10:06 PM ET ESPN News Services MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Carlos Alcaraz became the second-youngest Miami Open finalist ever, taking out defending champion Hubert Hurkacz in straight sets on Friday night. Alcarez, the No. 14 seed who turns 19 on May 5, defeated eighth-seeded Hurkacz 7-6 (5), 7-6 (2) to advance to Sunday’s final, where
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9:55 AM ET Nick Kyrgios has been fined $35,000 for his behaviour during a fourth-round loss to Jannik Sinner at the Miami Open in which he criticised the umpire and smashed his racket, the sport’s governing ATP said on Thursday. After repeatedly berating umpire Carlos Bernardes for failing to control the crowd at the Masters
7:00 AM ET Yuliia Zhytelna woke her dad up with the phone call. Ten hours separate Sacramento, where the redshirt freshman tennis player at Cal State Northridge had just finished a match, and her native Ukraine. She was hoping he could debunk reports she had seen on social media of Russian missiles hitting the airport
4:27 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Naomi Osaka‘s eyes welled with tears when her match ended, an all-too-familiar scene for her in recent years. These were of the happy variety. For the former world No. 1, that’s major progress. The unseeded Osaka defeated No. 22 Belinda Bencic 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday
2:54 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Forget three-setters. These days, Jessica Pegula doesn’t even need second sets. The No. 16 seed has made the semifinals at the Miami Open, benefiting from a second consecutive abrupt ending. She won her quarterfinal against fifth-seeded Paula Badosa on Wednesday, after the Spaniard retired five games
1:20 PM ET Associated Press Dominic Thiem, the 2020 U.S. Open champion, said Wednesday that he tested positive for COVID-19 after his first match in more than nine months. Thiem lost 6-3, 6-4 to Pedro Cachin at the Andalucía Open on the lower-level Challenger Tour on Tuesday. The 28-year-old Austrian player had been sidelined by
4:33 PM ET ESPN News Services MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Nick Kyrgios lost his cool, then a point, then a game and then the match. The all-too-familiar trend that has often overshadowed the super-popular, super-talented and super-perplexing Australian’s career path continued Tuesday at the Miami Open, where Kyrgios was ousted in the fourth round by
5:06 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Daniil Medvedev is one win away from returning to No. 1. Shaking off a slow start, the top-seeded Medvedev reached the quarterfinals of the Miami Open on Tuesday by defeating Jenson Brooksby of the United States 7-5, 6-1. Medvedev has yet to drop a set in
6:40 PM ET Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. — A tennis player alleges in a lawsuit against the U.S. Tennis Association that the governing body for the sport failed to protect her from a coach who she says sexually abused her at one of its training centers when she was 19. Kylie McKenzie alleged coach Anibal
5:59 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Making the quarterfinals at a tournament used to be no big deal for Naomi Osaka. It was only a shock if it didn’t happen. Things are a bit different now. The former world No. 1 has made it through to the quarterfinals at the Miami Open
12:25 PM ET Victoria Azarenka said her personal life had been “extremely stressful” in recent weeks and that she should not have played at the Miami Open on Sunday after the former world No. 1 retired against 16-year-old Czech Linda Fruhvirtova. Wild card Fruhvirtova was leading 6-2, 3-0 when the 32-year-old Azarenka informed the chair
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4:19 PM ET ESPN News Services MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Paula Badosa was midway through an on-court interview after another victory at the Miami Open when a thought crossed her mind. And given where she is right now, it made a lot of sense. “Why am I speaking English?” she asked. “I think there’s much
3:45 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Daniil Medvedev never gave Andy Murray a chance. The top-seeded Medvedev opened his quest at trying to reclaim the world’s No. 1 ranking Saturday by topping Murray 6-4, 6-2 in the second round of the Miami Open. Medvedev never faced a break point in any of
11:36 AM ET Emma Raducanu has defended her commitment to the sport and hit back at “unfair” criticism following her shock second round defeat in the Miami Open. Following a mammoth three-hour match against Czech Republic’s Katerina Siniakova, Raducanu was knocked out of the tournament on Thursday. After the result, Raducanu faced some criticism on
4:40 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Iga Swiatek started her week by deciding that she wanted to set her sights on becoming the No. 1 player in the world, without knowing how long that quest would take. A few days and one surprising retirement later, mission accomplished. Women’s tennis has a new
4:40 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Seeded women continue to have major struggles at the Miami Open, but Coco Gauff is one of the few exceptions. The 14th-seeded American, whose home is about a 45-minute drive north from where she’s playing this event, got past Qiang Wang of China 7-5, 6-4 on
3:49 AM ET Britain’s Emma Raducanu was knocked out at the second round of the Miami Open on Thursday after a mammoth three-hour match against Czech Republic’s Katerina Siniakova. The U.S. Open champion, who was won just two of her seven matches this season, was a set and a break up in the second set,