fulfill their dreams of being eaten, so we agreed they deserved a vacation to watch the previous Pop-Tarts Bowl winners play in Ireland," Leslie ...

Ireland did it without 17 of its British and Irish Lions. “I feel sorry for Portugal but we were very clinical and took our chances," O'Connell told Virgin Sports.

Repeating the 2021 final defeat of Dublin and clinching a third medal would be a nice way to sign off on the LGFA season.

So the presence of Grand Slam winners and top-ranked players on display at the late-winter Garden event has evolved into a new USTA push to increase the future player pool with its "Under-10" project.