11:25 AM ET Associated Press HALLE, Germany — Back-to-back finals in grass-court tournaments would be an excellent Wimbledon warm-up for any player. But Daniil Medvedev can’t play at the All England Club this season. Top-ranked Medvedev beat Oscar Otte 7-6 (3), 6-3 on Saturday to advance to the final of the Halle Open, a week
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11:53 AM ET Associated Press BERLIN — Coco Gauff’s best run yet in a grass-court tournament came to an end when the 18-year-old American lost to Ons Jabeur 7-6 (4), 6-2 in the semifinals of the Berlin Open on Saturday. Cheered on by fans waving Tunisian flags amid a heat wave in Berlin, Jabeur recovered
11:29 AM ET Italy’s Matteo Berrettini reached his fourth consecutive grasscourt final as he overpowered unseeded Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp at the Queen’s Club Championship on Saturday. Friday’s sizzling heat had disappeared at the historic London venue, but defending champion Berrettini maintained his hot streak on the grass to win 6-4, 6-3. 1 Related
10:08 AM ET ESPN News Services Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from Wimbledon. Osaka’s name was included on the list of withdrawals Saturday, with a leg injury noted as the reason for her dropping out. Osaka had been playing through a left Achilles injury and had tape on her foot during a
2:05 PM ET Associated Press HALLE, Germany — Top-ranked Daniil Medvedev was strong on key points to beat Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2, 6-4 and reach the semifinals of the Halle Open on Friday. Medvedev faced nine break points and saved them all to set up a semifinal with German Oscar Otte. “It was tough for
1:02 PM ET Associated Press Matteo Berrettini is back into the Queen’s Club semifinals and still hasn’t lost since his return to competitive play after three months out with a hand injury. The second-seeded Italian beat Tommy Paul 6-4, 6-2 on Friday and will play Botic van de Zandschulp of the Netherlands for a place
1:57 PM ET Associated Press BERLIN — Coco Gauff reached the semifinals on grass for the first time after beating Karolina Pliskova 7-5, 6-4 at the Berlin Open on Friday to set up a match with Ons Jabeur. Already in uncharted territory in her first quarterfinal on grass, the 18-year-old French Open finalist had to
8:39 AM ET Rafael Nadal confirmed on Friday that he intends to play at Wimbledon for the first time in three years. Nadal, who won his 14th French Open title earlier this month, will attempt to win a record-extending 23rd Grand Slam title at the All England Club this year. The 36-year-old suffers from Mueller-Weiss
4:56 PM ET Associated Press HALLE, Germany — Top-ranked Daniil Medvedev defeated Ilya Ivashka for the second time in a week, beating the Belarusian 7-6 (4), 6-3 on Thursday to reach the quarterfinals at the Halle Open. Medvedev, who also eliminated Ivashka in ‘s-Hertogenbosch last week, saved three set points when trailing 5-4 in the
3:01 PM ET Associated Press BERLIN — Coco Gauff reached her first grass-court quarterfinal by beating Chinese qualifier Wang Xinyu 6-0, 6-4 Thursday at the Berlin Open. The American 18-year-old, who reached her first Grand Slam final at the French Open on clay this month, cruised through the first set but then had to come
12:16 PM ET Defending champion Matteo Berrettini edged Denis Kudla 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6,4 on Thursday to advance to the Queen’s Club Championship quarterfinal. The second-seed, who beat Andy Murray in the Stuttgart final on Sunday, fired 22 aces past Kudla as he looks to clinch back-to-back grass-court titles. Berrettini’s booming serve, which took him
11:16 AM ET Associated Press HALLE, Germany — Defending champion Ugo Humbert was eliminated from the Halle Open in the second round after losing to Hubert Hurkacz 7-6 (5), 6-3 on Wednesday. The fifth-seeded Hurkacz saved three of the four break points he faced. He will next play either Mackenzie McDonald or Felix Auger-Aliassime in
11:54 AM ET Associated Press BERLIN — Karolina Pliskova edged Bianca Andreescu 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7) at the Berlin Open on Wednesday to reach her second quarterfinal of the year. The fourth-seeded Pliskova, who hit 17 aces against Kaia Kanepi in the first round, added 12 more against Andreescu, though she had to fight back
1:10 PM ET Associated Press HALLE, Germany — Second-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas defeated Benjamin Bonzi 7-6 (1), 1-6, 6-3 in the first round of the Halle Open on Tuesday, when there were also wins for Felix Auger-Aliassime and Nick Kyrgios. Tsitsipas, who reached the quarterfinals in Stuttgart last week, had to fight hard to beat the
1:16 PM ET Associated Press BERLIN — The second-seeded Maria Sakkari eased into the second round of the Berlin Open on Tuesday with a 6-3, 6-2 win over French qualifier Leolia Jeanjean, while Andrea Petkovic delighted the home fans by upsetting Garbiñe Muguruza. Petkovic defeated the fifth-seeded Muguruza 7-6 (8), 6-4 for her first win
1:16 PM ET Associated Press The US Open will allow tennis players from Russia and Belarus to compete this year despite the ongoing war in Ukraine, which prompted Wimbledon to ban those athletes. U.S. Tennis Association CEO and executive director Lew Sherr, whose group runs the US Open, said in a telephone interview with The
11:12 AM ET British wildcard Ryan Peniston stunned top-seed Casper Ruud with a 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2) victory on Tuesday to advance to the Queen’s Club Championship quarterfinal. Peniston, 26, received his call-up to the grass tournament after reaching the quarterfinal of the Nottingham Open last week, and will face the victor of the round-of-16
7:51 AM ET Serena Williams strongly hinted at a return to tennis this month at Wimbledon in a social media post Tuesday. Williams, 40, hasn’t competed since injuring her right leg last year at Wimbledon and did not appear on the women’s singles entry list released last Friday by the grass-court Grand Slam. But Williams
5:11 AM ET Former world No. 1 Andy Murray has been forced to withdraw from the Queen’s Club Championship in London after picking up an abdominal injury, the tournament’s organisers said on Monday. Murray, a five-times champion at Queen’s who last won the title in 2016, suffered an abdominal injury during Sunday’s Stuttgart Open final
2:47 PM ET Associated Press BERLIN — Karolina Pliskova started her grass-court season, beating Kaia Kanepi 6-7 (5), 6-0, 6-0 in the first round of the Berlin Open on Monday, when Bianca Andreescu and Daria Kasatkina also won. The fourth-seeded Pliskova, a finalist at last year’s Wimbledon, rallied as Kanepi faded after their hard-fought first