7:54 PM ET Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — Second-seeded Ons Jabeur led the top seeds into the semifinals at the Charleston Open on Friday. No. 3 seed Daria Kasatkina and No. 4 seed Belinda Bencic, the defending champion, also advanced to the last four with quarterfinal victories at the season’s first clay-court tournament. Jabeur, who
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8:38 PM ET Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — Top-seeded Jessica Pegula lost 10 straight games and trailed 4-0 in the final set before rallying Thursday to reach the Charleston Open quarterfinals. Pegula, an American ranked No. 3 in the world, led the top four seeds including No. 4 seed and defending champion Belinda Bencic, into
7:53 AM ET Tennis season is hilarious, if you think about it. We’re one-fourth of the way through the year, with one Slam in the books. And now that we’ve got a pretty solid read for who’s playing better than whom, we are completely changing the surface of play — from hard to clay —
6:24 AM ET Tennis missed an opportunity to send a strong message by failing to impose a blanket ban on players from Russia and Belarus after the invasion of Ukraine, world No. 1 Iga Swiatek said. Wimbledon banned players from the two countries last year after the invasion started but said in March that it
6:51 PM ET Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — Top-seeded Jessica Pegula and past champion Madison Keys easily won second-round matches at the Charleston Open on Wednesday. Pegula, the American ranked third in the world, needed less than 65 minutes to beat Anna Blinkova of Russia 6-2, 6-0. Keys, an American who took this title in
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5:04 PM ET Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — Madison Keys grabbed an early lead and breezed into the second round of the Charleston Open with a 6-4, 6-3 victory Tuesday over wild-card entry Emma Navarro, the 2021 NCAA singles champion whose father owns the green-clay tournament. With the temperature around 80 degrees, 2017 US Open
5:53 PM ET Associated Press ROME — The Italian Open plans to award women the same amount of prize money as men starting in 2025. When Iga Swiatek won last year’s tournament on the red clay of the Foro Italico, she earned less than half of what Novak Djokovic took home for his title. Swiatek
6:34 AM ET Rafael Nadal will miss next week’s Monte Carlo Masters tournament having failed to recover in time from an injury that has sidelined him for months, he said Tuesday, shortly before top-10 players Carlos Alcaraz and Felix Auger-Aliassime also pulled out of the tournament.. Nadal was forced to skip the Masters 1000 event
7:02 PM ET Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — Two-time Grand Slam semifinalist Elina Svitolina played a WTA match for the first time as a mother on Monday, losing to Yulia Putintseva 6-7 (3), 6-2, 6-4 at the Charleston Open. Svitolina has been ranked as high as No. 3 and is currently No. 1,081, because she
2:05 PM ET Garbiñe Muguruza is taking an extended break from tennis which will see her miss the clay and grass season this year, the former French Open and Wimbledon champion said on Monday. Muguruza, who won the French Open in 2016 and Wimbledon in 2017, has played only four matches this year without a
9:12 AM ET The International Tennis Federation will conduct its World Tennis Tour tournaments in China this year, marking a return to the Asian nation after a gap of three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the sport’s global governing body said Monday. The ITF announcement accompanied the release of its calendar for the second
3:12 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Daniil Medvedev captured his fourth ATP title of the year on Sunday, beating Jannik Sinner 7-5, 6-3 for the Miami Open men’s singles title and moving to 6-0 in their career matchup. Medvedev is now the most sizzling player on the men’s tour, winning 24 of
5:32 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Twelfth-seeded veteran Petra Kvitova, in her 13th appearance at the Miami Open, finally won her first crown here, upsetting seventh-seeded Elena Rybakina on Saturday with a marathon tiebreaker in a 7-6 (14), 6-2 win. The 33-year-old Kvitova, 10 years older than her opponent, snapped Rybakina’s 13-match
4:31 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Tenth-seeded Jannik Sinner of Italy stunned top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz on Friday night in the Miami Open semifinals, rallying from a set down to beat the defending champion, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-2 in a three-hour thriller. Sinner ended Alcaraz’s winning streak at 10 matches. Sinner’s powerfully steady
4:31 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Daniil Medvedev hasn’t won a title in the U.S. since capturing the 2021 US Open when he turned away Novak Djokovic’s bid for a Grand Slam. Now the Miami Open’s No. 4 seed is one victory from a fresh American title, beating fellow Russian player Karen
7:37 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Russian and Belarusian players will be able to compete at Wimbledon as neutral athletes after the All England Club on Friday reversed its ban from last year. The players must comply with “appropriate conditions,” including not expressing support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They also must not receive
8:27 AM ET World No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka says she has withdrawn from next week’s Charleston Open after picking up an injury in Miami. The Australian Open champion was stunned 6-4, 6-4 by unseeded Sorana Cirstea in the Miami Open quarterfinals Wednesday after suffering the injury earlier in the tournament. She did not specify the
9:55 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The hopes of American men’s tennis rest largely on the talented rackets of Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul. But a Spanish roadblock named Carlos Alcaraz is in the way – never more illustrated by the last few days at the Miami Open. Two days after routing
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