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3:22 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Casper Ruud headed into the 2022 season with just one Grand Slam appearance that lasted as far as the fourth round anywhere and was determined to improve his record at the four most important events in tennis. Then, a day before the Australian Open began in
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5:48 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Fifth-seeded Ons Jabeur became the first woman representing an African nation to make the semifinals at the US Open during the professional era, holding on for a 6-4, 7-6 (4) victory over Ajla Tomljanovic on Tuesday at Arthur Ashe Stadium. “I know that I have it in
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2:17 PM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The women’s professional tennis tour will hold its season-ending 2022 WTA Finals in Fort Worth, Texas, moving the event out of China for the second year in a row. The Florida-based WTA announced on Tuesday that Dickies Arena will be the site for the tournament for
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6:15 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Frances Tiafoe ended Rafael Nadal’s 22-match winning streak at Grand Slam tournaments by beating the 22-time major champion 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the US Open’s fourth round on Monday. Tiafoe buried his head in his hands and cried on the court after he shook hands
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2:39 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Jessica Pegula eliminated two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-2 to get to her third major quarterfinal of 2022 and reach that round for the first time at the US Open. Play was held up for about 45 minutes at 1-1 in the first set while rain
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3:29 AM ET ESPN News Services Australia’s Margaret Court believes she doesn’t get as much credit from the tennis world as she deserves for her 24 Grand Slam singles titles and that Serena Williams doesn’t reciprocate her admiration. Williams — who holds 23 Slam titles, one shy of the record Court set from 1960 to
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1:24 AM ET Ajla Tomljanovic has earned a crack at Wimbledon finalist Ons Jabeur after continuing her giant-killing U.S. Open run to give Australia a women’s and men’s quarter-finalist at Flushing Meadows for the first time in almost 40 years. Two days after spectacularly ending Serena Williams‘ storied career, Tomljanovic snapped the 13-match, 18-set winning
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4:38 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Casper Ruud continued his run at the US Open and his bid to become the first No. 1-ranked player out of Norway, posting a 6-1, 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-2 victory over Corentin Moutet on Sunday. Ruud, a 23-year-old from Oslo, has reached the US Open quarterfinals
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6:26 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz, a 19-year-old Spaniard, defeated unseeded Jenson Brooksby, a 21-year-old Californian, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 on Saturday at the US Open, advancing to the fourth round in a facility he’s very comfortable in. Alcaraz became the youngest man to reach the US Open quarterfinal
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3:40 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com NEW YORK — After one last week of her signature magic, Serena Williams‘ legendary playing career came to an end Friday night with a third-round loss to Ajla Tomljanovic at the US Open in front of nearly 24,000 fans. The match capped the conclusion of a whirlwind 3½ weeks since
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2:28 PM ET Associated Press Petra Kvitova erased a pair of match points and converted her fourth to edge Garbiñe Muguruza 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (10) on Saturday in a showdown between two-time major champions. Kvitova just kept coming back — after dropping the first set, after trailing 5-2 in the third and after being a
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1:22 AM ET ESPN News Services Top-ranked Daniil Medvedev ended the historic run of Yibing Wu with a 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 victory in the third round on Friday at the US Open in New York. The defending champion moves on to face Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios on Sunday. Medvedev is bidding to become the first
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6:05 PM ET ESPN News Services Coco Gauff proved too strong for former finalist Madison Keys in their all-American third-round duel at the US Open, racing to a 6-2, 6-3 win in just over an hour at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Friday. The 12th-seeded Gauff will next take on China’s Shuai Zhang, who advanced with
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