Tennis

Associated Press Aug 7, 2024, 04:59 PM ET Rafael Nadal pulled out of the US Open on Wednesday, making it the third Grand Slam tournament he has missed this season and raising more questions about his future in tennis at age 38. Nadal wrote on social media that he will miss “those electric and special

Associated Press Aug 7, 2024, 12:23 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Coco Gauff, Novak Djokovic and other players at the US Open will be playing for a record total of $75 million in compensation at the year’s last Grand Slam tennis tournament, a rise of about 15% from a year ago. The women’s and men’s

Associated Press Aug 7, 2024, 12:33 AM ET Open Extended Reactions TORONTO — Bianca Andreescu‘s strong start turned into an early exit to her first hard-court tournament of the year, as the Canadian was beaten 0-6, 6-3, 6-4 by Lesia Tsurenko on Tuesday night at the National Bank Open. Andreescu won her home tournament in

Associated Press Aug 5, 2024, 06:45 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WASHINGTON — Canada’s Denis Shapovalov will retain his ranking points and prize money after appealing his disqualification from the quarterfinals of the Mubadala Citi DC Open, the ATP announced Monday. Shapovalov lost the first set 7-6 (5) in a match against American Ben Shelton

ESPN News Services Aug 4, 2024, 09:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WASHINGTON — Sebastian Korda completed a father-son double Sunday night in the Mubadala Citi DC Open for his second ATP Tour title. Thirty-two years after father Petr won the then-Sovran Bank Classic in 1992, the fourth-seeded Korda beat 10th-seeded Flavio Cobolli of Italy

ESPN News Services Aug 4, 2024, 06:54 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WASHINGTON — Paula Badosa of Spain won the Mubadala Citi DC Open on Sunday for her first victory following a back injury, beating Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 in a rain-interrupted match. The 26-year-old Badosa, ranked as high as

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Aug 4, 2024, 03:23 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Novak Djokovic walked back out onto the court at Philippe-Chatrier and dropped to his knees. As the fans in the crowd — still waving a mixture of Serbian and Spanish flags — stood collectively on their feet, loudly cheering and with

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Associated Press Aug 4, 2024, 02:48 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Emotional and unable to hold back tears, Carlos Alcaraz needed a moment to compose himself after losing to Novak Djokovic in the men’s tennis singles final at the Paris Olympics on Sunday. There would be no youngest-ever champion and no repeating Rafael

ESPN News Services Aug 4, 2024, 02:08 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Italy’s Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini beat Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider 2-6, 6-1, 10-7 in a match tiebreaker to win Olympic gold in the women’s doubles on Sunday. It was Italy’s first tennis gold medal at any Summer Olympics. Errani,

Associated Press Aug 4, 2024, 11:19 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Novak Djokovic won his first Olympic gold medal by beating Carlos Alcaraz 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2) in an enthralling men’s tennis singles final Sunday, giving the 37-year-old from Serbia the last significant accomplishment missing from his glittering résumé. Djokovic’s impressive career already

Associated Press Aug 4, 2024, 12:25 AM ET Open Extended Reactions WASHINGTON — Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic rallied to beat top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 on Saturday night after a long weather delay in the Mubadala Citi DC Open semifinals. Down 2-1 in the third set when lightning and rain

Associated Press Aug 3, 2024, 05:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Lorenzo Musetti won Italy’s first Olympic tennis medal in 100 years on Saturday night, beating Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 for the men’s singles bronze. Asked by an Italian reporter how he planned to celebrate, Musetti said he would eat

Associated Press Aug 2, 2024, 07:54 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TORONTO — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek withdrew Friday from a US Open tuneup in Toronto after winning a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics. Swiatek was one of several players to withdraw from the National Bank Open, which begins Tuesday. Grand Slam champions Barbora Krejcikova,

Associated Press Aug 2, 2024, 09:50 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WASHINGTON — Denis Shapovalov of Canada was knocked out of the Mubadala City DC Open on Friday after he was disqualified from his quarterfinal round match for shouting at a spectator. Shapovalov lost his first set 7-6 (5) in a match against American Ben

ESPN News Services Aug 2, 2024, 03:29 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Novak Djokovic‘s surgically repaired knee did not appear to slow him down a bit as he finally reached a Summer Olympics singles final for the first time, defeating Lorenzo Musetti of Italy 6-4, 6-2 on Friday night. Djokovic will play Carlos

Associated Press Aug 2, 2024, 09:20 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Carlos Alcaraz moved one win away from becoming the youngest man to win an Olympic tennis singles gold medal by beating Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-1, 6-1 in the Paris Games semifinals Friday. Alcaraz, 21, is from Spain and already owns four Grand Slam

Associated Press Aug 1, 2024, 05:14 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Novak Djokovic was worried about his surgically repaired right knee at the Paris Games on Thursday night after feeling pain during a 6-3, 7-6(3) victory over Stefanos Tsitsipas that put the 24-time Grand Slam champion in the Olympics semifinals for the fourth