Tennis

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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5:20 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Two days, two wins and making it look easy. Naomi Osaka sure seems like herself again. The former world No. 1 is through to the third round at the Miami Open, easily handling 13th-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-2, 6-3 on Thursday. It was every bit
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2:39 PM ET Simona Halep withdrew from the Miami Open before her second-round match Thursday because of a leg injury that the former world No. 1 said will keep her out of action for three weeks. World No. 19 Halep, who reached the semifinals at Indian Wells last week and had a first-round bye in
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11:43 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com In her first news conference since announcing her immediate retirement from professional tennis, three-time major champion and current world No. 1 Ash Barty called her decision “scary but exciting” and said she was looking forward to working with Australian junior players in the near future, as well as spending time
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