Tennis

11:46 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek overcame a challenge from qualifier Donna Vekic on Sunday to win the San Diego Open title with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-0 victory. Swiatek earned her tour-leading 64th victory of the season heading into the WTA Finals that begin Friday in Fort Worth, Texas. The

4:57 PM ET Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy — Top-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime won the Firenze Open with his 11th ace of the day, beating American J.J. Wolf 6-4, 6-4. Auger-Aliassime lost his first service game on Sunday but broke his opponent’s serve either side of that and did not face another break point in the final.

1:22 AM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek of Poland rallied to beat fourth-seeded Jessica Pegula 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 on Saturday to reach the San Diego Open final. In the other semifinal, qualifier Donna Vekic of Croatia and unseeded American Danielle Collins were tied 2-2 in the third set when the match

12:09 AM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek cruised to a 6-0, 6-3 victory over sixth-seeded Coco Gauff on Friday night in the quarterfinal round at the WTA 500 San Diego Open. Gauff had a double fault on the opening point and the outcome was seemingly never in doubt as Swiatek took

8:57 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek needed more than two hours to post a 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 victory over Qinwen Zheng of China in her opening match Thursday at the WTA 500 San Diego Open. Contending with a steady mist that caused a 30-minute delay just after the match’s initial

10:31 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Sixth-seeded Coco Gauff turned back an inspired effort from 294th-ranked Robin Montgomery, 6-3, 6-3 on Wednesday in the resumption of a match that was postponed due to rain a night earlier in the San Diego Open WTA 500. Gauff, who earlier this year reached her first major

5:06 PM ET Associated Press Serena Williams‘ former coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, is going to work with Danish teenager Holger Rune for the rest of this season and during preparation for 2023. “We’ve had a special bond since the day we met, when he was just 13,” Mouratoglou wrote on Twitter on Wednesday. Mouratoglou began coaching

4:40 PM ET Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. — Todd Martin is resigning as CEO of the International Tennis Hall of Fame after nearly a decade in the post to join Beemok Capital. Martin’s move was announced Wednesday, the same day Beemok Capital announced it had closed its acquisition of the Western & Southern Open tournament

9:14 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady and four-time major tennis champion Kim Clijsters were announced Wednesday as part of an ownership group for a Major League Pickleball expansion team. Brady and Clijsters are part of a group led by Knighthead Capital Management. “Of course, I’m excited at the investment opportunity,”

Oct 9, 2022 Associated Press OSTRAVA, Czech Republic — Iga Swiatek lost in a final for the first time in three years as Barbora Krejcikova claimed her second title in successive weeks at the Agel Open on Sunday. Home favorite Krejcikova rallied from a set down to win the final 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-3. Krejcikova

2:32 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic won’t get official support with lobbying from Tennis Australia should he seek to enter the country for the first major of 2023, a year after he was deported because he was not vaccinated against COVID-19. The 21-time Grand Slam champion wasn’t allowed to defend his

11:28 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Former U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens and Karolina Pliskova, a one-time U.S. Open runner-up, won their opening matches at the San Diego Open WTA 500 on Tuesday. Stephens, a wild-card entrant from the United States who won the 2017 U.S. Open, got her second win in 2022

3:24 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Noah Rubin didn’t know exactly what he was going to do following his decision to take an indefinite break from professional tennis. He just knew the physical and mental strain had taken its toll and he needed to step away. But it didn’t take long for him to figure out

11:41 AM ET Associated Press ASTANA, Kazakhstan — Novak Djokovic needed only 75 minutes to win his 90th tour title, overcoming third-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3, 6-4 in the final of the Astana Open on Sunday. Djokovic dominated his Greek opponent from the start, winning the first game in little more than a minute. The Serb

10:42 AM ET Taylor Fritz beat compatriot Frances Tiafoe 7-6(3), 7-6(2) in a tense final to win the Japan Open on Sunday and claim his third title of the year. The two 24-year-olds traded breaks in the opening set before the greater consistency of Fritz took him ahead in the tiebreak and he secured it

4:00 PM ET Associated Press OSTRAVA, Czech Republic — No. 1-ranked Iga Swiatek became the first WTA Tour player since 2017 to achieve 60 wins in a calendar year when she reached yet another final on Saturday in the Czech Republic. It wasn’t easy at the Agel Open. Swiatek was second best to Ekaterina Alexandrova

12:31 PM ET Associated Press ASTANA, Kazakhstan — Novak Djokovic survived a second-set tiebreaker in the Astana Open semifinals and shortly after his opponent Daniil Medvedev retired with a leg injury on Saturday. Djokovic advanced at 4-6, 7-6 (6). He will play third-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas in Sunday’s final. “I really hope that his injury is

4:14 AM ET Admitting it wasn’t “pretty,” Frances Tiafoe added a little more sparkle to a glittering season by reaching the Japan Open final with a 6-2, 0-6, 6-4 victory over South Korea’s Kwon Soon-woo in Tokyo on Saturday. Tiafoe, who reached his first Grand Slam semifinal at the US Open in September, flexed the