Question: (CNN) -- The fledgling International Premier Tennis League suffered a blow when two of the world's most recognized female athletes snubbed the event.

Max Eisenbud, the agent of both Maria Sharapova and Li Na, told CNN on Thursday that neither would be appearing in the team tournament that is set to make its debut in Asia this November.

Sharapova transcends tennis and has long been a magnet for sponsors -- the Russian is perennially listed as the world's richest female athlete by Forbes -- while China's Li is one of the marquee names in Asia, having captured a second grand slam title at the Australian Open in January.

Li was "confirmed" as one of the entrants by the League in a press release last May.

"Maria and Li Na will not be participating," Eisenbud said in an email.

Mahesh Bhupathi, a grand slam doubles winner and the main man behind the project modeled after cricket's highly successful Indian Premier League, will now be hoping he can secure the likes of Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray.

Roger Federer, the 17-time grand slam champion and still the biggest name in the sport, told Gulf News this week he generally backed the idea.

The player list is expected to be revealed Friday.

"Firstly, I want to see whether it takes off or not," Federer told Gulf News. "I know a lot of people have invested in it or are part of it. Anywhere where tennis grows is a good thing, so I hope it takes off and becomes very successful. 1. Who are Maria and Li?
2. Who represents them?
3. What happened in May?
4. Will she be joining?
5. IS everyone else staying on?
6. Who else pulled out?
7. Who is Roger Federer?
8. Is he well known?
9. What happens at the end of the week?
10. Where is the team going?
11. When?
12. For what?
13. Has Li won any special events?
14. What?
15. Where?
16. When?
17. Is she from Australia?
18. Where then?
19. Who makes the most money?
20. Where is she from? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. female tennis players
2. Max Eisenbud
3. Li was "confirmed" as one of the entrants
4. no
5. no
6. Maria
7. 17-time grand slam champion
8. yes
9. The player list is expected to be revealed
10. Asia
11. this November.
12. the team tournament
13. yes
14. grand slam title
15. at the Australian Open
16. in January.
17. no
18. China
19. sharapova
20. Russia

Q: (CNN) -- Fans of "Dancing With the Stars" know how grueling the competition can be.

Contestants practice for hours a day, and almost every season some celebs are brought low by injury. So how in the world will Valerie Harper, who just months ago announced that she had a terminal form of cancer, go for that mirror ball trophy?

Apparently with the same spirit that caused the "Rhoda" actress to offer this up for fans:

"I hope you dance! I hope you dance," Harper told CNN on Wednesday. " And that's what I'm saying to everybody, that's just my message. Dance."

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Harper announced in March that she had been diagnosed with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a condition in which cancer cells spread into the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord. But Harper told CNN that she does not have brain cancer.

"I have lung cancer," she said. "It is situated in the lining of the brain; it's not even in the brain."

Her husband, Tony Cacciotti, encouraged her to sign on with the hit ABC dance competition, she said. He runs the couple's production company and had been considering her participation for a few years.

The actress said she initially resisted the idea.

"I said, 'Give me one good reason,' " Harper recalled. "He said, 'You have cancer! Get up there, and show people that you can dance and do -- and the doctors said it's fine to exercise. Encourage people to move, to exercise, to do all the things that will be good for them, and mainly not to sit in the house and glower and worry and feel sorry for yourself because you have this disease and anything else.'"

1. Valerie Harper
2. Dancing With the Stars
3. leptomeningeal carcinomatosis
4. mirror ball trophy
5. No
6. lung cancer,
7. Tony Cacciotti
8. No
9. ABC
10. He runs the couple's production company
11. Rhoda
12. No
13. CNN
14. Wednesday.
15. just months ago
16. March
17. Yes
18. No
19. hours a day
20. Yes

Numbered questions:
1. Who is competing on a show?
2. On which show?
3. What disease does Harper have?
4. What object could she win?
5. Does she have brain cancer?
6. What kind then?
7. Who is she married to?
8. Did he discourage her?
9. What network is the show on?
10. What is his occupation?
11. What show was she known for?
12. Is it an easy contest?
13. Who interviewed her?
14. When?
15. When did she announce she had cancer?
16. What month?
17. Did the doctors clear her to participate?
18. Was she excited to do it at first?
19. How long to participants practice?
20. Are people injured?

input: Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark in 1747, then to the current site nine years later, where it was renamed Princeton University in 1896.

Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. It offers professional degrees through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Architecture and the Bendheim Center for Finance. The university has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary and the Westminster Choir College of Rider University. Princeton has the largest endowment per student in the United States. From 2001 to 2017, Princeton University was ranked either first or second among national universities by "U.S. News & World Report", holding the top spot for 15 of those 17 years.

The university has graduated many notable alumni. It has been associated with 41 Nobel laureates, 21 National Medal of Science winners, 14 Fields Medalists, 5 Abel Prize winners, 10 Turing Award laureates, five National Humanities Medal recipients, 209 Rhodes Scholars, 139 Gates Cambridge Scholars and 126 Marshall Scholars. Two U.S. Presidents, 12 U.S. Supreme Court Justices (three of whom currently serve on the court) and numerous living billionaires and foreign heads of state are all counted among Princeton's alumni body. Princeton has also graduated many prominent members of the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Cabinet, including eight Secretaries of State, three Secretaries of Defense and two of the past four Chairs of the Federal Reserve. 1. What is the 4th oldest higher education institution in the US?
2. what is it?
3. where at?
4. when was it started?
5. what was it originally named?
6. what else is unique about it?
7. how many times did it change locations?
8. where did it start?
9. when was the first move?
10. to where?
11. how long was it there?
12. when did it change to the current name?
13. how many undergraduate programs are offered?
14. what are they?
15. where were they ranked by "US News & World Report?"
16. when?
17. how many years was it 1st?
18. How many presidents are Princeton alumni?
19. how many current supreme court justices?
20. who are some other notable alumni?
21. any others? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. Princeton
2. a private Ivy League research university
3. Princeton, New Jersey, United States
4. 1746
5. College of New Jersey
6. one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution
7. two
8. Elizabeth
9. 1747
10. Newark
11. nine years
12. 1896
13. Four
14. humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering
15. either first or second
16. From 2001 to 2017
17. 15
18. Two
19. three
20. Nobel laureates
21. National Medal of Science winners